Pokimane defends herself in interview with \u2018Dark Side of Pokimane\u2019 creator Pokimane \/ YouTubeTwitch streamer Pokimane has been caught up in controversy to start off 2019, after other YouTubers, including PewDiePie, called her out on various issues. One YouTuber, Fainted, made a now viral video titled \u2018The Dark Side of Pokimane\u2019, which now has over 3 million views, and helped boost his channel from only 500 subscribers to over 180,000. Fainted\u2019s video focused on Pokimane\u2019s on-stream conversation with a YouTuber named \u2018davcev\u2019, who admitted to using her content and sensationalist titles to attract viewers to his channel. Pokimane was criticized for claiming she would file copyright strikes on Davcev\u2019s channel, as well as displaying and mocking his instagram page live on her stream. Pokimane responded to both Fainted and PewDiePie\u2019s video later, but some fans were not satisfied that she had addressed all the criticisms made, and so had now completed an interview with Fainted himself. The pair discuss various issues which they had with each other\u2019s video, as Pokimane attempts to touch on any points made in the \u2018Dark Side\u2019 video she missed, including the debate around showing the Instagram page on stream. Pokimane claims, contrary to popular belief, that her fans did not in fact brigade Davcev\u2019s profile with hate comments, as Fainted suggested they would. \u201cNobody, as far as I know, I checked some of his pics, and none of my viewers said anything to him. And that\u2019s because in general, I don\u2019t promote that kind of thing, nor would I allow that kind of thing.\u201d The streamer does admit however that she was wrong to have had the conversation with Davcev publicly, and restated that it was caused by a \u2018moment of frustration.\u201d As for the copyright strike of another video by \u2018Bowblax\u2019, which was a compilation of a Twitter dispute between Pokimane and KEEMSTAR, the streamer is adamant that she was within her right to have the video taken down. \u201cI have triple checked with my MCN, and they are very firm on the fact that it was not fair use. [\u2026] I understand that that system gets abused, and it can affect channels really negatively. I want to stand up for videos that are transformative and are fair use.\u201d You can watch Pokimane\u2019s full interview with Fainted and Bowblax below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane defends herself in interview with \u2018Dark Side of Pokimane\u2019 creator Pokimane \/ YouTubeTwitch streamer Pokimane has been caught up in controversy to start off 2019, after other YouTubers, including PewDiePie, called her out on various issues. One YouTuber, Fainted, made a now viral video titled \u2018The Dark Side of Pokimane\u2019, which now has over […]<\/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-57798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57798","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=57798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}