Who is QTCinderella? Twitch star, 28, breaks down and reveals she's victim of deepfake porn scandal
SAN FRANSISCO, CALIFORNIA: Several female streamers on Twitch are speaking out after discovering a website that sold their inappropriate deepfakes. Among them is a Twitch star, QTCinderella, 28, went live on the streaming site on January 31, 2023, to lash out at the culprits for creating deepfake images and videos of her and other female streamers, and begged people to stop accessing them. She said, "To see pictures of me 'nude' spread around. It should not be something that is found on the internet. That shouldn't be a part of my job! And the fact that it is, is exhausting."
Talking about the deepfakes, she said on Twitch, “To the person that made that website, I’m going to f- -king sue you. I promise you, with every part of my soul I’m going to f- -king sue you.” And further added as she cried, "I’m so exhausted and I think you guys need to know what pain looks like because this is it. This is what it looks like to feel violated. This is what it feels like to be taken advantage of, this is what it looks like to see yourself naked against your will being spread all over the internet. This is what it looks like," per New York Post.
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'F**k Atroic for showing it to thousands of people'
The porn site came to light after Twitch streamer Atrioc was seen visiting it during one of his broadcasts in a tab on his browser on January 30. Following this, he apologized over the deepfake porn scandal on Twitch and told fans that he purchased two doctored clips featuring other famous female Twitch stars, prompting a spike in traffic to the site. The incident happened when he closed a tab after playing 'Hitman 3'.
According to Dexerto, Atrioc with his fiance Ari addressed the situation. He appeared to have paid for NSFW content from a controversial deepfake site, as per Game Revolution. It is alleged that he might have paid at least $15 for these services. Addressing him, QTCinderella said, "F**k the f**king internet. F**k Atroic for showing it to thousands of people. F**k the people DMing me pictures of myself from that website. F**k you all! This is what it looks like, this is what the pain looks like," states New York Post.
What is a deepfake?
This is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) called deep learning to make images of fake events, hence the name deepfake. Women are most likely the victims of this. Danielle Citron, a law professor at Boston University, described pornographic deepfakes made without a person’s consent as an “invasion of sexual privacy.” She said in a 2017 Wired report, "At each stage we’ve seen that people use what’s ready and at hand to torment women. Deepfakes are an illustration of that." The AI firm Deeptrace found 15,000 deepfake videos online in September 2019. Out of them, 96 percent were pornographic, and 99 percent of those mapped faces from female celebrities onto porn stars, reports The Guardian.