Atrioc
Streamer & Marketing Commentator
Brandon Ewing, the streamer Atrioc, became the face of the 2023 Twitch deepfake-porn scandal — then funded legal takedowns for victims and bankrolled 200,000+ deepfake removals, turning himself into an anti-deepfake advocate and skeptical AI-industry commentator.
In his words
I messed up, I’m sorry about it, but words don’t mean much so I’m really just focused on actions.
A week after the event, the first thing I did was wire Morrison Rothman about $60,000 to cover any woman on Twitch who wanted to use their legal services.
Biography
Brandon “Atrioc” Ewing is a former NVIDIA and Twitch marketer who built a streaming career on business breakdowns — his “Marketing Monday” segments treat ad campaigns and tech-industry strategy as entertainment. In January 2023 he became the center of one of streaming’s ugliest AI stories when viewers spotted an open browser tab on his stream: a paid site hosting nonconsensual deepfake pornography of his colleagues, including QTCinderella and Pokimane.
From scandal to takedown campaign
After a tearful on-stream apology, Ewing went quiet for six weeks and returned with receipts rather than rhetoric. He wired roughly $60,000 to the law firm Morrison Rothman to cover legal services for any woman on Twitch targeted by the site, then partnered with the Irish DMCA firm Ceartas — which he described as “basically a technology that uses bots and AI to fight bots and AI” — funding the removal of more than 200,000 deepfake listings and links by mid-2023, and offering to pay for protection for any affected broadcaster.
The episode helped drag nonconsensual AI porn into mainstream coverage, and the site at the scandal’s center was deleted after its creator apologized to victims. Ewing has since folded AI into his commentary beat: his 2025 videos and reaction streams dissect the “AI slop” flooding platforms and ask whether the investment boom around AI is a bubble, giving his audience a marketer’s skeptical read on the industry’s promises.
Where they stand in the war
Who backs them up
Sources & further reading
Canonical record: https://battlelines.ai/topic/atrioc