It doesn’t matter what other people think: When you’re so down, every step you take is a good thing.
Twitch as self-therapy in a hopeless situation
How did Twitch help him change his life? The streamer was apparently desperate and saw no way out: he could no longer cope with the situation alone. He had to change something, he told us in the interview.
We were surprised by how positively Rukk1 perceives the Internet. He said: There are trolls who always come, but you can easily ignore them. But he is incredibly motivated by people who say: “Wow, I haven’t watched for 2 hours. Look at what you’ve accomplished in that time.” Rukk1 apparently sees streaming on Twitch as something very positive in his life that has made a difference.
By making his situation public, this change came and with it the momentum to start anew. One can only hope that Rukk1 continues on this path, even if the attention for this wonderful transformation fades.
“Am I playing too much? Am I addicted?” is a topic that every MMORPG player probably has to deal with at some point. In one of the first articles on MeinMMO, Cortyn dealt with this in a personal article on our site.
For Cortyn, however, it turned out much better than for many others:
Until the doctor comes – addiction or just a time-intensive hobby?
For Cortyn, however, it turned out much better than for many others:
Until the doctor comes – addiction or just a time-intensive hobby?
It doesn’t matter what other people think: When you’re so down, every step you take is a good thing.
Twitch as self-therapy in a hopeless situation
How did Twitch help him change his life? The streamer was apparently desperate and saw no way out: he could no longer cope with the situation alone. He had to change something, he told us in the interview.
We were surprised by how positively Rukk1 perceives the Internet. He said: There are trolls who always come, but you can easily ignore them. But he is incredibly motivated by people who say: “Wow, I haven’t watched for 2 hours. Look at what you’ve accomplished in that time.” Rukk1 apparently sees streaming on Twitch as something very positive in his life that has made a difference.
By making his situation public, this change came and with it the momentum to start anew. One can only hope that Rukk1 continues on this path, even if the attention for this wonderful transformation fades.
“Am I playing too much? Am I addicted?” is a topic that every MMORPG player probably has to deal with at some point. In one of the first articles on MeinMMO, Cortyn dealt with this in a personal article on our site.
For Cortyn, however, it turned out much better than for many others:
Until the doctor comes – addiction or just a time-intensive hobby?
A Twitch streamer became known with a clip showing his completely cluttered apartment. He attributed this to the grind in WoW Classic at rank 14 and his depression, he said. But after the clip, he cleaned up his apartment and is now admired by many for it.
This made the stream famous overnight: Until a few days ago, hardly anyone knew the Twitch streamer Rukk1. He streamed his marathon run in WoW Classic to an average of 20 viewers. There he wanted to reach rank 14 in PvP: This is a seriously tough grind, but actually already over. The first reached rank 14 in WoW Classic in February 2020.
Then, however, the streamer posted a clip of his apartment online. It was completely cluttered with mountains of cola bottles, several towers made of pizza boxes, and a kitchen area that was simply disgusting.
He said: Rank 14 and depression make the difference.
The clip became a phenomenon on Twitch: It received over 280,000 views.
A dialogue played out in many places online between viewers who stood between two poles:
- Some said basically: “Look how disgusting that WoW addict lives there. It was bad for me too, but never that bad.”
- Others said: “The man says he is depressed. You have no idea how awful that is. You have to take that seriously, he needs help.”
After the clip came the cleaning
Why did he show the clip? Normally, a streamer would never show such a thing to their fans. They would hide this “unorganized part of their life” from the viewers.
For Rukk1, however, it was a method to motivate himself to change something, as he reveals to MeinMMO in an interview.
He told us:
I would never have started cleaning my apartment on my own.
Rukk1
The streamer said he had long neglected his mental health and things got out of control. Rukk1 needed a push, a trigger, to start cleaning his apartment.
That was the turning point: Rukk1 started cleaning immediately after the clip showing his apartment at its lowest point. In the following hours and days, his viewers watched the streamer not as he dragged his hunter through PvP in WoW Classic, but as he gradually cleaned his apartment. The mountain of cola bottles was cleared: the kitchen was cleaned.
A new clip of his “clean apartment” now reached over 110,000 views.
Rukk1 told us he was surprised by how many people approached him and supported him in cleaning his apartment. Because many MMORPG players apparently know the situation of neglecting their lives and feeling bad.
Strangers and friends told him how great they think what he is doing.
Even on reddit, the streamer is now receiving a lot of respect for his transformation. People say: It is incredible that someone who was so down and apparently depressed can now pull themselves up by their own strength.
For Cortyn, however, it turned out much better than for many others:
Until the doctor comes – addiction or just a time-intensive hobby?
For Cortyn, however, it turned out much better than for many others:
Until the doctor comes – addiction or just a time-intensive hobby?
It doesn’t matter what other people think: When you’re so down, every step you take is a good thing.
Twitch as self-therapy in a hopeless situation
How did Twitch help him change his life? The streamer was apparently desperate and saw no way out: he could no longer cope with the situation alone. He had to change something, he told us in the interview.
We were surprised by how positively Rukk1 perceives the Internet. He said: There are trolls who always come, but you can easily ignore them. But he is incredibly motivated by people who say: “Wow, I haven’t watched for 2 hours. Look at what you’ve accomplished in that time.” Rukk1 apparently sees streaming on Twitch as something very positive in his life that has made a difference.
By making his situation public, this change came and with it the momentum to start anew. One can only hope that Rukk1 continues on this path, even if the attention for this wonderful transformation fades.
“Am I playing too much? Am I addicted?” is a topic that every MMORPG player probably has to deal with at some point. In one of the first articles on MeinMMO, Cortyn dealt with this in a personal article on our site.
For Cortyn, however, it turned out much better than for many others:
Until the doctor comes – addiction or just a time-intensive hobby?
