The former Twitch streamer Ludwig “Ludwig” Ahgren revealed a big secret: he cheated during the “Among Us” hype to make his videos and streams more exciting for the viewers.
What kind of game is Among Us? You can roam around as space technicians with 14 other players. Among you are traitors who want to eliminate everyone one by one.
You need to expose the traitors in discussion rounds, throw them out of the spaceship, and solve various small tasks along the way, the completion of which can also bring you victory.
What was the “Among Us” hype? In 2020, multiplayer survival suddenly trended on Steam, Twitch, and smartphone app stores. The reason was numerous streamers who suddenly discovered Among Us, even though it was released in 2018.
The numbers for 2020:
- Over 419 million hours of Among Us were watched.
- Nearly 900,000 streamers broadcasted the game on their Twitch channels.
- One of them was Ludwig, who gained popularity through Among Us alongside Minecraft and Rust.
You can see the first successful streamers on Twitch in our video:
Ludwig admits: I cheated for exciting content
What did Among Us bring to Ludwig? While he had an average of 3,000 to 4,000 viewers at the beginning of 2020, by the end of the year, it was about 20,000 people.
His success was also noticeable on YouTube: he played in a lobby with the most famous Twitch streamers and YouTubers. Among them were PewDiePie, Pokimane, and Sykkuno – the video generated over 1.2 million views. Furthermore, Ludwig played with the programmer and the artist of Among Us.
The multiplayer survival thus brought Ludwig quite a bit of fame, and now the YouTuber admitted: I cheated for the content.
What did Ludwig say? “I cheated,” the 26-year-old began his confession in the podcast “The Yard.” One of his conversation partners then asked, “In what? In school, yeah, of course?” “In Among Us!”, Ludwig replied and explained how he cheated:
For interesting content, I paid attention to the chat, which was in emote-only mode, and I could guess whom they meant with the emotes [the one who was supposed to be the traitor]. (…) And then I shaped the content accordingly, but not in a genius way. Rather like: “Oh, Sykkuno is the traitor? Let me hang out with him the whole game to act like I was completely manipulated.”
Ludwig
The podcast members said this could be forgiven, but they asked Ludwig whether he cheated in tournaments as well – the streamer vehemently denied this, although he was apparently “very honest” and closed the chat.
Streamer colleagues are shocked: “I will never trust again”
What do his streamer colleagues say? During a Minecraft stream, Sykkuno, Ludwig, Disguised Toast, and other streamers played together. There, Disguised Toast watched the podcast with Ludwig’s cheat confession: “I have news, guys,” Toast started and continued: “My entire friendship with someone here was based on a lie because he cheated in Among Us.”
He thought Ludwig was a good player in survival, sent him this as the very first message, and they subsequently became friends, but “when he played Among Us with us, he looked at the chat!” Toast exclaimed disappointedly.
“I will never trust again,” said Disguised Toast, as the other streamers shocked shouted “what?”, “really?” in confusion. Ludwig clarified the situation, and the others then said nothing more or understood why he cheated.
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