Pokimane

About

Imane Anys (born 14 May 1996), known by her online handle Pokimane, is a Moroccan and Canadian online streamer, YouTuber and influencer based in California. She is best known for gameplay and commentary livestreams on Twitch, most notably in Valorant and Fortnite. She is a co-founder of OfflineTV, an online social entertainment group of content creators. As of June 2026, with over 9.46 million followers, she is the most-followed female streamer on Twitch, and the 16th-most-followed overall.

Imane Anys was born in Morocco on 14 May 1996. Her mother has Berber ancestry. Her parents, two academics, immigrated to Quebec, Canada, when she was four years old. She grew up in Ontario, Canada. She stated she speaks “two and a half” languages: English, French and Moroccan Arabic. French is her first language as she studied in a French school and it is also a language spoken in Morocco.
While she described her Moroccan Arabic proficiency as “a little bit”, she continues to improve. She learned English at school. In middle school, Anys began playing massively multiplayer online games such as MapleStory and Endless Online, where she focused on customization and socializing with…