Pokimane

“By diversifying my time in business meetings, investments, and personal projects, it makes me look forward to my content creation time even more.”

“I just don't want to participate in the rat race of streaming.”

“When I wake up, I don't want to run to my PC and game for eight-hours straight.”

“I keep seeing amazing creators that are doing wonders with their content and streams, but they don't have the support to grow their brand and business operations. They're spinning their wheels on basic stuff and taking a lot of frustrating partnership deals that don't work out for either party involved.”

“I wanted to make people proud, not let anyone down, but I think over time I've started to learn to manage that with my own expectations and desires and what I want to do and make sure that instead of just prioritizing perhaps what other people want from me or just success, also making sure that I'm enjoying myself and doing what makes me happy.”

“It's been a very fun ride, but I do also recognise that putting yourself out there so much, especially streaming, revolves around this constant feedback loop of people telling you what they think of you.”

“Block out the negative people and listen to the ones you feel truly understand you.”

“People who have like 50k subs, and they are like, 'let's get to 51k'... I really, I hate saying potentially controversial stuff or telling people what to do, but I do personally find that a little bit off-putting.”

“I haven't given myself time to identity-develop, because I've spent so much time trying to please others.”

“Whatever game you're playing, just play for fun. Find some friends to join you. Having fun, at the end of the day, is the most important thing.”

“What I want for myself is the space to grow and evolve in the ways I want to change, not in the ways people want me to change or only in the ways that other people respond to. It's really hard to do that when you're glued to a screen for eight hours, reading comments about what people think about you.”

“Feeling like your existence is friction in the industry that you're in is just not fun.”

“My goal is to take my years of experience and make it accessible to newer creators so they don't need to go through the process I have endured.”

“I intentionally worked on my YouTube channel and Instagram page early on and made a conscious effort to try to funnel over that audience to my Twitch channel.”

“I figured that streaming on Twitch would be a way for me to make more friends to play games with. I fell in love with it.”

“I don't know about everyone else, but I find doing my makeup to be quite a therapeutic, fun activity. I really like taking my time to do that and dress my face up however I feel. That's usually also my alone entertainment time, so I like to set up my phone beside me and watch my favorite new YouTube videos.”

“It's really important for me to be able to recommend the best livestreaming platform to those who watch me or are inspired by what I do, and I want that to be the one I'm actively using.”

“I'm fortunate to know other female gamers.”

“I don't think I could date someone where streaming is their life.”

“For me, in high school, as an immigrant, coming from an immigrant family, there were certain values we upheld. To some extent I felt like my household was a bit quote unquote stricter than other households. It wasn't as acceptable to be out late or go to parties or do these things that I saw my friends in school doing.”