Pokimane says backlash over her VTuber streams was \u201cunderstandable\u201d Twitch\/PokimaneTwitch star Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has commented on the backlash she received over becoming a VTuber, noting how some of the negativity was actually \u201cunderstandable.\u201d Pokimane\u2019s decision to become a VTuber back in 2020 was met with both praise and criticism. While some slammed the streamer for trying to \u201ccash in\u201d on the trend, others supported her. Although she hasn\u2019t used her VTuber model as often as she once did, she still talks about it from time-to-time and that\u2019s exactly what happened during a recent appearance on the Trash Taste podcast. When asked about the backlash and how she handled it, Pokimane explained that some of it made sense to her in the grand scheme of things. Pokimane explains why her VTuber streams caused controversy After noting that she hoped she was a positive force in trying to \u201cnormalize\u201d the idea of VTubing to a more general Twitch audience, Pokimane addressed the drama associated with it. While she didn\u2019t believe that her own community took issue with her VTuber avatar, she explained that some outside forces were responsible for the majority of the backlash. (segment begins at 1:44:00) \u201cI think a lot of people were just mad because a lot of people were used to being mad at me,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then I think there\u2019s a little bit of a gatekeeping thing, which is partially understandable where they\u2019re like, \u2018we don\u2019t want you to ruin this sacred community.\u2019\u201d According to Anys, she wasn\u2019t looking to \u201cruin anything\u201d and just wanted to showcase the VTuber tech to more people, so the whole drama made her feel bad, but she also expected some sort of controversy. That said, she received some good feedback and reassurance from people in the VTubing community, including possibly IronMouse, who were happy that she was bringing more attention to the meta. Hopefully, Pokimane can return to using her VTuber model more often, especially now that she plans on changing up her Twitch content considerably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane says backlash over her VTuber streams was \u201cunderstandable\u201d Twitch\/PokimaneTwitch star Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has commented on the backlash she received over becoming a VTuber, noting how some of the negativity was actually \u201cunderstandable.\u201d Pokimane\u2019s decision to become a VTuber back in 2020 was met with both praise and criticism. While some slammed the streamer […]<\/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-58018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58018","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=58018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}