Kathleen Veronica Belsten (born ), better known by her online aliases Loserfruit, Fruity, and Lufu, is an Australian

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live streamer,

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, professional gamer, and

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. She has had the second-most followed channel on Twitch among female gamers, behind

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. She posts

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gaming videos on her main YouTube channel ''Loserfruit'',

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on her second channel ''Lufu'', and additional gaming videos on her third channel ''Loserfruit Daily''. Her main

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channel has 4.27 million subscribers while her vlog channel ''Lufu'' has over 800 thousand subscribers.

Early life

Belsten is from

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. At school, she hid her hobby of playing video games.

Career

Belsten started her YouTube channel "Loserfruit" in 2013, and initially started posting ''

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'' videos. During the start of her YouTube career, she started making satirical videos on ''League of Legends'', often with a comedic aspect. She then moved to ''

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'' before moving to more ''Fortnite''-based content in the end of 2017. Belsten specializes in the ''

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'' game and its variants, and was the second streamer to receive their own ''Fortnite'' outfit as part of the ''Fortnite Icon Series'', after

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. She was one of the leading streamers to compete in the inaugural ''Fortnite'' Summer Smash tournament to be hosted at the

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in 2019, and attended the second edition in 2020 as well. Belsten is sponsored by the

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fitness apparel brand. Belsten was a member of Click, a since-disbanded group of Australian YouTubers who collaborated on videos that also included

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, Muselk, Crayator, Bazza Gazza, Tannar, Mully, Fresh and her boyfriend Kilner Marcus Brasier (former owner of the prestige clips youtube channel). She led a 36 hour-long charity stream in January 2020 with Crayator and Fasffy that raised just over A$318,000 for the Australian bushfire relief effort, in which many other members and friends of Click also participated. Belsten started her second YouTube channel known as "Lufu" on 24 September 2016 where she mainly made vlogs of her day-to-day life, often in a humorous manner. She has reached 790,000 subscribers on her vlog channel and has amassed 93,151,859 views on there.

References

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