Female streamers are conquering Twitch
By Bloomberg
By Olga Kharif
During a recent livestream, Maya Higa, 22, ate guacamole and chips while bantering with two of her housemates as they cooked quesadillas. Over the next 90 minutes, Higa grilled some vegetables and consulted on which pan ought to be used for frying. At one point, she provided her online viewers with an update on her young pet emu. Stompy is good, said Higa. I had her on stream yesterday.
She wasn t sure, she explained to one of her kitchen buddies, how much Stompy now weighed. But the lovable emu was definitely growing fast.
Female streamers are conquering Twitch
Olga Kharif, Bloomberg
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An arranged photograph showing a smartphone displayING the Apple App Store page for the Twitch streaming app, operated by Amazon.com, on Sept. 17, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Hollie Adams.
During a recent livestream, Maya Higa, 22, ate guacamole and chips while bantering with two of her housemates as they cooked quesadillas. Over the next 90 minutes, Higa grilled some vegetables and consulted on which pan ought to be used for frying. At one point, she provided her online viewers with an update on her young pet emu. Stompy is good, said Higa. I had her on stream yesterday.
Game Streamer Pokimane on Twitch s New Safety Policies, Favorite Games and Her Upcoming Film Debut
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Imane “Pokimane” Anys has been playing games for more than half her life. Today, it’s her full-time career: She’s the most-followed woman streamer on Twitch, as well as one of the 10 biggest live-streamers overall on the platform.
As a prominent female personality in the historically male-dominated games sector, Pokimane strives to create a positive and welcoming community for all her fans. But the 24-year-old also has been on the receiving end of regular torrents of harassment like every prominent woman online has a situation that Amazon-owned Twitch has specifically taken steps to address recently.