Twitch streamer Pokimane stirs up controversy after allegedly saying racial slur

Popular Twitch streamer Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys is facing heavy backlash, after a clip surfaced from one of her past broadcasts in which she appears to say a racial slur.

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Anys was in the middle of a League of Legends game when she let slip the offending phrase, apparently in reference to another player.

“Damn… this ***** is getting fucked,” she seems to say.

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However, some commenters were quick to note that Anys could have been referring to a character from the game, saying ‘Anivia,’ rather than using a racial epithet.

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Despite this possibility, others argued that Anys is clearly saying a slur, hearing a hard ‘G’ in the sound rather than the name of LoL’s avian Champion.

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While all VODs for Pokimane’s stream have since been deleted, a streamable clip of the broadcast remained live – although viewers were quick to point out that the stream in question was several months old.

This isn’t the first time Pokimane has been at the center of controversy; the streamer went under fire for demonetizing the videos of smaller YouTubers in early January, who allegedly used her content in non-transformative ways.

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“I will take down videos – when it’s a straight reupload of my stream, and when it’s like a gross and misleading title,” Pokimane said of the debacle, after she claimed a video that documented her Twitter beef with Drama Alert’s KEEMSTAR on grounds of copyright infringement.

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Pokimane has yet to speak out on the alleged racial slur via her social media accounts.