She’s one of only 170 or so Twitch users with more than 1 million followers, an accomplishment that comes with a lot of extra attention. When she’s not raising money for charity, Sweet Anita is broadcasting practically every day, playing games like Among Us and Crash Bandicoot (one of her favorites), as well as hanging out online with other A-list streamers. And so far, it’s really working, which is great.” “And while they’re here, I like to get them involved in the stuff that I’m passionate about and try to make a difference. “I didn’t expect grow this fast or have this many people take an interest in me,” she told In The Know.
Her most recent fundraiser pulled together $11,000 for the organization.
Sweet Anita’s works often with Tourette’s Action, a U.K.-based charity that aims to help kids growing up with the condition. My chair is hosting the first half,he's going all out!There will be cosplay, twitch sings, dancing,5 noblechairs to give away to chat.Then I will be hopping on to play among us with Several friends with tourettes and great streamers- Sweet Anita September 26, 2020 Tonight's charity stream is going to be PACKED. Whenever people stereotype, criticize or pigeonhole her, she uses it as a chance to raise awareness. Instead of letting that get her down, Sweet Anita has turned the negativity around. Sweet Anita said she has a “wonderful community” of viewers, but that many people -mostly those who don’t watch her streams - still “tend to think of me as just someone with Tourette’s syndrome.” “And the thing is I’ve grown used to it long before I’ve arrived on Twitch. “I guess, it’s always the thing that people will notice about me first,” she told In The Know. What she doesn’t want, though, is to be defined by her condition. She’s used her broadcasts to raise around $40,000 for disability-focused charities (and that number is still growing). Her tics, which are often verbal, appear during her streams. That’s on top of 880,000 YouTube subscribers and nearly 200,000 followers on Twitter.Īcross all of her channels, Sweet Anita is outspoken about her condition. The 29-year-old, who joined Twitch in 2018, now has more than 1.2 million followers on the platform.
Today, Sweet Anita’s life is under a much wider lens. I once had this tic while hanging with a friend, and spat on his wrist, and as I apologized I handed him some kitchen roll and spat on his face too 🙈 /ExYB90gTOq- Sweet Anita May 29, 2020 It’s another thing entirely when you’re broadcasting for hundreds of thousands of fans.
That visibility is one thing when you’re gaming with a few friends. As Sweet Anita explained, it’s a very “visible” condition. Tourette’s syndrome is a neurological disorder that manifests itself through tics, twitches or other involuntary actions. “I think my whole life started - my whole social life - started with online gaming.” And it was really amazing to have a means of connecting with people, where people saw me before my condition,” the gamer told In The Know. “ really amazing for me because people can respond very negatively to my condition, or they can fetishize it or over-romanticize it. The freedom was liberating, especially for a young woman with Tourette’s syndrome. It’s hard for Sweet Anita to think of a time when gaming wasn’t part of her life.Īs the Twitch streamer told In The Know, she’s “always” been into it - ever since she was old enough to get her hands around a Super Nintendo controller.Įventually, she started playing online.
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