Beat the Witch

As discussed on stream: Beat the Witch is a female streamer who exists in the archive primarily as a projected shadow figure—named by Sam as exemplary of narcissistic pathology and destructive influence within streaming culture. She does not appear directly but is invoked as a cautionary symbol of what community degradation looks like.

Beat the Witch enters the archive through Sam's characterization during EP.421, where she serves as a focal point for broader commentary on streaming ethics and personality disorder manifestation. Sam's invocation of her—calling her "the devil" and centering her as a narcissist—suggests she represents a specific archetype of digital malevolence that the host and guests see as emblematic of corrupted community dynamics. The fact that she is discussed rather than present creates a particular dynamic: she functions as an absent antagonist, a projected problem that allows the panel to organize moral categories and identify what they oppose within their own sphere.