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Veronica Carmen Ripley
Twitch Streamer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Veronica Carmen Ripley[1] (born November 22, 1990), better known by her online alias Nikatine, is an American streamer and Internet personality. She founded Transmission Gaming, a Discord community for transgender gamers, and currently owns tabletop game publisher Fablescraps.
In 2019, Ripley was inducted into the official Twitch Ambassador program.[2]
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Early life
Veronica Ripley was born on November 22, 1990, to a Latina mother and an American father.[2] Born in the Monterey Bay area, she grew up attending theater classes and participating in community theater productions.[3] As a child, Ripley often played Starcraft with her father.[4] She persued a career in acting, working in casting for a few years, before leaving Hollywood and returning home around early 2013. It was during this time she began her gender transition.[2][3] After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Music from CSUMB, she began to play games professionally on the livestreaming platform Twitch.[3]
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Personal life
Ripley is transgender. She has cited video games as an escape and as a method of expression for her identity.[2]
Career
Ripley began streaming with Overwatch's release in 2016. She quickly shifted focus toward simulation games such as Kerbal Space Program and Cities: Skylines, and eventually began streaming Grand Theft Auto roleplay.[5] She also does "Just Chatting" streams, where she discusses politics.[2]
In 2016, she founded Transmission Gaming, a community on the instant messaging Discord for transgender gamers to meet and play games together.[6] It has since grown to include a 68 member group of Twitch streamers.[2]
In addition to streaming, Ripley also owns the tabletop game publisher Fablescraps.[7]
Activism
Ripley has been an outspoken critic of Twitch's content tag system, calling for the creation of a transgender tag.[8][9] According to TechRadar, Ripley was quoted as saying: "I hear this argument a lot, that trans doesn't deserve to be a tag because tags are reserved for content not for identity. But I would posit to you that if I had a podcast, and my podcast was focused on trans issues, wouldn't that make it trans content?" To circumvent this issue, she encouraged other transgender streamers to use a keycap making tag, in an attempt to create a safe space.[10] In May 2021, Twitch introduced the "Trans" tag.[11]
Ripley has done several charity streams, both independently and with Transmission Gaming, raising thousands of dollars for LGBTQ charities.[4][12]
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