On March 14, Ludwig Ahgren has started a stream with no defined end date. Last night, a whole month later, it was finally over.
For most of the 31 days, Ahgren played, exercised, watched movies, and even slept live. In the evening, its moderators took over, podcasting and collaborating with viewers to share videos and other media. All the while, a timer was set. But as long as viewers kept hitting subscriptions, it wouldn’t reach zero (although it came very close a couple of times). It was, in general, a fairly relaxed approach to making history; Ahgren now holds the record for most subscribers in Twitch history. Even the end of the transmission was relatively unobtrusive. Instead of fireworks, Ahgren and his friends destroyed the bed of the race car that had become the center of his stream over the past month. Then they relaxed, had dinner and talked about it there is, in a way, a Disney film militantly in favor of work Journalists.
That’s not to say the subatona was a walk in the park. In fact, Ahgren hasn’t gone out for a walk in the park, either done a lot of everything—Without tens of thousands of spectators for a whole month. During the last few minutes of the sequence, sat in his room and spoke frankly about the experience, which he chose to end yesterday instead of allowing it to continue for additional days, weeks or months.
“I know once, I’ll touch the‘ Stop transmission ’button for the last time,” Ahgren said. “And it’s not that far off, not even when we think about our whole life. So while it’s been a taxing month, sometimes weird and exhausting, it was good not to have to press the “Stop Transmission” button for just a brief period of my life. I could wake up, like a night’s sleep, and start spending time right away. ”
He stressed that this 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 will do. I will follow live. I’ll keep doing things … But that will fade, that’s why it was special. And also why I was able to do it in the first place, because I knew I was content. ”
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Ahgren began the subatony hoping it would last 24 or 48 hours, largely in hopes of making a good hit after taking a short break from the broadcast because “all of our lives as streamers, like it or not, are dictated by numbers on the screen “. And while, he noted, the current one-month run was exhausting, he was able to maintain healthy habits.
“I slept eight hours every night,” Ahgren said. “I ate three square meals every day. I’ve never been more consistent in working outside the subatone. “
Of course, he was able to do these things live because he started the subatona with a built-in audience, which was already voracious. Younger streamers couldn’t stand the visionary successes Ahgren sometimes had while living the more mundane aspects of his daily life. So on the one hand, he successfully demonstrated a new, healthier path to advancing marathon runs, but on the other hand, he could be one of the few relatively small teams with the means to achieve it.
With that in mind, Ahgren tried to turn the subattone into something that would benefit others. He said he will give “about $ 350,000” of their subatonic gains to charity.
“It’s crazy,” he said about the amount. “I tried to turn this into a selfless effort as much as I could, feeling the overwhelming guilt of all the money and people coming in.”
Throughout the subattone, Ahgren gained a million new Twitch followers and hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers, not to mention exposure to the mainstream press and numerous moments of trend on social media. But Ahgren wasn’t always a brilliant success story.
“I moved to Los Angeles because I only got a job interview after getting two college degrees, graduating with a bachelor’s degree, and I was fired from the job I got,” he explained as he finished his degree. flow. “I worked at Best Buy and fired him from Best Buy. I moved to Snapchat and said goodbye to my marketing job. And the only job I could never say goodbye to was transmission. And it’s probably the only job I’ve really enjoyed. “
“When the clock was ticking, two minutes were left, I had nothing left to say but thank you,” he added.
After that, he paused and silently watched the chat go by a million miles an hour. Then he broke the silence.
“Don’t fuck it up!” He said. “I am not your friend. There are no parasocial relationships. I can’t meet any of you. Right now there are 200,000 people on my activity board. But somehow, guys, as a group … ”
He paused again, visibly holding back tears.
“… it made me very happy.”
After that, he thanked everyone and greeted them. Then the stream faded to black.
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