Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris is one of the biggest and most popular Twitch streamers in the world. The 27-year-old has been on Twitch since 2012, starting with WoW, and has become one of the major trendsetters and stars of the streaming platform. His fans love him for his dry, offbeat humor. But now he talks about how his Twitch career was fueled by attention-deficit Adderall – and that is not funny at all.
Who is Sodapoppin?
- For some purists, Sodapoppin is practically the essence of Twitch. Alongside hardcore gamers like shroud and Summit1g, Sodapoppin is inseparable from the platform. He is the “original type” of entertainer on Twitch, having reached cult status with his dry, offbeat humor. After a successful stream, he dominates the discussion on Twitch in forums like “Livestream Fails” all on his own.
- Sodapoppin started his career as a WoW streamer, then switched to gambling streams and became a variety streamer. One of his major recent successes was in role-playing in GTA 5, where he fully immersed himself in his role as a restaurant owner, that the stress became too much for him and he quit everything.
- Sodapoppin has now talked about his experiences with the attention drug Adderall.
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This is what he says about the drug: In a stream on December 22, Sodapoppin said that in his early days, he drew all his energy from one thing: from Adderall. He built his life around Adderall, he explains.
I could get to a point where I needed no sleep and no food. Adderall drove me completely. Everything I did revolved around when I would get the next dose.
In retrospect, he says, it was the worst time of his life.
3 hours of streaming just rearranging the desktop icons
What made him stop?
Sodapoppin recalls a stream that was particularly bad:
I took Adderall while streaming, always, every day. And when you take it, you hyper-focus, that’s the biggest factor. I remember a really awful stream: I sat there rearranging my desktop icons for 3 hours. It was the worst stream I ever did. It was just bad. I had to stop.
At that time, he didn’t even feel like a normal person anymore.
Indications show that Adderall is prevalent in the esports and gaming scene
Is Adderall common in gaming? It is rarely spoken about, but there are some indications that Adderall is quite prevalent among gamers, streamers, and professional esports athletes.
Both in Call of Duty and in Overwatch, professionals have explained that both scenes are on Adderall. One can probably assume that in esports titles like CS:GO and League of Legends, drug abuse is a major topic, although it is not publicly discussed.
The well-known esports athlete Nadeshot used Adderall as a critique of the shooter Hyper Scape. He said he needed 50 mg of Adderall to play Hyper Scape.
The LoL streamer Tyler1 recently explained in a feature that he takes Adderall to combat his attention disorder. However, he emphasized that he doesn’t take it like Tic Tacs, but uses it as a medication.
Tyler1 also explained that he suffers from tics that are becoming worse. He can no longer stream if the headset is even slightly crooked. Such compulsive and anxiety disorders among esports players and streamers are being reported more frequently lately:
LoL: Twitch streamer describes his life as a lonely grind hell – wonders what everyone has.
Sodapoppin then explains that the lack of sleep and food led him into a vicious cycle – he struggled for months with his addiction.
Underfed and dead tired, he took a new pill to get through the stream
How was he doing at that time? Not well at all. The already thin Sodapoppin continued to lose weight during the Adderall period.
The biggest problem with Adderall: I’m already a skinny guy and back then I was even thinner. And it completely kills your appetite. I just stopped eating.
So I was awake 24 hours a day, all the time. I didn’t sleep or eat at all. Even when I slept, it was just this mediocre Adderall nap, with garbage dreams, and I’d wake up underfed, really tired and had to go live, so I’d take another Adderall to get through the stream.
At that time, he didn’t even feel like a normal person anymore.
Indications show that Adderall is prevalent in the esports and gaming scene
Is Adderall common in gaming? It is rarely spoken about, but there are some indications that Adderall is quite prevalent among gamers, streamers, and professional esports athletes.
Both in Call of Duty and in Overwatch, professionals have explained that both scenes are on Adderall. One can probably assume that in esports titles like CS:GO and League of Legends, drug abuse is a major topic, although it is not publicly discussed.
The well-known esports athlete Nadeshot used Adderall as a critique of the shooter Hyper Scape. He said he needed 50 mg of Adderall to play Hyper Scape.
The LoL streamer Tyler1 recently explained in a feature that he takes Adderall to combat his attention disorder. However, he emphasized that he doesn’t take it like Tic Tacs, but uses it as a medication.
Tyler1 also explained that he suffers from tics that are becoming worse. He can no longer stream if the headset is even slightly crooked. Such compulsive and anxiety disorders among esports players and streamers are being reported more frequently lately:
LoL: Twitch streamer describes his life as a lonely grind hell – wonders what everyone has.
