The streamer Cameron Ferguson experienced the night of his life on Twitch. In fact, hardly anyone watches him when he plays his guitar for an hour, but one person who did watch was a cryptocurrency expert who blessed him with a windfall.
This is the streamer: The channel is called “Cameron_Ferguson_Music”: It is a man who plays electric guitar and talks a little with the few viewers he has. When he streams on Twitch, he practically does so in private:
- On average, he has 2 viewers
- His “peak”, when things go really well, is 4 viewers in his stream.
- He has never had more than these 4 simultaneous viewers, but Ferguson only started streaming on Twitch at Christmas 2020.
He is one of many streamers on Twitch who stream more or less for themselves.
Crypto streamer discovers musician, triggers wave of donations
What was different about that night? The streamer CryptoCobain is significantly more successful on Twitch than the musician. He specializes in cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin. One evening, he was browsing Twitch and found Ferguson’s channel.
He then called on Twitter for his followers to “raid” this man: This is what it’s called when a larger channel directs all its viewers to a smaller channel. The crypto expert came up with the idea to gift the small streamer. The musician was to install the app “Blockfolio”, and Cobie wanted to send him $2,000.
Shortly thereafter, the musician stared incredulously at his phone as more and more donations came in. There were now over 500 people in his Twitch channel, and his account was overflowing: over $17,000 had already arrived. He had no idea what was going on.
The crypto streamer watched Ferguson’s reaction on his channel, was delighted, and laughed at how astonished the musician was as he looked at his phone and couldn’t comprehend what was happening to him:
This continued: This “raid” from the crypto community turned out to be a windfall for the musician. More and more donations flowed into his channel until the total amount reached $85,000 (€70,500).
Ferguson quickly called his wife over, who couldn’t believe what was happening, and she looked at the camera and said: “Why are people giving us so much money?”
This is how the streamer’s life has changed: In the days following the event, Cameron Ferguson seems to want to treat himself.
He shows pictures of his wife on the beach because they finally managed to have the “beach date” they had been waiting for. His wife is sitting with a bottle of cheap prosecco at a picnic. One person commented on Twitter: “Respect that you are keeping your money together despite the windfall.”
The musician himself says: He was shopping in a guitar store, and somehow it feels different now – of course, he has pockets full of money.
The visit from the crypto fairy
This is what’s behind it: This is probably the dream of many small Twitch streamers, that something extraordinary happens and they get discovered and someone recognizes that what they are doing alone on Twitch is pretty cool.
It feels like a fairy who floats in, discovers something good and fulfills wishes. Only in the case of Ferguson, it was the crypto fairy with a community of people who apparently don’t mind shelling out a few hundred US dollars for a kind of donation event.
It happens frequently that “big streamers” gift the small ones on Twitch. This is also part of the appeal of the platform for many. Normally, it’s about viewers, not immediately about tens of thousands of euros:
