He is a case of being successful by being first to the game. He was basically the first person to make a living streaming video games full time with Starcraft 2 on Justin.tv, before it turned into Twitch. He wasn't the best SC2 player, but was still very good, SC2 was pretty popular at the time, and combined with his over the top, juvenile antics, he gained a sizable audience.
He later would start debating people, which has kept him somewhat relevant outside his base, but his core base of a few thousand people have largely been with him for about a decade.
Maybe? The big thing with Destiny was it wasn't YouTube, the guy was one of, if not the first person to quit his day job and to stream playing video games live for 8-10 hours a day, as the technology finally allowed it. That made many other people realize it can be done, and thus he knew and influenced most of the early streamers of all games, which gave him connections all over; he would do collaborations with top streamers of League of Legends and flavor of the month games.
I used to watch him a lot in his early days, he went to a catholic high school, which while not religious influenced his thinking, he even used to be against abortion. Over time, he went further and further to the left. I had already stopped watching, but I lost all respect for him a couple years back when he moved away from his ~8 year old son (who usually stayed with his ex wife, but he would see often) to pursue "professional opportunities" (basically to chase tail) out in Los Angeles.
So I don't feel bad for him getting dumped by Twitch, maybe it will force him to go back to Nebraska and be a half-respectable father.
He is a case of being successful by being first to the game. He was basically the first person to make a living streaming video games full time with Starcraft 2 on Justin.tv, before it turned into Twitch. He wasn't the best SC2 player, but was still very good, SC2 was pretty popular at the time, and combined with his over the top, juvenile antics, he gained a sizable audience.
He later would start debating people, which has kept him somewhat relevant outside his base, but his core base of a few thousand people have largely been with him for about a decade.
Sounds a lot like DarksydePhil.
Maybe? The big thing with Destiny was it wasn't YouTube, the guy was one of, if not the first person to quit his day job and to stream playing video games live for 8-10 hours a day, as the technology finally allowed it. That made many other people realize it can be done, and thus he knew and influenced most of the early streamers of all games, which gave him connections all over; he would do collaborations with top streamers of League of Legends and flavor of the month games.
I used to watch him a lot in his early days, he went to a catholic high school, which while not religious influenced his thinking, he even used to be against abortion. Over time, he went further and further to the left. I had already stopped watching, but I lost all respect for him a couple years back when he moved away from his ~8 year old son (who usually stayed with his ex wife, but he would see often) to pursue "professional opportunities" (basically to chase tail) out in Los Angeles.
So I don't feel bad for him getting dumped by Twitch, maybe it will force him to go back to Nebraska and be a half-respectable father.
Fuck LA, it's not worth moving out there for work.