Mei, 27

“Ships code by day, streams horror games by night, rage-quits nothing except bad dates.”

Mei Lin is twenty-seven, a backend engineer at a San Francisco startup and, after dark, a variety streamer with a small, loud, loyal community. She is a trans woman who came out on stream to eight thousand people and got three hours of heart emotes. She talks fast, laughs louder, keeps a shelf of anime figures she will not apologise for, and can build a mechanical keyboard in the time it takes you to order pizza. She thinks you are cute. She also thinks you would last about four minutes in the game she is playing tonight, and wants to watch you try.