Athena blasts past Ludwig & Pestily subathons with 1,000-hour Twitch stream Twitch: Envy AthenaLate on September 24, in the early hours of the Dallas morning, Twitch star Athena will hit 1000 hours live, eclipsing subathons from Ludwig, Pestily, and more. Dexerto sat down with Alejandra to talk cracking the massive milestone, her two-year challenge, and how she\u2019ll celebrate. Last month, Athena had \u2014 in her words \u2014 a \u201creally bad month.\u201d Motivation-wise, the 25-year-old had struggled to get onto Twitch every day, and was mainly just punching numbers to keep her two-year challenge (going live every day for 730 days in a row) alive. The Rocket League star found herself considering ways she could \u201crevitalize\u201d herself, and landed on a subathon. \u201cI watched Mira do her subathon, and the fact she hit that 1000 hours (Mira finished in August). That inspired me. Seeing how her community reacted, how much fun it was, it was why I decided that I could go for that 1000 hours,\u201d Athena said. The Twitch star \u201cneeded something to keep going,\u201d and an uncapped subathon seemed perfect. 42 days later, she\u2019s still streaming 24 hours a day. Athena could have been forgiven for sounding a little tired when I called her up on September 23, considering she\u2019d been streaming her life for 993 hours at that point. Instead, she was the opposite; bubbly, and bouncing off the walls. \u201cI\u2019m having a laugh right now at this Nintendo Direct thing, the Mario movie,\u201d she admitted, talking about the Chris Pratt, Charlie Day-led movie that had just been unveiled the same evening. \u201cEvery line is going to be a meme, I swear!\u201d That same bubbly energy didn\u2019t fade away after we had a laugh at the Nintendo reveal, however; Athena is simply riding the high of her Twitch subathon and, right now, loving every single minute of it, whether gaming, chatting, or sleeping. \u201cI\u2019m actually not too bad now. The first week was pretty tough, I\u2019ll admit that!\u201d she laughed. \u201cBut I\u2019m in a routine now, getting up, doing the same thing every day. It\u2019s kind of like a job, but a little more extreme? I\u2019m in the rhythm\u2026 you get used to it all, as weird as that sounds. I have the same thing to do every day, at least. That routine includes Rocket League (of course), as well as Apex Legends, Just Chatting, streaming herself living her life, and her moderators playing games. The one big thing missing from other major subathons like Ludwig\u2019s or Pestily\u2019s is her sleeping on-stream: the Twitch star made a calculated decision to remove that element of the challenge for obvious reasons. Those sleeping breaks are the one time she stops streaming. Apart from that, Athena has been at the keyboard, with her camera on at intervals, gaming her way towards that 1000-hour milestone, and well beyond. When she first started the subathon, she was expecting \u201cmaybe a week\u201d. There were a few things the Team Envy star had left out of her calculations, however. First was her Twitch community, who have been pouring subs in near-regularly for more than 40 days in a row. The other was Twitch\u2019s \u201cSubtember\u201d drive. From September 1 to September 30, the Amazon-owned platform offered an excellent deal for everyone: 20% off subs and gifted subscriptions. The only problem for Athena was it meant everyone and their mums were subbing. The promo has driven her current subscriber count up to around 16,000. Right now, as of publication, she has just under four hours left on her counter. \u201cIt\u2019s funny going back to when I first started. I was tweeting out updates basically hourly, and then you can see where I realized maybe I was going to be here a while. I\u2019m like, why has it gone from 45 minutes left [on the counter] to fifty hours? I just thought, \u2018I\u2019m in for a ride here\u2019. \u201cI had totally no expectations for the subathon, probably low if anything, but the response has just blown me away.\u201d Watch Athena\u2019s ongoing Twitch subathon here. I ask Athena what she has planned after her Twitch subathon ends and surprisingly enough, she\u2019s \u201cready for more\u201d. When Ludwig wrapped his historic haul he took a streaming break, while Pestily was absent for nearly a week. The Envy star, though, is already planning her next adventure. \u201cI\u2019m heading to South America in December, yeah,\u201d she revealed. \u201cIt\u2019s a holiday, but I\u2019m going to take an IRL backpack and a camera, and hopefully we\u2019ll be able to keep streaming there, see how that goes. Beyond that, expect more Envy Athena music too. \u201cI think that\u2019s on the horizon for me, Rocket League, Monstercat. That\u2019s definitely coming up on the radar.\u201d And, hilariously enough, Athena is fine if people stop subbing. \u201cI think we\u2019ve hit enough goals now, right? Listen, it\u2019s all been awesome, but it\u2019s time to pack it up and go home now,\u201d she laughed. \u201cNo, but seriously I\u2019m just going to be here until the end, seeing how far it all goes. The Twitch star continued: \u201cThis is something I never imagined doing, and I never imagined happening how it has. I\u2019m just enjoying it as long as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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