Pokimane reveals \u201cscary\u201d stalker who found her home address YouTube: Anthony PadillaPokimane is Twitch\u2019s most-followed female streamer \u2014 but being an internet superstar comes with some pretty severe drawbacks, as she noted in an interview with Anthony Padilla. Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys is one of the most popular women on Twitch\u2026 and only one of two women in the site\u2019s Top 20 most followed broadcasters. The streamer recently reached 9 million followers on the site and continues to grow after her renewal with Twitch earlier this year, boasting an exclusive streaming deal with the purple platform. However, broadcasting live to thousands of viewers each day can crop up some overzealous fans. These fans can develop parasocial relationships with influencers who have no idea who they are. Pokimane recalls \u201cscary\u201d stalker incident This has happened to Pokimane before. During a recent interview with Anthony Padilla, she recounted one frightening instance where a stalker found her home address and flew to California just to see her. \u201cThere was a guy who showed up to our neighborhood and was just walking around looking for us,\u201d she recalled. \u201cHe came across my roommate, and he was like, \u2018Oh, I know you. You need to take me to Poki. We\u2019re meant to be. I came down here for her.’\u201d Luckily, Poki\u2019s roommate tipped her off about the situation and she was able to lock all her doors. However, she still stayed up all night streaming for fear something would happen to her. \u201cI was like, if this guy finds me, and tries to do something scary, at least I\u2019ll be streaming, so people will see what happens.\u201d (Topic begins at 21:34) Pokimane has three phone numbers to combat harassment That\u2019s not all; Pokimane also revealed that she refuses to purchase a home for fear that her address will get leaked, preferring to hop from lease to lease in the event she has to make a quick move. She also has three phone numbers due to the amount of times her number gets leaked \u2014 leading to some truly disturbing messages toward her. \u201cI\u2019ve received so many scary texts,\u201d she said. \u201cIf someone finds your number and they\u2019re like, \u2018We\u2019re gonna send someone out to SA you, to do this, to do that. I\u2019m gonna find your family.’\u201d Pokimane is far from the only female streamer to have dealt with a stalker; streamers like Amouranth, Sweet Anita, BrookeAB and others have been open about harassment and threats toward their family for some time, calling for change on multiple online platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane reveals \u201cscary\u201d stalker who found her home address YouTube: Anthony PadillaPokimane is Twitch\u2019s most-followed female streamer \u2014 but being an internet superstar comes with some pretty severe drawbacks, as she noted in an interview with Anthony Padilla. Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys is one of the most popular women on Twitch\u2026 and only one of two […]<\/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-57997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57997","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=57997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}