In Fortnite, the event surrounding the “Black Hole” broke several records. As Epic now reports, “The End” set records on Twitter and Twitch. It was the largest gaming event ever – it was also huge on YouTube, but pop stars like Beyoncé are even bigger.
Where does the information come from? The info comes directly from Epic. It was already known that many people were following the mysterious event on social media – now we learn how many it really was.
In an interview with the site “The Verge“, it becomes clear that more than 7 million people simultaneously watched the event at its peak on Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube.
Thus, the event has now broken records on Twitch and Twitter.
On YouTube, the largest platform, it was at least among the top. Live events are still bigger there, especially when Beyoncé performs somewhere.
This is what Epic says:
On Twitch, 1.7 million people either watched the official Fortnite stream or a streamer who had “Fortnite” on. This is a record for the “peak viewer count for a single game.”
On Twitter, the “Black Hole” was the most viewed gaming event, with over 50.7 million watched minutes and 42.8 million views. There was a peak of 1.4 million simultaneous viewers.
On YouTube, the event reached 4.3 million simultaneous viewers at its peak.
Fortnite “sent” players from the game to social media
Why was the event so successful? Epic had already announced the event and a 1-week countdown counted down to 8 PM our time.
There were already events like this at the end of a season in Fortnite.
They showed how the Fortnite map would change and concluded the story of a season.
This time, however, the event was particularly mysterious and ended even more spectacularly than before: A black hole sucked up the map and no one could play anymore.
This moment, when no one could play Fortnite anymore, apparently led to so many people watching this event on YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter to exchange ideas with others and see how people reacted or if they knew more about what was happening.
It can be assumed that the record numbers were reached immediately “AFTER” the event, when nothing was happening in the game anymore, and the only option left was to press “Exit” and log out.
It was likely the “mystery” of this surprising ending that contributed to the record numbers.
