Juju Fitcats denounces the photo montages suffered by too many content creators

Online as IRL, sexism violates women. In addition to movements such as YouTuber Balance Ton, the investigations into Norman Thavaud (aka Norman makes videos) or Victor Bonnefoy (aka InThePanda), several well-known streamers on the Twitch platform have begun to denounce the cyberviolence they suffer. Misogynous slurs, threats of rape and death, public disclosure of private information with the aim of harm (what Anglicism refers to doxxing), pornographic photomontages that can go up to deepfakes they form the common lot of many content creators, alas. This is what fitness YouTuber Juju Fitcats denounces, whose real name is Justine Becattini, in a video published on January 9, 2023, entitled ” My N*DES are leaking… (time to talk about it) “.

Juju Fitcats protests the circulation of fake nudes of content creators

Like other streamers before her, the 28-year-old YouTuber then takes the time to testify about the extent of sexist cyber violence:

“I found that not talking about it didn’t help matters at all. Nothing had changed. Finally, what if we try to talk about it this fall? We’ll see. Maybe things will move a little more. Perhaps it will free up the voice of other content creators. Today I would sincerely like to talk about this big problem we have as women, in our professions, as YouTubers, streamers, actresses, singers… It’s a real problem, we don’t talk about it enough. . This is a very perverse problem. As you may have understood, today I would like to talk to you about the famous “nudes” that have been circulating about me on the web for years. »

Fake nudes, deepfakes, rape claims and sexist comments

Juju Fitcats then recounts how these fake photos of them have begun to circulate, at least since 2018. First of all, it was a snapshot of a woman from behind who was not her, which an anonymous person sent to her fitness YouTuber boyfriend Tibo InShape, warning him to ” check his girlfriend “. Justine Becattini then noticed that over the years the photomontages of her face photomonted on the naked body of other women have multiplied, when it was not a question of starting from real photos of her dressed to take off her clothes in Photoshop.

Advances in artificial intelligence make the creation of this kind of fake naked ultra plausible increasingly easy and accessible (we then talk about deepfakes). Traded on forums like jeuxvideo[.]com, these images elicit many degrading comments and rape calls. This helps disinhibit some who then take the liberty of flooding the Juju Fitcats messaging service with criminally reprehensible remarks.

Unfortunately, the case of Juju Fitcats is obviously not isolated, on the contrary. As she mentions in her video, this type of male violence is common for most women. And the more known they are online, the more these kinds of sexist comments and pornographic photo montages seem to be numerous.

Testimonials from content creators can come from both Twitch and YouTube, but the platforms are reluctant to act and invest in better moderation. One can also wonder about the responsibility of the sites that hosted these forums full of criminally reprehensible remarks, and even about the possible recourse to the law in this type of massive and anonymous cyber harassment.