Subathon stars Ironmouse & Ludwig explain what they\u2019d change if they did one again Twitch: Ludwig \/ Twitch: IronmouseLudwig and Ironmouse took over Twitch with their iconic subathons. However, the two record-breaking streamers admitted the month-long broadcasts were flawed \u2014 highlighting two big changes they\u2019d make if they ever did one again. As far as memorable Twitch broadcasts go, Ludwig and Ironmouse\u2019s subathons are among two of the greatest. The first, hosted by the American streamer now on YouTube, took the internet by storm. Broadcasting his life for a month straight to fans, hundreds of thousands became intimately acquainted with how the streamer operated on a daily basis. It broke Twitch records as the streamer peaked with more than 250,000 subscribers, all trying to \u201craise the timer\u201d. Many followed in his footsteps, but none were more successful than VTuber Ironmouse. The Twitch star pushed her body to stay live for as long as possible. What was expected to be a 48 hour endeavor quickly became a month-long affair as the star stayed live for 31 days \u2014 once again breaking Twitch records in the process with more than 100,000 subs. However, in reflection, the two admit the marathon broadcasts were among some of their worst quality-wise. Talking on a July 12 podcast, the duo opened up on what they would change if they were ever to run a subathon again (spoiler: it\u2019s unlikely). \u201cIf I were to do a subathon again, I think it would be more Truman show-esque and for charity,\u201d Ludwig explained. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t do one that is just existing like I did last time. \u201cWhat I realized at the end of the subathon \u2014 I went from 20,000 average to 40,000 to 50,000 with 200,000 subs, and then it ended and the next month I was back to 20,000 viewers and lost all the subs. I had zero growth from it. If anything, I actually lost viewers. \u201cEveryone who was watching my stream was watching me just existing, being boring as f**k, having zero content prepared, just trying to see what the clock was at. When the clock was gone they were like \u2018oh, what does this guy do? I don\u2019t f**k with that.\u2019\u201d Ludwig even said his subathon was \u201cprobably the worst content I\u2019ve ever produced\u201d. \u201cIt was cool to be a part of the journey, but every individual day was boring. If I streamed what I did on Day 17 just today, people would be like \u2018what the f**k is this stream bro?\u2019 It\u2019s different in the context that it was in.\u201d Ironmouse shared a similar tune to Ludwig. The unstructured nature of both their subathons \u2014 brought on by a realization they had woefully underestimated how long they\u2019d last \u2014 left them lacking in content. Some viewers claimed it was boring at the time, and looking back that\u2019s a valid criticism. \u201cI got people who were like \u2018it was so boring because she didn\u2019t have anything prepared\u2019 and I agree,\u201d Ironmouse added. \u201cA lot of people were criticizing me saying \u2018Ludwig\u2019s subathon was so prepared and anything\u2019 and it\u2019s interesting to hear you say you didn\u2019t have anything prepared. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect to last two to three days. My computer was such sh*t that I was afraid to do anything intense with it, so I played it by ear and did whatever came to mind. Now, after I did it, I wish I had prepared more things.\u201d While Ludwig has basically vowed never to do a subathon again \u2014 at least in the traditional sense again \u2014 Ironmouse is planning a second one whenever she feels well enough to do another marathon broadcast. \u201cI was actually going to do a short one for a week this week while my parents were out of town, but with me being sick and stuff I\u2019ve been knocking out so early I felt bad because I\u2019d do more sleeping than being awake and I felt guilty doing a subathon and being more asleep than awake. \u201cI decided not to do it now and to see if I could do it at another time, but I was going to raise money for the Immune Deficiency Foundation. I was going to do a lot more prepared stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Subathon stars Ironmouse & Ludwig explain what they\u2019d change if they did one again Twitch: Ludwig \/ Twitch: IronmouseLudwig and Ironmouse took over Twitch with their iconic subathons. However, the two record-breaking streamers admitted the month-long broadcasts were flawed \u2014 highlighting two big changes they\u2019d make if they ever did one again. As far as […]<\/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-50680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50680","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=50680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}