Pokimane's Overview

Pokimane was born in Morocco on 14 May 1996. Pokimane's family moved to Quebec, Canada when she was four years old. Pokimane created her Twitch account in June 2013. She began streaming later that year with a $250 PC she bought off a classifieds website after she reached Platinum rank in League of Legends. Pokimane gained 450,000 followers on Twitch in 2017, earning her account a place within the 100 most followed on the platform. Pokimane has been known to stream gameplay and commentary of Fortnite, which she first streamed as part of a sponsorship.

Tech news website Digital Trends detailed that Pokimane frequently interacts with her audience and described her "laidback but enthusiastic personality" as "perfectly suited to long-form streams." As one of the more popular streamers on the platform, Twitch has directly partnered with Pokimane. In July 2018, Twitch selected Pokimane as one of 15 ambassadors for the 2018 iteration of their TwitchCon event. In late October 2020, Pokimane collaborated with U.S. representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar along with several other notable streamers including Disguised Toast and HasanAbi for a session of Among Us as part of a get-out-the-vote initiative for the 2020 United States presidential election. 

On 8 January 2022, Pokimane's Twitch account was suspended for 48 hours midway through an Avatar: The Last Airbender watch stream following a DMCA claim from ViacomCBS. In addition to streaming on the Twitch platform, Pokimane also has multiple YouTube channels: Pokimane, Pokimane Too, Pokimane VODS, Poki ASMR, and imane. In October 2019, it was announced that Pokimane, among a number of other internet personalities, would appear in the film Free Guy, directed by Shawn Levy.