Pokimane disturbed after discovering \u201cwild\u201d YouTuber role players Freepik.com \/ Pokimane, TwitchImane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys is one of Twitch\u2019s most popular broadcasters, boasting a fanbase of over 3.9 million followers on the site \u2014 but some of these fans have taken their enthusiasm to the next level. Role-playing is a popular pastime in online communities, with users taking on the guise of fictional characters to create an imaginary scenario with fellow players. However, these games aren\u2019t limited to fictitious personas; sometimes, role-players will act like actual people, such as movie stars, musicians, and even top YouTubers or Twitch streamers. Pokimane has apparently just discovered this internet subculture \u2014 and it doesn\u2019t look like she\u2019s incredibly jazzed about the idea of people role-playing as her for their own imaginary storylines. The streamer addressed the matter in a March 2 tweet, appearing to be wholly flummoxed by the community of people who role-play as YouTube stars. \u201cHoly s**t, I just found out there are accounts that role-play, but they pretend to be me,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWhile role-playing\u2026 with other people\u2026 pretending to be other YouTubers?? Y\u2019all too wild on Twitter fr.\u201d holy shit i just found out there are accounts that roleplay but they pretend to be me.. while roleplaying.. with other people.. pretending to be other youtubers?? y’all too wild on twitter fr \ud83d\ude29 \u2014 pokimane (@pokimanelol) March 3, 2020 That\u2019s not all: Pokimane appeared to have discovered a rather risque corner of this role-playing world, as evidenced by her reply to a fan\u2019s comment on the post. \u201cThe worst are the HORNY role-play ones,\u201d the fan said. \u201cUnfortunately, that\u2019s what I was referring to,\u201d the star streamer replied. She\u2019s not the only top YouTuber dealing with such inappropriate role-players, either; fellow content creator Sean \u2018Jacksepticeye\u2019 McLoughlin likewise claimed to have dealt with such fans and even had to directly address the issue after it got out of hand. \u201cIt gets really weird!\u201d he said of his experiences. \u201cHad to confront it a few times over the years.\u201d Even imPaulsive\u2019s Mike Majlak weighed in on the subject, calling such role-players \u201cf**king insane (while jokingly asking that they not kill off his character in their scenarios).\u201d not insane in a bad way fan-fickers please don\u2019t roleplay kill my fan-fic character \u2014 Mike Majlak (@mikemajlak) March 3, 2020 Although being an internet celebrity can seem all sunshine and roses, many online stars have little in the way of personal privacy, with fans taking their enthusiasm to new levels at the cost of their favorite streamers\u2019 personal boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane disturbed after discovering \u201cwild\u201d YouTuber role players Freepik.com \/ Pokimane, TwitchImane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys is one of Twitch\u2019s most popular broadcasters, boasting a fanbase of over 3.9 million followers on the site \u2014 but some of these fans have taken their enthusiasm to the next level. Role-playing is a popular pastime in online communities, with […]<\/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-57806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57806","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=57806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}