Streamer Pokimane at her steam set up.

Nearly Twitch streamers accept enjoyed the benefits and privileges their internet fame has offered them, but ane streamer said that streaming on the platform has aged her horribly. Pokimane revealed that her Twitch streaming career stole much of her early 20s.

The 25-year-old star streamer, whose real proper name is Imane Anys, revealed to Dexerto that she regrets spending the last viii years of her life on Twitch, despite racking up millions in earnings and a large viewership. Even after securing a multi-year deal to stay on the platform exclusively in 2022, she said that streaming for every bit long as she did has left her struggling to figure out her truthful identity because she never gave herself the run a risk to live her life as fully as everyone else her historic period.

"I don't know myself anymore," Pokimane confessed. "The weird affair is I merely woke up one mean solar day, and I had this immense feeling. I grew up streaming, I started streaming when I was 17 years old. And I never really immune myself to have a normal life. One day I woke and 'Boom!' I was 25, and I'd never actually done the things I had planned to do."

Pokimane too admitted that edifice up her followers and business organisation partnerships made her lose touch with everything that made her feel proficient, a feeling that was exacerbated by the pandemic. This resulted in her taking several unplanned breaks from streaming throughout the last year, citing mental health as the reason backside them.

While she was away from the keyboard, Pokimane co-founded RTS back in October with fellow Twitch veterans and people from other gaming companies like PUBG Corporation. RTS, inspired by the gaming genre existent-time strategy, is a consulting firm that works to help streamers, who are aspiring esports athletes or otherwise, plough their favorite hobby of streaming video games into a full-fledged career.