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For 31 days, Ludwig Ahgren’s stream has been up and running all day every day. He hasn’t been awake the entire time, but he and his moderators have ensured that it’s grown to be one of Twitch’s most consistent and comforting presences—albeit one that is probably taking a not-insignificant mental and physical toll on everyone involved. The Twitch channel that Williamnub9’s been aiming for for his stream has more than 33,000 subscribers, and it has been slowly growing since its creation in January 2015; it’s now big enough to fill up both hyper long."I won’t even give his name but his team at Twitch actually deserves a lot of the credit because they constantly remind me to go there and visit every day, but at the same time it has been my side project," he says in a type that is not all that surprising coming from a streamer with a half-dozen or so active viewers. "It has been a big pain—not only physically but mentally too. I even put my character f2p character to sleep. It takes a lot of work to rebuild."Krende is a shameless self-promoter who tells his fans precisely what his stream looks like. When streams crash, his fans immediately wager on this game with varying degrees of success. He's always been ridiculously good at his job—playing and streaming a single game for seven years. Now he's playing multiple games in parallel, at a rate that his physical body simply could not support, and his mind adjusts to the game. His preparations for PUBG are often minimal, and yet he still speaks optimistically about the game, thanks partially to the support of his followers, who frequently take to all social media channels to streamin the game.Fans of both Ludwig Ahgren and Krende see this sort of parallel playing others games on Twitch and have gleefully jumped on the bandwagon more than once. Ludvig Ahgren is perhaps unlike any previous torch-bearer for gamers, and this generation of gamers has seen the many things he understands best: the fundamentals behind choice, sustained play, and the satisfaction of succeeding in a high-stress, high-intensity environment.Krende is a hyperactive individual, identifiable from the moment he begins twitch-streaming his games—which is usually about seventy minutes into Sanctum—and no one in his immediate surroundings can keep up with his frenetic activity, but he is too diffuse about his interests and process to forever stand out as a key figure within the nascent universes of competitive PUBG. Most AHG members share his skill and credit with bringing focus to niche games such as House of the Dead which are clearly the most exciting and rapidly growing for Twitch streamers.Those who stand out in relation to Krende are typically those who can take a more detailed, analytical
For 31 days, Ludwig Ahgren’s stream has been up and running all day every day. He hasn’t been awake the entire time, but he and his moderators have ensured that it’s grown to be one of Twitch’s most consistent and comforting presences—albeit one that is probably taking a not-insignificant mental and physical toll on everyone involved. The Twitch channel that Williamnub9’s been aiming for for his stream has more than 33,000 subscribers, and it has been slowly growing since its creation in January 2015; it’s now big enough to fill up both hyper long."I won’t even give his name but his team at Twitch actually deserves a lot of the credit because they constantly remind me to go there and visit every day, but at the same time it has been my side project," he says in a type that is not all that surprising coming from a streamer with a half-dozen or so active viewers. "It has been a big pain—not only physically but mentally too. I even put my character f2p character to sleep. It takes a lot of work to rebuild."Krende is a shameless self-promoter who tells his fans precisely what his stream looks like. When streams crash, his fans immediately wager on this game with varying degrees of success. He's always been ridiculously good at his job—playing and streaming a single game for seven years. Now he's playing multiple games in parallel, at a rate that his physical body simply could not support, and his mind adjusts to the game. His preparations for PUBG are often minimal, and yet he still speaks optimistically about the game, thanks partially to the support of his followers, who frequently take to all social media channels to streamin the game.Fans of both Ludwig Ahgren and Krende see this sort of parallel playing others games on Twitch and have gleefully jumped on the bandwagon more than once. Ludvig Ahgren is perhaps unlike any previous torch-bearer for gamers, and this generation of gamers has seen the many things he understands best: the fundamentals behind choice, sustained play, and the satisfaction of succeeding in a high-stress, high-intensity environment.Krende is a hyperactive individual, identifiable from the moment he begins twitch-streaming his games—which is usually about seventy minutes into Sanctum—and no one in his immediate surroundings can keep up with his frenetic activity, but he is too diffuse about his interests and process to forever stand out as a key figure within the nascent universes of competitive PUBG. Most AHG members share his skill and credit with bringing focus to niche games such as House of the Dead which are clearly the most exciting and rapidly growing for Twitch streamers.Those who stand out in relation to Krende are typically those who can take a more detailed, analytical
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