Pokimane reacts to claims viewers watch her streams for her looks; shares viewership data

streaming platform Twitch has been under fire for a while ever since y permanently banned Dr DisRespect from streaming for unrevealed reasons. On or hand, Donald Trump was also suspended form platform and a number of sexual assault allegations on some of platform's top streamers have kept Twitch in rough waters. Whereas, female streamers of platform have also reported going through disgusting instances such as getting stalked and receiving online abuses. w, Pokimane, who has over 4 million followers on Twitch has come forward and addressed one of most common criticisms she receives for her streaming.

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Pokimane addresses criticism

Pokimane in past has talked at lengths about all inappropriate behaviour she has to go through from Twitch streaming community in general. streamer also had to appoint bodyguards during TwitchCon and ask her viewers to stop requesting for her bathwater, when Bell Delphine had pulled a similar infamous stunt. As of w, many viewers have been causing Pokimane to attract viewers only because of her looks and t for her personality. Twitch streamer had a befitting reply to trollers when she chose to stream by keeping her camera turned off and averd 11k+ viewers. Check out her tweet below - 

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Pokimane has been raising her voice on a number of issues in streaming community in general. Recently, Pokimane recently resorted to Twitter to express that streaming community has some major biases which need to be addressed. tweets were posted on her personal account which has only 238K followers as compared to her official account with 2.3M followers. private tweets were later shared on social media and read following - 

Guys have an easier time relating to guys, and girls to girls, so if a community is male-dominated, re’s bound to be biases. But I hope that in this day and , we can learn to be both fair and empatic with ors regardless of this. it’s obviously a generalization of what usually happens in majority male industries. t tryna be like “eff all men”, i’m just stating what i’ve generally observed being in this scene for 7 years.

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