There is no time when content creators and streaming platforms stop surprising us, and if you thought that Twitch had already given it its all, you were very wrong: Ludwig Ahgren, a content creator from the United States, brought an innovative and crazy idea to : broadcast 20 more seconds without interruption for each subscription your channel receives. The challenge started on March 14… and has been streaming for the past two weeks non-stop.
Ludwig Ahgren has spent more than two weeks streaming live on Twitch
In this kind of telethon combined with Big Brother, Ludwig Ahgren assures that he will not stop broadcasting as long as the money keeps coming in, and it is that each subscription (20 seconds of transmission) costs around 5 dollars per month (the equivalent of 4.25 euros per month).
“We’re doing this like a vending machine”, assured Ludwig just a few hours after the first day of his transmission, not knowing that it would become a trend and a great show for Twitch users.
Of course, its success didn’t come overnight as 25-year-old Ludwig Ahgren was already a star when he began his extensive binge-watching on Twitch content, and before he began his marathon stream in the style of a conscious Truman Show , had more than 2 million followers who usually watched his videos especially related to the world of video games. As the days go by he has become one of the leaders among the content creators with the most new subscribers.
A transmission that seems to have no end
Of course, the Ludwig marathon was not the first to broadcast continuously, in fact the “subathons”, As these types of streaming marathons are called, they have been happening on Twitch for years and some have managed to last several days without interruption: In April, the creator of the channel managed to broadcast for six days, achieving the highest record to date.
However, as Ludwig Ahgren became a legend, He looks more and more tired.
The king of live streaming on Twitch has had to add some restrictions to your stream– Now only 10 seconds are added to the clock with each subscription, plus viewers will be limited to purchasing 100 gift subscriptions each. It also established a limit of 31 days to end the transmission, no matter what may happen next.
It is still not very clear if he will manage to reach that point since over the last week subscriptions have, not surprisingly, slowed down: On Wednesday, March 24, there were 37 hours of transmission left on the clock, when on Friday morning there were only 22 hours left, and since then the timer has been hovering just above the screen, with a time under 12 hours and counting. At the time of creating this post, the clock only has a little over 4 hours and 34 minutes left… but nothing is written.
Over 139,000 subscribers…and counting
With his sub-bat, Ludwig has achieved nothing less than a staggering number of (and counting), averaging 31,518 viewers for his transmissions that have seen him talk, play, exercise, eat, sleep in his bed in the shape of a race car and sometimes even take a shower, and it would not be strange that after a slump the transmission clock began to rise again.
Will Ludwig Ahgren become a legend, or will he start a wave of creators who, fueled by his success, will create a massive multi-channel Big Brother on Twitch? Only time will tell.
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