The Twitch streamer Asmongold is usually known for his love of WoW and his criticism of Blizzard, but also frequently comments on Twitch about other content creators on the Internet. Now his fans have made him aware of a new initiative by the Twitch streamer susu.jpg: She wants to take action against imitators and has created a bot of her own.
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How does the streamer justify this? The streamer writes that she has been struggling for years with people who exploit her identity and pretend to be Susu. This leads to “parasocial problems”.
At least the bot should be honest and say clearly that it is not the real Susu. It is also subject to certain conditions and everything that happens here happens with your consent.
Onlyfan girls don’t even have to do their job anymore
This is what Asmongold says about it: The streamer Asmongold was made aware of the bot by his fans via reddit and commented:
“Yes, I saw that. This is something that a lot of Onlyfans girls do. They create bots of themselves that essentially give users permission to generate images of them. So they don’t even have to do their job anymore.”
Asmongold says: This is the way things are developing now.
“Like something out of an episode of Black Mirror”
How is this discussed? This is discussed in two ways. A majority of users on Twitter find this scary:
But there are also people who understand the streamer:
Parasocial relationship played out
This is what lies behind it: Two things come together here. Streamers like Pokimane usually try to prevent a parasocial relationship with their viewers: A “parasocial relationship” is about people building a purely one-sided social relationship with a person who is unavailable to them and then imagining themselves as Taylor Swift or a streamer their “best friend” who understands them and with whom they can talk, while the celebrity himself has no relationship with this person at all, but only addresses himself generally to “all followers or fans”.
In extreme cases, this can lead to obsession or stalking. Pokimane opened up in 2020 about having a fan standing in her house who thought Pokimane was his girlfriend.
Streamers like Susu don’t want to avoid such a parasocial relationship, they actually encourage it, and this is achieved with a bot like this. The streamer Amouranth once said that even small streamers can earn a lot of money by focusing intensively on a few but wealthy viewers: Such men lose interest in female streamers when they get bigger and have more and more viewers.
There is also the problem of “deepfakes,” in which sexualized photos of women are distributed against their will or fraudsters pose as Susu in order to make money. The bot is intended to give customers of such offers the opportunity to satisfy these parasocial needs with the streamer’s consent.
By the way, the pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence among Onlyfans girls is – how could it be otherwise – Amouranth:
Twitch streamer uses artificial intelligence to “meet fans’ needs”