I hate that I know this. Amouranth was selling farts. But she had to stop because she was eating poorly to actually fart enough to keep up with demand. Belle Delphine (pictured in OPs meme) was selling bath water. I assume she was the one lying since she’s some OF e girl while Amouranth seems to actually be a streamer with some ethic.
The whole parasocial relationship thing always reeks a bit of borderline exploitation to me. Arguable, ofc, but there's a whole lot of a whiff of overpromising attention to lonely men.
Of course that applies to a lot more than just her. Basically every tiddy streamer out there, a lot of OF girls, the works.
Is there something not ethically wrong when already wealthy people who could comfortably retire with more wealth than their fans will ever earn in their life time continue to manipulate and take advantage of socially and emotionally inept people for further monetary gain?
She's not exploiting everyone, but there's damn well many who are being exploited. They're the para-socials and often lacking in maturity and other skills.
Acting ethically isn't black and white either, it's a sliding scale with various different actions and intentions that can contribute in either way, and maybe it's not clear all the time if one thing is or isn't ethical, but there's damn well a clear point where something becomes unambiguously unethical.
"Wealthy streamer streams content and accepts donations" ? neither inherently ethically wrong nor good. "Wealthy streamer purposefully goes out of their way to take advantage of their sex appeal, the growing male loneliness epidemic, and socially inept to increase wealth" ? yeah, the lines been crossed. There's no need for already wealthy people to exploit that to this degree. Show some extra cleavage on screen and get an extra $500 for that night of streaming sure, why setup the production of bottling and shipping fart jars.
If you'd look down on content creators who lead on their fans who end up buying them cars under the pretense they could get lucky or are forming a genuine friendship/relationship, or those who exploit the homeless and pretend to help them for attention and money, you shouldn't also look at this as if it's any better.
Wealthy and ethically better streamers do exist, Pokimane as an example capped the amount people can donate and encourages viewers to spend their money elsewhere like smaller streamers or charity.
Also don't take this the wrong way, I don't really give a shit if she wants to do that. I'm just pointing out that yes, this falls on the side of ethically wrong.
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u/shadowlarvitar May 29 '25
Watch them run tests and it's not even real bathwater like that one chick years ago, think it was Amouranth?