Twitch star Pokimane opened up about how stalkers have affected her content, even when she’s not the one being stalked herself.
March has been a scary time for some female streamers. On March 2, Valkyrae, Cinna, and Emiru were attacked by a steam sniper on the Santa Monica Pier.
That same night, robbers showed up to Amouranth’s house to steal crypto, leading the streamer to shoot one of them. The viral incident was even captured on her security camera and shared to social media.
On March 8, Imane ‘Pokimane‘ Anys revealed just how prevalent stalkers are in the streaming community and how content creators aren’t the only victims.
Pokimane how common stalker incidents are
In Episode 26 of her Sweet n Sour Podcast with Lily Pichu, Poki explained that in the past two weeks, she had to deal with incidents where a streamer friend of hers was stalked.
“One was someone stalking a female streamer friend of mine, but that stalker also being obsessed with a lot of our friends, me being one of them,” she said. “So she was forwarding all this information to me.”
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“Then in Paris, I did an IRL stream and there was a guy who was a little weird. We had a bodyguard, luckily but he basically stuck around afterward to try to follow us, but the bodyguard caught him, and he gave him a look, and the guy ran away,” she added.
Not only that, Poki further noted that this person in Paris also stalks a male YouTuber friend of hers.
Streamers aren’t the only ones facing stalking issues either, and some of her fans even reached out to her to share their struggles.
“I had a private Instagram where you had to request in order to be accepted to see my posts and one of my prerequisites was you need to have a public-facing profile,” she explained. “And the amount, the sheer goddamn amount of women I had DMing me saying, ‘hey I really really want to join your private IG but I can’t have my profile public because I have a stalker,’ really made me realize this is a very common issue.”
Pokimane is no stranger to discussing the extreme measures she goes to in order to protect herself online.
According to Anys, she spends over five figures every month to prevent people from doxxing her, making deepfakes, and copyright issues.
“I literally have people that I have to pay monthly to essentially scour and see whether my address is online anywhere and then take it down,” she said. “I wish that wasn’t the case.”
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