Pokimane paid a 13-year-old to coach her in Fortnite \u2013 with surprising results Pokimane, YouTube \/ Adobe StockPopular streamer Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys revealed a surprising plan to amp up her Fortnite skills \u2013 which included hiring a 13-year-old player to coach her through freelance service \u2018Fiverr.\u2019 Pokimane came clean about her scheme in a YouTube video uploaded on January 20, where she claimed that she\u2019d hired the young player, going by the name \u2018Hack4Top,\u2019 after reading his rave reviews on the site. \u201cFirst of all, I\u2019m rusty AF on Fortnite,\u201d she explained. \u201cSecond of all, these kids have been playing so damn much, okay? They\u2019re too good.\u201d The two had a hilarious coaching session, with the Australian youngster appearing not to believe that she was the real Pokimane until being linked to her YouTube channel (after which he was blown away by her three million subscribers). The two then went into the game\u2019s creative mode for a quick training session, where she worked on her accuracy and building skills set to Hack4Top\u2019s humorous mock commentary. Pokimane ended up tipping the player $200 out of donations to her stream, going on to claim that their session \u201cactually went surprisingly well.\u201d listen, kids these days have gotten TOO GOOD at Fortnite while I’m still trash :upside_down_face: SO, I deadass hired a 12 year old to coach me and it actually went surprisingly well LOL he was freakin hilarious, plz enjoy the full vid @ https:\/\/t.co\/FrLuF8eUUT pic.twitter.com\/9p21bY7y6B \u2014 pokimane (@pokimanelol) January 20, 2019 Pokimane\u2019s heart-warming experiment follows a slew of allegations against the streamer for claiming YouTube videos on grounds of copyright infringement, which began after she struck the video of a smaller channel for documenting a Twitter beef between herself and Drama Alert host \u2018KEEMSTAR.\u2019 Pokimane has since spoken out on the issue, arguing that the video wasn\u2019t \u201ctransformative content;\u201d however, she admitted that trying to suppress the beef only led to further drama, which caused her to defend herself during an interview with another YouTuber on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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