The web, as a substitute of discovering new methods to raise voices that aren’t white and/or already rich, continued to search out methods to make girls really feel unwelcome in digital areas in 2023.
In January, widespread Twitch streamer Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing unintentionally revealed that he was viewing deepfake porn throughout a livestream. The positioning he was visiting had an analogous format to OnlyFans: completely different content material creators might create their very own pages and require guests to pay a subscription price to view their content material. Ewing wasn’t simply viewing deepfake porn (which edits folks’s faces onto present pornographic content material), however deepfake porn of his feminine friends—a few of whom he’s pals with in actual life.
After unintentionally telling on himself, Ewing issued a tearful apology and left the streaming service till March, when he popped again up to guarantee folks he was working laborious to fight the porn he himself seemed to be, at the very least that one time, watching. “Every week after the occasion, the very first thing I did was wire Morrison Rothman [an LA-based law firm] about $60,000 to cowl any lady on Twitch who wished to make use of their authorized companies for DMCA takedowns or repute administration,” he stated through the stream. Kotaku confirmed with the agency that Ewing had certainly despatched the retainer.
However Ewing’s efforts couldn’t totally erase the aftermath of such a horrible violation, or negate the truth that girls on the web face a distinct degree of scrutiny, hatred, and harassment than males.
Ewing’s actions additionally served as a reminder that typically the decision is coming from inside the home, and it’s the boys who’re the scummiest of all of them. Ewing is again to recurrently posting and streaming as a result of cancel tradition is a delusion and every part sucks. — Alyssa Mercante, senior editor
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