At 20, the Luxembourger “LetsHugo” is one of the biggest streamers in the German-speaking Twitch. We at MeinMMO present the content creator to you.
What kind of streamer is he? LetsHugo is a Luxembourger streamer. In his streams, he predominantly speaks High German, which is why he has built a huge German community.
Currently, over 600,000 people follow the 20-year-old on Twitch – that’s almost as many as his home country has inhabitants. His fans love him for his humorous and somewhat scattered style. But how did he get so far?
The Twitch streamer Unge, who now performs as Raik, played an important role in LetsHugo’s career:
It all started with Minecraft
This is how it all began: Hugo took his first steps on Twitch in 2016 playing the block game Minecraft. Known to have made other streamers big as well. However, the large audiences didn’t come right away: For a long time, Hugo streamed on average in front of less than 10 viewers.
In July 2019, Hugo began streaming significantly more and more regularly. This could mathematically match his claim of dropping out of school after 9th grade to fully dedicate himself to his hobby. Besides Minecraft, he also started including categories like Just Chatting or various casual games in his streams.
Hugo streamed for years without showing his face
What did his career look like? With the increased streaming time, the viewers also came to Hugo. By October 2022, he had already reached an average of several hundred viewers, relatively consistently over several months.
Additionally, the streamer made a name for himself in the Minecraft community through collaborative videos with BastiGHG and participation in events like Suro and Craft Attack. Thus, Hugo had built a community with almost 150,000 followers without ever showing his face.
It wasn’t until February 2022 that he revealed his face in a joint stream with Simon “Unge” Wiefels, who acted almost like a big brother and encouraged the younger streamer (via YouTube).
On October 29, 2022, Hugo started a sellout stream that would last a total of 78 days. With this type of stream, where content creators perform specific actions for donations, Kevin “Papaplatte” Teller had great success as well.
With this marathon stream, the then 19-year-old broke the mark of averaging more than 1,200 viewers. He also managed to gain almost 28,000 new followers. Hugo had similar success with a second sellout stream from December 1 to 23.
At the end of the streaming marathon, he even became a bit emotional and said it had been one of the best times he had ever had.
Hungry for success
This is how he achieved the big breakthrough: In March 2023, Hugo finally achieved the big breakthrough. The streamer was a participant in the “No Food Challenge” of his Twitch colleague Maximilian “Trymacs” Stemmler. Previously, he had already participated in his football event.
Together with other streamers, they wanted to forgo food and calorie-containing drinks for a whole week. Although Hugo’s participation ended after just 5 days for health reasons, he still won the hearts of viewers as well as other content creators.
Marcel “MontanaBlack” Eris, who became a regular guest of the challenge and enjoyed tempting the participants with irresistibly fragrant food, even gave the younger streamer some valuable tips:
Hugo is everywhere
This is how successful he is now: Since then, Hugo has always been present. Whether on the motorhome tour with Kevin “Papaplatte” Teller or the big influencer dodgeball tournament, which unfortunately ended painfully for the streamer. With an average of over 4,400 viewers, he already belongs to the larger German-speaking streamers.
In the last 30 days, he ranked 11th among the most-watched German streamers. Furthermore, no other streamer has gained as many new followers this year as the now 20-year-old (via sullygnome).
Thus, it is clear that Hugo is successful even beyond his appearances with larger streamers and that he can now stand on his own two feet on Twitch. It remains to be seen what the future holds for the young streamer.
By now, it’s not so easy for Hugo to walk around an event unnoticed, as recently shown at the Anime fair Dokomi. There, LetsHugo hid behind a mask, but a fan still managed to get a photo with the streamer.
