Sweet Anita Says She May Leave Twitch

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Sweet Anita is easily one of the most popular female streamers on the Twitch streaming platform, but she may be soon considering a move to a new platform due to issues regarding online sexualiztion, according to the Huffington Post.

Anita, 30, has 1.7 million followers on the Amazon owned platform, but was horrified to come across a Reddit page to find thousands of men sharing images, collages, slowed down videos and other media of her while boasting about how often they masturbated to them and discussing what they wanted to do to her physically.

“No matter what I do or how I dress, they do this to me,” she said in the interview. “I haven’t ever even taken my clothes off in front of the camera and yet I’m still a very successful porn star.”

It’s a troubling trend for women streamers and content creators, and platforms such as Twitch aren’t doing enough to protect even their most profitable streamers.

“These people are literally ruining my experience of streaming,” Anita continued. “It’s basically like having millions of people be your boss, and your boss is allowed to sexually harass you every day.”

“Sexual harassment is a societal ill that is never acceptable in any form – be that in the physical or the digital world,” a Twitch spokesperson said in an official statement to HuffPost.

“Further, community safety is not an end state, and we must, and do, continually evolve our safety policies and tools to ensure they are comprehensive and account for emerging behaviors,” the spokesperson added. “We consistently engage in industry conversations to combat harm towards women and protected groups, and are committed to collaborating with peers in the industry to more effectively combat cross-platform abuse.”

Anthony DiMoro

Covering Content Creators, Twitch, YouTube, Streamers & the digital culture. Anthony has written for publications such as Forbes and the Huffington Post, among others, during his career.