The Story of Shroud 2.0: The King of Twitch

[Music] as soon as you say retirement it's time to call it that's it okay you're getting oh my god hey mike yeah what you do with i'm making moves put your hands together for the rowdy shroudies i feel like i could pick up a new game never played it before and do really good you know all right so it's me hello bro that was insane [Music] perfect [Music] dude once upon a time michael shroud gazette was a crispy charismatic counter-strike competitor one of the most naturally talented nutcases north america had ever seen still gets the kill it almost looked like skadoodle had actually come out on top there what a flick coming in trout getting one of the headshots he's tapping away shroud can he do it again he's up to 11 kills and looking for number 12 are you kidding me shroud four kills can anyone take this man down but you already know that molotov's in set piece out shroud has let them all pass one two [Music] you also know that after hanging up the shroud for good midway through 2018 he began to cement himself as the universally adored variety streamer he is today an affable authentic phenom who couldn't help but become the jack of jaw-dropping trades aimbot we know and love hold on hold on good luck open good luck all right let's go let's go let's go let's go to pink patrick oh my god you watched a shroudy rowdy went from a fan favorite to a rock star beheld as mr cs go clips himself became mr all clips watched as the king of reddit became the king of twitch mixer twitch again and well pretty much anything involving shooting dudes in the face little counter strike action baby the thing is since then somehow someway he's gone from a big deal to a freaking deity wait i added it we're fine holy shizen i don't have time oh my god i feel bad i just the streamer who makes even other streamers into fanboys the die-hard down-to-earth savant who sold out without ever actually doing it the most influential head clicker on the internet and godfather of an entire esports genre the one egamer who all others aspire to be [Music] how well in order to tell that story we've got to go all the way back to 2018 when battle royales were all the rage and our boy was still solidifying himself as one of the biggest streamers on twitch and not unrelatedly the most recognizable aimer on the platform and at the end of the day that's what set shroud apart his inhuman ability to pick up a shooter any shooter and just be a god at it it didn't matter if it was tactical arena oriented or a battle royale if it involved placing a crosshair on a head and clicking he was certifiably unreal i don't want negan ready here we go mirrors in closet let's go it wasn't just that shroud played pretty much every fps known to man it was how seamlessly he hopped from one game engine to another making pixel perfect peaks at every turn shroud played everything and he played it well what's more if shroud played it the game did well by the end of 2018 shroud had established himself as pretty much the most revered fragger on twitch it didn't matter how old you were what game you came from or what you were playing now if you had a chance to come within a country mile of shroud you took it hello hello bulow oh bueller i don't know yeah that's the one call you bow yeah because when all was said and done he truly was in a league of his own it wasn't just about his mechanics but also his humble salt of the earth way he slapped people he was this sweet sincere super chill specter of death whose beatdowns came to be regarded as blessings of a sort both by super fans okay you're getting oh my god it's shroud oh just killed me and other world renowned streamers he glitched glide off the rock man that's okay oh [ __ ] that's okay what i'll say about mike is that his like temperament what's really cool about him is you feel like he's pretty much mike across the board like i don't think i've seen someone like peer pressure mike in a sense out of game and game to do what he doesn't want to do mike's going to grab a beer mic will have his one beer you ask for once a second he'll tell you if he doesn't want a second beer if you want like to do a play-in game he's not comfortable to play he'll tell you i'm down or i'm not down pretty straightforward and mike's kind of this way across the board when 2019 hit there were two super streaming horses on top of twitch the og shroud and the [ __ ] face of fortnite ninja with whom shroud had developed a rivalry of sorts in a lot of ways shroud was the opposite of the all too theatrical face of fortnite and his reputation only grew as he continued to bang out what he wanted when he wanted how he wanted no oh i dodged it i dodged it what's up what's up what's up oh my god okay shroud's laid back laissez-faire ownage had always been his hallmark but over the course of 2019 it became his multi-million dollar meal ticket the quintessential quirk of one of the truly successful twitch persona to whom even the hardiest of e-gamers flocked this is crazy oh my gosh dude this is crazy oh my god everything's shaking what do we do this is insane oh shoot holy [ __ ] this is insane what do we do what do we do what do we do what do we do come the frame we need this ring it's very strange because like i said i'm just myself when i'm gaming and i i never really truly realize how much impact i have um and i get all those people that say that i'd help them so much just by watching my stream it's an amazing thing but yeah it's weird because you don't expect that you're just a normal dude just playing video games and you make people happy it's strange and then in august something insane happened something no one saw coming the button steve [Applause] ninja's exclusivity deal with mixer was first reported to be valued at anywhere from 30 to 50 million dollars and when it first went public it looked as if twitch could simply be shrouds for the taking how much would they have to pay you to move i don't know i don't have the answer to that question it's not something that's on my mind it the problem it's like i am in a i'm in a position where i don't really have to go anywhere you know shroud had always been twitch royalty but at this point it was starting to feel as if he was an unofficially agreed upon ruler this actual bonafide celebrity who everyone in gaming admired for his refusal to be anything but himself put your hands together for the rowdy shroudies [Applause] your lineup is the one and only russian badger macy j chai saslin and shroud and then just two months later shroud made an earth-shattering announcement of his own hey mike yeah what you do with i'm making moves because he misses you oh hi benji just as the king of the fortnight kitties was abdicating his throne and it was starting to look as if twitch's real king might finally take his rightful place at the top shroudy rowdy followed suit signing a reportedly eight-figure exclusivity deal with microsoft's scrappy new streaming service mixer all right so it's me hello from the outside looking in shroud's platform change didn't change all that much he was still the same savant everyone knew and loved if anything the move increased his already absurd name recognition i should have killed a man what did he do oh i didn't even see him why'd you pump me against these people who asked for this because no matter how far removed from his professional career he became shroud was never not cracked he didn't get old or out of practice the man was simply incapable of being washed what i think what i'm most known for is for aim but i think that's not actually true i think what what my talent is and what i personally think i should be most known for is my ability to adapt to any game i feel like i could pick up a new game never played it before and do really good you know what is he doing okay that said while he was making big bucks the mixer move did take its toll on shroud's viewership sure he'd earned himself a fat check and no one denied that it was worth it but since the platform itself was failing he'd also earned his metrics some f's in the chat you can't really test streams out because like even to this day like people have no idea that i'm on mixer you know there's so many people who just thought i quit streaming they just don't know flash forward to april 2020 twitch was thrust into an fps frenzy as riot games gave streamers the chance to draw beta keys in an effort to promote their counter-strike inspired hero shooter valorant unfortunately shroud couldn't participate given that he wasn't on twitch needless to say this wasn't ideal for shroud or for valorant here you have this former cs go competitor who in addition to adoring shooters of all kinds also loved ability-driven games it seemed like a match made in heaven and well was you really think valerian is really good it's incredible like i can't say i can't say anything in detail but i can tell you is it's one of the greatest games i've played in a very very very long time within no time it became apparent that shroud had stumbled upon his new go-to shooter and christ was he cracked at it bro that was insane fans even began to speculate whether he'd consider taking a crack at professional play and sure enough by shroud's own admission it crossed his mind honestly i really would i really would love to go pro in this game i would i i i would be lying if i said i'd you know i didn't want to i would love to but it's just not realistic and i'm smart enough to know that right here's the thing though mixer was actually doing so poorly that ironically it ended up working in shroud's favor why well between the coven 19 pandemic and viewership becoming so lackluster in summer of 2020 microsoft shocked the streaming world again they shut down mixer entirely yesterday mixer announced that they'll be ceasing their operations completely microsoft's answer to twitch and the organization that signed shroud and ninja to multi-million dollar exclusivity deals is no more now for a lot of honest hard-working streamers who'd been trying to make a living on mixer that was scary but for shroud it was a payday so now mixer um cannot accomplish its deliverable of having a platform to stream on so mixer makes a deal with facebook gaming to transfer the value of the contracts to transfer shroud and ninja over to facebook gaming shroud was reported to have been fielded a downright ridiculous offer by facebook gaming which he reportedly declined realistically there was only one platform whereby the rowdy one could make his triumphant return the place where it all started his first day back shroud amassed over half a million concurrent viewers this wasn't just a return stream it was a coronation the one true king of twitch was back dude i can't even read i can't read anything there's literally i can't read a single thing in this chat room nothing absolutely nothing look at all of these twitch primes damn it feels good to say that again twitch pride needless to say shroud's return to twitch has also done wonders for valorant as an esport both because he's well absolutely nasty at it ten seconds left and because of the bridge he's creating between the casual and competitive fan bases oh my five players coming up oh my god oh my god oh he's gotta catch some flack and he gets to the end one for free make it two oh my in many ways shroud has quite literally become the voice of valor and esports his watch parties have started to decimate the official streams in terms of viewership and he's all but cemented himself as the face figurehead and authority figure of riot's still burgeoning shooter this map is by far the most entertaining map to watch you know even flanking fields it doesn't feel like a [ __ ] show i would describe it and yet in the months since his record-breaking comeback things have pretty much gone right back to normal shroud is still dishing out filthy unthinkable frags i have yeah bullets his legion of fans still hound him for his take on absolutely everything what's up when you eat a taco do you till your head or the taco [ __ ] i should have been looking at you oh [ __ ] oh god i was i was thinking how do i eat and he still has well uh you know pubic hair style penis size wait what hold on perfect perfect we're looking damn good he continues to play whatever whenever no matter the expectation [Music] and remains entirely unafraid to say and do whatever the [ __ ] he wants among us what did you choose no i don't play among us i only play real games anyway what did you do hold on [Music] shroud isn't just a streamer he's an authority an aficionado everyone who's ever touched a first-person shooter adores and aspires to be him and they trust him too i love cs i love it i'd love to play it i can't accept the fact that i know i'm gonna jump in and just get cheated every single time use face it that's my point the fact that you have to use third party what makes this game better than valrant in this currency or better than cs in this current state is that you jump in you press play you're good that's it that's all you do in cs if you're a newcomer how are you supposed to know about faces esea any of those things and even if you do know about them how are you supposed to trust them the only people you trust are the people behind the game so you want to jump into their service and press play and you're good to go you can't do that in cs because it's garbage the thing that makes shroud such a unicorn is that he became big not by following trends but by bucking them he's this nonchalant maestro who somehow managed to become massively mainstream without ever losing his street cred just got out of walmart and i bought like 12 cans of madrinas even though i get that [ __ ] for free just won't let you guys know flex maddie [Music] because at the end of the day the singularity of shroud lies in his ubiquity the fact that he's the one streamer who everyone from 8th graders to 30 year old accountants thinks he's a badass it's safe to say that shroudy rowdy is the closest thing twitch has to a great equalizer it's also safe to say that he always will be [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

Channel: theScore esports

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Id: N3xKA26VY3M

Length: 23min 29sec (1409 seconds)

Published: Sat May 15 2021