Quenlin Blackwell says she respects streamers, even if livestreaming herself feels like "digital slavery."
The influencer and internet personality discussed the streaming craze with Complex editor-in-chief Aria Hughes for a new Complex cover story and episode of web show Please Explain.
Around the 31-minute mark of the video above, Hughes asked Blackwell if she has an interest in streaming more, as she currently has 43,000 followers on Twitch.
But Blackwell wants no parts of the streaming world.
"Let me see how to make this nice. I have always said, 'The biggest influencer will be someone who gives their life to the internet,'" she told Hughes. "And that’s what streaming is, and I respect it down. I think they are the Don Julios of internet creators. Would I ever do it again? No, because it gives a sort of digital slavery vibe to me, and I don’t want to be a slave."
Blackwell also joked that the Kai Cenat-hosted Streamer University in May was a "social experiment" and that she was "very sad" that she wasn't contacted to participate. But in hindsight, she said, it was probably for the best.
"Metaphorically. Realistically? I would've lost my mind in there," Blackwell admitted. "I would've felt like I was in a jail cell, like a caged animal. It was like a human petting zoo. I'm kidding. I'm talking shit."
Elsewhere, she called Cenat, who made the inaugural TIME100 Creators list, a "genius," adding that she would "bow down" to him and fellow prominent streamer IShowSpeed.
"And if they would've asked me to be in Streamer University, I would've went," she continued.
Before he became a Streamer University alum, Duke Dennis, who's in Kai's AMP crew, was once a guest on Blackwell's Feeding Starving Celebrities cooking show, where he jokingly called the host "weird."
