I’m not going to do all of my hair perfectly if people can only really see the two front strands.” Let it be known that those two strands are always perfectly coiffed.

“The main one being, dress for what people can see. “Not to ruin any of the magic of it all, but I will say that over the years, I’ve picked up some tips on how to dress for a stream,” she says. The LED lights behind her, a staple in any content creator’s room, are turned to a pink setting. Her bouncy hair is perfectly curled and her winged eyeliner sharp. When I meet her over Zoom, she’s wearing a cute red top with a V-neckline and-truth be told-I can’t tell what else, other than the fact that it’s black. Unlike a typical performer, she has to keep the show going, on her own, for hours on end. Like any performer, she has to make sure the props and costumes are all in a row. Since so many people are tuning in to watch her, she’s learned to cultivate her gaming room into a set that reflects her aesthetic. Her YouTube channels (she has two: one for her typical content and one for more lifestyle content) provide her fans with an even deeper look into her life, beyond her gaming room. Bubbly, beautiful, and a talented gamer (though, truth be told, that’s not my area of expertise), she can hold thousands of people’s attention for her streams, which can go on for over eight hours, as she plays the video game Among Us with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, makes sushi with a pro chef, or unboxes Pokémon cards. Twenty-five-year-old Anys is a streamer and content creator, most popular as Pokimane on Twitch, where she has 8.2 million followers. Imane Anys has been mastering waist-up fashion way before most of us had even heard of the term.

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