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Sweet Anita, a popular variety streamer on Twitch, has been threatened repeatedly by a stalker over the course of a year.
This is a content warning for mentions of violence and sexual assault.
In 2019, Sweet Anita reported that this stalker visited her town, slept outside her house, and moved permanently so he now lives nearby her own place of residence. He has also assaulted her while wielding a knife, and although he was detained by police with witness statements from Sweet Anita and a friend, he was released with a caution.
This week, his threats have reappeared in her chat, claiming that he will kill her with “something special.” Sweet Anita expressed her exasperation that the police are not actively involving themselves in the case, and added that she is “helpless” right now. “If anything happens to me, I really hope that I’m the last canary in the coal mine,” said Sweet Anita on Twitter. “The law needs to change, No job should have such a high risk of rape, assault or death, especially not live streaming.”
“No matter how extreme the situation, the response has always been the same,” she continued. “They log it and do nothing, and I feel helpless.” In the most recent visit, she claimed that the officers did not know what livestreaming or doxxing was, and asked her why she hasn’t stopped her career owing to these threats. “The problem is not content creators it's stalkers,” she responded. “I was thinking SURE I'll just quit and take up telesales or work in a nursery. That'll work with [her] Tourettes.”
Others have reached out to Sweet Anita to support her during this terrifying time. YouTuber ASMR Glow asked the London Metropolitan Police Twitter account to contact Sweet Anita: “This stalker has broken a restraining order. Her local police is waiting for something worse to happen this is UNACCEPTABLE.”
