The streamer MontanaBlack is planning a Christmas event on Twitch and in the spirit of Christmas, he is giving a gift to a content creator that many no longer have on their radar: First, he invites CommanderKrieger (44), who has struggled to remain relevant in recent years.
What kind of event is this?
- Germany’s most well-known political commentator and Twitch streamer MontanaBlack is planning a Christmas event on December 17th, which he will broadcast on Twitch.
- He wants to invite over 100 German content creators and spend time with them on a rented 300-meter-long ski slope.
- The idea is that everyone can do whatever they want, can stream or produce content themselves. There will be sledding and skiing. Then they will come together and exchange gifts. It should last a few hours: An event to do something together. After all, they are one big, united family, sharing the same interests.
MontanaBlack wants to give something back
That was the special invitation: MontanaBlack personally invited CommanderKrieger first. He is a ‘fucking OG legend.’
Because many may have forgotten you, but I haven’t forgotten you.
MontanaBlack explained that for some events, you can only invite big, relevant streamers because you have to justify the production effort to your team, but that doesn’t matter for the ski event. He wants to invite CommanderKrieger ‘to give something back.’ After all, CommanderKrieger invited him to visit his fan meeting in 2014. Now the circle would be complete.
If MontanaBlack has the opportunity to give something back, CommanderKrieger is the first he invites.
How did the invited person react? CommanderKrieger was brought to tears, had to keep touching his eyes and was visibly moved by the words.
Even under his YouTube video, which now has 114,000 views, many fans took the opportunity to tell CommanderKrieger how much they appreciate him and how nice it is that he is being honored here.
What’s behind it: This is a somewhat bitter story. Because CommanderKrieger is considered in the German internet as an example of someone who was once big but has lost most of his viewers over the years – similar to Ninja in the USA, whose star has significantly fallen after the Fortnite hype.
The jokes and gags about CommanderKrieger run similarly to those about the Twitch streamer ChefStrobel. He serves as a permanent punchline of jokes that have somehow become self-sustaining to the point that it’s no longer about the person but has turned into a meme.
CommanderKrieger was – as MontanaBlack rightly states – already present in the early days of German YouTube, around 11 years ago, and had a lot of success.
- Some of his videos from 2012 reached view counts of around 1 million.
- Before 2017, at least the 100,000 mark was often reached.
- However, the videos in the last weeks have only reached numbers in the range of 2,000 to 5,000 views.
The 110,000 views that CommanderKrieger now has after the invitation from MontanaBlack are his biggest success in about 2 years.
MontanaBlack seems to appreciate the streamers from the past; he likely finds it hard to connect with many of the current streamers on German Twitch:
