by
Jason Parker
in Entertainment | Jun, 23rd 2021
Amouranth Considered Quitting Twitch During Hot Tub and ASMR Metas
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The Hot Tub and ASMR/Leggings metas on Twitch have been popular, but the harassment Amouranth received had her considering quitting streaming there altogether. On the surface, Amouranth comes across as someone very together, who handles the negativity and harsh criticism pretty well. In a recent interview though, Amouranth admitted she was considering quitting Twitch but has since changed her mind to make all the money she can while she’s young. It’s a smart idea perhaps, but it comes with a very serious mental health cost.
Amouranth also recently spoke about how she finds the criticism over her recent ban “ironic”. She may have considered quitting Twitch, but it’s clear she’s here to stay as long as she can.
“Do I feel like I deserve [the harassment]? No, I don’t think anyone does,” Amouranth said in her interview via Discord.
Streaming on Twitch in a bikini in a hot tub really helped boost Amouranth’s career on the platform. As the supposed face of the Hot Tub Meta and the ASMR/TikTok leggings meta, she’s taken a lot of the flak from the popularity of the metas. Amouranth has over 3.6 million followers on Twitch and admitted that she never expected things to blow up this far. In an interview, she stated it was originally just a pastime to get ad revenue while gaming, or working on cosplay/costumes.
These streams, while they seem provocative to many, are well within Twitch’s TOS. According to the rules, “streamers may appear in swimwear in contextually appropriate situations,” like on the beach, on a deck, or in a hot tub. That having been said, it still comes across to many viewers as these streamers exploit their looks to gain a one-up on Twitch.
It’s come with a lot of new fans for Amouranth, but it’s not all roses. Amouranth considered quitting Twitch, asking herself “is it worth it?” No matter what kind of job you do, there are going to be people you don’t enjoy dealing with, like in retail. Despite what harassment she gets on the platform, she made it clear why she’s sticking around:
xQc is not happy after seeing Amouranth get unbanned after only 3 days 👀
“how do you not get mad as a Twitch Partner seeing this?” pic.twitter.com/R0DTfq1ZQ9
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) June 23, 2021
“But I do feel it’s worth it just to keep grinding while I’m young and have the energy, and then when I’m older and have saved enough money, I can actually do what I want with it.”
As to what she wants to do with the money she makes this way, Amouranth revealed her passion is with animals. After she’s “milked” her streams, the goal is to start an animal rescue program, which is a pretty noble goal. There’s a lot of harassment that comes her way though, which she seems to just grin and bear:
“My passion, at the end of the day, is animals, and I want to do an animal rescue using my platforms. But right now, we’re just saving money, milking it while it’s good.”
Perhaps the problem isn’t all just hot tub/ASMR streamers using sex appeal or being sexually suggestive on their streams that’s the problem. It’s not all that anyway. A great deal of the problems seems to be that Twitch doesn’t moderate or punish fairly. xQc, for example, pointed out he was nearly permanently banned for much less, while streamers like Amouranth and Indiefoxx are repeatedly banned for a few days here and there for repeat offenses. In particular, he had this to say:
“After I repeated the same offense two times, I thought it was going to get [permanently banned]. I had the word ‘perma’ over my head for months for something that I did eight months ago.”
This was when xQc accidentally showed nudity on his stream. However, Amouranth received a three-day ban after four offenses. xQc said “five”, but this number wasn’t quite accurate. Likely just very heated in the moment. On that point, he asked, “Now, after five times, [she] got a three-day ban? That makes no f**king sense at all! How do you not get mad as a Twitch Partner seeing this?”
It’s a very hot-button topic right now on Twitch, and no answer really seems to be in sight. Twitch has allowed these suggestive streams to go on so long that now, whatever happens, streamers will just find a new way to push the envelope. Perhaps Twitch will make its TOS clear, and then actually enforce it. For now, we just have to wait and see what happens in this new meta on Twitch.
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