[Ed note: This article discusses domestic abuse.]

Popular Twitch streamer and OnlyFans content material creator Amouranth mentioned in an impassioned, tearful stream on Saturday that she is being manipulated and abused by her husband. Amouranth, whose actual title is Kaitlyn Siragusa, mentioned her husband, who was not named, has pressured her to stream, threatened to harm her canine, and has taken management of her funds and checking account.

“I’m basically living in a fancy prison,” Amouranth mentioned on the dwell stream.

Amouranth’s stream has since been faraway from Twitch, however clips of it have been shared broadly on Twitter and YouTube.

During the dwell stream, Amouranth mentioned that her husband noticed the sizzling tub meta — a Twitch sub-genre the place folks stream in bikinis whereas in a sizzling tub — “as an opportunity,” and that he instructed instructed her to inform viewers that she was single, as a result of it could “ruin the business model” to disclose she was married.

Amouranth shared a close-up view of a telephone displaying a textual content thread that she mentioned is between her and her husband. The depicted messages name the recipient a “dumb fuck” and embody threats to “dump luggage,” throw “merch” off a balcony, and delete Amouranth’s social media. More severe threats of monetary abuse and threats to kill Amouranth’s canine are additionally a part of the texts. Amouranth additionally shared footage of a damaged doorknob, saying that her husband broke it, thus stopping her from with the ability to lock the door.

“[It] keeps you there with the fear and the threats, and you fear that he’s going to do something to your animals,” Amouranth mentioned on the stream. “And then he’s nice again and says, ‘Everything’s going to be OK.’”

In the stream, Amouranth additionally spoke on the telephone with a person who she mentioned is her husband. The man’s voice could possibly be heard shouting at her and denying that he mentioned he was going to kill her canine. “I’m going to give you one last chance,” the person on the road mentioned. “I’m going to irrevocably fucking destroy everything.”

On Monday, Amouranth’s content material lead Marz tweeted that Amouranth “says she’s fine,” including “Police went multiple times since 5am yesterday.”

Popular streamer Ludwig Ahgren mentioned in a video that he reached out to Amouranth’s assistant, and that she is “safe and OK.”

Polygon has reached out through electronic mail to Amouranth, in addition to her content material lead Marz, for remark, however has not but obtained a response.

Amouranth is a particularly well-liked content material creator with a presence on quite a few platforms together with Twitch, YouTube, and OnlyFans. She began her Twitch channel in 2016 with a cosplay focus. Since then, her channel has grown to 5.9 million Twitch followers, and spans from online game streams to Just Chatting movies. According to Streams Charts, she’s the most-watched Twitch streamer this 12 months. She’s additionally extraordinarily well-liked on OnlyFans. Her ASMR YouTube channel has greater than 640,000 followers, and her on-line presence additionally contains Patreon, Instagram, Twitter, Fansly, and Snapchat accounts.

Amouranth works laborious to take care of these varied channels. In August, she instructed Business Insider that she’s solely taken 10 days off in the previous few years. She repeatedly streams for lengthy stretches, together with some 15-hour Twitch streams. In July, Amouranth shared a tweet with an picture of her month-to-month earnings from March by way of July 2022, which common round $1.5 million monthly.

Throughout her profession, Amouranth has skilled harassment and doxing threats on these content material platforms. YouTubers like PewDiePie have referred to her and different ladies as “Twitch thots,” a derogatory time period used to insult feminine streamers and intercourse employees.

Harassment of Amouranth gained momentum as the new tub meta took off in 2021. Twitch’s phrases have an exception to the Nudity and Attire Policy, which states that “streamers may appear in swimwear in contextually appropriate situations.” In May 2021, Twitch created the “Pools, Hot Tubs and Beaches” class for such streams.

In June 2021, Polygon interviewed Amouranth concerning the sizzling tub meta and the harassment she has confronted: “I have thought about it — like, is it worth it? I really do think it is because every job has its stresses.” She additionally instructed Polygon that she had totally different hopes for the longer term past streaming, and that she hoped to make use of her financial savings to sometime open an animal rescue.

“My passion, at the end of the day, is animals,” she mentioned.

If you or anybody you realize is experiencing abuse at house, the nationwide home abuse hotline is out there 24 hours a day. Call 800-799-7233 for assist.