A Twitch streamer of the popular battle royale Fortnite became the victim of a nasty trick after he shaved his head for a large donation.
What was that action? Lacy is a 20-year-old streamer who mainly plays Fortnite. According to his channel description, he dropped out of university to pursue a career as a content creator. He has been streaming regularly since summer 2022.
On June 18, 2023, Lacy started a subathon, a marathon stream where each incoming donation increases the length of the stream. To boost donation willingness, the streamer provided additional incentives if certain goals were reached.
At a total of 750,000 bits, Lacy promised to shave his head, including his eyebrows. This corresponds to about €7,500 at a purchase price of 100 bits for around one euro. However, bits are purchased in packages and become cheaper the more you buy at once.
Lacy: “I feel really bad”
How did it go for the streamer? On the 3rd day of his marathon stream, Lacy reached the goal and actually pulled out the razor. After he reluctantly parted with his curls, the streamer realized that he had apparently fallen victim to a nasty trick.
For the highest donation that helped the 20-year-old reach his goal was withdrawn. Suddenly, 251,092 bits were missing. The streamer was visibly disappointed and even considered ending the marathon stream.
On Twitter, Lacy wrote that he felt really bad and didn’t know what to say about it:
Twitch personally helps the streamer out
How did the action end? His viewers rallied behind Lacy and tried to compensate for the missing bits with their own donations. The case received further attention from Jake Lucky, who reported about it on his Twitter account.
Quickly, more donors came forward, and even Twitch itself surprised the streamer with 50 gift subscriptions.
What is the current status? With the exception of a thirty-minute interruption due to an internet outage, Lacy has now been streaming for 10 days (as of June 28, 11:15). He currently stands at 1.2 million bits – for the milestone of one million, he received a tattoo (via Twitter).
In an interview with Kotaku, Lacy said he didn’t know why the viewer had withdrawn his donation. However, he reportedly learned from acquaintances in the streaming scene that the same person had donated hundreds of dollars to them and had also reversed those donations.
Subathons are still relatively new, but have become indispensable in the streaming landscape. Ludwig Ahgren broke the subscription record of Fortnite streamer Tyler ‘Ninja’ Levins with such a marathon stream in 2021 and thus made the concept known.
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