Pokimane says viewers calling her by her real name makes her \u201ccringe\u201d Twitch: PokimaneThe world\u2019s most popular female Twitch streamer, Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys, has explained why she finds it \u201ccringe\u201d when viewers use real first name, during an Offline TV podcast. When it comes to the gaming community, nearly every popular character goes by an adopted gaming nickname. From Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins to Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner, the world\u2019s best gamers regularly go by their chosen pseudonyms. Anys is no different to this, known to her fan base as Pokimane or simply Poki. However, it seems that some viewers do choose to call her by her real name, much to the streamer\u2019s displeasure. During an appearance on the Offline TV podcast, the topic arose of viewers referring to Pokimane by her first name, to which the US-based streamer had some strong words. \u201cYeah that sh*t is so cringe,\u201d she said. \u201cYeah, I don\u2019t know you like that\u2026 I kinda feel bad though because \u2013 for example when I did my online therapy session and Dr K asked like what I prefer to be called, I was like \u2018Oh if we\u2019re gonna be personal and you\u2019re a therapist more or less, you can call me Imane\u2019. You\u2019re speaking to me.\u201d Topic starts at 12:52 \u2013 Other members of the podcast, like DisguisedToast and Scarra, echoed Poki\u2019s comments and said it was odd when people in their chats refer to her as Imane too. \u201cI think people saw that,\u201d she continued, \u201cAnd they\u2019re like \u2018if I want to be on a personal level with her I need to call her by her real name.\u2019 Like no! That\u2019s not how you get on my good side. I just don\u2019t wanna go on a date with someone and they\u2019re like \u2018what\u2019s up Poki?\u2019 That\u2019s weird \u2013 it depends on the context!\u201d While Poki was laughing and smiling throughout her comments, it\u2019s clear that she favors people referring to her as Pokimane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane says viewers calling her by her real name makes her \u201ccringe\u201d Twitch: PokimaneThe world\u2019s most popular female Twitch streamer, Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys, has explained why she finds it \u201ccringe\u201d when viewers use real first name, during an Offline TV podcast. When it comes to the gaming community, nearly every popular character goes by an […]<\/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-58023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58023","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=58023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}