Emma had always been playing video games, from as far back as she can remember. Short and skinny, she was also a kind of an introvert. Despite that, she has been dreaming of starting a career as a video game streamer. It was hard work and it was very difficult to build an audience to entertain, especially for somebody with her personality, but she was still willing to try.
The day to take the leap and start her streaming business finally came on a Friday, when she was fired from her job. At home, without much direction, she saw no other choice. She went online to a popular streaming platform and made her account. She customized her channel and went online for the first time. It wasn't a success of course, but it did attract a few people who were impressed with her skills.
Her boyfriend, Chris, helped her with her channel the best he could. Chris was tall, charismatic, handsome, supporting, lovely... everything a girl could wish. Emma could barely believe how lucky she was to find somebody like him.
As the days went by, Emma's audience began to grow, and with it, her ambitions. It began to seem like being a famous streamer wasn't such a distant dream afterall. But also came the problems. Some people would join her chat just to harass her, call her ugly, or tell her she was bad. Things would sometimes become very overwhelming and hard to deal with.
Chris helped the best he could to remove those people from the channel, but it was getting particularly hard because another streamer know as Mike was starting to target Emma. Mike would tell his viewers to go to her channel just to mess with her, and since he had such a large audience, it was very difficult to do anything about it. Chris even contacted the streaming service to see if they could do something about it, but to no avail.
Some help also came from Zoey, Emma's best friend. Zoey had just started streaming on a different platform and asked Emma to make an account there instead.
"I think you'll have a much more supporting audience here. Mine grew so quickly and I just started a few weeks ago. You should give it a try," Zoey texted her.
"I don't know. I already have built an audience here, even if a small one. Moving would mean starting it all over. I don't think I can do this," Emma replied.
"Well, let me know if you change your mind," Zoey texted back.
The next day, Mike used his audience to mass report Emma's channel, leading it to be banned. Emma and Chris appealed to the ban on the support service, but there was nothing they could do about it.
"This is such bullshit! It was clearly targeted harassment, how can they just let that fly?" Emma snapped as she turned off from the voice call.
"I know, honey," Chris hugged her, "they only care about the big streamers anyway. The ones making them money."
"Yeah, I guess it's over for me. Fuck all that," Emma just looked down on her phone, scrolling mindlessly.
"But hey, what about that thing Zoey was talking about? You could try that. Maybe create an account with a different name, so Mike can't find you again," Chris said.
Emma thought for a little while.
"Yeah, maybe. Also she said she could grow an audience very quickly. Maybe I can do the same, and it'll be easier to defend against these trolls," Emma said, thoughtful.
"Here, let me help you," Chris pulled her laptop closer and opened the link Zoey sent her.
The website was called ZoomCam, and seemed very focused on female streamers, which made Chris suspicious at first.
"Is that the one?" Emma asked, "looks nice. Let me try that out."
Emma created her account all over again on this new platform, this time under a different username. As a new female account, the website promised to advertise her channel for free.
"That sounds great!" Emma was excited again.
The next day, after setting up her account, Emma went online on this new platform for the first time. The results were impressive right off the bat. Not only a lot more people watched her, a lot more people donated her money. The platform itself also paid her for each subsequent day she streamed, which was guaranteed cash.
Over the next week, as her fanbase began to grow, Emma started becoming more confident. She was more talkative, wearing makeup and not feeling ashamed of her body. She also did her short, black hair and wore a choke. Strangely though, this last one was a requirement from the streaming platform itself. Emma thought it was kind of weird, but they were willing to increase her daily payment if she wore it. And so she did. Besides, it made her look cute anyway.
Emma and Zoey kept in contact, sharing their streaming experiences. Zoey always had good news, telling Emma how much money she was making, but at the same time hinting at "some interesting demands" the platform started making after a few weeks.
Chris was also very happy for Emma, since her business was finally starting to take off. He could rarely watch her stream though, since he was usually at work during her online hours.
Emma noticed that as her fanbase grew, so it became increasingly demanding. Not only people often asked her more about her life, they also made requests, like "why don't you wear a bikini" or "show some cleavage". Those weren't the kinds of clothes she was willing to use on stream, and besides she thought wearing them would probably get her banned from the service.
Still, she gave these requests some thought. Did these people really find her hot? That was a first for Emma. Maybe it was the fact she was more confident, wearing makeup and dressing up better. That realization was slowly making her excited. "All these guys horny... for me?"
Even though she was still dating Chris, the thought of looking attractive to all these strangers became all she could think about. For the next time she went on camera, she decided to wear the bikini. It was a simple, navy blue bikini she had, but one that really made her body shine. Her slim and sexy build was completely on display. Her fans went crazy, and she was feeling more and more horny just by standing in front of the camera.
"Niiiice," Zoey texted her. She smiled, knowing her friend was watching.
Since the camera only got her from her chest up, she discreetly slid her hand down, touching herself through the bikini cloth. As she felt her stiff clit, she almost immediately orgasmed. She closed her eyes as the sensation took over her and let out a weak moan. When she returned to reality a few moments later, the fans in her chat were wondering what just happened. She brushed it off and went on with the game.
The next day, she planned on doing the same thing, but more daring this time. Since her camera sat on a fixed position on her desk, capturing from her chest up, she thought she could maybe only wear her bikini top, and go bottomless, for easier access. She carefully checked the camera position before starting, pulled her shorts and panties down and tossed them aside. Sitting down on the chair naked had a weird feeling to it, she thought. Her thighs touched the cold material and she instinctively caressed her own pussy, feeling how easy it would be to masturbate during the stream. She hadn't shaved for the occasion since nobody would see it, so it had a lightly trimmed hair going from her vulva, down surrounding her innie slit. Everybody would be looking at her face and boobs, properly covered by her bikini bra, but down below she was free to play, hid from sight. As her stream started, so did her touching. She enjoyed herself for hours, and still made quite some money from it.
"Are you joining the streaming event next week?" Her friend Zoey texted her the next day.
"Event?" Emma was completely unaware, "uh, yeah, sure."
She couldn't say no. Since her business was doing so well, she didn't want to lose momentum.
"lol nice. Never thought you'd be that kind of girl," Zoey replied.
"That kind of girl?" Emma thought, wondering what she meant by that.
The next day, as she started her stream on her usual bikini bra, her audience went nuts.
"Not allowed! It's topless day!" they spammed her with messages.
