After more than 10 years on YouTube and Twitch, Sebastian “Rewinside” Meyer has to take a longer break as an influencer. The reason: the diagnosis of burnout.
Who is it about? The YouTuber and Twitch streamer Rewinside is one of the largest influencers in the German-speaking area. On YouTube, he reaches over 3.4 million people with his main channel, on Twitch he has over 1.9 followers (source: SullyGnome).
His main content revolves around gaming, both on YouTube and on Twitch. In his streams, the influencer regularly watches videos together with his viewers.
Since 2013, Rewinside has been active on YouTube. When he started, he was still in his training as a real estate agent, where he had to keep his activities as a YouTuber secret.
Rewinside is also one of the creators of the popular Minecraft project Craft Attack, which entered its 13th season in 2025.
It has been quiet around Rewinside on the internet for 2 weeks, he hasn’t been live on Twitch. This is unusual because he normally streams every few days for a few hours.
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“Somehow nothing is working right now”
Why is Rewinside stopping? Rewinside talks in his latest video on YouTube about his year 2025. It was extremely stressful for the content creator, he says.
He has had a summer where he was visible as a DJ at many festivals. Simultaneously, the social media channels like YouTube and Twitch also needed to be fed with content. All of this led to a severe flu in the fall, a panic attack, and eventually the diagnosis of burnout.
Although he had planned in January 2025 to only do things he really enjoyed, he could not really stick to that due to his ADHD, he claims.
What happens next? The Twitch streamer states that he would retreat from the internet for the next few months. This would last at least “until mid/end February”, because: “Somehow nothing is working right now” (source: YouTube from minute 04:34), even though December is one of the most lucrative months on the YouTube platform and he has actually been invited to the currently ongoing Minecraft project Fitnacraft.
After his break, Rewinside would limit himself to 2 to 3 streams a week and the summer of 2026 would again be full of festivals where he would perform as a DJ.
Rewinside has been active as a content creator on the internet since 2013. Gronkh was also one of the first YouTubers to appear in the German-speaking area. In a podcast, he explained what he did professionally before his career as an influencer: Gronkh worked as a “dumb stone troll” in a company before his Twitch success, explaining where the name comes from
