Former Blizzard employee Jason T. Hall breaks the hype train record multiple times on his Twitch channel “PirateSoftware”, achieving impressive levels and collecting record amounts of subs and bits.
Which streamer is it? Jason T. Hall is a former Blizzard employee who is now also active as an indie developer. The talented developer not only shares insights from his time at Blizzard but also from the gaming industry in general, by regularly streaming on Twitch.
This week, he particularly drew attention by breaking the hype train record on Twitch multiple times.
Sometimes it’s not a good idea to stream on Twitch alongside the actual job:
What is a hype train? The platform Twitch offers its streamers a reward feature called hype train. This is triggered when support events, such as gifting subs or bits, reach a certain value that the streamer has predefined on a channel. Once the hype train is started, a countdown begins, during which the community can show their support to level up.
Even the renowned streamer Gronkh has experienced how a massive hype train overwhelmed all limits and overloaded the technical functions. Some users received incorrect displays of the train levels, and he read out the names of the donors for 33 minutes.
9,665 subs and 1,318,607 bits are the new world record
What did the developer achieve? In the world of the highest hype train records on Twitch, names of huge streamers like Kai Cenat or EliasN97 are ubiquitous. But now Jason T. Hall, with his channel “PirateSoftware”, is also making a strong impression.
On December 13, 2023, he broke EliasN97’s record during a 13-hour stream and reached the impressive hype train level 51. An extraordinary achievement, especially for a channel the size of PirateSoftware.
With 206,000 followers and currently averaging 6,000 viewers, “PirateSoftware” is not exactly a small channel, but far from the previous record holders Kai Cenat and EliasN97, who each have several million followers and tens of thousands of viewers.
Simply breaking the record was apparently not enough. The chat of PirateSoftware showed generosity and brought the hype train to level 55. Overall, the community collected an impressive 7,321 subs and 1,825,696 bits.
Just two days later, on December 15, 2023, Jason T. Hall surpassed his own performance. This time, he collected an incredible 9,665 subs and 1,318,607 bits and commented: “Two days after the world record hype train was set on Twitch, the community broke it again. This is absolutely wild. For the second time in a week, I feel honored by all of you. There are no words for how great you are.”
The “Golden Kappa” hype train has only existed since 2023 and is a special version of the normal hype train. This is very rare, and most content creators have not yet had the luck to trigger this special feature.
The German Twitch streamer Reved has already experienced this: 23-year-old German streamer triggers rare reward feature on Twitch and is overwhelmed
