Moroccan-born video game streamer, Imane “Pokimane” Anys is one of the most viewed Twitch streamers with over 4 million Twitch followers. She is ranked as the most popular female streamer on Twitch and also holds the top 10 position for best streamer of all times. She plays League of Legends, Fortnite, Valorant and many more.
She runs her own digital content empire with content across Twitch, several YouTube channels and other platforms as well. Here are some of the lesser-known facts about Pokimane!
Poki quit college to livestream on Twitch full time
Poki went to McMaster University to study engineering. In her draw my life video, she mentioned that the nature of the engineering program was rigorous & required students to take excessive course load. Her friends switched their majors leaving her alone & stressed.
All this lead to her streaming on Twitch, and she started making money pretty quickly from her streams & gained a substantial following. She then dropped from the uni, on her streams she has encouraged her fans several times to follow their hearts.
Poki got into a beef with Keemstar
Pokimane found herself in a bit of drama on Twitter in 2019. Keemstar had posted screenshots of YouTuber SSSniperWolfs’s fans on Twitter, mocking them and calling them a virgin.
The two exchanged short videos in reply to each other which ultimately sparked an even more heated reply from Keemstar forcing him to put up some of Poki’s less-flattering tweets to her friends & posted them. As per Poki, Keemstar was trying to expose her for calling a friend “gay”.
Pokimane was accused of unfairly copyright striking YouTube videos
Following Keemstar & Pokimane drama, PewDiePie made a video that alleged Pokimane was copyright striking YouTube videos of other content creators unfairly. As per PewDiePie, the creator to make the copyright strike also earns a profit off of commentary and unoriginal content.
Creators like Memeology 101 & Fainted had their own similar criticisms of Pokimane. However, after the controversy gained more attention, Pokimane’s month Twitch channel viewership grew up by 1.5 million followers.
Pokimane is represented by a talent agency with a bunch of big clients
With Pokimane being the top 10 streamers on Twitch, one of the biggest talent agencies in North America: United Talent Agency manages Pokimane.
United Talent Agency has clients in TV hosts, musicians, comedians, actors, digital talent, esports players and much more.
Member of Offline TV
Offline TV, sometimes termed as the “Scarra House” by the fans is a collaborative endeavour between various big-name creators who live together as housemates.
Currently, Scarra, Pokimane, LilyPichu, Disguised Toast, Fredmyster and Michael Reeves are the members of Offline TV.
Anys will appear in the Ryan Reynolds film Free Guy
Pokimane appeared in Ray Reynolds film, Free Guy with some other big-names from gaming world like Ninja, Lazarbeam & Jacksepticeye.
Pokimane declared the same on Tweeter by saying, “Mom I’m gonna be in a movie with Ryan Reynolds.” Free Guy might open the gate to appear in future movies for Pokimane.
Imane has her own line of makeup with Winky Lux
Amazon docu-series, Streaming IRL offers a peek through into the daily lives of streamers & influencers. One of the episodes showed Pokimane, explored her day-to-day life balancing her career as a streamer & trying to expand her brand.
Pokimane explained, “I’m taking a really big step with my brand and my community in terms of doing something that a Twitch streamer has never done before, which is have an actual makeup collaboration with a big brand.”
Keeps her private life away while streaming
Pokimane has always refused to talk about her private or dating life while streaming or on any of the social platforms. She keeps her professional & personal life balanced at all times.
Pokimane signed an exclusivity deal with Twitch
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When big streamers like Disguised Toast & Ninja left Twitch for other streaming platforms, Pokimane told her fans in March 2020 that she wasn’t doing the same.
She told in a YouTube video that Twitch gave me a very fair offer & that she did not want to go to the highest bidder. She told her fans that she had limited down her choices to Twitch and one more unspecified platform.
Her team won 2019 Twitch Rivals LOL Tournament
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Twitch Rivals is a series of esports tournament held on Twitch which features some of platform’s biggest names with huge prizepools. Competitions for other games like Fortnite, PUBG, etc also take place.
In the League of Legends tournament, team Ez Clap comprising Pokimane, Revenge, xChocobars, Chase Shaco & Natusumiii secured the first position with a score of 2-1 against Team One Tricks in the finals. They won around $35,000 out of the $75,000 prizepool.
She hesitates to stream Fortnite now
Fortnite is undoubtedly one of the most-watched games on Twitch as it brings in a lot of views. The only problem with the game being is the lack of new content. Pokimane said that stream sniping is the biggest issue for streamers playing the game.
Ninja evenreported many Fortnite players for stream sniping who got suspended because of cheating. Pokimane said, “I get a million stream snipers, and then I want to cry.” No wonder she decided to step away from streaming Fortnite.
She runs a second YouTube channel dedicated to ASMR
ASMR stands for “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response” and an ASMR sensation feels like a gentle yet pleasurable tingling of the scalp. Though the sensation can be caused accidentally, it somewhat resembles the feeling of goose bumps mixed with static-like feeling of limb going numb.
The channel has 41 videos with specific ASMR trigger with techniques ranging from tapping microphone to teaching French. The channel has grown to 682,000 subscribers.
January 2019 was the best & worst month of her life
In one of her YouTube videos, she explained that January 2019 was the worst month of her entire life while also being the best month. Her team won Twitch Rivals League of Legends tournament and she got to stream at the Pro Bowl.
Towards the end of the month, she told on her stream that one of her friends from the university had passed away. This same friend had reached out to her few days prior to show support about the copyright striking controversy surrounding Pokimane. Talking about her fans on stream, she said, “And that message is just to please take care of your friends. And especially try to help people in a non-judgmental way. And not everyone is ready for help at all times, but just being there for someone and hopefully being there when they are ready to accept that help can make such a difference in someone’s life.”
