![]() Eventually, that category was renamed IRL, and it later got broken into 10 new categories, including Just Chatting, where streamers will sit and respond to questions and talk to their Twitch community. Siragusa opened her channel with a cosplay focus in 2016 at the time, Twitch had a generic Creative category. “It was more of just a hobby that was kind of like, ‘Might as well make some ad money while I’m just making costumes or playing games.’” The streamer told Polygon over Discord voice chat that when she started, she didn’t expect her channel to get so big. Roughly three days later, the company reinstated her channel. Just this week, Twitch took down her channel after she did an ASMR yoga stream. ![]() Historically, Siragusa has been on the cutting edge of Twitch, where she weathers the constant push and pull that comes with the platform. Her work and prominence pushed Twitch to announce a major change on the platform: a new category for hot tub streamers like herself. Siragusa has over 3.6 million followers on Twitch alone, with streams that can garner as many as 16,400 live viewers. If you search for that phrase on Google News, you’ll be directed to article after article with the streamer’s face front and center in most of the photos. She’s become the face of the “hot tub meta,” all because she started streaming to her channel while wearing a bikini in a hot tub. Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa has unintentionally become one of the biggest names of Twitch.
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