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[Draugoth]

Imane “Pokimane” Anys is leaving Twitch exclusivity in a move she’s called “the end of an era.” Anys teased the move in a post on X Tuesday: “Twitch has been my home for a decade..,” she wrote, “but it’s time to say thank you for all the memories and love during my League, Fortnite, & Among Us days.” The message immediately spread on social media as people started to ask: But where is she going?


Anys is not resigning her Twitch contract, meaning she’s free to stream wherever and whenever she wants. On her podcast, don’t tell anyone with pokimane, she went over the details of exclusivity contracts that mandate how much and where a broadcaster will stream. “Although these contracts were made in a way that is great for peace of mind and feeling like you have a safety net as long as you stream a certain number of hours, they do put you in this headspace of prioritizing streaming versus how good the content actually is,” Anys said. It also takes away from effort into other platforms, she

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[TommyCronin6969]

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

 

[HoodWinked]

yikes that picture of her is rough.

 

[Coconutt]

It comes for everyone

 

[ManaByte]

 

[squallheart]

Still don't understand her appeal also that image lol

 

[Kilau]

Is this the broke boys cookies one?

 

[Hrk69]

K.

 

[Valonquar]

 

[Pejo]

She's likely made so much money of of simps on Twitch that she can early retire and hit the wall gracefully in private.

 

[DeafTourette]

A female Twitch game streamer is leaving twitch because it doesn't pay like it should, or used to. A lot of folks are leaving twitch because of that. YouTube does it better (that money part)... Not sure how many YouTube game streamers there are.

 

[PSYGN]

How was everyone's dinner?

 

[LordCBH]

Who cares where some bad personality thot is streaming?

 

[AJUMP23]

I have left twitch.

 

[Yoda]

Is that her

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Had to reverse search to confirm, this is actually a photo of her.

 

[SJRB]

A female Twitch game streamer is leaving twitch because it doesn't pay like it should, or used to. A lot of folks are leaving twitch because of that. YouTube does it better (that money part)... Not sure how many YouTube game streamers there are.

Bottom line is these people don’t bring in enough money to justify those mega contracts. There’s a reason Twitch stopped spending millions on keeping the “talent”.

The notion that a streamer is akin to Messi or Ronaldo and requires multi million dollar deals to bring in people and sponsors is ridiculous and perverse. Especially on twitch where the real moneymaking is banned (18+ stuff, gambling).

Congrats, you just spent millions on someone who plays Valorant like three hours a day for 15k people. Good luck on your ROI.

 

[cormack12]

I thought these streamers were on mega bucks? At least the top 1%. Did they ever see raw cash?

It sounds easy but could I fuck be arsed streaming all the time trying to exaggerate stuff to make me more watchable. Work is bad enough but that sounds like literal hell.

 

[eddie4]

She going to start selling her bath water too?

 

[Whitecrow]

Press "F" to doubt.

 

[newtypepilot]

Had to reverse search to confirm, this is actually a photo of her.

make up and face filters work wonders.


Twitch has been bleeding money and they probably gave her a low ball offer. She probably makes more money licensing her face onto overpriced junk. She knows her simps will buy anything. Just look at those cookies.

 

[Kenpachii]

Twitch is not renewing any contract because they are bleeding money. She probably thinks she can force a contract by doing this but twitch don't care.

 

[gaming_again]

Damn, I thought she was hot lol.

 

[demigod]

Onlyfans when?

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Twitch is now Mixer-tier.

 

[FunkMiller]

'I have a new contract with YouTube'.

 

[Chittagong]

Onlyfans when?

 

[jufonuk]

Ok I’m sure she has a lot of money saved up and is set for life so I feel no guilt saying.

I’ve no idea who she is and wouldn’t recognise her if she walked past me in the street carrying a sign saying I’m pokimane.
My reaction would be

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I'm sure plenty of stupid simps have secured her financial future. She'll be fine.

 

[Halo is Back]

Who cares, never understood the appeal of her anyways.

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

"The end of an era"
Maybe I'm being too cynical, but that sounds so pretentious...

She was playing lowest common denominator games, while pretending to be any different from "boobie streamers", when she clearly isn't.

 

[rbanke]

TIL Pokimane, a name i've definitely heard of before is NOT a male rapper.

man im old.

 

[Dutchy]

wow thanks xbox

 

[StueyDuck]

 

[March Climber]

Bottom line is these people don’t bring in enough money to justify those mega contracts. There’s a reason Twitch stopped spending millions on keeping the “talent”.

The notion that a streamer is akin to Messi or Ronaldo and requires multi million dollar deals to bring in people and sponsors is ridiculous and perverse. Especially on twitch where the real moneymaking is banned (18+ stuff, gambling).

Congrats, you just spent millions on someone who plays Valorant like three hours a day for 15k people. Good luck on your ROI.

Are we including Kai Cenat in this rant or is he the one asterisk?

 

[SJRB]

Are we including Kai Cenat in this rant or is he the one asterisk?

Why would he be an asterisk?

 

[March Climber]

Why would he be an asterisk?

Have you seen the numbers he pulls in?

 

[SJRB]

Have you seen the numbers he pulls in?

Even with 90,000 subs, how is giving him a multi-million dollar contract a good investment? Do you know how long he has to keep those numbers up for Twitch to just break even? If he deletes his channel Twitch loses 90,000 x 2,50 per month, which is chump change compared to the millions they would have to pay him to just be on the platform. That's not even factoring in Prime subs.

After 11 years Twitch is still hemorrhaging money. Paying streamers millions of dollars (or even hundreds of thousands) just to stream clearly isn't a winning strategy, and it never was.

I just checked, Pokimane has 1,500 subs. 1500! Why would that warrant a fat contract?

 

[Kenpachii]

Subs is not what makes twitch money, its ads.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[Majormaxxx]

She's probably already rich. Also she will soon be 30 and she won't be able to pull off the school girl look. So good time to diversify. Smart move.

 

[Papa_Wisdom]

 

[Big Baller]

 

[T8SC]

 

[AJUMP23]

I don't care about streamers I never will. But I have never said I want to go see This actor or that person. As an Omega male on a message board, I don't care about celebrities. I would rather farm.

 

[*Nightwing]

 

[Saber]

Isn't she the one who blames men for that and call everyone bigot or little pervet boys or something?

 

[SEGAvangelist]

 

[DeafTourette]

For some reason I thought she was Biracial Asian. But she's Moroccan-Canadian.