Kaitlyn Siragusa, or Amouranth as she is known to her millions of fans, has long been one of the most successful ‘adult’ creators on social media, with popular accounts on sites like Twitch and YouTube, as well as OnlyFans. However, with popularity comes pitfalls, and it seems that she has reached the point of being big enough to copy for cash, despite her efforts to protect her income.
Last night, she tweeted from her second, WildKait twitter account about an issue affecting her income, accusing Instagram of banning her, but allowing other accounts to upload her intellectual property and profit from it, while ignoring Amouranth’s requests to at least remove the copycat accounts if they won’t unban her for real.
She also highlighted the profitability of her intellectual property and public image, stating her OnlyFans account makes between $1.4m and $1.5m a month. She claims to have contacted Instagram on multiple occasions, only to be met with the response that because she is not an account holder (due to being banned by IG) she cannot prove they are her images, as she did not upload them to IG first.
Instagram staff blackmailed Amouranth
What makes the reasoning from the Facebook-owned site so illogical is the fact her original account was banned for ‘nudity’, but they refuse to remove accounts uploading the same images despite requests from the creator to do so. Amouranth claims there may even be people involved with the fake sites and accounts at Instagram, allowing the counterfeit accounts to profit, or maybe even profiting from them themselves.
Amouranth’s problems with the Meta/Facebook group go back some time, with reporters writing about her being blackmailed by a member of Instagram’s moderation team back in 2019. Protection for creators in her line of work is traditionally not good of course, and sites like Instagram, reddit and others have been slow to catch up with the copyright demands of the digital age.
From Amouranth’s point of view, there is little she can do, having exhausted her options at IG and been declared a ‘non-person’ by the company after her account was banned. Meanwhile, the people running the counterfeit pages continue to make thousands of dollars from images they have stolen, while Facebook and Meta turn a blind eye as long as the practice brings profit their way.
