On March 14, Ludwig Ahgren started a flow without a set end date. Last night, a whole month later, it finally ended.
For more than 31 days, Ahgren played games, trained, watched movies and even slept. At night, its moderators took over the podcast and collaborated with viewers to share videos and other media. All the while, a timer ticked. But as long as viewers continue to hit subscriptions, it would not reach zero (although it has approached extremely many times). It was, in general, a rather relaxed approach to history; Ahgren now holds the record for most subscribers in the history of Twitch. Even the end of the flow was relatively discreet. Instead of fireworks, Ahgren and his friends destroyed the bed of the race car that had become a centerpiece of its flow in the last month. Then they cooled down, ate and talked about somehow existing pro-worker Disney movie Journalists.
That doesn’t mean the subatonic was a walk in the park. Indeed, Ahgren did not go for a walk in the park – or he did a lot of everything“Without tens of thousands of viewers for a whole month.” During the last minutes of the decline of the flow, sat in his bedroom and spoke honestly about the experience he chose to end yesterday, instead of allowing him to continue for extra days, weeks or months.
“I know once, I will press the ‘Stop streaming’ button for the last time ever,” Ahgren said. “And it’s not that far off, even when we think about our whole lives. So, even though it was an imposing month – weird, sometimes exhausting – it was nice not to have to press the “Stop streaming” button for just a short time in my life. I could wake up, like a night pass, and get to the party right away. ”
This, he stressed, is probably a unique thing.
“It will never happen again,” Ahgren said. “It simply came to our notice then. You were here for the last subattone I’ll ever do. I will still be live. I’ll still do things … But this will fade, which is why it was special. And also why I managed to do it in the first place – because I knew it was content. ”
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Ahgren started the subatonic, expecting 24 or 48 hours to pass, mostly hoping to do a splash after taking a short break from streaming because “our whole life as streamers, like it or not, is dictated by the numbers on the screen. “And while the flow of a month was, as he pointed out, exhausting, he was able to maintain healthy habits.
“I slept, for example, for eight hours every night,” Ahgren said. “I ate three square meals every day. I’ve never been more consistent in my training than my subatonic. ”
Of course, he managed to get those things flowing, because he started the subattan with an already greedy incorporated audience. Smaller streamers could not resist the types of viewing hits that Ahgren sometimes had, living the more mundane aspects of his daily existence. So, on the one hand, he has successfully demonstrated a new healthier way forward for marathon flows, but on the other hand, he could be one of only a relatively small hand with the means to pull it off.
With that in mind, Ahgren tried to turn the subattone into something that would benefit others. He said he would donate “about $ 350,000” from his subaton gains for charitable purposes.
“It’s crazy,” he said of the amount. “I tried to turn this into an altruistic effort as much as I could, feeling the overwhelming guilt of all the money and people coming in.”
During the subattan, Ahgren gained a million new Twitch followers and hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers, not to mention exposure to the mass media and the many trendy moments on social media. But Ahgren was not always a brilliant success story.
“I moved to LA because I got only one job interview after graduating from college, I graduated with honors and was fired from the job I got,” he explained. as its flow receded. “I worked at Best Buy, I was fired from Best Buy. Moved to Snapchat, I was fired from my marketing service. And the only job I could never say goodbye to was streaming. And it’s probably the only job I’ve ever loved. ”
“As the clock struck, there were two minutes left, I have nothing to say but thank you,” he added.
After that, he stopped and quietly watched the chat running at a million miles an hour. Then he broke the silence.
“Don’t get fucked!” he said. “I’m not your friend. No parasocial relations. I can’t meet any of you. 200,000 people in my stream right now. But somehow, guys, as a team …”
He stopped again, visibly holding back his tears.
“… made me very happy.”
After that, he thanked everyone and greeted them. Then the river faded to black.
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