Amouranth Interview: "I Just Work Harder - Full Stop"

thegamer.com:

If you listen to a certain segment of their fanbase, streamers have it pretty easy on the whole. Streaming, after all, should not be considered ‘real work.’ While some have embraced this idea, the majority of streamers would be quick to point out just how much goes into what they do. Streamers have a tough job - and for female streamers it’s even tougher. Kaitlyn ‘Amouranth’ Siragusa, though, has managed to make it all the way to the top. To hear her explain it though, the reason is simple.

“I work harder - full stop,” Amouranth says. “I delegate and have a team that I've painstakingly trained and educated. They educate new hires in the culture I set. We all work long and hard and I make sure incentives are aligned. At the top end, some of my employees earn six-figure incomes - in Texas, this is very meaningful. I have uncapped upside profit shares to help align goals.”

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Of course, it’s not quite that simple. One only needs to look at the efforts of billionaire entrepreneurs compared to the 64-year-old cleaning lady lugging her mop up ten flights of stairs because the elevator is broken to know that becoming rich or successful is not merely a question of working hard - full stop. Amouranth is white, straight, cis, and conventionally attractive, which gives her a leg up on other content creators. Still, Amouranth is a woman and her primary field is video games, so she’s hardly insulated from discrimination. In fact, one of her accounts was recently hacked and had its name changed to ‘Twitch Slut’.

“Twitch is male dominated and the zeitgeist is still very much ‘male culture’,” she says. “It is seen as ‘simping’ to watch female content creators.