I decided to take a look at Twitch this week for the first time in many months and I discovered something interesting. This guy who goes by “Ludwig” on Twitch and Youtube (I assume that’s his real name too) was doing a subathon. A subathon on Twitch is a live stream that has a countdown on it. Everytime someone subscribes to him, the timer goes up by ten seconds and he can’t end the stream until the timer hits zero. When people subscribe, they pay at least $5 which is split between Ludwig and Twitch.
When I first noticed this, I clicked on the channel and I just saw the guy passed out asleep in his bed, yet the timer was at 35 hours and people were still subscribing to him. Oh and he had 43,000 people just watching him sleep. That’s insane. I’ve never heard of Ludwig before, but once I saw how crazy he was for doing this, I had to check out some of his content on Youtube. If anyone is curious, he is a variety streamer with over 2 million subscribers on youtube. He basically plays a bunch of different games.
Apparently he began this stream last sunday and thought it would last only a few days. As of today, he’s been going on eight days of non-stop streaming his life. He plays games on stream, eats meals on stream, works out on stream, and even has showered on stream (clothed of course). I believe he began at around active 35k subs on twitch and now he is close to 105k. Since every subscriber increases the countdown by 10 seconds, you might imagine how large that timer is now. As of this very moment, the timer is at 53 hours and 11 minutes and seems to be only going up. At this rate, Ludwig will be streaming for the rest of his life.
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