Pokimane reveals how she fell for $24k scam by her YouTube manager Twitch: PokimanePopular Twitch star Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has revealed how she fell for a $24k scam staged by her former YouTube video manager, and how she eventually dealt with the issue after she realized what was happening. The Moroccan-Canadian streamer revealed to her Twitch fans she was once dealt a hefty $24,000 blow thanks to a \u201cstupid scam\u201d by her ex-YouTube manager. In late 2019, the rising Twitch star assembled a team of YouTube editors to manage uploading her videos. Alongside two producers, Pokimane signed up an unknown manager after he \u201cwrote up multiple pages of a big proposal\u201d that she admits she was convinced by. Three months later, Pokimane was down $24k. \u201cThis guy wrote me MLA-formatted paragraphs, these promises,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was the most convincing stuff ever, but I just ended up being his sugar momma.\u201d Anys revealed on-stream on Nov. 24 she still struggles to really trust new additions to her streaming team, whether it be editors, mods, managers, or behind-the-scenes admins, due to her original YouTuber manager\u2019s scam. The incident, which happened back in late 2019, saw Pokimane payout three months of wages to this \u201cpromising guy,\u201d with the Twitch streamer assuming he was organizing things behind the scenes. Soon after he \u201cjoined the team,\u201d however, her YouTube uploads slowed down, before stopping entirely. \u201cHe gave me like $200 worth of value, I ain\u2019t joking,\u201d she admitted. \u201cThis was a relationship where it took me ages to realize that I was actually just getting played. He was so good at writing all these excuses and reasons.\u201d \u201cWhen I found out, I was ruthless, on god,\u201d the streamer continued. \u201cI went to him and demanded to know why we hadn\u2019t uploaded any videos, and he sent me five paragraphs that told me he had been doing this and that.\u201d Pokimane then tried to show her Twitch fans his original proposal documents, but soon discovered they\u2019d been locked or erased completely. \u201cThey were so convincing I didn\u2019t even give him a trial,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery now and then he\u2019d tell me he was doing things, like a Hot Ones-type show. But really he was just making me think he was doing things, but he wasn\u2019t. It came down to, dude, I\u2019m giving you $8,000 a month, do the work!\u201d \u201cThen, in the second month, he went MIA for a full week. He said a family member had been sick, and I just had to believe him. I couldn\u2019t prove he was really lying.\u201d In the end, the 25-year-old decided to become \u201cstone-cold\u201d in their meetings. She didn\u2019t end up sacking him until she had spent a grand total of $24,000 for him to do \u201cabsolutely nothing,\u201d however. The Twitch star laughed at her mistake. \u201cDead-ass, I was just his sugar momma for like a quarter of a year!\u201d Pokimane added that, in a way, she\u2019s thankful the manager \u2014 who she refused to name \u2014 pulled the stunt. Now she is \u201cfar more careful\u201d with her business dealings. That lesson would have helped recently too; earlier this month, Pokimane unveiled her own company, a talent management and brand consulting firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane reveals how she fell for $24k scam by her YouTube manager Twitch: PokimanePopular Twitch star Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has revealed how she fell for a $24k scam staged by her former YouTube video manager, and how she eventually dealt with the issue after she realized what was happening. The Moroccan-Canadian streamer revealed to her […]<\/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-57862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57862","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=57862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}