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Okay wait. So this is Christian and she just got six thousand nine hundred sixty nine dollars point six nine cents from a stranger named Daniel Christian's other name his kitty plays games. Welcome to my stream. My name is Kitty otherwise known as Kitty plays game for Kristin. That's her twitch name Twitch is a website where you watch people stream video games you're following up it's actually free to watch but twitch. The company will select really popular players and give them what they call partner status once you're a partner you can actually make a lot of money adds donations subscribers. I'm going to say thank you. That is amazing. There's something that's so special about being able to directly affect the content that long for a fish right now . Thank you for those five eight. If I could watch Modern Family you know and tell them oh you guys. That was really funny right there. You know you did good. I loved the one liner and then be like Oh thanks. You know we worked really hard on it. We're glad that you appreciated it like this something really kind of interesting in that sense with life and media Twitch is insanely popular like 100 million unique visitors a month popular and in 2014 Amazon paid almost a billion dollars for the site and maybe unsurprisingly 90 percent of the top streamers are guys mad at the game. And most of the audience is male. Do this . So I wanted to know what it's like to be a top female streamer streaming to a male audience and getting anonymous tips. When I first started streaming I had an addiction to it. I tried to shame every single day yesterday Airstream for three hours but last week I did a 17 hours drive to six days a week maybe eight to 12 hours a day like my life is essentially like community funded and saving up to purchase a house. It's a very healthy amount. I don't actually know I don't make six figures. Just last month I made over things like five thousand just in tips . It's kind of a whole package deal with you know Twitch YouTube other brands and a bunch of other things on the site hit enough for me to not be in accounting or law right now. Could you told me that when she was 21 she dropped out of university and moved back home to stream on Twitch full time. Less than six months later she got that almost seven thousand dollar donation . Except it wasn't 7000. It was 6 9 6 9 6 9. I don't know why that number is a trend in my street but it is now. And then one day I woke I woke up I started streaming like every other day . You know I was like dressed comfy like sporty clothes I was not not a special stream and thin Andi decided to donate that amount . I spent a lot of time watching girls stream on Twitch trying to figure out in some instances the difference between cam girls and twitch girls from the gif . I thank you. Right . And honestly I'm conflicted are these girls being empowered by making bank on their terms or are they being exploited as the fantasy objects of guys who look around CAC rooms from Michael Barr says hi Natalie I've been a long time lurker and just wanted to come out and say thank you I've been going through a rough time recently and has been great to come home and have someone funny to listen to. Enjoy your gift . One of the biggest stereotypes is that a lot of the female streamers when you first go admit they try. You think that you know that these girls that are kind of exposing themselves just for donations or subscribers to make that type of living for themselves. When people come into my stream I get that a lot . Like oh here's another you know cam girl I can't win when I am playing a game and I'm focusing and trying to play the game . People in chat are like Oh my God. She doesn't talk to her is like this is a terrible streamer. Oh my God. And then when I'm sitting here talking to my chat as allies you were interacting with you guys it's all gone. Eric camera ha. All you do is stand by your camera. We just happen . Twitter's extremely hard to stay relevant. We just want to keep it as focused around the gameplay as possible which I mean for me wearing full T-shirts every time definitely works. The gaming industry isn't exactly known for being super inclusive of women. Like all internet personalities these streamers have to deal with endless endless endless negativity. Though Twitch is a little different streamers have direct control over their chats and can fire right back at their detractors. We don't deal with trolls in my chat. Basically they get out nerdy for learn when I do talk back to like people saying nasty things. It's always important to remind them you don't have to watch the stream . So on the question of who is gaming who. My bet is with these girls you know I'll roll with the punches the trolls come in there and I like Show us your tits and I just told them back and put a command in there I'm like keep a tab open it will happen . So then they sit there and wait constantly like she's gonna show her boobs any second you guys are so so typical of what I'm making money off of those trolls just by them lurking and watching so I'll troll them back that way .