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SnowflakePokimane / Pokimanelol / Imane Anys / OfflineTV - Abuses men for social climbing, hypocrite with double standards, doesn't own up to mistakes, lies about relationships, 'not like the other girls'
Bitches like that are the reason female gamers are perceived as whores. Wouldn't ever start streaming myself but I'm sorry to all the other girls thinking about picking up streaming
This strikes me as very "I'm taking a lot of heat for the shit I've been doing lately so I'm gonna just stop streaming for a month and hope it blows over."
Say what you want to about Alinity but she kept to the hustle through all the heat and only cried to that doctor streamer once.
Here's the TL;DR of the Pokimane situation, presented in a brief timeline format. I doubt any of the videos or Tweets linked are going to be deleted any time soon, but I'm archiving and keeping/linking archives just in case:
The Set-Up to the Drama
March 31, 2020: LeafyIsHere starts posting content regularly on YouTube again, mostly mocking other e-celebrities such as iDubbbz. This will become more relevant later on.
May 13, 2020: It'sAGundam makes a video titled "Simp willingly goes homeless for Pokimane". True to the title, Gundam makes fun of a man who impoverished himself in his zeal to give his own money to a random internet girl who would have literally forgot about him five minutes after they met, to the point where he was evicted from his apartment because he couldn't even pay his rent in due time. This video was typical of Gundam's commentary on the dealings and happenings of Twitch, its personalities, and the events surrounding them, but, unbeknownst to Gundam and others, this video would kick up a saga that ended up entangling him with Pokimane herself.
Sooner after the video is released, Pokimane starts up a stream where she reacts to It'sAGundam's video. She gets personally offended by it for whatever reason, enough to try to get Gundam's sponsors taken away from him, therefore starting the drama proper.
The Drama Proper
Going after someone's sponsors is a major faux pas in the YouTube "community" (and has been for at least a while), so this opened up Poki to some massive backlash. It'sAGundam himself responded with a follow-up video concerning Pokimane's efforts to get his sponsors taken away on May 19, 2020.
Soon after, YouTuber and perennial faux-fence sitter Philip DeFranco made a video on May 20, 2020where he addressed the then-newly formed Pokimane/It'sAGundam controversy for a bit (starting at around 3:33 into the video), but noticeably never referred to It'sAGundam by name. This was seen by some members of the YouTube "community" as DeFranco "simping" for Pokimane (because really, what was the point of not mentioning It'sAGundam by name), and he got a hefty amount of backlash for it from users such as Diesel Patches (whose video, titled "Philip DeFranco Simps for Pokimane", was made on May 25, 2020).
Completely coincidentally (I'm sure), It'sAGundam got his Twitch channel suspended for harassment around June 12, 2020. He remarks on the occasion in the video "Twitch Suspended Me I think we all know why".
Despite this, the controversy seemed to die down for a bit (after all, YouTube drama can't last forever), until around June 19, 2020. Pokimane revived it when she stupidly decided to post a non-apology on Twitter. Of course, this only got her more shit. It'sAGundam himself joined in, with a video titled "Pokimane The Carole Baskin Of Twitch Apologized, But Not Really..." (June 21, 2020).
Now it seemed like the controversy would truly simmer down and turn into water under the bridge. Unfortunately for Pokimane, this water wouldn't remain a quiet stream, but instead turn into a raging torrent in due time.
July 30, 2020: LeafyIsHere releases "Content Nuke: Pokimane", to the tune of (as of the time of writing this) 1.8 million views on YouTube. The video sets off a fresh wave of Pokimane criticism that her white knights and simps try (and fail) to counteract, kicking off the second part of the drama proper. Leafy also reveals that Poki had a boyfriend, which kicks of something of a civil war among her simps (apparently she wasn't public with this information, so this wasn't common knowledge among them). Indeed, her daily averages plummeted to seemingly all-time lows as a result of the video, as per this glorified blog postnews article.
Take, for example, this reaction, which goes beyond parody to the point where one can't tell (at least at first) whether it was made seriously or as a joke. Some of them almost certainly tried to pull some gay ops in reaction to this news as well, as the Content Nuke was soon age-restricted, likely as a result of Poki simps spamming YouTube's report function.
The pitiful attempts from Poki's simp army to defend her in response to this video (Twitch streamer xQc's reaction in particular was rather hilarious), along with their attempts to try to censor it in some fashion, led Leafy to release "Content Fallout - Pokimane" on August 2, 2020. Even further, Leafy released "Content Nuclear Winter: Pokimane" on August 5, 2020. And of course, all this generated yet another wave of criticism for our most fair maiden Pokimane, to the point where almost nobody is openly defending her now, even those who were fiercely white-knighting her before, as was noted by Keem himself (Twitter video archived down below).
Good job on actually archiving, OP fucking dropped the ball on that one.
FOR THE RECORD: The recent drama with Pokimane getting dogged on by the YouTube community, and poki's rapid and merciless copystrking/DMCA'ing everyone started with ItsAGundam. Also if a mod wants to update the OP with this info that would be fantastic. (Because if we're talking about recent drama this is the crux)
ItsAGundam made a video a few months ago, poking fun at pokimane's simps, and she went kind of apeshit. She sicced her simps on ItsAGundam and got him mass-reported to the point he lost a large sponsorship deal and also his Twitch channel was deleted due to simps reporting him for "harassment" that didn't even occur on Twitch. YouTube community came out in support of ItsAGundam, he gained tens of thousands of subs due to coverage, and Streisand effect occurred... Poki tried to back pedal but it was too late. Everyone is dogging her and she deserves it because she cost a much smaller commentary YouTuber a lot of money by being spiteful. She can't sic her simps on everyone, though, right?
I agree they aren't really trying to ruin any community in particular but I still don't think they should be given some kind of pass. Not that you're saying that or to try to derail the thread I just think it should be made clear.
True to the title, Gundam makes fun of a man who impoverished himself in his zeal to give his own money to a random internet girl who would have literally forgot about him five minutes after they met, to the point where he was evicted from his apartment because he couldn't even pay his rent in due time
This isn't actually true and is the only good point Pokimane had when criticizing IAG's video. The guy saying he donated his rent money was just joking, the "simp goes homeless because of an ethot" thing is bullshit (at least in this instance). Not sure if IAG knew it was a joke, but the guy said that it was when people started replying to him on twitter, so if IAG had done the bare minimum of research he would have known.
Imo Drama channels like IAG are on the same level as the ethots, if not lower.
Oh and by the way, there is a huge list of banned words and phrases on Pokimane's discord, most of which relate to her controversies and the terms commonly used in them.
Bitches like that are the reason female gamers are perceived as whores. Wouldn't ever start streaming myself but I'm sorry to all the other girls thinking about picking up streaming
Yeah she's the reason people think gamer girls are whores, not the 50,000 women doing exactly what she does. And also OnlyFans (extremely successful and populated) existing for that exact purpose.
I don't get how she doesn't feel bad or remorseful for what the guys are doing and bending backwards for her. It's crazy what madness can happen with the combination of lust and money.
I don't get how she doesn't feel bad or remorse for what the guys are doing and bending backwards for her. It's crazy what madness can happen with the combination of lust and money.
Can't be mad at someone for just doing what they have to do to live the best lives for themselves, especially if it's 100% legal. If I looked like her I'd probably do the same thing. Hate the weak beta bitches who enable it.
I see where you're coming from, everybody has to make a living somehow, especially in this time. If I was in her shoes though, I would feel so weird about it.... It's a dog eat dog world man.
I don't get how she doesn't feel bad or remorse for what the guys are doing and bending backwards for her. It's crazy what madness can happen with the combination of lust and money.