Olivia Richman is a seasoned esports journalist who has worked with Inven Global, Esports Illustrated, Esports.gg, and more. As an editor and writer at Esports Insider, she loves telling unique esports stories, especially within the FGC. When not working and gaming, Olivia loves collecting Kirby plush, eating sushi, and driving her cars at the track.
Image Credit: Kick I am really not the kind of person who watches other people play games and scream on Twitch. Nor do I find streamer drama interesting. It feels like the gaming (used loosely) equivalent of following Instagram influencer news. For this reason, I’m pretty late to hearing about this.
But I was scrolling TikTok earlier today and came across a video from creator Juliana Rosette. She started off by saying she was driving down the road in a town near Austin, Texas when she saw women in orange uniforms handcuffed and chain-linked together. A man was following and recording on his phone.
As she started looking into WTF this was, she realized that it was a livestream called “Last Woman Standing” for Kick, created by Lorenzo Adam’s NerdBallerTV an explicit pornography website, and sponsored by the likes of Amouranth . I guess it’s some $10,000 contest themed after an all-female correctional facility, which already sounds like gooner bait. While exploiting women for views is already cringe, the reported conditions of the women who competed in “Last Woman Standing” is what really horrifies me.
In Juliana Rosette’s video , she lists a bunch of alleged situations that the women found themselves in after signing a contract and joining the competition. This includes being handcuffed to a wall regularly, having to beg to use the restroom, not being given a sufficient amount of food, and being forced to do manual labor and fight one another.
One woman was even reportedly denied her medication and eventually had a mental breakdown. This same woman was allegedly chained to a bed at one point, where one of the “guards” exposed himself to her. Another was thrown into a pool while handcuffed.
Juliana also brought up moments where blatant racism and humiliation were part of the livestream. While Juliana kept using “allegedly” in her video, you can easily find these moments all over YouTube and Reddit , including a black female contestant being whipped by streamer Moxie, who also used slurs and put on a fake southern accent. She later claimed she was forced to do this.
“Their boundaries and spirits had been so systematically broken down over days of isolation and distress that logical consent wasn’t even possible,” Juliana said. “I cannot get the image of these women with their heads shaved, chained to the wall, out of my head. They looked completely dissociated and like empty shells of themselves.
Prison stream ends up in female streamer breaking down… Are they going too far? https://t.co/gFQtIsgLeK
This is just Juliana’s opinion from watching the content herself, but even shared clips on X have received similar reactions. People said it was exploitation and torture, and wondered how it was even allowed on Kick. Someone also brought up that it felt like BDSM fetish content, which is not what the women signed up for.
There are some comments out there that claim the women signed a contract. They agreed to be in the competition. There are plenty of allegations that the contracts never stat…