Insight
Amouranth: Twitch has no discovery system and is worst for new creators
“Twitch actually isn't that great for growth, unless you have other platforms already. I would save Twitch for last if you're even contemplating it, because it has no discovery system that makes any sense. It's all just recommended, and what gets recommended? P…”
Disclosure
Amouranth Shared Financials to Drive Earned Media After Instagram Ban
“It's really because my Instagram that had, like, five million followers over that a little bit got banned from mass reports, and I needed a way for people to still write about me because that was my biggest reach, and so everything else was not nearly as much …”
Insight
Amouranth: Attractive Women Talking Business Receive Asymmetric Attention
“If it comes from a pretty girl talking about business, suddenly, oh, she's a genius, but if it's a guy saying the same thing, no one would care.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amouranth: Twitch suspends creators without explaining rule violations
“Really. They just ban people and they don't tell you why. So you don't know what to change. They'll just suspend you.”
Opinion
Amouranth: Hot tub streams take views from Pornhub, not Twitch gamers
“When really we're, if we're not taking away views from gamers, certainly not. If anything, we're taking away views from Pornhub, but that's about it.”
Disclosure
Amouranth Earned Over $30 Million in Revenue Exclusively on OnlyFans
“Yeah, that's just on OnlyFans though, but yes.”
Opinion
Amouranth: OnlyFans is far more lucrative than Patreon and competitors
“OnlyFans is, like, way more lucrative than every other platform, because even the OnlyFans competitors are either, like, too new, or in Patreon's case, like, driving away the girls, so.”
Assertion Contradicted
Amouranth Claims She Brought Hot Tub Streaming Indoors and Popularized It
“I think I was the first one to bring it inside my room and I really popularized that one.”
Disclosure
Siragusa: Gas station investments reduced taxable income via upfront building depreciation
“My accountant actually brought me to that one and they helped save me on taxes because I can, I got to expense the entire cost of the building up front. So that reduced my yearly income on paper. And then I had a lower tax rate.”
Disclosure
Amouranth acquired a China-based plastic ball manufacturing company
“I bought like a manufacturer. They're based in China though. They make, Like playground balls, like you know, like ball pit type.”
Disclosure
Amouranth favors acquiring businesses usable for publicity stunts on Twitch
“I like to gravitate towards the ones that I can also use for publicity stunts and on Twitch.”
Disclosure
Amouranth Is Developing a Co-Branded Fleshlight With YouTuber Ludwig
“I also still have a project that I've been working on with Ludwig this past year. We're making an amaranth fleshlight, so.”
Assertion Supported
Amouranth: Hot tub streaming meta at least doubled audience growth
“The hot tub meta was probably huge. That was probably doubled my growth at least.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Amouranth: A few stalkers physically show up at my house yearly
“As far as in-person altercations typically a few a year will try to physically show up at your house”
Insight
Amouranth: Hardly any OnlyFans subscribers stay for a full year
“We don't really look at the whole year because people's lives, you know, some people get girlfriends, some people will just like not have a job anymore, so it's hard to do like a year because hardly anyone stays on for a year, a very small percentage.”
Disclosure
Amouranth Details Team Structure Across Personal Operations and Real Work Agency
“So right now in the office, I have like five main people. And then I also have my extended staff that I kind of bounce back and forth between here and the office. Cause they work also with me on real work, my agency for like, oh, I have creators and fans lead,…”
Disclosure
Amouranth Plans to Scale Her Agency to 100 Creators in Three Years
“The dream would be to not grind as much for the next, like, year to three years, and just kind of stream part-time, like, a few days a week maybe, and then just have my empire for real work have grown so much that maybe we have, like, 50 to a hundred OF creato…”
Disclosure
Amouranth: Real Work agency charges a revenue share with 3-month trial
“We take a percentage of the girls earnings. Yeah. We start with like a three month trial period. And if they don't like it, they don't like we're providing value beyond what they were already doing. Then we just, we won't continue on it. Like we don't lock the…”
Disclosure
Amouranth employs dedicated DMCA staff and lawyers to combat leaks
“Yeah, we have a whole like little DMCA staff here. It's a combined effort. Like, I do have lawyers.”
Disclosure
Amouranth plans to pivot Twitch streams from hot tubs to animal content
“I really want to do animal content on my Twitch stream and, you know, I'm hoping to move towards that soon to kind of away from like so much of the e-girl like side, like I'm still going to be an e-girl, I guess, to people who want to brand it as that, but lik…”
Disclosure
Amouranth: Comparing current appearance to past shoots bothers her more than comments
“It's not so much comments that get to me. What gets to me is comparison to myself, because I'll, on a photo shoot day, say I'm feeling bloated, or I'm breaking out, or whatever, and I'll be referencing, like, pictures that did well on my social media before, j…”
Disclosure
Amouranth allocates up to $5M to private equity acquiring small businesses
“Basically they just acquire small businesses throughout the year and I send them money as needed up to like five million or so is what the total will be.”
Disclosure
Amouranth details rigorous weekly production and livestreaming schedule
“Pretty much two days out of the week are like 12 hour photoshoot days across all my different types of content. And then the rest of the time I'll just stream on Twitch.”
Disclosure
Amouranth: Previous Career Was Running a Children's Character Entertainment Startup
“I did character parties for kids' birthdays and hospital visits and like festivals around town and Make-A-Wish Foundation stuff. I was like princesses and superheroes. So that was my company.”
Kaitlyn Siragusa (Amouranth / Kate)