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A Twitch streamer getting caught red-handed ignited a conversation around the treatment of female streamers and deepfake porn

Yesterday, Twitch streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing issued a tearful apology during his livestream after he accidentally revealed that he had deepfake pornography of popular female Twitch streamers open on his computer. The —in which he claims to have clicked an ad on PornHub because he was curious—quickly gained traction online. Twitter users, in a misguided attempt to “draw attention” to the controversy, shared screenshots of the original stream, which signal boosted the porn site and its contents. This made matters worse for the affected women, who learned they were on the deepfake site only because of Ewing’s slip-up.

One post simply requested ‘F*cked on her back please’ alongside an image of a woman fully clothed, holding a baby. This technology was no longer being used for a fun, five seconds entertainment that saw us swap our mates’ heads into a Miley Cyrus music video. This was sexual exploitation on a terrifying scale. Deepfake porn became a viral topic of conversation after Twitch streamer Brandon Ewing, who also goes as ‘Atroic’ online, was caught accessing and later admitted to buying and watching non-consensual deepfake porn of his fellow female Twitch streamers.

While the content may not be ‘real’, the trauma responses and psychological effects it has on those who are victims of deepfake porn very much exist in the real world. Blaire shared how she and other women who had been targeted in the Twitch scandal compared being deepfaked to being sexually assaulted, with one woman feeling so much shame around her body that she couldn’t look in a mirror.

Most deepfake websites and forums state that they only host videos or images of celebrities or public figures because they are ‘different to normal citizens’. The threshold on the most popular deepfake porn website states that any model used or requested must have a minimum of 100k followers on either YouTube, Twitter, Twitch or Instagram. Yet I found an approved paid request for a female politician with only 30k Twitter followers and less than 500 Instagram followers.