PeteDorr, content creator on YouTube and Twitch, recently suffered a heart attack and is using his incident to warn his community about an unhealthy lifestyle in a video.
Who is it about? It is about the American YouTuber and Twitch streamer PeteDorr. He regularly streams on Twitch for his over 24,000 followers and has around 116,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, which he has been running regularly since 2008. He is known for playing and reviewing mainly retro games.
PeteDorr had already talked about the incident and its consequences in a Twitch stream before, but he wanted to create a YouTube video to draw even more attention to the important topic.
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YouTuber admonishes community to pay attention to health
What happened to PeteDorr? PeteDorr says (via YouTube) that he has been living a very unhealthy lifestyle for the past two years. He often ordered food, mostly fast food, and hardly moved. Because of this, he was always very tired and would take a nap every afternoon.
One day, while preparing for the evening stream, he experienced back pain. He took a walk, as that usually relieved his pain. While walking, he began to feel chest pain that radiated into his arm and jaw.
PeteDorr decided to turn back and go home. He calls this the “decision that probably saved his life.” Shortly thereafter, he called an ambulance that took him to the hospital.
There, he had to spend several days and undergo two surgeries before he was discharged.
The YouTuber says he still hasn’t realized how close he was to his own death.
What does the YouTuber say about it? The title of his YouTube video summarizes PeteDorr’s main message: “(…) Let this be a lesson for everyone.” He urges his community to regularly get checked by a doctor and to pay attention to their health through regular exercise and a balanced diet.
PeteDorr himself now walks for 15-20 minutes every day since the incident. He can’t manage more yet because he still needs to become completely healthy again.
In the future, he wants to spend less time in his gaming room, see more of the world and appreciate the things he has collected more. Generally, he wants to enjoy life and the things he already likes more.
The incident plays into the stereotype that gamers lead an unhealthy lifestyle. In this case, the stereotype may have been confirmed, with serious consequences.
There was also a similar incident in the German YouTube and Twitch space. The Twitch streamer CommanderKrieger suffered a stroke live on stream: A German streamer (44) suddenly cannot speak properly live on Twitch: wants to change his life
