The Twitch streamer Cryptowrench is a former Marine and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and insomnia. He has made it his mission to showcase long-duration streams on Twitch without sleep to draw attention to his problem. The astonishing thing is: Even after 100 hours without sleep, he can still play complex shooters like Apex Legends.
This is what the streamer says: The streamer says about himself that he is a former member of the Marines and suffers from 3 illnesses:
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Insomnia
He sleeps so little that his body has now adjusted to the lack of sleep, so even after 100 hours without sleep, he still functions somewhat and manages to have the reaction time to play fast shooters like Apex Legends.
However, the post-traumatic stress disorder worsens the longer he stays awake, and he thus reacts strangely to sudden noises.
This is his plan: Cryptowrench wants to draw attention to the problems that people like him face. Therefore, he is doing “real marathon streams.”
Unlike “subathons”, like the one by Twitch streamer Ludwig, which take sleep breaks, he is awake the entire time.
Other streamers have 20,000 viewers while sleeping – He is sleepless
This was his biggest success so far: At the end of July, he set out to stream for 120 hours straight on Twitch. However, he stopped the stream after 103 hours.
But the astonishing thing is that he still seemed somewhat fit even after over 100 hours without sleep.
He himself says: His body has now adjusted so much to the lack of sleep that others don’t even notice how long he has been awake. To others, it simply seems like he has just had a long night.
Is he successful with this? Not particularly. The duration stream of 103 hours had an average of 24 viewers. When Ludwig had his “subathon with sleep breaks”, an average of 20,000 people watched him, even when he was sleeping.
Cryptowrench can only dream of such numbers, if he ever gets to dream.
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