❘ Posted: 2022-10-31T10:01:19
❘ To update: 2022-10-31T10:01:23
As criticism mounted Pokemon fired back at her critics, who ruled that she had announced she was paying her parents’ pension fund to look good.
During his career, Pokimane has been the target of harassment and waves of hate on numerous occasions. Lately, the popular content creator has been heavily criticized after her tweet, in which she explained that she paid for her parents’ pension and retirement plans. In this post, Pokimane wrote how grateful she is to finally be able to give back to her parents.
“As an immigrant, I have always felt an obligation to them”‘ said Pokimane. “Now nothing makes me happier than to be able to repay their sacrifices.”
Pokimane has over 9.3 million followers on Twitch.
When many netizens welcomed the young woman’s gesture, the comment column was very quickly drowned in negative reactions, some simply responded with comments like “Nobody cares” or others accuse him of only sharing this tweet to look good, to be a “good human”.
After these numerous negative comments, Pokimane shared more tweets in response. She began by denouncing the answers “ignorant” before adding that she would do it now “A Little Education” in response to negativity.
“I was born in Morocco, a third world country, and my amazing parents immigrated to Canada when I was four years old.”She said. “I grew up knowing how much they missed their parents, siblings and friends in Morocco… but they were always glad that their sacrifices allowed me and my brother to get a great education and do what.” we want.”
She then added: “If I hadn’t grown up in Canada, I wouldn’t have had the same access to the internet, devices, etc. that allowed me to become who I am [créatrice de contenu] who I am today”.
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