27-year-old Dana “Danucd” Gard is a Twitch streamer known for showcasing PUBG: Battlegrounds. She is considered the best sniper in the online shooter: opponents often accuse her of cheating. In videos on TikTok, she reveals her secret: she is just good at math.
How did Danucd’s career on Twitch go? The streamer is 27 and lives in Riga, Latvia. She plays almost exclusively the battle royale shooter PUBG:
- Danucd started streaming in April 2018, and her channel on Twitch skyrocketed within half a year from 2 viewers to an average of 2000.
- However, the problem was that PUBG has lost a lot of popularity since 2018 after streamers like DrDisrespect, shroud, and Summit1g left the game. In 2022, PUBG ranked only 30th among the most-watched Twitch games, with many of the viewers coming from Asia – in 2018, PUBG was still 4th.
- Thus, Danucd’s Twitch career stagnated after the extremely steep rise in 2018: Over the following 4 years, she fluctuated between 1600 and 2000 average viewers.
PUBG was the biggest game of all time on Steam from 2017, then Fortnite came:
Sniper Videos Go Viral on TikTok
This is her breakthrough now: The streamer is making headlines with a series of “TikTok” videos. In the videos, she shows how she uses mathematics to successfully complete even extremely difficult kills:
- She checks the map to see where her opponent is approximately located – apparently orienting herself to certain objects on the map to pinpoint the opponent
- Then she estimates in her head how many meters away he is
- Once she knows the distance, she can adjust her sniper rifle to calculate the bullet’s trajectory and take him down with a single shot.
The streamer herself says:
Why do people call me a cheater when I snipe? I just use math.
With the video, DanucD has achieved enormous success: The clip has already received over 6,600 comments and almost 800,000 likes after 2 days.
In a second video, she shows moments where she is so successful that people accuse her of cheating (via YouTube).
How is this being commented on? In over 6,600 comments, TikTok users express their opinions about the video (via TikTok):
- One user explains it: “Hmm, opponents don’t move, and every mark in the scope represents 100 m. Using landmarks on the map that even show meters – ez!”
- However, one TikTok user is put off: “Why play a game where you have to do math?”
- A TikTok user sees her exact problem in the video: “I always guessed. Haha. Don’t make me try so hard. In the end, I’m dead.”
- Another user regrets life choices: “My math teacher was right. I should have paid attention in class?”
- In any case, the streamer is given much respect: “Is she the best female sniper or just the best sniper overall?”
TikTok proves to be an exciting medium for gaming streamers to reach new audiences – especially when one has the misfortune of playing a game that isn’t among the popular games on Twitch.
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