Pokimane admits she feels \u201cguilty\u201d about her life as a Twitch star Instagram: pokimanelolTwitch star Pokimane has claimed she feels \u201cguilty\u201d for being an influencer, saying her career is sometimes at odds with her values around social media and its negative effects on people who use it. Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys is one of Twitch\u2019s most-followed streamers and the platform\u2019s most-followed female broadcaster, overall. That\u2019s not all; Poki also boasts a massive following on sites like Instagram and TikTok, where she\u2019s garnered over 12 million followers, combined. As such, it\u2019s clear that Pokimane is a veritable internet icon \u2014 but she recently revealed that her career as an influencer has left her feeling \u201cguilty\u201d at times. Pokimane feels \u201cguilty\u201d about being an influencer Pokimane opened up about her feelings regarding her profession in an Instagram Stories post on May 29, saying the negative impact that social media can have on people sometimes makes her feel \u201cguilty\u201d about her job. \u201cEvery now and then I become really reflective (and lowkey feel guilty) about being a content creator \/ profiting from social media because it\u2019s so addicting and can be so harmful, especially to young minds,\u201d she wrote via the Notes app. \u201cI especially find myself feeling this way when I realize how much social media impacts my personality, life, opinions, and desires. I cope by trying to be a positive influence on others, or hope that I can use social media as a tool to take care of themselves, spend time outdoors, and create healthy boundaries with all the apps we use.\u201d Pokimane ended her statement by reminding readers that the digital space is just that \u2014 \u201cvirtual, made up, and fake, so don\u2019t lose yourself in it and compare yourself to it.\u201d Studies have shown that social media can have both a positive a negative impact on people who use it regularly. Research led by Prof Yvonne Kelly, from University College London, discovered a link between depression in girls and the time they spent on social media, for instance. This is just the latest in a string of moments lately where Pokimane has opened up about her feelings on her career. The streamer recently stepped back from being a member of OfflineTV, and in 2022, she made the decision to switch her focus from daily streams to creating other content like vlogs and TikToks. It seems that Pokimane is practicing what she preaches by \u201ccreating healthy boundaries\u201d with social media \u2014 something she brought up in a video this April, saying that apps can create a \u201ctoxic\u201d obsession with image for regular users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane admits she feels \u201cguilty\u201d about her life as a Twitch star Instagram: pokimanelolTwitch star Pokimane has claimed she feels \u201cguilty\u201d for being an influencer, saying her career is sometimes at odds with her values around social media and its negative effects on people who use it. Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys is one of Twitch\u2019s most-followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}