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.Earlier this month, Twitch adopted an unusual offline conduct policy that will ban users for behavior including sexual assault that happens off the service. That came after the Amazon-owned company updated and expanded its Hateful Conduct and Harassment policies, which went into effect in January. Among the changes, Twitch promised more aggressive policing of sexual harassment and abuse targeting people of color.Pokimane applauds the new Twitch policies and believes they reflect the changing demographics of the gaming community the last few years.“I do think all the moves they’ve taken are the right ones,” she says of Twitch, where she has 7.7 million followers. “I’m very…
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