With every part of my soul, I’m going to fucking sue you,” she said. She went on to address the person who made the website selling the deepfakes, vowing to sue them. It should not be part of my job to be harassed, to see pictures of me ‘nude’ spread around.” “It should not be part of my job to have to pay money to get this stuff taken down. This is what it looks like, this is what the pain looks like,” she said. Fuck the people DM’ing me pictures of myself from my website. “Fuck Atrioc for showing it to thousands of people. This is what it looks like to see yourself naked against your will being spread all over the internet,” she said. “This is what it looks like to feel violated, this is what it looks like to feel taken advantage of.

30, QTCinderella said that although confidantes might tell her not to go live, she wanted people to see the toll this situation has taken on her. Some of those women have spoken out about how Ewing’s actions and admission affects them. Female streamers already contend with sexism, objectification, and disrespect as part of being online cosplayers similarly report rampant deepfake harassment that makes existing online difficult and traumatizing.Įwing knows several of the women who are allegedly targeted by the deepfakes creator, like streamer QTCinderella, personally.

Targets of non-consensual, sexually explicit deepfakes report that these videos have real, devastating effects on their mental wellbeing and their ability to exist online, and when it happens to online personalities like streamers and cosplayers, logging off and abandoning their livelihoods isn’t often a reasonable option. Since their inception in 2018, deepfakes have been used as a way to control women’s bodies online. You will not see me pop up again.”ĭeepfakes-images generated by machine learning algorithms to swap one person’s face onto another person’s body- are primarily used to make non-consensual, fake sex tapes that target and harass women. “The best course of action I have understood is to just wipe my part off the internet and help decrease the number of future videos of those involved. “To be quite honest if I wanted to continue this, what I got was the best advertisement I could ever ask for but after seeing the situation of that couple apologizing and a few streamers’ reactions who thought ‘did not care’, I feel like the total piece of shit I am,” they wrote. He said he was driven by “morbid curiosity” and that his watching non-consensual porn is not a “pattern of behavior.” His wife, cosplayer Arianna Ewing, sat in the background of the stream and cried.Īt the time of writing, the deepfake creator’s page on the site Ewing used has been scrubbed of deepfakes and now hosts a long apology to streamers that describes the non-consensual fake sex tapes as “immoral.” That ad took him to another subscriber-only website, he said, where he paid to view the images of popular female streamers.

As first reported by Dextero, Ewing said during his Monday stream, in a tearful, now-viral apology, that he clicked an ad for deepfake porn while browsing Pornhub.

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