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No matter how successful one becomes in life, everyone starts at zero, and that’s how everything works. Even the Twitch streamer Amouranth had to start from nothing before she became the ASMR Queen, who amasses hundreds and thousands of views during her livestream.

Kaitlyn Michelle Siragusa is a Texas-based Twitch streamer who is known by her internet alias of Amouranth. She started streaming in 2016, and it’s been over six years now. And this journey has made her one of the most-viewed female streamers on the purple platform, with over six million followers.

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Amouranth used to get shocking numbers when she started as a streamer

Amouranth recently attended an interview on FOX 26 Houston. There she answered many questions, including those related to her early years as a Twitch streamer. Being a streamer, viewership is one of the most important stats in her career. Currently, she gets hundreds of thousands of views on her stream. So the interviewer asked about the situation when she started.

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The ASMR Queen’s answer shocked the interviewer. She said, “I only had 15 viewers my first year. Everyone starts somewhere.” Who would have guessed the same person who has thousands of views now once had such a small viewership on her streams?

Those who have been following the 28-year-old might know that before joining Twitch, she was a cosplayer. In her early streams, she used to livestream cosplays or play video games while cosplaying as an in-game character.

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Amouranth shared about her early livestreams in the interview, “I was actually just playing games in my costume. There’s a video game called Overwatch, and I was cosplaying Tracer while playing her in the game.”

Siragusa shared that her early childhood hobby led to livestreaming

A few weeks ago, Amouranth had an interview with the eSports reporter Jake Lucky once. There she talked about her early childhood, growing up as the youngest kid in her family. Further, she shared she was a class clown and a theater kid. She shared how her childhood led to what she is today.

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She further shared that being a theater kid, she got into costume making. Eventually, it evolved into cosplaying and later got her into livestreaming. The rest following that is history, as she is one of the most prominent female Twitch streamers now.