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Ludwig Anders Ahgren (born July 6, 1995), sometimes known mononymously as Ludwig, is an American live streamer, YouTuber, podcaster, comedian, esports commentator and competitor. Ahgren is best known for his live streams on Twitch from 2018 through late 2021, and on YouTube beginning in late 2021, where he broadcasts video-game-related content as well as non-video-game-related content such as game shows and contests. He is also known for his work as an esports commentator at various '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' tournaments. He is the co-owner of the esports organization Shopify Rebellion. He began streaming full-time on February 16, 2019. While holding a widely publicized "subathon" event, Ahgren became the most-subscribed Twitch streamer of all time in 2021, eventually reaching around 282,000 subscribers at its peak, beating the previous record set by fellow streamer Ninja. On November 29, 2021, Ahgren announced that he had signed an exclusive deal with YouTube Gaming. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerma985
Jeremy Elbertson (born September 22, 1985), known online as Jerma985 or Jerma ( ), is an American live streamer, YouTuber, performance artist, and voice actor known for his elaborate Twitch live streams incorporating surreal comedy. He has been described as an online personality across multiple social media platforms. Early life and education Jeremy Elbertson was born on September 22, 1985, to an Irish-American father and Polish-American mother. Upon receiving a Bachelor of Science in communication studies, he became a substitute teacher and freelance wedding videographer. Career Early work and voice acting Jerma previously owned a now defunct website called jermanet.com, which contained video and audio clips, largely from his college years. He has voiced characters in multiple indie games, such as "Matt" in ''Galactic Phantasy Prelude'', the Engineer in '' Cryptark'' and ''Gunhead'', and the Horse Lord Hipparchos in '' Apotheon''. YouTube Jerma created his YouTub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CDawgVA
Connor Marc Colquhoun ( /kəˈhuːn/ ''kə-HOON''; born 26 July 1996), known online as CDawgVA, is a Welsh streamer, YouTuber, voice actor, and podcaster currently based in Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with the Kadokawa-backed agency GeeXPlus. Career Colquhoun created his YouTube channel CDawgVA in February 2014. In November 2019, Colquhoun moved to Tokyo to begin working as an influencer for the Kadokawa-backed agency GeeXPlus. The effort was to help promote/introduce anime and Japanese culture to the rest of the world through his content. In February 2020, Colquhoun joined Joey Bizinger (The Anime Man) and Garnt Maneetapho (Gigguk) in creating and hosting a weekly podcast called '' Trash Taste'', where they discuss anime, manga, otaku culture, and their experiences while living in Japan. The first episode was released on 5 June 2020, all episodes are available on YouTube, Spotify, and iTunes. In both 2020 and 2021, Colquhoun was a presenter at the Crunchyroll Anime Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollis, New Hampshire
Hollis is a New England town, town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 8,342 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, having grown 9% from the 2010 population of 7,684. The town center village is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Hollis Village Historic District. History Town name According to Samuel T. Worcester's history which was commissioned by the town selectmen in 1878, the town was incorporated in the province of New Hampshire on April 3, 1746, "to have continence forever by the name of ''Holles''..." Worcester argues that, at the time of the charter, Governor Benning Wentworth was indebted to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, for his appointment as governor. According to Worcester, it was "very much the custom with Gov. Wentworth" to name towns in honor of his friends and patrons. Thus in the same year, the towns of Pelham, New Hampshire, Pelham and Holles were incorporated, and named after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mononym
A mononym is a name composed of only one word. An individual who is known and addressed by a mononym is a mononymous person. A mononym may be the person's only name, given to them at birth. This was routine in most ancient societies, and remains common in modern societies such as in Afghan name, Afghanistan, Bhutan, some parts of Indonesian names, Indonesia (especially by older Javanese name, Javanese people), Myanmar, Mongolian name, Mongolia, Tibetan name, Tibet, and South India. In other cases, a person may select a single name from their :Wiktionary:polynym, polynym or adopt a mononym as a chosen name, pen name, stage name, or regnal name. A popular nickname may effectively become a mononym, in some cases adopted legally. For some historical figures, a mononym is the only name that is still known today. Etymology The word ''mononym'' comes from English ''mono-'' ("one", "single") and ''-onym'' ("name", "word"), ultimately from Greek language, Greek ''mónos'' (μόνος, " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kotaku
''Kotaku'' is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Notable former contributors to the site include Luke Smith, Cecilia D'Anastasio, Tim Rogers, and Jason Schreier. History ''Kotaku'' was first launched in October 2004 with Matthew Gallant as its lead writer, with an intended target audience of young men. About a month later, Brian Crecente was brought in to try to save the failing site. Since then, the site has launched several country-specific sites for Australia, Japan, Brazil and the UK. Crecente was named one of the 20 most influential people in the video game industry over the past 20 years by ''GamePro'' in 2009 and one of gaming's Top 50 journalists by Edge in 2006. The site has made CNET's "Blog 100" list and was ranked 50th on ''PC Magazine''s "Top 100 Classic Web Sites" list. Its name comes from the Japanese '' otaku'' (obsessive fan) and the prefix "ko-" (small in size). In 2009, ''Business I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Bull
Red Bull is a brand of energy drinks created and owned by the Austrian company Red Bull GmbH. With a market share of 43%, it is the most popular energy drink brand as of 2020, and the third most valuable soft drink brand, behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Since its launch in 1987, more than 100 billion cans of Red Bull have been sold worldwide, including over 12.6 billion in 2024. Originally available only in a single nondescript flavour sold in a tall and slim silver and blue can, called Red Bull Energy Drink, the drink added #Variants, numerous variants over time. Its slogan, "Red Bull Gives You Wings", is considered one of the most popular and memorable advertising slogans in the world. Rather than following a traditional marketing approach, Red Bull has generated awareness and created a "brand myth" through proprietary extreme sport event series such as Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, Red Bull Air Race, Crashed Ice, Red Bull Crashed Ice and standout stunts such as the Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Streamer Awards
The 2022 Streamer Awards was the second edition of The Streamer Awards honoring the best in live streaming in 2022. The ceremony was held at Pellissier Building and Wiltern Theatre, the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, California on March 11, 2023. Hosted by showrunner QTCinderella and fellow streamer Valkyrae. The show was presented by, and exclusively streaming on, Twitch (service), Twitch. The event was also sponsored by AT&T, Spotify, Fansly, Nitro Stream Racing, Mountain Dew, and KFC. Streamers were interviewed on the red carpet by Ludwig Ahgren, Hasan Piker, Squeex, and Sweet Anita. The show peaked at 580,159 live concurrent viewers across all seventy-two Twitch (service), Twitch channels that were streaming the awards. Performers The 2022 Streamer Awards featured musical performances from Winners & nominees Streamers were nominated and voted for by their fans, besides the Legacy Award and the Streamer's Streamer Award, which were voted on by the Streamer Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube Gaming
YouTube Gaming was a video gaming application for videos and live streaming, developed and launched by YouTube on August 26, 2015, and intended to compete with the Amazon.com-owned Twitch, Facebook Gaming, and Microsoft-owned Mixer. YouTube Gaming was turned into a gaming entertainment category to attract special interest in its online video service, where all game-related videos on YouTube were stored and had the ability to display live streams or uploaded videos and share it. In September 2018, Google announced the shut down of the app on May 30, 2019, and transferred all of its popularity to the main application. See also * YouTube Music * YouTube Premium * YouTube Kids * YouTube TV YouTube TV is an American Pay television, subscription Over-the-top media service, over-the-top streaming television service operated by YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, which in turn is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., who announced YouTube TV ... References External links * { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninja (gamer)
Richard Tyler Blevins (born June 5, 1991), better known as Ninja, is an American online streamer, YouTuber and professional gamer. Blevins began streaming through participating in several esports teams in competitive play for ''Halo 3'', and gradually picked up fame when he first started playing ''Fortnite Battle Royale'' in late 2017. Blevins gained the notice of mainstream media in March 2018 when he played ''Fortnite'' together with Drake, Travis Scott and JuJu Smith-Schuster on stream, breaking a peak viewer count record on Twitch. Blevins has over 19 million followers on his Twitch channel, making it the most-followed Twitch channel Early life Richard Tyler Blevins was born in Taylor, Michigan and is of Welsh descent. He has two older brothers, Jonathan and Chris. He moved with his family to the Chicago suburbs when he was just an infant, where he went on to attend Grayslake Central High School. Upon graduation, he decided to play video games professionally, enterin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig's Subathon
On March 14, 2021, American Online streamer, livestreamer Ludwig Ahgren began continuously livestreaming on Twitch (service), Twitch. The livestream ended on April 13, 2021, after 31 days. A subathon is a type of Live streaming, livestream in which viewer donations add more time to a descending timer that counts down to the end of the stream. Throughout the streams' duration, Ahgren received 282,191 subscriptions, breaking the previous record set in 2018 by Ninja (gamer), Tyler "Ninja" Blevins of the most concurrent subscribers on Twitch. The subathon's content consisted of talking to his viewers and Internet forum moderator, stream moderators, playing games, and sleeping, among other various daily activities. During Ahgren's sleep breaks (which comprised about a third of the stream) his moderators entertained the audience, for which they were financially compensated. Ahgren grossed from the stream, before taxes, charity donations, and other deductions. Not including Sponsor (c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shopify Rebellion
Shopify Rebellion is a Canadian esports organization founded in February 2021 by e-commerce company Shopify, with active rosters in ''Apex Legends'', ''Dota 2'', ''Guilty Gear Strive'', ''Halo (series), Halo'', ''League of Legends'', ''Rainbow Six Siege'', ''Rocket League'', ''Super Smash Bros.'', ''StarCraft II'', ''Street Fighter'', and ''Valorant''. The team is co-owned by Shopify and Internet celebrity, internet personalities, Cr1TiKaL, Charles "Cr1TiKaL" White Jr. and Ludwig Ahgren. History On February 19, 2021, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke announced the formation of Shopify Rebellion, beginning with the organization's ''StarCraft II'' division and recruited players such as 2016 StarCraft II World Championship Series, 2016 WCS champion Byun "ByuN" Hyun-woo and Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn. The organization expanded into their second esports title in April 2021, buying out the contracts of Kansas City Pioneers' ''Rocket League'' division. Shopify Rebellion entered ''Valorant'' espor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esports
Esports (), short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, played individually or as teams. Multiplayer competitions were long a part of video game culture, but were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s when the advent of online streaming media platforms, particularly YouTube and Twitch (service), Twitch, enabled a surge in participation by professional gamers and spectators. By the 2010s, esports was a major part of the video game industry, with many game developers designing for and funding for tournaments and other events. Esports first became popular in East Asia, particularly in China and South Korea (which first licensed professional players in 2000) but less so in Japan, whose broad Gambling in Japan, anti-gambling laws prohibit professional gaming tournaments. Esports are also popular in Europe and the Americas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
