From Unemployable to The Top of Twitch: The Story of Ludwig

[Music] boys today i have left my job and i will now be streaming full time on twitch.tv forward slash ludwig welcome to the game boys oh my god lug wig and chat how are there that many cheese and a name i cried to get there man i cried for these views dumb rich children that's how sly words are he's right every streamer is a dumb rich baby child god damn and i'm one of them we are going to be doing our first ever uncapped subathon and when i say uncapped i mean if this [ __ ] goes 48 [ __ ] hours i will be live for 48 in hours this sunday we will start and i have no clue when we will end boys today we are doing you laugh you lose the loser gets a tattoo on their ass it's because they laugh super cool how many times do i have to ask put me in my own [ __ ] lobby this is the impossible meat it kind of looks like roast beef all right good luck one [Music] there it is this is the new record on twitch for most subscribers of all time welcome to the fastest growing twitch stream on twitch.tv a baby majority of streamers out there have one thing in common they are unknown only a select few ever make it big and they all go about it differently some are unapologetically loud [Music] others are quiet in a way that fills up the room a corpse some will make you laugh this is fun oh no what is that what what have you done others will make you cry last year my dad passed away from cancer and that whole year for six months i was taking care of him by myself it was the hardest time of my life and um you guys really like stuck around and helped me through that a few will try to help you understand the world around you a little better a liar pocahontas movie i mean it's a direct rip of pocahontas james cameron's avatar is literally pocahontas but with alien but no matter how they do it most truly successful streamers are genuinely having a good time [Laughter] sometimes it can be hard to quantify what exactly makes someone popular online but in the case of ludwig ogren it's pretty easy he's charming well-spoken confident and recently broke the record for the most subs on twitch there it is you were here this is the new record on twitch for most subscribers all time holy [ __ ] that was insane ludwig grew up in hollis new hampshire graduating from a local high school in 2013. it was around this time that he discovered his passion for video games specifically call of duty if you could see my face when i actually accomplished this challenge of only turning right it it was like pooping in um having an orgasm at the same time that's the only words like used to describe it and the feeling was even better than that after moving to arizona to attend arizona state university ludwig got into super smash bros melee a scene he would continue to be involved in for years to come every single person i live with i met through smash my streaming career started from smash and uh so it's just like a community that that that spawned me i guess you know outside of gaming ludwig also tried his hand at stand-up comedy at tempe late night comedy club where he sharpened his performance skills for his dream job of being a talk show host it's also what gave me the legs to feel confident enough to stream there's a big difference between bombing on stage doing stand-up comedy and feeling like literally feeling the people's silence when you expect laughter and then like streaming on twitch and then like you drop a joke and no one really little dubbies because you guys leave and i don't know when you leave which is cool ludwig graduated from arizona state with a double major in english lit and journalism and mass communication in 2017. it was that same year that he saw some limited success competing in melee tournaments taking sats off players like chill and dude and vro but when it came down to it ludwig did a lot more damage as a commentator than as a player i could have gone pro in smash if you gave me 10 years and everybody else froze in time for a while is it naruto how do i say it so i don't get roasted naruto naruto i think some people say naruto i say no rude but i just say i just say naruto he even put together his own net play tournament initially called the ludwig ogren championship series an event that has undergone a few name changes since its launch but has consistently drawn big names like s-fat mango and zayn to participate while commentating a smash tournament in california ludwig met his veritable partner in crime and eventual roommate slime who invited ludwig to be part of his podcast bad melee i like to commentate because i just like talking and i have asperger's or you know like i just i just like speaking and dipping his toes into the world of competitive smash and podcasting made ludwig realize that maybe being a talk show host wasn't what he actually wanted to do and so during this time i'm trying to think what is the quickest way to earn money and obviously my mind went to oh i'm a young boy i've got a lot of free time to my spe myself i've been honing my skills i got a couple swimmers how about i try the wonderful world of sperm donation then again there was also streaming something ludwig had wanted to get serious about for a long time of course it's a lot easier to get the ball rolling when you're close to all the action and so ludwig applied to jobs in both new york and los angeles and when he got a callback for a web editor gig in la he packed up his stuff and moved across the country to pursue his dreams unfortunately just as he was starting to get used to his new life ludwig got fired in the hr lady and they're staring at me there's no easy way to say this but we're letting you go i was like what the [ __ ] [ __ ] i moved to la for this job i don't have anything and this wouldn't even be the last time throughout his time in la pretty much every job ludwig had ended with him getting the boot i got let go i i was literally working part-time uh marketing at a vape company while working as a streamer and i was like i'll keep doing this until i have ten thousand dollars in my savings account and then i got let go at 7k so it hasn't been really much of a choice i'm just not the best worker i guess and i didn't realize that until i got fired five times but ludwig took his professional mishaps as a sign to focus on what was truly important to him he'd been making some modest strides on twitch and so in february 2019 he decided it was time to wholly devote himself to his streaming career and i will now be streaming full time on twitch.tv forward slash ludwig algren welcome to the fastest growing twitch stream on twitch.tv baby except that announcement wasn't entirely accurate ludwig's last gig was one of the jobs he got let go from but he had his reasons for patting the truth and i didn't want it to seem like i was going full time only because i got fired and i didn't want people to pity me or i didn't want it to overshadow the idea that going full time was something i actually wanted to do which is true i did want to go full time and that was it i just finally had the balls to do it fortunately ludwig not only had the balls but also the face that instantly put him ahead of the pack and before long people began to take notice i watch twitch like this right like i'll be watching a stream i'll tune in for like a couple seconds i'll have them say my name and then i'll like slowly get a boner from every streamer saying my name and once they say my name i don't give a [ __ ] about anything they're doing anymore and i move on ludwig's stream didn't exactly hit the ground running right off the bat but in the next few months it picked up more and more viewers thanks in large part to his willingness to try anything once he's so happy over there he's so happy so all right good luck buddy what the [ __ ] is going on [Music] that's how you do it let's go blah for a thousand it's a big one from the hit song mia khalifa the song goes you got a boyfriend i bet he doesn't kiss you he gonna find another girl and he won't blank yeah [Music] smells like [ __ ] beyond just embracing the weird [ __ ] his audience craved ludwig did something else something that set him apart from every other streamer raging and screaming and just chatting he put in the work to make sure that the bits skits and weird challenges were as polished as possible and it set him apart from his peers lud would always go the extra mile for his audience and as the quality improved his dream of becoming a talk show host was actually coming to life just on twitch and when the global pandemic hit in 2020 forcing everyone to try and fill the entertainment void in their lives ludwig was right there to pick up the slack he is the greatest pokemon player of all time i i am in disbelief if he gets to burn here he deserves 100 gifted subs oh no way who's gonna be mr 500k [Music] there it is now i can be true with my furry self sniffs ruff ruff what's your first owner on the day i hit 500k you do this to me he said he doesn't have time to teach me he said ludwig okay uh teach lottery wow i could teach a lot of uh uh well uh what's xqc up to apparently my viewer count too long the latvian gambit advice so his one piece of advice is so shocking but now what do i do now what the [ __ ] am i supposed to do hikaru i don't give a [ __ ] if gordon ramsay throws up watching this i will be cooking steak to the best of my dumbass ability see if i was like like cultured i would know where i am but i'm not so i don't mario but there's only so much entertaining anyone can do without feeling burnout starting to creep in and ludwig was no exception after nearly three years of streaming he was ready for a break on february 16th ludwig announced he'd be taking a hiatus from twitch and youtube to visit friends and family in his native new hampshire next month guys i'm going on break i'm leaving i'm out pack the bags dip it it was real it was fun wasn't real fun time for me to go bone voyage other phrases that mean goodbye sayonora think it's japanese but it wasn't the relaxing holiday ludwig had hoped for on march 4th he had to undergo an emergency appendix surgery but i guess appendicitis is like a really big deal i guess apparently if your appendix bursts and you don't get rid of it quick enough you can die or something i don't know i don't know what people did like 300 years ago did they just die is that what happened they would just die because of their appendix i guess i don't know apparently shout out to modern medicine i was born in the right era about a week after his surgery ludwig returned to la and to streaming full-time but it wasn't going to be business as usual he had something different in mind for his comeback we are going to be doing our first ever uncapped subathon and when i say uncapped i mean if this [ __ ] goes 48 in hours i will be live for 48 hours 72 the next one after that when you add 24 hours for another day all of it this sunday we will start and i have no clue when we will end what ludwig didn't realize was that 72 hours wasn't going to cut it since the amount of time he'd have to spend on stream would increase by 10 seconds with every new sub he got and his viewers were determined to make ludwig keep at it as long as possible so i thought it'd go a day or two uh and then like three four days in i was like oh [ __ ] this might go longer than i thought i don't have a boyfriend you do twitch.tv has a boyfriend just for a few days that's what you said four days ago consider it a work trip this is the worst work trip stop subscribing you monsters the uncapped subathon started on march 14th and kept ludwig on air for an entire month the max amount of time he was willing to keep going to everyone who keeps subbing and gifting the moment it hits one i want you guys to know there's actually no way for it to go under one the way we have the timer set up because it's a one it's like it's the timer's like made of one piece and uh and there's no way for it to go under it's called one piece rule 34 if you look it up what's up what are you doing for the record guys romance is dead no like fall like what'd you have for breakfast today oh i didn't could add some of this dick okay i have gifted 5079 subs to mango thank you wow lud one eh i thought you got for your boy you're no better than ninja you know that ninja ninja got 269k subs and then he unsubscribed to me when the cameras finally turned off on april 14th after broadcasting ludwig's life to his viewers for a whopping 700 hours he had beaten the record previously held by ninja for the most sub-2 twitch streamer okay yo yo yo yo yo yo yo what's going on uh i don't know if you heard i just broke your record what you say to me you little [ __ ] i i just i just broke you i no i i'm just saying i broke your record you know i i'm not saying i'm big time it's not like i'm i'm [ __ ] leonardo dicaprio i'm just saying that i just broke the record i tell my brother leonardo you're trust god okay i don't even know the peak number of subs i had off the top of my head so uh it wasn't that impactful i think the entire journey was just what was so overwhelming uh and just streaming my life for a month and how much support i had and i happen to get a record which i'll boast about until the day i die even if someone takes it but it wasn't like i don't think it hits you in any way i don't think it's that big of a deal but most people would argue that having nearly 270 000 twitch subs to your name was a huge deal and the hype didn't end with the subathon ludwig continues to hold the record for most sub 2 twitch streamer while having one of the most active sub counts on the platform right now his fellow streamers reactions ranged from mildly supportive to downright insulting what i told stans i remember vividly telling sansa's like bro both of us make like 10x what ludwig makes right now i'm pretty sure very soon not only will he make more than us he'll make more than us combined i remember saying that and that was back when he had like no viewers but i think it's kind of cool to talk about because i think ninja did it the old stream way where like ninjas played games 12 hours a day whereas like love did like all kinds of different content so it's kind of cool like the number one and two is like ninja did it the old school twitch way and led did it the new school twitch way and it will come along it'll say yeah like like the take place it's not about being the first but doing it better are you a terrible person for weeks on end okay so what are you going to do when you're at the top then you're just going to wait every time and you're just going to not innovate to just chill until other people try things but no matter what anyone had to say the subathon made ludwig a bunch of money a sizeable portion of which he donated to charity it earned him the devotion of hordes of new fans and cemented his place among streaming's elite i'm very cognizant that if i have 20 000 people watching me you know a minute of stream time is 20 000 minutes total of like human time which is like so much so i really don't want to waste people's time because i'm taking up so much of it and with time becoming a very real tradable resource online other notable twitch personalities have expressed an interest in trying to one-up ludwig by running their own subathons but he insists it's not about the numbers here's the thing about subs i got him it doesn't give you happiness i would try something else records don't get you happiness so we should just leave this record for eternity whatever happens with his record going forward it's undeniable that ludwig has set a new benchmark for the rest of the streaming community he emerged from the primordial ooze of early twitch as part of a new breed of entertainers one that sees streaming as a legitimate calling worthy of as much dedication as any so-called real job out there i think being successful at streaming is preparing yourself the best way possible for when luck hits to be ready and to be sick because it can strike at any time and if you're not ready that might be your only chance [Music] thanks for watching if you want more content like this hit the sub button and ring that notification bell for unique bite size videos you won't find anywhere else hit up our instagram twitter and facebook pages

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Length: 20min 55sec (1255 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 12 2021