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Who is Atrioc? Twitch streamer issues long apology for using deepfakes of female streamers

'This is so embarrassing! Everyone here probably knows what's going on,' Atrioc said in his apology

SAN FRANSISCO, CALIFORNIA: Twitch streamer Atrioc was seen apologizing to his viewers for using a deep fake website that included inappropriate deep fakes of female streamers. The website offers deep fake images and videos of female Twitch streamers including Pokimane, Maya Higa and QTC Cinderella. 

According to Dexerto, Atrioc appeared on stream with his fiance, Ari, to address the situation. He appears to have paid for NSFW content from a controversial deep fake site, as per Game Revolution. It is alleged that he might have paid at least $15 for these services.

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Who is Atrioc?

Atrioc is a famous YouTuber and Twitch streamer. His real name is Brandon Ewing. The streamer lives with his fiance in California and is 31, as per YouTube Fandom. He began his career as a content curator in 2013 and is famous for his random chats and game collaboration videos. He graduated from Arizona State University in 2013 with a degree in Marketing. He worked as a Content Marketing Coordinator at Twitch and then got promoted to Content Marketing Manager in September 2015. However, in 2017 he switched to another company, NVIDIA, where he became the Manager of Global Consumer Marketing and is still working there. He has various segments on his Twitch channel, including Marketing Monday, Get Smarter Saturday and Reddit Recap. His hit content was the 'League of Legends' series and the 'Hitman' series. 

Why did Atrioc receive backlash? 

Atrioc streamed an apology video after he received backlash over fans noticing that he allegedly paid for deep fakes of popular female Twitch personalities. The incident happened when he closed a tab after playing 'Hitman 3'. Viewersnoticed all the other tabs open on his system, which included the deep fake site. According to Game Revolution, the tab that was visible during the stream appeared to show a premium service hosted on an OnlyFans-like image-sharing site where you need to pay $15 to access the content. 

Atrioc's Apology 

In the video, Atrioc said, "This is so embarrassing! Everyone here probably knows what's going on. I want to say, first of all, that is true. It's 100% true. I looked at a deep fake p**n video... of streamers. It's disgusting. It really is disgusting. It's wrong. Sorry, I didn't sleep all night. So I'm just..." He added, "I guess what I want to say is... so I already feel deeply, I'm deeply f***king embarrassed about this. I'm deeply f***king embarrassed. I'm angry at myself. I feel f***king... I just feel so f***king stupid."

Atrioc continued, "I've done a lot on the stream, like create a pattern of behavior where I really want, especially women on Twitch, to feel safer. Like, we call f***king b**ba spam cringe. We don't do that there. I've never made a f***king weird, I don't know, seat-sniffing joke. I've never done anything like that. I've never done anything like that on stream. And we don't tolerate any behavior in chat. We ban it on sight, and I've done it consistently. Over, and over, and over."

The streamer continued, "But I was on f***king p**nhub. I was on a f***king regular** normal f***king website, and there was an ad. There was an on every f***king video for this f***king; I know other people must be clicking it because it's on every f***king video! For f***king deep fake thing. And then I click it, and I'm f***king on this f***king rabbit hole, and at 2 am I f***king... I don't know I got morbidly curious, and I clicked something. It's gross and I'm sorry. I really am. I really f***king am."

QTCinderella and Sweet Anita's response to the issue

The two twitch streamers whose deep fake videos were seen on the site have also responded to the issue. Sweet Anita wrote on Twitter, "This story was how I found out that I'm on this website. I literally choose to pass up millions by not going into sex work and some random cheeto-encrusted porn addict solicits my body without my consent instead. Don't know whether to cry, break stuff or laugh at this point."

QTCindrella claimed, "I want to scream. Stop. Everybody f***ing stop. Stop spreading it. Stop advertising it. Stop. Being seen “naked” against your will should NOT BE A PART OF THIS JOB. Thank you to all the male internet “journalists” reporting on this issue. F***ing losers @HUN2R"