Pokimane is a Moroccan-Canadian Internet personality and social media influencer who is best known for her live streams on Twitch, broadcasting video game content in League of Legends and Fortnite. In addition, she is a member and co-founder of OfflineTV, an online social entertainment group of content creators. She made her first web show appearance on YouTubers React in 2018. She made a cameo appearance in the 2021 film “Free Guy”. She made a cameo appearance in the music video for Bella Poarch’s song “Inferno”, released in August 2021. She won Twitch Streamer of the Year under the category 10th Shorty Awards in 2018. She is also present in various social media platforms as she has more than 6 million followers on her Instagram account (@pokimanelol), more than 3.8 million followers on Twitter (@pokiman), more than 1 million followers on her Facebook account, more than 8.9 million followers on Twitch, and more than 6.71 million subscribers on her YouTube channel. Recently, the highly-anticipated collaboration between Twitch star Pokimane and streamer Jidion has finally been released, showing the two influencers officially squashing their beef.
What is Pokimane Famous For?
- Being an Internet Personality
- For winning the “Best Twitch Streamer of The Year” award at the Shorty Awards in 2017
- For her live streams on Twitch, broadcasting video game content, most notably in League of Legends and Fortnite
- Being a member and co-founder of OfflineTV.
What is Pokimane Real Name?
Pokimane took birth on 14th May 1996. She is from Morocco and she holds Moroccan nationality. She is of Multiracial (Arab and White) ethnicity as she has Moroccan and Canadian descent. She was born with the real name of Imane Anys. Her family moved to Quebec, Canada when she was four years old. Taurus is her zodiac sign and her religion is Christian. She cut off her 25th birthday as of 2021. She has not revealed anything about her parent’s detail to the media. She has a brother. She started playing video games right from her childhood and fell in love with a game called ‘League of Legends’ very early in her life.
About his educational qualification, she went to attend McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada to grab a degree in chemical engineering. Later, she dropped out to pursue her streaming career full-time.
Source: @instagram.com/pokimanelol
Pokimane Career Timeline
- Pokimane began streaming in 2014 after she created her Twitch account in June 2013. She streamed with a $250 PC she bought off a classifieds website after she reached Platinum rank in League of Legends.
- By 2017, she gained 450,000 followers on Twitch earning her account a place within the 100 most followed on the platform. Her account’s rise on the platform in 2017, the Shorty Awards named her as the Best Twitch Streamer of the year.
- Moreover, she also had a cameo appearance in a League of Legends trailer announcing a new game mode.
- She is renowned to stream gameplay and commentary of ‘Fortnite’, which she first streamed as part of a sponsorship.
- She paired with rapper Desiigner at E3 in 2018. Later, he was replaced with basketball player Josh Hart.
- Aside from streaming gaming content, Anys also podcasts and streams miscellaneous real-world moments.
- Being Anys as one of the popular streamers, Twitch directly partnered with her.
- In July 2018, Twitch selected her as one of 15 ambassadors for the 2018 iteration of their TwitchCon event. In March 2020, Anys signed a multi-year exclusivity with Twitch.
- She collaborated with U.S. representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar in late October 2020.
- She had 8.5 million followers on Twitch as of July 2021.
- On 8th January 2022, her Twitch account was suspended for 48 hours midway through an “Avatar: The Last Airbender” watch stream following a DMCA claim from ViacomCBS. Later, her stream was raided by viewers of JiDion. He was later banned, which received the attention of streamer Ninja, who stated he would use his connections to get the ban reversed.
- She criticized this response from Ninja, particularly calling out Ninja’s use of the word bitches when speaking on the issue.
- In February 2022, she re-signed with Twitch.
- Apart from streaming on the Twitch platform, she also has multiple YouTube channels: Pokimane, Pokimane Too, Pokimane VODS, Poki ASMR, and imane.
- The Pokimane channel features edited gaming clips from streams while Pokimane Too includes unrelated clips of her gaming content, vlogs, and podcast.
- On the Pokimane VODS channel, full unedited VOD clips of streams are uploaded.
- The Poki ASMR channel featured videos that are part of a broader YouTube community of ASMR content, though Anys has ceased uploading on the channel.
- She also launched a new channel entitled ‘imane’ in 2021. The channel covers more personal topics and vlogs rather than gaming-related topics.
- In addition to this, she is also a member of OfflineTV, a collaborative YouTube channel made up of content creators. She stated, “it’s not fun being a streamer and living alone, so we decided to come together in a way so we not only keep each other company but we can also collab and actually do good work and content for everyone else.”
- Moreover, it was announced in October 2019 that Anys would appear in the film Free Guy, directed by Shawn Levy.
- She joined Markiplier and Jacksepticeye’s fashion brand Cloak as a partner and creative director in June 2020.
- She made a cameo appearance in the music video for Bella Poarch’s song “Inferno”, released in August 2021.
Who is Pokimane Boyfriend?
Pokimane is currently assumed to be single as she is not dating anyone at present. She has not stated anything about her affairs, love life, and crushes to the media. It seems she is focusing on her career. She is enjoying her single life happily without any disturbances. Her sexual orientation is straight.
Previously, her name was linked with Fedmyster as she is very close to this YouTuber. She has said that she is not romantically linked to Fitz (aka Fedmyster). After then, she was rumored to be dating Hasan Piker.
Source: @instagram.com/pokimanelol
At present, she divides her time between Los Angeles and Toronto.
How much is Pokimane Net Worth?
Pokimane is a talented and successful Internet personality whose net worth is estimated to have between $2 Million – $3 Million as of 2022. She has done endorsement work for many brands such as Epic Games, HyperX, GEICO Gaming. Her main source of wealth is from social media career. She made the majority of her income directly from streaming on either YouTube or Twitch. About her salary, it is assumed that she is making $35K monthly. A major Twitch leak back in October 2021 revealed that Pokimane took home around $38,217 in September 2021. She made around $1,528,303 in gross revenue from Twitch payouts between August 2019 and October. The streamer does do extra promotion content from time to time, and she once revealed that she is still owed six figures from some deals. She is living a lavish lifestyle from her earnings.
Source: @instagram.com/pokimanelol
How tall is Pokimane?
Pokimane is a beautiful lady who stands at the tall height of 5 ft 3¾ in or 162 cm and her balanced bodyweight consists of 53 kg or 117 lbs. Her body type is slim. She has rosy cheeks. She has dark brown hair color and her eye color is dark brown. Her figure measurements are 34-24-35 inches approximately. Overall, she has got a healthy body with a charming personality attracting a lot of people towards her.
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