He made his line oh my God Why is make a timestamp guys, guys? This was like time stamped. Really? You can click it I Didn't have to watch it I did pre-watch I did not I did not. In the past few years, live streamers have become some of the most famous and financially successful online creators they usually have. Die Hard cult-like fan bases who are willing to watch them sit at a desk for hours on end.

But there's a major cost that comes with this type of attention doxing, swatting, harassment, bullying, public scrutiny, obsessive fans, deep fakes, and even manipulation from corporate employees. Pokemane has been one of the top female streamers in a space that is very much at her. Peak She was averaging 40 000 viewers, which is the equivalent of a sold out Major League Baseball Stadium She has been subject to a lot of controversy in her near decade-long streaming career Now, some of these incidents have been brought on by herself, but for a lot of them, she seems to be a pawn in a much bigger problem and it's reached a Tipping Point Starting to realize that all the money might not be worth the risk to be in her position stay hydrated. Since the beginning of her career, Pokemane has been accused of having pretty privilege which is essentially the idea.

Yo yo, how am I a pawn I'm the king yo this is talking with the guy Patrick daughter yo hey next time you bring me up like this and you don't put me as a I'm I'm that peace I'm that guy I'm him. I'm that guy. Do your research. man.

What is this? It might not be worth the risk to be in her position. stay hydrated. Since the beginning of her career, Pokemane has been accused of having pretty privilege, which is essentially the idea that being attractive makes it much easier to gain success at whatever you do. This argument definitely does have some truths, but it's often used to minimize the work that women or men have put in to gain all of their notoriety.

Pokeman has been streaming consistently for almost 10 years. She had amassed 20 000 followers on Twitch in 2014 before graduating high school. although it seems like an easy job being entertaining for hours, even even though this bias exists and it's proven by science okay, the extent the extent of that effect is widely overplayed and playing The ways that are that are, uh, evil and bad. I I Don't agree I agree with this with the science behind it.

I Don't know how it's being used because people say it's the only thing. It's the only thing. It's the only thing you know. it's like, yeah it's a parts but I don't think it's You know it's on end.

Day in and day out while sitting at a desk is very difficult, but she did benefit from the lack of competition. In 2014, Twitch only had around 300 000 daily active viewers. Her game of choice was League of Legends which is still the most watched game of all time on Twitch by a lot. A young woman who was genuinely interested in the game at that time was extremely rare on top of being entertained her audience.

and nope does last pause he forgets chat at a time before Twitch it was Justin TV owned the TV and League wasn't wasn't the biggest game. it was almost the only game being watched. There wasn't a lot of viewers for other games, there just wasn't League was a massive. the Starcraft yes, I just wanted to stand back and it is.

but by by size it wasn't it was a landslide and good at the game. She was destined for success and of course the way she looked didn't hurt. Many of her followers were likely men who felt like they could hang around. A girl who plays their favorite game, watches anime and understands meme culture.

She was every Reddit and Discord mods dream girl. Some of her fans would send her hundreds sometimes thousands of dollars for a brief interaction to say their name and thank them for their generosity. These men are often referred to as Simps and they can get extremely out of control. Simp is a slang insult for men who are seen as too attentive and submissive to women, especially out of a failed hope of winning some entitled sexual attention or activity from them.

The word simp is actually banned on Twitch because it's seen as bullying. but it's likely banned because Twitch profits so much from these men that they want to do everything they can to protect them. and in return Pokey is the one who gets blamed because she doesn't shame these men for giving her money. A video titled Simp Willingly Goes Homeless for Pokemane was uploaded in May of 2020 by its Agundum, which used several examples of inter interactions between Pokemon fans to highlight just how dangerously obsessed some of them appear to be.

No, I don't it's a Gundam I think even if they did shame them, it wouldn't matter. It would actually make it better because a lot of these they have this like uh, um, this like shaming Kink or like domination. You think they actually like that they love that right? So the people that watch kind of for that would still stay because it. you know, even though she's like shaming them, a lot of people get empowered by that.

I'm not. that is true. That is true. grown men committing the heinous crime of sad cringe.

I'm kind of short on savings, but I'll defo get 500 to drop this week LMAO Hope she sees this and knows I love her and miss her. Then somebody replies only 500 pathetic. Get your bread up Op I Got evicted because I was four months behind on rent. so yeah, I don't know I'll see if I can sleep behind a Starbucks so I can use the free Wi-Fi and donate the rest of my money.

We live in a day and age where men are shaming each other for not giving a woman who's already a millionaire the last bit of money they have. Welcome to 2020. it is a horrible time in history. Pokeman reacted to it's a Gundam video and dismissed all the embarrassing tweets as fake and still to this day it's unclear if the tweets I think this is cringe.

Response is French they do. The whole thing is crunch. As for real or not, even if they were fake, it sadly isn't too far from the mentality of some men that watch her streams. but Pokey committed a YouTube cardinal sin going after the sponsor of the video I Actually can't believe anyone would sponsor these Shenanigans She got a lot of heat from YouTubers for this since it's considered a low blow to go after someone's livelihood because she didn't like the content.

The situation is ironic because Gundam was also kind of going after Pokey's livelihood by bullying people that pay her money even if these men have extremely unrealistic expectations. Pokey was defending her fans which seems like what most people would do in that situation. Either way, she apologized I want sincerely apologize to both it's a Gundam and to the sponsor of that video for the remarks and comments that I made. I completely understand people's concern for going after someone else's livelihood, but this wasn't the first time she had to apologize.

There was another controversy that resurfaced from 2014 where she said the N-word Nick you ain't funny. That's not true. Maybe you're just boring as and lame as hell because the only lane say that she immediately took to Twitter to try and explain herself. Hard for me to speak on this clip's context because it's so old I'm almost 23 and was underage In that clip but it was definitely not said in a racist or derogatory manner.

She said adding it was a time period and environment where saying it was more common and used as a replacement for dude and I've never said it in a racist way hard R either. Almost everyone below this tweet rallied in support for Pokemon pointing out that this expose seemed like digging up old irrelevant clips of someone. I'm not gonna imagine other people's behalf okay and make conclusions about other people's thing. okay.

I'm just gonna watch I'm not gonna have to think about this. okay if I ever take it Whatever It Is People are gonna on me regardless. I ain't saying nothing one with the sole purpose of publicly humiliating them out of spite. However, as Pokeman became more and more popular, this clip resurfaced often.

She apologized for the second time in 2020. I've commented on this in the past, but honestly my statement or comments then weren't even good enough even though people were very understanding. I Just want to make it clear that I am genuinely so sorry if I hurt or offended anyone with what I said I Really wish I could go back in time and change the past. Really? I can't But I do hope that my behavior in regards to life is that I wish to double down and said them that Busta and his sponsor okay if you guys want to me like for that it okay.

that's my. you know that's my take I don't say question mark I don't give a I don't give it when you when you go out and make drama. Okay, if you want to have a sponsor for it, you have to be willing to take whatever he comes with it. That's what we call a fair playing field ass.

If you didn't want a possible to do dumb, don't get an official sponsor for a drama based video. That's stupid. It's a liability and whatever comes next is your fault. If I want to go to war okay, you want to go.

you're gonna go to war with some swords and like that and you want to bring your nice, cool fancy Cape it's probably gonna get dirty. You know whose fault? that is Not the worst fault. it is your fault. Take accountability, take accountability, Brits Will speak for itself.

Keep in mind, at this point in 2020, she was easily the largest female twitch streamer and one of the top streamers period. She is now an owner of Offline TV which is essentially a streamer production house consisting of her friends that create content together and individually. they all work together and use their Network to grow everything. I have no sponsors I have none of them because I don't want to do dumb and be bad by a sponsor and non-sponsors problem.

Hey I can make drama I can do dumb I can say them and who's gonna find a chance on me my non-existent sponsors G Fuel does not give a if I say dumbass. they don't care as long as I'm not a bad, a natural bad human, a bad person and show traits like like racism and why would they care? They don't give a you just go extra sleep ass on social media presence and at the time all of the biggest streamers were collaborating with each other to play the game. Among Us Everything that she was doing was being very meticulously watched and analyzed. This is when a large amount of hate started pouring in.

People expressed their disdain for Pokemon saying her personality was fake, forced, and only saying and doing things to fit what she thinks her brand should be I Think it's also worth mentioning that people expect YouTubers and streamers to be 100 themselves because they give off this assumption that they are normal people acting. but it's almost always an enhanced version of themselves. Like my second channel is just me wearing goofy glasses and being overly animated I mean that is me or a side of me, but it also has elements of a character. But her N-word controversy would resurface again in 2022 and this time it took a Twist Nobody could have ever predicted.

This controversy involves the very popular comedy YouTuber Jideon, who was just starting up his Twitch account in January of 2022. Jidion is known for being a troll, but his intentions are pure. He reacted to a video of Pokeman saying the N-word Then he tweeted the video. Then one week later on January 13th, Judeon goes live to more than 10 000 viewers.

He had more viewers than Pokemane after his first week on the platform, so he instructed his viewers to go to her stream and spam the phrase L plus ratio which was his way of trolling and bragging to her Pokemane was simply minding her business. So why did he go after her? Well, because she is known as the queen of twitch and trolling her is kind of a meme, but militizing. His audience is known as hate rating which is against TOS on Twitch as she's getting flooded with Spam people start telling her that it's coming from Judeon to which he gets mad at them for snitching and then he says this, if you're from Pokemon I mean and you have a penis I'm gonna tell you this right now. she is not going to you bro I Don't care how much you donated I don't care how many hours you watch her, she's not gonna you bro.

She has a man's bro. You probably don't want to hear this. You probably don't want to hear this. You probably don't want to hear this, but I'm sorry I'm gonna break the fourth wall and spoiler alert she's getting down every night by another.

It's getting doubt, deep, throat balls deep. oh no, no balls banging on the wall every night Pokeman Responded to the harassment by saying whoever was responsible he hasn't been winning Chapman she's gonna say it. He doesn't mean that. Okay, one.

one, that's just odd. It's just odd. Uh two. Okay, because it's a lot of assumptions back to back right to in bad faith, Then if you're gonna make guesses, at least only getting bad in bad faith, if you're gonna go in bad faith, don't stack the one on top of another.

It's really bad. I'm thinking right now guys I'm thinking about now. Okay, the world agrees with this. If you don't agree with this, you're just being.

uh, you're just part of the of the weirdos I know to tell you, but also it's not true I mean I I started all the time uh, not all the time I used to speak with her I said no all the ongoing behind OTV Amazon no boyfriend, no boyfriend and I'm not going to be sad and then ended her stream. But the story gets a little weirder when Ninja somehow got alerted about what was happening and he got in contact with Jidion to let him know that he was screwed. I Promise you guys are literally don't think I could do. Ninja was right.

Once Twitch became aware of the incident, they banned to Dion for 14 days, which later turned into a permanent ban. following an appeal Prior to his 14-day ban period, People suspected that Jideon receives such a harsh consequence because Pokemane is regarded as Twitch's Golden Child that they will do anything to protect. After Judeon updated his social media followers on the state of his Twitch account, people instantly began blaming Pokey. Pokemon clarified the following day that she had nothing to do with Judeon's ban and claimed that Judeon and his fans were targeting her because she's a woman.

The reason Pokemon mentioned her gender is that during Jideon's stream, he taunted Pokey's male audience and told them no matter how much they donated, Pokey wasn't going to sleep with them Ludwig chimed in on this and basically said that this is just something Pokemon has to deal with Pokey which you know it sucks that that's how it doesn't just suck, it's not okay. I'm so tired of people acting like it just sucks and it's unlucky and it just is what it is I Don't want to be in an industry where that just sucks I Do not want it to be is anymore. Please Yes thank you I can't even English anymore I'm so sick of this. There seemed to be a huge divide.

A lot of men thought Pokey was being overly dramatic and like yes I See you guys in chat see the problem. The problem is that when you make a culture of only this happening over and over and over and over again. right then then the people assume that this is how it is with girls and even the girls that don't want to be socialized have no cleavage. They have a small camera they don't get, they don't they don't They don't do anything for for extra male attention or flooding.

They just do the same thing you would do if you went live. That's the exact same thing here, right? They get the same type of behavior in chat because that's what that's what the environment is like. That's that's trash as dude. it's just annoying you.

It's it's just annoying it. It's dog. Okay when I say nuts all the time, it doesn't matter if it's all the time, it's gonna be in a massive amounts and ratios. It's just dog that if you spend your entire caring about games and playing and strategies and Esports about again, you're playing Battlement And so we spoke about and then half your chat talk about when do the titties come out it's the it's just annoying as it Ludwig was just pointing out the reality of sexism that exists on Twitch But others thought Pokey's frustration is Justified as she is constantly being sexualized day in and day out when she's just a girl who plays video games.

But some people are convinced that Pokeman is lying and that she purposely tries to appear single to maintain her innocent and single. Persona If men assume that she's single, their parasocial bond increases and they are more likely to send her even guys. but then to be single one, they all do. I Guess they're true.

Even guys will be disabled. Bro warding Warding off a pair socials isn't only for for nefarious reason. when you're a girl warding off a pair of Socials Okay, is it is a net positive for most people's Lifestyles and the digital broadcasts. Regardless, it's in bad framing an argument.

It's only gonna make money. It's in bad faith. It's called an argument In bad faith. You need to realize this, her gifts and money if they truly believe that one day she might notice them.

Or maybe she just wants to keep her private life private like everyone else. But before Judeon would end up apologizing for his behavior, things took an insane twist. Ninja brought up the situation again when people were in his chat begging him to try to help to Dion get unbanned in order to get viewers to stop spamming. He claims that he texted his partner manager to help him out.

All right, All right. I Sent the text. That is weird I Don't promise I don't promise a goddamn thing Pokeman Did not like this. Seeing him on a call with Ninja and ninja like allied with him and saying oh like I'll try to make sure your ban isn't too bad.

it's a little weird. Then she tweeted It baffles me when other streamers don't stand up against me. yo yo defending explaining Lonely Boys If you go on the internet expecting it, explain it to people to make a relation with you and date you. and you.

Whatever happens next, whatever people's behavior blatant is on you, they should exploit you because you're a idiot. You're an absolute cocklord idiot. They have a water. They absolutely should exploit you.

Okay, if your debt is exploitable, that is your problem. sorry harassment or misogyny. While discussing all of this on a live stream, Ninja dm'd Pokey and let her know that he didn't. Actually, if you want this money, go on a dating app.

You want to meet somebody. go outside. It's possibly turn into your girlfriend. Text them.

No one twitch donating to streamers, hoping they notice you from the chat you're a I'll be exploiting you go bankrupt. Contact his representative at Twitch. We only know this because Pokey shared the DM to her audience while she was streaming with the final words being you're making a big mistake This appeared to be a threat, which was kind of confirmed by a second exposed DM from Ninja's wife saying that they are considering everything Pokey was saying as defamation of character and they are getting their legal team involved, but these threats never really amounted to anything. Jadion privately and publicly apologized to Pokemane asking his supporters to stop harassing her social media accounts.

He says his actions were corny and he was being petty. Pokeman responded by accepting his apology and they even did a collaboration together and consider each other friends. To this day, it's pretty clear that Judean made a mistake, owned up to his mistake and the person who was the victim in the situation forgave him. but Twitch still has Banja Dion and they do not plan on allowing him to come back to their platform for EGD on y'all but Pokeman's overreaction to being so this is any social in any therapy and help IRL Visited Exploded Nice is that The reality is you will be exploited.

You absolutely will be I'm not dude I'm looking at I'm making a hyperbally right I'm gonna get hyperbally to explain to the point because you're not getting it. The point is simple. the principle that is not what the nature of the broadcast is and you guys are. Even though they're even going to the length of saying that oh dude, not saying they have a boyfriend is exploitating it.

If all the if if just acting normally on stream and streaming normally is exploitative then yes I hope they exploit you because if all it takes is for a girl to see your son and say yo hey yo till go or 33 thanks for Savannah the similar guy does it. If that for you is an invitation for privacy and in relation if that's exploitating it then yes they should apps explore your stupid ass because they're not doing deliberately for you. You think it's it's not so I I Always I Don't think so yeah. Sexualized and harassed for being a woman.

Reached a Tipping Point recently That may just have her ready because the bar for exploitation is way down because you're ill. That's not their problem. That is not them not. It's not them who's who who gives you a false pretense of intimacy because they shatter your name out.

It is your problem. You misread social cues, You're an idiot if you subscribe and they say your name like everywhere on Twitch across the platform Millions Every person. Most people say your name if you're something, if that for you is like oh oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God I'm gonna go for her and if it doesn't work I Got exploitated. That is entirely your problem.

You quit Twitch Streamer Brandon Ewing Known online as Atriak, accidentally exposed himself After exiting a game he was streaming and allowing viewers to see all the tabs he had open on his screen, one of which was a website that had deep fake pornographic content. The website featured deep fakes of fellow female streamers such as Pokemane Maya, Higa Cutie, Cinderella and many more. Though Atria quickly switched tabs without trying to draw attention to them, it was too late. Screen grabs were taken and shared across the internet.

Atriak issued a tearful apology, stating that this is not a pattern of behavior, but that he fell down an AI rabbit hole at 2 am one morning and ended up on the site. However, the website charges 15 a month to watch the provided content, meaning that Atriak must have intentionally created an account and entered his credit card willingly. Atriak, who is married, made the apology video along with his wife who was also crying. What made the situation even creepier is that he's friends with some of the women featured on the site, with some having already responded.

Streamers like QT Cinderella and sweet Anita spoke out against the Deep fake pornography on their respective Twitter accounts with QT Cinderella expressing the pain that she's facing in the wake of such. Horrors on a twitch stream. female streamers are continuously finding themselves being sexualized without their consent. They are often harassed for simply being a woman within the streaming community and this is just one more way that they are denied their basic Humanity by having these deep fakes of themselves in a sexually explicit manner put on the internet with very little they can do about it according to Matthew B Kugler a professor of law at Northwestern University Since deep fakes began appearing online in 2015, they've become more convincing every year, growing in quality and quantity.

research by Sensity AI a company that monitors deep fakes, found in 2018 that 90 to 95 percent of deep fakes or non-consensual porn which Kuglar explained could be traumatic for the victim. A 2019 report from Deeptrace, a technology research company found that 99 of pornographic deep fakes featured female celebrities. psychotherapist, Lisa Sanfilippo whose expertise include sexual trauma, told Insider that creating false pornographic images is a major violation. She said that for the victims, seeing images of yourself or images that are falsified to look like you in Acts that you might find reprehensible, scary or that would only be for your personal life can be very destabilizing, even traumatizing.

There is no ability to give consent there. Basically, everyone agrees that deep fakes are mostly going to be used for bad things. And because of this, people are starting to understand why Pokemane and other female streamers are fed up with being sexualized because all of those overreactions have built up to this deep fake stuff which is being denounced by everyone. Pokeman didn't really address the Deep fakes as closely as others.

she seems really fed up with a constant over sexualization of her and her peers. And it's not just coming from her obsessive fans, it's also coming from Twitch employees. Just a few months ago Pokeman opened up to viewers during a live stream about a well-networked professional I know I know why she does this? Maybe does she stand up or whatever, but I mean now she just goes live like once a week. it just pops in, plays valorent and then pops out and that's it I mean I got I feel like it's trash if if all the dogs should have known to this but I mean that's it I mean I bro I have to be honest I kind of respect it I all this seems like a nightmare.

um yeah, it seems kind of dog probably do the same thing because in the streaming industry who allegedly faked a romantic relationship with Pokey to get close to women in her community um, someone that I and many streamers have been working with for years. someone who was also employed at a large company in the industry has targeted and manipulated girls specifically in my community by falsifying a romantic and sexual relationship with me. she explained. Pokeman went on to claim that the individual leaked privileged information he gathered from his job and threatened to harm himself if the targeted girls ever came forward.

A few months ago, a few girls in my community came forward with some concerns and asked to speak to my manager. They proceeded to send my manager countless screenshots and videos of their conversation with him proving the lying and manipulation that was going on. Pokeman Said the person would approach girls in her community and tell them he struggled with me. they didn't show that who it was, we still don't know who it is Bro Bro, why do you like? Like, why would they make this up? Why are you devaluing the experience Because you're not.

You know the person's name like bro mental health issues to gain their trust before sending fabricated conversations between themselves. He would then allegedly send fake explicit photos of Pokeman hoping to receive similar images from the women in her community with whom he was speaking. He acted like he knew and hung out with me and my friends in person. She explained, this is someone I've never met.

It's truly some of the most disgusting and deplorable. Behavior I've ever heard of Pokemon Stated that the person was fired after an investigation was conducted into their behavior. This wasn't even the first time someone who worked at Twitch was fired for sexual misconduct and it seems like Twitch is clearly confused as to where they draw the line with sexual conduct. They want to promote body positivity in their hot tub section, which is very clearly softcore porn that promotes the culture of paying women to be lewd on camera.

Twitch also makes a ton of money from this part of their platform and that's all good and fine to support. But for streamers like Pokeman who just want to play games, they have to deal with audiences of those streamers who can just click one Tab and harass Pokemon But a lot of people don't see it as harassment because the streamers are profiting from it. So then Pokey Speaking up just makes people assume: write a paradigm and go live without makeup and without showing cleavage. You are a gamer only, right? Well, you want to look pretty.

This has there is no way that you actually believe what you just wrote that give me a brain presence I Have an actual growing black mold mass in my brain after reading that that no shot you Believe that? um, she is sensitive and annoying and that she should be grateful that she is. Rich Overall, it seems like she is fed up with all of this. She's streaming less than she ever has and still finding herself in the middle of controversies. and considering everything that's happened, all the money might not be worth subjecting herself to this any longer.

Bro wanted to look good is not a problem. That's like saying it, Bro: when you post a picture on your social media, on your Facebook, on your on your Twitter or on your whatever. Instagram Why don't you just take it right out of bed straight up looking like an absolute worm. Why? Why do I look good at it? What's your problem? Because you're trying to make money off of girls that are.

You know, bro, you got no on your dick, You're like me. If no isn't, you're just like me. No on your dick. and they certainly wouldn't pay to get your DMs They will not pay you like me.

The Same The same thing. Okay.