A twitch streamer named Atriarc was recently exposed for watching deep
fake pornography of two female streamers that he actually knew personally.
Now for those who might be unfamiliar with deep fake porn it's when a woman,
a public figure who has not consented and who has never appeared in porn,
is used her images used through the technology.
deep fake technology to make it appear as though she is in a real porn video.
and it's incredibly dehumanizing, it's awful.
Almost 100% of the time,
actually 100% of the time the women did not consent to it, it's just awful.
And in California by the way,
it is illegal because it's considered revenge porn.
Now yesterday he accidentally showed one of his browser windows
which showed deep fake porn of the streamers Pokimane and Maya.
The site featured deep fake porn content of several other female
streamers by the way, all of which were locked behind a paywall.
So, in order for him to watch them, he has to pay for those videos, yeah.
So by the way since the story broke, I should note for
all the weirdos who might come across this video, that the person who had uploaded
those videos has now taken the videos down, okay.
So don't be a creep and go looking for them.
But nonetheless, here's a clip of Atriarch apologizing for
his creepy behavior during an apology stream,
where his wife is used as a prop in the same clip, let's watch.
>> I really want, especially women on twitter to field safer,
we call Uber spam cringe.
We don't do that there, I've never made like a weird I don't know if seat sniffing
joe, I've never done anything like that.
I've never done anything like that in the stream.
And, we don't tolerate any sex behavior in the chat, we banned it on site and
and like I've done this consistently over and over and over.
And then two a.m, I've been reading so much AI stuff,
reading all this stuff about AI and defect music difficult and everything.
And I'm in these discords and I was still so embarrassing,
but I was on porn hub was on regular as normal website and there was an ad.
There's an ad on every video for this so I know other people
must be clicking because it's on every video, for the fake thing, okay.
>> Just a few things I want to emphasize.
He is referring to targeted ads,
which tend to exist because you're searching for certain things.
So, the targeted ads serve you up things that the algorithm thinks you're
interested in because you've been searching for similar things.
So, you kinda added yourself with that one.
Also he kind of slipped up when he was like, I've been watching all the stuff,
I've been reading all this stuff about AI, and he just happened to come across.
deep fake porn videos that that are behind a paywall,
of female streamers that he by the way, knows personally.
He apparently one of them even baked a cake for his wedding.
>> Yeah, this is a really sad story, so there's a couple of different issues here.
First look man, this does not fall into the kid,
this story does not fall into the category, I'm about to tell you, okay.
Which is I hate any story where we're talking about people's private sex lives,
private porn watching, etc.
It's a super easy way to target people,
political opponents that is not this story, okay.
But it makes me uncomfortable every time, and
it is sometimes what establishment figures do if they've got someone,
they don't like they try to find something that they did wrong.
In fact it reminds me of, so I don't want to get too deep into it because again,
that's not this story.
But there was a University of Michigan professor and they Dick Cheney all the way
back in the Bush administration ordered a research into his sex life and
try to catch him on anything at all.
And I remember his quote, he's like, thank God I'm so boring, okay.
[LAUGH] And I didn't do anything wrong.
So I don't wanna live in that world, so those stories,
any story in that category makes me uncomfortable, okay.
In this case though, is like more like the Alex Jones showing his phone and
you see transport on it.
And he's like, no that's not everybody's part, no it's not okay.
>> And by the way like there's nothing wrong if you're into transport,
there's nothing wrong with that, I don't care right.
There is something wrong with it when you have built a brand being vicious to like
marginalized groups including the transgender community.
And then your getting your rocks off with transgender porn.
>> Yeah, then why do you stop spreading hatred towards them
just because you hate yourself, drives me crazy.
Ted Cruz did that tweet where he accidentally tweeted out incest porn.
So anyways but like even that still makes me uncomfortable.
But in this case, you paid a site to access that point about your friends.
>> That they did not consent to.
>> Yeah. >> That's a huge violation.
>> That's not, I was reading up on AI and
I got caught in a rabbit hole dude, just don't make those.
I know it's a horrible situation but don't make those excuses, okay.
Just own up to it and say you did it and you feel terrible and
it was a moment of weakness or whatever it was, okay.
But trying to like finesse this and you're not gonna be able to finesse it and
it makes you look way worse.
>> I really liked Rayvon Azaz commentary on this,
she tweeted about it and she said this.
Having perverts make deep porn or deep fake porn with your face on it,
is so disgusting, I don't even have words.
And then to have one of your peers pay to watch it despicable,
it's also a crime in California so I hope these women can get some type of justice.
The problem with passing state laws,
is you only have control in your jurisdiction, right?
So, the violator would have to be living in California or
would have to visit California for any potential prosecution to happen.
I would like to see federal law on this matter,
unlikely because of how useless Congress is to be quite honest with you guys.
But Ray is correct, under state law California residents
can in fact sue anyone, who produces deep fakes of sexually
explicit content without the individual's consent.
There are similar laws in other states like Virginia and Texas, so that's good.
But again I'd like to see federal law on this,
other female streamers spoke out as well.
Pokimane who was in one of those deep fake video says stop sexualizing people
without their consent, that's it, that's the tweet.
Sweet Anita says, 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.
>> Like I hadn't even thought at that point and that's a really interesting one.
If they chose to go to the sex, they would make maybe tens of millions of dollars.
And they're saying, no how they perceive their bodily integrity
is more important to them, more valuable to them.
And then people violate that anyway and so this is a terrible story.
And then the thing I'm obsessed about rightly or wrongly is his bad excuses.
I got morbidly curious no dude, no one believes that, right?
If it's something where you say like it's like some really outlandish thing and
you're like, yeah okay, check it out or something.
Yeah people could believe that, but these are people you know and you paid for it.
When you pay for it, that's not morbid curiosity,
that's I wanted to purchase this.
So the excuses are making it way worse and it was already bad enough.
>> Totally agree.
The one final thing I'll say about it is, look I just know from experience, right?
So, if you're a woman and especially if you're a woman with strong
opinions in in public spaces, you do get punished for it, you just do.
And you get punished for it through these disgusting acts that are just
meant to minimize who you are as a person and the message that you're
trying to spread through the work you do, by just sexualizing you.
And degrading you in this way.
So, I feel awful that women have to go through this.
And I have a lot of respect for women who just go for what they want to do in life,
knowing full well the kind of punishment they're gonna have to deal with.
As a result of following whatever their dream is, and
in this case it's creating content on twitch or whatever it is.
So, it takes a lot of courage to do it, to be honest.