“I was wishing for eye bleach,” streamer Sweet Anita told BuzzFeed News.
."If you are able to look at women who are not selling themselves or benefiting off of being seen sexually,” she said, “if you are able to look at that, you are the problem, you see women as an object.”Higa told BuzzFeed News that she does “not want to engage in any more public discourse regarding this topic.” Ewing, Anys, and QTCinderella did not respond to BuzzFeed News’ requests for comment.
Deepfakes, which are created using AI tools, have grown in popularity over the past few years. According to, a research company that tracks deepfakes, 90% to 95% of them are nonconsensual pornography. It affects not only the people whose faces appear in the images but also those whose bodies have been used.
The original creator of the deepfakes in question has removed the offending content from their page and posted an apology to those involved."While this stuff is not illegal, it is still immoral," they wrote. They added, “To be quite honest if I wanted to continue this, what I got was the best advertisement I could ever ask for but after seeing the situation of that couple apologizing and a few streamers’ reactions who I thought ‘did not care’, I feel like the total piece of shit I am.
Neither the user who created the deepfakes nor Fan-Topia responded to BuzzFeed News’ requests for comment.“I don't think it absolves him of any wrongdoing simply because he needed to watch the streamers cry before he realized it would matter to them,” Anita said of the creator's apology. “I think it's too late to apologize because the damage is already done. Once you produce something like this for the internet, it can never really truly be removed.
Twitch, which is largely dedicated to gaming streams, “is a male-dominated space,” Anita said. According to
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