Amouranth Talks About How Twitch Invited Her To Start Streaming

Kaitlyn ‘Amouranth’ Siragusa, Twitch’s reigning stream queen, has dismissed reports that Amazon is attempting to oust her from the platform, claiming that the website requested her to join in 2016 to improve business.

Although Amouranth is currently the most popular female Twitch user, even surpassing long-time queen Pokimane, many people want her removed off the platform permanently. Siragusa leans extensively into “sexualized” content, including ASMR streams, hot tub broadcasts, and anything that will gain her viewers and subscribers, according to many Twitch followers, whether they are justified or not.

This is a contentious approach to make money on a platform that many see as a gaming site first and a talk show second, but Amouranth has hit the nail on the head; she currently averages more than 10,000 viewers per broadcast, according to Siragusa, and it’s all because of a Twitch invite. 

After fans demanded she leave the streaming platform, she said, “They [Twitch] actually invited me to come stream in 2016.” 

In a ‘tell-all’ podcast on YouTube, Amouranth stated that Twitch approached her in 2016 with plans to utilize her online fame to give a newly-founded category a boost in the rankings. She said, “They actually invited me to come to the stream. “Twitch had this creative category that they wanted me to stream in. Which is funny because now there’s all these people saying like, oh, get off our platform, Twitch is for gamers, and gaming! And Twitch actually invited me to stream. In 2016 they were inviting me to join.” 

Amouranth accepted, but didn’t see the true potential until recently: “It wasn’t until the hot tub meta started I was like, why haven’t I done this my whole career?”

Siragusa now has a monopoly on the Just Chatting category, as well as any other Twitch channel she chooses to stream in. In any given week, the stream-queen has more than 24k subscribers, 4.9 million followers, and more than two million views on her streams. 

The 28-year-old was working for her character company (which she still runs) where she cosplayed as Disney princesses for birthdays and celebrations before turning to Twitch stardom — following that particular invitation — in 2016.