Itsgng belonged to the lesser-known streamers. He averages about 60 viewers. However, to celebrate his 24th birthday, he started a Sub Marathon for his fans. The longer he streams, the more subscriptions he receives. But now he unexpectedly has to stay online for more than three days straight.
What exactly happened during the event?
- Itsgng is a small streamer who only averages 60 viewers. He plays a variety of games, including Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, Bloons, or Teamfight Tactics.
- On February 16, he started a stream marathon. It began with five hours, and for each subscription, the stream was extended by five minutes. Direct donations and bits also increased the time accordingly.
- After nearly 10 hours, the streamer finally went to sleep for the first time. He doubled the time for each subscription as long as he wasn’t actively playing. Instead of five minutes, the stream was extended by ten minutes.
- Exactly during this time, a viewer donated 400 subscriptions and increased the stream duration by more than 66 hours. This means that the streamer currently has nearly ten times as many subscriptions as viewers.
- Itsgng then returned from his nap and couldn’t comprehend the donation at all.
Streamer expected a marathon of 39 hours, now has to stay online for over 100 hours
How did the streamer take the extension? With much surprise:
What the hell? What the devil is this? Dude, is this wrong? Are you serious? Holy shit, this can’t be real.
Afterward, the streamer checked his data and realized that a user had gifted him 400 subscriptions, exactly during the time when there was a 10-minute extension for each subscription.
According to his own statements, Itsgng expected to stream for about 39 hours straight in this subscription marathon. That he now has to stay online for over 100 hours surprised him greatly.
This is really crazy. I woke up and thought we were done, to be honest. I thought I would come to the stream and there would be four hours left and I would wrap it up. But this exceeds all expectations.
Will this stream affect the future of the streamer? Although he currently has over 600 subscriptions, only 70 people have been watching on average since the stream started more than 30 hours ago. The average for the last 90 days is 62 (via Sullygnome). He also gained only 12 new followers.
Itsgng will probably remember this week forever, but he will not make the leap to the big streamers with this marathon.
Ludwig gained massive fame and broke records with Sub-Marathon
Can someone become famous with a marathon on Twitch? Yes. In 2019, the streamer Ludwig, with an average of 924 viewers, was among the smaller streamers. In 2020, he significantly increased his viewer numbers, but he had his real breakthrough in March 2021.
At that time, he started a Sub-Marathon and even appeared on camera while sleeping. He was virtually visible for 24 hours a day to his viewers, except when he had to go to the bathroom. And it paid off:
- Overall, Ludwig was online for 726 hours straight, keeping to his 8 hours of sleep per day.
- During that time, he reportedly earned about 1.17 million euros according to fans’ estimates.
- Ludwig gained over 230,000 subscribers. This broke the old Twitch record set by Ninja in 2018.
- He was the clear number 1 on Twitch during the last days of the marathon stream.
However, Ludwig has since switched from Twitch to YouTube. He felt he wasn’t loved enough by the platform and apparently received an offer from YouTube that he couldn’t refuse.
This, however, did not come without consequences. Twitch conveniently left his remarkable achievement out of their 2021 Year in Review:
One of the most important streamers of 2021 was omitted from Twitch’s Year in Review
