A Canadian video game streamer is being accused of animal abuse after she was seen throwing her cat behind her during a recent livestream.

In a posted on Thursday, Natalia Mogollon, who streams under the handle Alinity on Twitch, appears to pick up her cat Milo from beneath the camera frame and tosses the animal over her shoulders.

The original video has been viewed more than 6.57 million times and, by Friday, several copycat videos had garnered hundreds of thousands of views of their own.

The videos have also racked up thousands of critical comments, threats and calls for the Saskatchewan-based streamer鈥檚 removal from Twitch. The incident even became a .

One person , 鈥渋f you 鈥榞ame so hard鈥� that you toss animals without any thought, it's time to stop gaming or stop owning animals.鈥�

PETA weighed in too, tweeting at their followers to 鈥渢ake a stand for cats & please remove Alinity from Twitch immediately.鈥�

鈥淐ats are not props to abuse for more views,鈥� the group stated.

In a , Saskatoon SPCA said a 鈥渇ormal cruelty complaint regarding this matter鈥� was filed with their animal protection department. They added the matter is 鈥渃urrently under investigation.鈥�

Alinity took to Twitter on Friday to apologize and explain her actions.

鈥淗ey everyone, I understand the concern and I am sorry for my lapses in judgement,鈥� she wrote in a . 鈥淪houldn't have gotten frustrated with Milo, but I dropped him on the floor behind my chair. I'm not that strong.鈥�

In the wake of the original video, a series of other snippets have made the rounds online. In one such video, it appears Alinity can be seen and in she takes a swig of vodka, then spits it into the cat鈥檚 mouth.

Alinity alluded to the latter video, which she says was from 2018, writing on Twitter, 鈥渢he Vodka thing was well over a year ago but it was also a stupid thing to do.鈥�

Then, in to her 89,000 followers, she acknowledged and understood her critics reporting her actions to animal care authorities.

鈥淚 also understand the desire to report me to pet authorities and encourage anyone to do so if they feel pets are being mistreated, by anyone, anywhere,鈥� she tweeted. 鈥淢y animals are well loved, and live in a warm and caring home, and I will comply with any authority that seeks to validate this.鈥�

In a she wrote, 鈥淚 think a lot of people are doing this because they believe they are doing the right thing, so no salt. I don't pretend to be perfect, and I will always try to do better, and improve myself.鈥�

CTVNews.ca has reached out to Alinity for comment, but so far our request has gone unreturned.