Pokimane claims Twitch doubters only \u2018fuel her\u2019 now after years of hate Instagram: pokimanelolImane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has dealt with her fair share of critics across her Twitch career. Once running away from them and hiding from the hate, she is now using it to \u201cfuel her\u201d and push her forward as she continues to break barriers. Pokimane\u2019s streaming career only ever seems to go to new heights year on year. Once just a small-time League of Legends content creator, she\u2019s built an empire on Twitch, often topping the charts as one of the platform\u2019s biggest names. With big numbers came scrutiny though. Pioneering her way through a community often condemned as sexist, Pokimane paved the way for many other women in streaming and gaming. Reflecting on her award win at the Streamy\u2019s in 2018 \u2014 and the criticism she received on stage mere minutes after winning \u2014 Pokimane said she feels sorry for her past self, who took that hate and ignored it. \u201cI was so used to people discrediting any accomplishment, or anything I did ever. I wasn\u2019t even tearing up like I am now \u2014 I was so used to it that I just brushed it off,\u201d she said in a recent Twitch stream. \u201cI feel so sad for this version of myself at this point, who didn\u2019t get the opportunity to appreciate a lot of the things that I did because there was always someone like this.\u201d Pokimane has found a new way to channel that negative energy now. She instead uses it to fuel her to create more content and prove her Twitch doubters wrong. \u201cMaybe comments like that just fuel me? You think I\u2019m not going to be able to play the next game? Watch me. We\u2019re suctioning up all the negative energy, and turning it into fuel,\u201d she said. \u201cThis was before Fortnite. Before Among Us. Before Valorant. Fortnite is where my channel grew the most. Could you imagine if I listened to this person and just quit and went back to school here? That\u2019s crazy to think about.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s crazy the amount of things that have happened since that very moment, and how I unintentionally proved them wrong by continuing to do what I want to do.\u201d Pokimane is thankful for her community for their support along the way. Now it seems like those haters who want her to fail have some recognition too, for keeping Pokimane in the scene and passionate to keep breaking down barriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane claims Twitch doubters only \u2018fuel her\u2019 now after years of hate Instagram: pokimanelolImane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys has dealt with her fair share of critics across her Twitch career. Once running away from them and hiding from the hate, she is now using it to \u201cfuel her\u201d and push her forward as she continues to break […]<\/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-58108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58108","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=58108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}