Pokimane is the most-followed female streamer on Twitch, with about 9.4 million followers, and for most of a decade she was one of the platform’s defining faces. Born Imane Anys in Morocco on May 14, 1996, she co-founded the creator group OfflineTV, became the first woman to reach 9 million Twitch followers, and spent years streaming under exclusivity contracts. The 30-year-old has spent 2024 to 2026 unwinding most of that structure. Her Twitch exclusivity ended in January 2024. She sold her stake in RTS, the talent management company she co-founded. Her snack brand, Myna Snacks, went dark. Her podcast with LilyPichu ended. What remains is a smaller, self-directed version of the same career: selective streams across several platforms, brand deals on her own schedule, and no exclusivity contract.
Quick Facts
| Detail | Fact |
|---|---|
| Full name | Imane Anys |
| Born | May 14, 1996, Morocco (age 30) |
| Nationality | Moroccan and Canadian |
| Education | Chemical engineering, McMaster University (dropped out) |
| Known for | Most-followed female streamer on Twitch; OfflineTV co-founder |
| Twitch | About 9.46M followers (2026) |
| YouTube | About 6.6M subscribers (2026) |
| About 5.6M followers (October 2026) | |
| TikTok | 7.3M followers (October 2026) |
| X | About 4M followers (2026) |
| Net worth | No reliable published figure; estimates range from about $2M to $25M |
Early Life
Imane Anys was born on May 14, 1996, in Morocco. Her parents are both academics, and the family immigrated to Quebec, Canada, when she was four years old. She holds Moroccan and Canadian citizenship. Her mother has Berber (Amazigh) ancestry, and Anys identifies with the term MENA.
French is her first language, learned through schooling in Quebec. She also speaks English and Moroccan Arabic, and has described herself as speaking “two and a half” languages. Her screen name combines “Poki,” from Pokémon, with her first name, Imane.
She studied chemical engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and dropped out to stream full time.
Rise to Fame: League of Legends, Fortnite and the Road to 9 Million
Anys began streaming on Twitch in 2013, at 17, in her last year of high school, after playing League of Legends with online friends. Her League streams grew steadily, and she reached 450,000 followers in 2017.
Fortnite gave her a second growth engine in 2017 and 2018. At E3 2018 she played in the Fortnite pro-am, partnered with NBA player Josh Hart after rapper Desiigner was replaced shortly before the event. Her Among Us streams in 2020 were another peak, and by then she was one of the most recognizable streamers anywhere. In April 2022 she became the first woman to reach 9 million Twitch followers.
Twitch signed her to a multi-year exclusivity deal in 2020. By her own account, she held two two-year exclusivity deals across the decade. The schedule came at a cost she named publicly in September 2022, when she said Twitch was no longer creatively fulfilling and that she planned to stream less. Streams Charts data put her at about 9.46 million Twitch followers in mid-2026, still the most-followed woman on the platform and roughly 16th overall.
OfflineTV: Co-Founder to First Graduate
Anys co-founded OfflineTV in 2017 with William “Scarra” Li and Chris Chan. The group’s roster formed on July 4, 2017, with Anys as a co-founder and streamer, and the group grew into one of the best-known creator houses.
On May 19, 2023, OfflineTV announced her “graduation.” She was the first member to graduate, which the group defined as no longer creating content as a full-time member. In her May 2023 streams she gave the reasons plainly: full-time membership carried travel, event and sponsorship commitments she could no longer fit around her work and life, and she wanted the freedom to try other things. She left on good terms and stayed affiliated with the group.
At the time, she would not say whether she remained a co-owner. She answered the money question later. In an April 2026 video she said she had earned nothing from her OfflineTV equity because the company had never been sold.
Leaving Twitch Exclusivity and the Multi-Platform Shift
On January 31, 2024, Anys announced the end of her Twitch exclusivity. She called Twitch her “home for a decade” and the move “the end of an era.” She did not sign with another platform. She stayed non-exclusive, said she wanted to feel “free as a bird,” and streamed her first YouTube stream the next day, February 1, 2024.
She explained the decision in detail on her podcast, Don’t Tell Anyone. Exclusivity contracts paid for a set number of hours, which pushed her to put streaming hours ahead of content quality, and Twitch’s management and policy handling frustrated her. She had once been close to leaving in the other direction: she turned down a large YouTube exclusivity offer years earlier because Twitch matched it, a story she retold on the first episode of Sweet n Sour in September 2024.
Since 2024 she has streamed selectively across Twitch, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with no fixed exclusive schedule.
Business Ventures: RTS, Myna Snacks and Cloak
Older bios still describe Anys as the chief creative officer of a management company and the owner of a snack brand. Both descriptions are out of date. Between 2023 and 2026 she exited nearly every business she had built.
She co-founded RTS, a talent management and brand consulting firm, on October 27, 2021, with Stuart Saw as CEO and Kim Phan as COO; Anys was chief creative officer. The company was founder-funded, with backing from Endeavor and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin. RTS also runs the Evolution Championship Series (EVO) fighting game tournament, which hit record attendance in 2024, and the agency still operates. In a video on April 1, 2026, Anys confirmed she had sold her stake in the company. “It just didn’t feel right being part of a management company that I wasn’t actually getting management from,” she said. She gave no sale date and no price, and neither has been reported by a reputable outlet.
Myna Snacks, announced on November 13, 2023, had a harder landing. Its first product, Midnight Mini Cookies, was gluten free, positioned as a healthier snack, and sold at $28 for a four-pack, about $7 a bag. The price drew immediate complaints, along with a dispute over how similar the cookies were to an existing Costco product made by Creations Foods. A Myna spokesperson told Dexerto the formula was unique and had been two years in development. Anys’s on-stream response to the price complaints, “if you’re a broke boy, just say so,” drew a second wave of criticism and followed her for years.
Both Myna products became unavailable around October 2025, and the brand’s social accounts stopped posting after October 30, 2025. In the same April 2026 video, Anys said the launch “did not go as we planned,” that being a creator is very different from being a business owner, and that she had stepped away from the company and let it keep operating without her. She took no profits from Myna. The earnings went to staff or back into the business.
Her third venture is older and quieter. In 2020 she joined Cloak, the gaming clothing brand founded by Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, as a partner and creative director.
Podcasts: Don’t Tell Anyone and Sweet n Sour
Don’t Tell Anyone is her solo podcast, running by January 2024. It is where she explained her biggest career decisions in her own words, starting with the exclusivity exit.
Sweet n Sour, a weekly podcast she co-hosted with LilyPichu, launched on September 13, 2024, with Anys as the “sweet” and LilyPichu as the “sour.” Across its run the show drew 57 million views and 4 million hours of watch time.
The show hit trouble in October 2025, when the production crew withheld a recorded episode with guest HasanAbi and posted a Patreon statement about it without the hosts’ approval. Anys clarified that the statement went up without her consent, apologized, and put the show on hiatus while production was restructured; LilyPichu’s brother stepped down as producer. The hosts announced the end in the final episode’s cold open and framed it as a mutual sunset. The finale was published on April 25, 2026, after nearly 70 episodes.
Brand Deals and Representation
Her long-running brand partners include HyperX and Postmates. NVIDIA, LG, Cash App, Razer and Samsung have also been reported among her sponsors. GamesBeat reported in October 2026 that she is represented by WME.
Her screen work is brief but visible. She appeared in the 2021 film Free Guy, in a cameo alongside other streamers, and she was a Twitch Ambassador for TwitchCon 2018 and a partner for Twitch Creator Camp.
Awards and Recognition
| Year | Honor |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Best Twitch Streamer, Shorty Awards |
| 2021 | Forbes 30 Under 30, Games category |
| 2022 | Legacy Award, The Streamer Awards |
Personal Life and Privacy
Anys keeps her dating life private and has not publicly confirmed a relationship. That boundary has not stopped the questions, and in November 2025 she answered them on a livestream. She pushed back at viewers pressing her about her age and why she has no children, calling the habit “uterus watching.” She said she does want children someday. Her objection was to the monitoring, not the idea.
Three weeks later, a video of her showing a Bulgari ring she had bought for herself went viral. She joked that she was proposing to herself and said she hopes to be engaged someday.
The privacy stance is long-standing. She has spoken for years about harassment and mental health in streaming, including in her Fast Company profile in 2021, and she has kept personal details out of her content throughout her career.
Net Worth
No defensible single figure exists for Anys’s net worth. Estimate sites put her anywhere from about $2 million to $25 million, a spread so wide that none of the individual numbers can be trusted. The careful estimates cluster between $6 million and $12 million, while one richest-streamers list claims $25 million.
The only hard number in the public record comes from the October 2021 Twitch data leak, which showed about $1.53 million in Twitch payouts to her channel from August 2019 to October 2021. She ranked 39th on the leaked earners list, with about $38,000 in September 2021 alone. That figure covers one platform and one period, and it excludes sponsorships, which she has said are her largest income source. Fast Company reported in 2021 that she earned seven figures a year.
Her own comments fill in the shape of the money. She capped fan donations at $5 in November 2020, and she has said subscriptions and stream ads are the smallest part of her income, behind sponsors, investments and deals.
2024 to 2026: Recent Developments
Anys describes her current period as a “chiller phase”: a reduced, self-set streaming schedule, no exclusivity contract and no fixed hours. In April 2026 she laid the whole reset out in one video, covering the OfflineTV graduation, the RTS sale, the Myna exit and the podcast ending, and noting that she took no money out of Myna and earned nothing from her OfflineTV equity.
The brand work continues on her terms. On September 28, 2026, Chipotle launched a limited-time Pokimane Pollo Asado and Steak bowl, online only, available through October 12, 2026, building on her earlier appearances in Chipotle campaigns. She works alongside the generation that followed her, including Quenlin Blackwell, who co-hosted the March 15, 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar party livestream with Brittany Broski and Jake Shane.
One personal loss landed in the same period. Her cat Mimi, who she had for eight years, died after a balcony fall on September 28, 2026. She explained the accident publicly and declined to blame the cleaners involved.
Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Pokimane?
Pokimane was born on May 14, 1996, in Morocco. She turned 30 in May 2026.
What is Pokimane’s real name?
Her real name is Imane Anys. The name Pokimane combines “Poki,” from Pokémon, with her first name, Imane.
Where is Pokimane from?
She was born in Morocco and moved to Quebec, Canada, with her family at age four. She is a citizen of both Morocco and Canada, and she studied at McMaster University in Ontario before dropping out to stream.
What languages does Pokimane speak?
French is her first language, from her schooling in Quebec. She also speaks English and Moroccan Arabic, and she describes herself as speaking “two and a half” languages.
Why did Pokimane leave OfflineTV?
She did not leave on bad terms. OfflineTV announced her graduation on May 19, 2023, making her the first member to step back from full-time membership. She said the travel, event and sponsorship commitments of full-time membership no longer fit her work and life, and she stayed affiliated with the group.
Is Pokimane still on Twitch?
Yes. Her Twitch exclusivity ended on January 31, 2024, but she did not leave the platform or sign exclusively anywhere else. She streams selectively across Twitch, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.
What happened to Myna Snacks?
Myna Snacks launched in November 2023 with Midnight Mini Cookies. The products became unavailable around October 2025 and the brand’s social accounts stopped posting. In April 2026, Pokimane said she had stepped away from the company, let it keep operating without her, and took no profits from it.
What is Pokimane’s net worth?
No reliable source publishes a figure. Estimate sites range from about $2 million to $25 million. The one verified number is from the 2021 Twitch leak: about $1.53 million in Twitch payouts from August 2019 to October 2021, which excludes her sponsorship and business income.
Does Pokimane have a boyfriend?
She keeps her dating life private and has not publicly confirmed a relationship. In November 2025 she pushed back on livestream at viewers speculating about her age and personal life, and she has said she hopes to be engaged someday.
