Brandon Ewing, known online as Atrioc, is an American

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and

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ner. He is known for his news series ''Marketing Monday'', using his prior experience to give presentations within the marketing and business field to his audience. Ewing is also a former world record holder in

ning the

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series ''Hitman''. He began streaming consistently at the beginning of 2020, and has over 819,000 YouTube subscribers and 378,000 Twitch followers as of March 2025.

Career

Before streaming

Ewing grew up on a NATO military base in Germany. During college, he was an avid ''

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'' player. While studying at

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, he founded the university's

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Club. After graduating with a degree in

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, Ewing started his career at Twitch in February 2014 as a marketing and content manager, before moving on to work under marketing at

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in December 2017.

Streaming career

Ewing is active in the ''Hitman''

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scene. In 2023, he created and hosted a '' Hitman 2'' speedrun challenge, with first, second, and third place getting $500, $200, and $100 respectively. During September 2021, Ewing's Twitch account was banned following a Wikipedia race stream, during which the players attempted to navigate from the articles of "Donald Trump" to "Erectile disfunction". During the game, one of the articles featured a photograph of a penis, which is against Twitch's terms of service surrounding nudity. In 2021 Ewing unintentionally leaked private conversations between

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and

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about contract issues. In September 2022, Ewing founded the content creation agency Offbrand with

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, Nathan Stanz, and Nick Allen. In 2025, Ewing and fellow content creators

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and Aiden Calvin started a podcast entitled "Lemonade Stand," focusing on business, technology, and politics.

Deepfake controversy

During a live stream on January 30, 2023, Ewing accidentally revealed a browser tab with a pornographic website selling

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s of other live streamers, including

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, and

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. In response to the controversy, Ewing apologized and resigned from Offbrand. QTCinderella described her friendship with him as irreparable following the incident. Following this, Ewing has worked with QTCinderella and others to take down deepfake porn images across the internet, and Ewing gave $60,000 to a law-firm to help cover the cost of having such images removed and de-listed from search engines.

Awards and nominations

References

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