DSince 2019, the Twitch platform, dedicated to video games, has offered a new “Just Chatting” feature, which allows you to simply chat, in which we find a popular theme: “pools, jacuzzi and beach”. It is in this virtual showcase that DoubleDDarcee officiates. His streams mix written exchanges and seductive poses in front of the camera. For the young lady to swap her white high-cut bikini for a pink high-cut bikini, it will still take a few paid subscriptions (“subs” in the jargon), subscribed by anonymous people in the streamer’s live.
Like her, women in bathing suits snorting in the middle of gurgling water, sometimes sitting on a banana buoy (yes, the symbolism is not in the lace), make this Internet subculture which hesitates between the peep-show 2.0 and the calendar Sports Illustrated animated. Communicating by chat with their many spectators and sometimes adopting very suggestive positions in front of their live cam, these entrepreneurs titillate a dumbfounded audience of guys ready to heat up their bank cards for an ounce of attention in return: the “simps”. A wink, a little word on the chat, his name written somewhere: it doesn’t take more for the simp to suddenly feel like he exists.
Originally, this insult – since it is one – popularized by rappers in the 1980s, comes from English simpleton (“stupid”, in French). It was then taken up by the masculinists MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way, “men who follow their own path”). Hating the fairer sex, whom they find abject, they hate the simps just as much, whom they see as panting groupies. Guys so weak they would put the pursuit of female attention ahead of frank male camaraderie. In comments and on social networks, the term is therefore often used in a mocking, even degrading way, sometimes serving for harassment campaigns. It’s not easy being a simp. So much so that, at the end of 2020, Twitch announced that it was banning the term from its chat.
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The problem with the simp is that he is caught between a toxic masculinism that wants to kill him and a trivialized commodification of the female body. With 6.4 million subscribers on Twitch, Texan Amouranth (real name Kaitlyn Siragusa), 29, is one of the stars of the platform. This luscious, milky-skinned redhead has figured out how to use this site as a hook, and then lure her fans to her OnlyFans account where, by subscription, she publishes “very exclusive” content. Understand: pornographic. Again, the simp does not hesitate to take out the wallet to make himself believe that he is forging a personal relationship with his idol. Thus, when the young woman inscribes the pseudo of the fanatic subscriber in marker on her chest, her arms or her thighs, the simp bursts with joy, as if he had reached the epiphany. That’s it, the callipyge belongs to him, he thought.
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