Keffals

**Keffals** (real name **Clara Sorrenti**) is a Canadian leftist streamer and YouTuber. She uploads video essays, stream clips and other progressive content.

She has a Patreon and makes $2,594 per month from 314 patrons as of October 17, 2022.

## Early life

Sorrenti was born on March 25, 1994 in Ontario, Canada. She realized she was trans at a young age and began transitioning in her teen years. In 2018, she ran as a Communist Party candidate for the Ontario general election, and for the Canadian federal elections in 2019.

## Online Career

Keffals joined Twitch to be a video game streamer. However, seeing a number of anti-trans laws being passed in America, she made her streams more political in nature. She would touch on topics relating to both transgender and progressive issues.

In 2022, she was swatted and arrested by police. She alleges that the police threatened her at gunpoint and repeatedly misgendered her.

## Views

Keffals believes in leftist and socialist politics.

## Controversies

* Hanged out with Paul Bloomer, an officer of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSIN), which is a successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC, 1922–2001) and the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, 1836–1867) which would go on to influence other agencies like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
* While announcing shoe0nhead will be on a livestream, Keffals made a joke about how it is racist and xenophobic to criticize them for being Italian fascists, saying that fascism runs in their blood.
* On September 7th, 2022, Keffals allegedly hired a private investigator to find a Kiwifarms participant in her Kiwifarms thread. Leaked messages were spread of Keffals taunting the user with their mother's picture, though the original participant on Kiwifarms claimed it was not them. A statement was made by Keffals, alluding to this event on Twitter. During this alleged conversation, images were given by Keffals to the user, showing the user's family and friends. The user retorted with several transphobic remarks and Keffals stated several reminders of their income and status. During this alleged conversation, Keffals states: "Can't tell if your dad didn't beaten you enough or too much", "Why are you acting like a r\*\*\*\*d", "I am being ableist against you" and more. When asked about their community containing disabled individuals, Keffals allegedly states, "There are some r\*\*\*\*ds out there who shriek and moan about me but are irrelevant." Some individuals responded with anger around the statements of Keffals and their income, wondering why there was a GoFundMe to raise money against the Canadian police case when they make six figures.
* Individuals are now concerned that Keffals utilized the GoFundMe money raised against the Canadian police case, for drug use. This is based off of a tweet thread on Feb. 20th 2023, stating her addiction issues.

## Trivia

* When Vaush, HasanAbi, Fawn and Bruce Ray were banned from Twitch for saying "cracker", Keffals commented Twitch still allows transphobia on their platform highlighting the ambiguous nature of Twitch's community guidelines.
* Keffals became a subject of *Domina* developer Nicholas J. Leonhard Gorissen's transphobic rant in the patch notes, which resulted in Valve pulling the game from the shelf and banning him from the platform entirely.

## References

1. ↑ Keffals's YouTube Stats. SocialBlade. Archived from the original on October 17, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
2. ↑ keffals's Twitch Stats Summary Profile. SocialBlade. Archived on October 17, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
3. ↑ keffals is creating things to watch on the internet. Patreon. Archived from the original on October 17, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
4. ↑ The trans Twitch star delivering news to a legion of LGBTQ teens

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/26/keffals-trans-twitch-streaming-news/
5. ↑ Trans Twitch streamer Keffals says she was swatted and arrested by police in Ontario

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/trans-twitch-streamer-keffals-says-was-swatted-arrested-police-ontario-rcna42533
keffals #DropKiwifarms [@keffals] (September 5, 2022). It was very cool meeting the person who is currently at the top of the leaderboard for gayest cop In Ireland (Tweet). Twitter. Archived from the original on September 5, 2022. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
7. ↑ Paul Connolly [@MarxistPaul] (September 6, 2022). Literally the Intersectional Imperialism meme. The PSNI/RUC is a brutal British colonial force in Ireland. Nobody should ever support these murderous reactionaries, regardless of their individual sexual orientations. (Tweet). Twitter. Archived from the original on September 6, 2022. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
8. ↑ Grayson, Nathan (December 16, 2021). Twitch suspension of Hasan Piker sparks debate over what qualifies as racist language. The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 16, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
9. ↑ Zwiezen, Zack (September 1, 2022). Game Dev Uses Steam To Yell About Keffals And Be Transphobic For Some Reason (Update). Kotaku. Archived from the original on November 17, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
10. ↑ Jiang Sisi (September 2, 2022). Steam Pulls Game After Dev Goes On Transphobic Rant Against Keffals. Kotaku. Archived from the original on November 26, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022.