This Streamer Is Close To Breaking Ninja’s All-Time Record

For simply over two weeks, Ludwig Ahgren has been streaming continuous on Twitch, permitting his followers a glimpse into his on a regular basis life as he eats, video games, and sleeps on digital camera. It has been a wild trip for followers, who’ve loved seeing how far this experiment will go. However this stream is notable for an additional purpose: Ludwig is gaining subscribers at such an exponential price that he’s starting to meet up with a report set by none aside from Tyler “Ninja” Blevins.

In line with figures from TwitchTracker, Ludwig presently has far and away the highest number of active subscribers, with over 130,000 individuals presently subbed to his channel. This places him properly forward of the second runner-up, RainbooLive, who boasts simply over 75,000 energetic subscribers.

So how did Ludwig create such a sensation surrounding his channel? By launching a “unending subathon.” GameRant explains that Ludwig began a 20-second timer on his channel and instructed viewers that each subscription would add 10 seconds. The extra time added to the clock by new subs, the longer he’d keep on-line. That was on March 14, and within the time since then, Ludwig has added new subscription tiers, with the pricier subscriptions including an additional 100 seconds to his clock.

When Ludwig crossed the 100,000 energetic sub mark on March 22, he tweeted his thanks to his followers. “BIGGER NUMBER BETTER PERSON,” he quipped. “I turned essentially the most subbed streamer on twitch … This was my dream after I first began streaming three years in the past.”

Ludwig’s subscriptions have continued to skyrocket since then, and he’s notably a bit over midway to Ninja’s report for all-time subscription numbers. For the time being, Ninja nonetheless sits comfortably up prime with 269,154 “all-time peak active subscriptions.” Nonetheless, judging by the exponential development being skilled by Ludwig’s channel, it could solely be a matter of time (and several other extra full days of streaming) earlier than he catches as much as the Fortnite famous person. So long as Ludwig would not lose it mid-stream, he appears to have a good likelihood of overtaking Ninja’s report.

As famous by PC Gamer, Ludwig has solely taken one break since his experimental stream started. With a purpose to attend he a visit he had deliberate, Ludwig managed to get his buddy Slime (SlimeIRL on Twitch) to tag in for him. Slime passed the baton back to Ludwig on March 28, and later famous on Twitter that he might “never do that full time.”