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posted 294 days ago by Daucus9 294 days ago by Daucus9 +35 / -0

Pokimane leaves Twitch due to a rise in "manosphere, red pill bullshit"

Imane "Pokimane" Anys announced earlier this week she was leaving Twitch and has taken to her podcast to explain why. I…

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– deleted 17 points 294 days ago +17 / -0

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– MargarineMongoose 15 points 294 days ago +15 / -0

Letting women and normies into gaming was a mistake.

Yes, now how do we get them to leave?

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– MargarineMongoose 12 points 294 days ago +12 / -0

Do you know a good memes dealer? I'm all out of weapons grade memes at the moment.

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– Kienan 7 points 294 days ago +7 / -0

It's less about the quality, and more about the quantity. The memes can be shit, but if the message behind them is no one can stand your bullshit, the message hits home regardless.

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– Benevolentdictator 14 points 294 days ago +14 / -0

fuck you Pokimane this is so fucking fake.

More banger quotes from the article:

"[Twitch's] priority is making money," she said. "My priority is making a cool, safe environment and community for many, many, many people. I think there are a lot of problems that minorities on Twitch still face and that I wish they could do more about.

And after shitting on them for being capitalist pigs, bigots, fascists, misogynists, etc, Twitch official can't help but simp.

Indeed, she admitted she would still be on Twitch "sometimes" and still had a lot of love for the company. Twitch even responded to her social media announcement: "You'll always have a home on Twitch, Poki".

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– Kienan 10 points 294 days ago +10 / -0

"[Twitch's] priority is making money," she said.

I fucking wish. It would probably be a better platform if that's all there was to it.

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– onetimeuser 5 points 294 days ago +5 / -0

Sorry can you bring me up to speed. Did Amazon/Twitch do something lately?

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– Benevolentdictator 10 points 294 days ago +10 / -0

Sounds like Pokimane had an exclusive streaming deal with Twitch that just expired and didn't get renewed.

So she has to do the whole "It's not me, it's you" to save face.

There's really no actual news here. She's not leaving Twitch, just not streaming there exclusively anymore as per the terms of her old contract.

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