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Female Twitch streamers say AI-made sexual deepfakes of them on a paid site, exposed when a fellow streamer showed it on stream in 2023, humiliated them

In January 2023 the Twitch streamer Atrioc showed his open browser tabs during a livestream, revealing that he had visited a website selling deepfakes, which Vice describes as AI-generated, non-consensual pornographic videos, of fellow female streamers. Screenshots spread the site's name, the images and the names of more than a dozen women whose likenesses appeared on it. Atrioc apologised on stream on 30 January and said he had followed an advertisement to the site and paid for access. The maker removed the content on 31 January and posted an apology. QTCinderella told Vice she was sent the images and has dealt with body dysmorphia and other effects since seeing them, and Vice reported that Pokimane and Maya Higa were also facing a deluge of harassment. In statements on 25 and 26 October 2026 Pokimane said the page shown on the stream was of her, that she had felt publicly humiliated, that seeing his name or face still causes discomfort and anxiety, and that she had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on removal (her figure, not verified). Atrioc acknowledged her feelings and stepped back from a TwitchCon panel. The tool used to make the images is not identified.

AI system
Unidentified image and video tool
Occurred
Jan 2023
Reported
1 February 2023
Event location
Unknown
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Exploitation or AbusePsychological DistressReputational Harm
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Work · Relationships · Privacy
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 4 sources, 3 underlying accounts
8 claims: 8 reported. 4 open questions
People reported harmed
At least 3 people

AI system as recorded: Unidentified deepfake tool used by the operator of a paid website to make sexual images and videos of female streamers without consent

What Happened

The exposure. Vice reports that in January 2023 Atrioc, a Twitch streamer with about 318,000 followers, inadvertently showed his open browser tabs during a livestream, revealing a website that sold deepfakes of fellow streamers. Tubefilter says the page he had open showed fake nude images of Maya Higa and Pokimane, and that the same maker had posted fabricated content of other streamers. Screenshots then spread the site's name, the images and the names of more than a dozen women whose likenesses were on it (Vice).

The admission and the takedown. Atrioc apologised on stream on 30 January 2023, saying he had followed an advertisement for deepfake pornography to the site and bought access (Vice, Tubefilter). The reporting establishes that he accessed the site and does not say that he made the images. The maker removed the content on 31 January and posted a written apology in its place (Tubefilter). Vice notes that copies shared from the original source were likely to stay online.

The streamers' accounts. QTCinderella told Vice that people began sending her the images immediately after the livestream and that since seeing the AI-generated images she has dealt with body dysmorphia and other effects on her health. Vice reported that other women whose images were shared, including Pokimane and Maya Higa, were also facing a deluge of harassment and unwanted attention. In a livestream on 25 October 2026 and an X post on 26 October 2026, Pokimane said the page shown on the stream had photos of her digitally altered to look extremely inappropriate, that she had stayed quiet at the time because she felt uncomfortable and publicly humiliated, and that seeing his name or face still causes discomfort and anxiety. She said Atrioc had offered $3,000 towards removal and that she had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars herself, a figure Tech Times says is not independently verified.

Limits. The maker, the tool used and the site's audience are not identified. The AI basis is the site's description as a deepfake seller, the buyer's and maker's own responses and the outlets' description of the material as AI-generated; no forensic analysis is reported.

Reported harm

Female streamers say AI-made sexual deepfakes of them sold on a paid site, exposed on a fellow streamer's livestream, brought harassment, humiliation and lasting distress, including body dysmorphia for one and continuing anxiety for another (their accounts, reported).

Outcome

Unknown

The site's maker removed the content on 31 January 2023 and posted an apology (Tubefilter); Atrioc said the takedown followed efforts by QTCinderella and a law firm and offered to cover removal costs (Tubefilter). QTCinderella told Vice that lawyers advised there was little legal recourse. In October 2026, after Pokimane's statements, Atrioc stepped back from a planned TwitchCon panel. No legal case is reported.

What remains unknown

  • Who made the deepfakes and which tool was used.
  • How many people bought access to the site or saw the images.
  • Whether the other depicted streamers suffered further consequences.
  • How much of the material remains online.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The website sold deepfakes of the streamers, described by Vice as AI-generated, non-consensual pornographic videos and by the Times of India as sexual images made using AI; the buyer said he paid for access to deepfake content and the maker removed the content and apologised. These AI-made likenesses are what the streamers say exposed them to harassment and humiliation. No forensic analysis is reported and the tool is not identified.

8 claims: 8 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported In January 2023 Atrioc inadvertently showed his open browser tabs during a livestream, revealing a website that sold deepfake sexual material of fellow female streamers; the page he had open showed fake nude images of Maya Higa and Pokimane, and screenshots spread the site's name, the images and the names of more than a dozen women whose likenesses were on it.

Causal attribution. Outlets' accounts of a publicly broadcast stream and the screenshots.

  • vice.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'inadvertently showed his open browser tabs while doing a live stream in front of some of his 318,000 followers, revealing that he visited a website selling deepfakes—AI-generated, non-consensual pornographic videos—of fellow streamers.'; 'Screenshots then circulated the name of the website, the images, and the names of more than a dozen other female streamers whose likenesses appeared on the site, including QTCinderella.'
  • tubefilter.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'The website page he was looking at contained fake nudes of popular streamers Maya Higa and Pokimane.'
  • timesofindia.indiatimes.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'The controversy began in January 2023 when viewers noticed a website showing sexual images made using artificial intelligence (AI) on Atrioc’s stream.'
Reported Atrioc apologised and said he had followed an advertisement for deepfake pornography to the site and paid for access; the reporting does not say he made the images.

Causal attribution. Atrioc's own apology as reported.

  • vice.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'admitting that he’d followed a Pornhub advertisement for deepfake porn to a website where he bought access to those images'
  • tubefilter.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'In an apology stream, Atrioc admitted to paying for access to the person’s deepfake library.'
  • techtimes.co.uk(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'The available reporting establishes that he accessed the site, rather than that he created the images himself.'
Reported The maker removed the content from the site on 31 January 2023 and posted a written apology in its place.

Causal attribution. Outlets' reports of the maker's own action.

  • vice.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'The creator of the deepfakes, responding to the apology and ensuing discourse, wiped their presence from the web and promised not to return.'
  • tubefilter.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'The deepfake maker he paid wiped their NSFW content from their page on the host site Jan. 31, replacing it with a written apology.'
Reported Vice and the Times of India describe the material as AI-generated sexual images and videos made without consent.

Causal attribution. Outlets' description of the site's deepfakes; no forensic analysis is reported.

  • vice.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'inadvertently showed his open browser tabs while doing a live stream in front of some of his 318,000 followers, revealing that he visited a website selling deepfakes—AI-generated, non-consensual pornographic videos—of fellow streamers.'
  • timesofindia.indiatimes.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'The controversy began in January 2023 when viewers noticed a website showing sexual images made using artificial intelligence (AI) on Atrioc’s stream.'
Reported QTCinderella told Vice that people began sending her the images right after the livestream and that since seeing the AI-generated images she has dealt with body dysmorphia and other effects on her health.

Causal attribution. The depicted streamer's own account in an interview.

  • vice.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'After Ewing’s slip on the livestream, people immediately started sending her non-consensual pornographic images of herself.'; 'Since seeing the AI-generated images, she’s dealt with body dysmorphia'
Reported Vice reported that other women whose names and images were shared from the site, including Pokimane and Maya Higa, were facing a deluge of harassment and unwanted attention, and that copies were likely to stay online.

Causal attribution. Vice's reporting.

  • vice.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'Many of the other women whose names and images were shared from the deepfake website Ewing visited, including Pokimane and Maya Higa, are also enduring a deluge of harassment and unwanted attention'; 'once the images and videos were online, people sharing and leaking them from their original source meant that they’ll likely be online forever.'
Reported In October 2026 Pokimane said the page shown on the stream had photos of her digitally altered to look extremely inappropriate, that she had felt publicly humiliated, that seeing Atrioc's name or face still causes discomfort and anxiety, and that she had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on removal.

Causal attribution. Pokimane's own statements; the spending figure is hers and unverified.

  • timesofindia.indiatimes.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'She explained that she did not speak much about it at the time because she felt deeply uncomfortable and publicly humiliated.'
  • techtimes.co.uk(opens in new tab) supports · English
    'the specific page it showed had photos of me, digitally altered to look extremely inappropriate.'; 'During a livestream on 25 October, Pokimane said seeing Atrioc's name or face continued to cause 'a lot of discomfort and anxiety'.'; 'However, she said she had personally spent hundreds of thousands of dollars — a figure she shared publicly that has not been independently verified in the cited reporting.'
Reported Atrioc responded by acknowledging her feelings and stepped back from a planned TwitchCon panel.

Causal attribution. Reported response.

Sources

4 sources inspected, from 3 underlying accounts. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

English source read in full by the research agent (an AI); no translation. Applies to s1, s2, s3, s4.

Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Unknown.

The sources do not say where the site was run, where the livestream was made or where the depicted streamers live; Twitch is an online platform. No court is involved.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-29: Published because outlets describe a paid site selling AI-made sexual deepfakes of named female streamers, its buyer and maker responded, and the depicted streamers describe harassment, humiliation and lasting distress. All harms are attributed to their own accounts.

People described

Female Twitch streamers, including QTCinderella, Pokimane and Maya Higa, whose likenesses were used without consent in sexual deepfakes sold on a paid website

People reported harmed in this case

At least 3 people

0 AI participants · 3 other people harmed

Additional affected people are described without a reliable count.

Three named streamers with a reported adverse consequence: QTCinderella (body dysmorphia and other effects she described to Vice, and being sent the images), Pokimane and Maya Higa (Vice: enduring a deluge of harassment and unwanted attention; Pokimane's own 2026 statements). Vice says many of the other women whose names and images were shared also faced harassment, without a number, so the count is partial. More than a dozen streamers were named on the site (Vice); those with no reported response are not counted. Viewers and followers are not counted.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#deepfake#sexual-deepfake#non-consensual-imagery#livestreaming

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Female Twitch streamers say AI-made sexual deepfakes of them on a paid site, exposed when a fellow streamer showed it on stream in 2023, humiliated them. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2023-twitch-streamers-ai-sexual-deepfakes-on-paid-site-exposed-on-fellow-streamers-livestream

BibTeX

@misc{2023_twitch_streamers_ai_sexual_deepfakes_on_paid_site_exposed_on_fellow_streamers_livestream,
  title = {Female Twitch streamers say AI-made sexual deepfakes of them on a paid site, exposed when a fellow streamer showed it on stream in 2023, humiliated them},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2023-twitch-streamers-ai-sexual-deepfakes-on-paid-site-exposed-on-fellow-streamers-livestream}
}

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