14-year-old streamer breaks down after raising thousands for charity Twitch: averageharrry \/ PixabayA 14-year old Twitch streamer was completely taken aback by the generosity of viewers and broke down after raising thousands of dollars for a children\u2019s hospital in the UK during a 12-hour stream. Streaming has allowed anyone from anywhere in the world to connect with thousands of viewers in real time. And sometimes the platform is used for genuine good, like what happened with a 14-year old streamer on August 19. Twitch streamer \u2018averageharrry\u2019 was raising money for Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children\u2019s hospital in the United Kingdom, and was left completely overwhelmed with emotions when viewers turned out in droves with donations. Raising money for charity The 14-year old had set a total of five thousand pounds as the number to reach, but didn\u2019t expect to hit anywhere close to that. When asked if he would hit the number, he replied \u201cthat 5k, isn\u2019t like a goal\u201d. Read More: Twitch streamers celebration turns to ban – \u201cI just said that to see how much money\u2026\u201d he said before pausing as a viewer donated \u00a31,000 to him, leaving him shocked. \u201cDude, maaan, fuck. Thank you so much!\u201d the streamer said emotionally. The young streamer broke down into tears late into the 12-hour charity stream as he read off the total amount of money he had raised so far to his mother. \u201cFour thousand, two hundred, and 88, we raised!\u201d he exclaimed before crying with happiness. He then got up to hug his mom as the moment was a lot to take in. \u201cNo mom, I\u2019m good, honestly there is nothing wrong\u201d he reassured her as he explained that he had just raised a lot of money for the hospital. Towards the end of the stream the 14-year old told his audience that it didn\u2019t matter if they hit the goal. \u201cGuys, it doesn\u2019t matter\u2026\u201d he started to say when a donation interrupted him and pushed him past his goal. \u201cI\u2019ve hit 5k!\u201d averageharrry exclaimed, throwing his hands over his head in shock. At the time of this article, the total amount averageharrry raised for charity was \u00a35,212.14, blowing past what he originally expected to make. If you\u2019d like to make a donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital, you can do so here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
14-year-old streamer breaks down after raising thousands for charity Twitch: averageharrry \/ PixabayA 14-year old Twitch streamer was completely taken aback by the generosity of viewers and broke down after raising thousands of dollars for a children\u2019s hospital in the UK during a 12-hour stream. Streaming has allowed anyone from anywhere in the world to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}