Atrioc Releases Second Apology For Deepfake Pornography Scandal In Twitlonger Form

Recently disgraced Twitch streamer Atrioc released a second, more formal apology for looking at deepfake pornography of some of his friends and colleagues (including Pokimane) in the form of a Twitlonger post earlier today, appearing to earn him back some goodwill after living through two days of backlash and brutal embarrassment.

Apology.

Read: https://t.co/x8F2wz6pb6

— Atrioc (@Atrioc) February 1, 2023

On Monday, Atrioc accidentally revealed on stream that he had a tab open to a deepfake pornography website that contained deepfaked videos of streamers Pokimane, Maya Higa and QTCinderella, among others. As the news began to spiral out of control, he held a now-infamous apology stream where he declared in front of his crying wife "I call booba spam cringe!," among other defenses.

Twitch streamer Atrioc issued an apology after accidentally revealing that he watched deepfake videos of streamers Pokimane and Maya pic.twitter.com/oEjHnGS3Ax

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) January 30, 2023

The apology was thoroughly roasted by many both for its content and its optics, but his second, more clear-headed apology has seemingly earned him back some of the support he'd lost over the past two days. In the post, he wrote:

First and foremost I want to specifically apologize to Maya and Pokimane. You were both in the screenshot that spread around the internet. Your names were dragged into it and you were sexualized against your will. You have both succeeded in this industry in spite of all the blatant unfounded sexist attempts to hurt or assassinate your character in a male dominated space. And now I'm another guy on that long list.

Atrioc also promised to disappear from the internet for a while, move away from his recently launched project OFFBRAND and devote his time to fighting deepfake pornography sites.

In the short term, through the efforts of [QTCinderella] and Ryan Morrison's law firm the website in question has already been taken down. I have spoken with Morrison and am working to cover the financial cost of the takedown as well as all legal fees for all women affected to use his services for removing their unwanted content from the web. Additionally, I am engaging more law firms to continue to remove this content from other areas of the internet such as Reddit.

Finally, Atrioc noted that he wanted no support from the people who attempted to downplay the scandal through various justifications.

Lastly, to anyone who has expressed the sentiment of "support" that what I did wasn't wrong, or that I shouldn't apologize- Fuck you. Sincerely. I do not want your support, I do not stand with you.

Given the circumstances, some social media users felt this was a far more adequate apology than his first attempt at explaining his actions. Many praised that his announced course of action was to help take down both the site he was looking at and sites like it.

Sure this was difficult to write but I’m VERY glad to read the website in question has been taken down, that was an absolute must above all else.

— NRG EE »★« (@EEvisu) February 1, 2023

Not commenting on, condoning, nor supporting any actions of the incident whatsoever, but my thoughts with you and your efforts on this fight to make things right my dude. I believe in your goodness

— Deathsie (@Deathsie) February 1, 2023

a better one than the stream, where he sounded more concerned about his reputation https://t.co/JcNP7P6bvw

— Gene Park (@GenePark) February 1, 2023

Naturally, there are many online who have said they have no interest in forgiving Atrioc or hearing his apology. The affected women have also yet to comment on this apology.

Prior to this morning, Pokimane, Maya and QTCinderella all expressed their disgust and horror at being used for content on deepfake pornography sites such as the one included in the recent controversy.