Ludwig\u2019s historic Twitch subathon finally ends after 31 days of non-stop streaming Twitch: LudwigLudwig Ahgren is free \u2014 31 days after first starting his now-historic Twitch subathon, the streaming star is finally allowed to shut down his viral 24\/7 live broadcast after hitting his \u201cbackup\u201d day-limit cap. On March 14, Ludwig made an ambitious promise: He would keep his Twitch stream online for an extra 15 seconds every time a viewer subscribed to his channel or gifted a \u201cbits\u201d donation. The star\u2019s \u2018subathon\u2019 very quickly went viral. At stages, Ludwig\u2019s ever-present countdown timer hit heights of 60+ hours. At others, down to just a single second. And, like clockwork, every time it dipped, subscription surges would fire it back up all over again. It\u2019s been a historic Twitch moment \u2014 one that\u2019s written Ludwig into the history books as Twitch\u2019s most subscribed streamer in the process. Now, a month later, the seemingly endless stream is finally over. All up, Ludwig raked in more than $1 million in subs \u2014 though he may walk away with less than 6% of that \u2014 and climbed to more than 2.6m followers. \u201cI\u2019ve never been so consistent with my working out. I slept eight hours a day, ate three meals a day,\u201d he said as the timer ticked down. \u201cIt\u2019s been really interesting, being so set in my life. It\u2019s been crazy. We went from 32 million channel views to 72 million. That\u2019s way more than double. Just blows my mind.\u201d In the last seconds, Ludwig began tearing up. Over 220,000 tuned in for the final minutes of the stream. Ludwig mused, \u201cI\u2019m not going to lie\u2026 this [subathon] does feel like my apex.\u201d \u201cBut I also just like streaming, so who gives a sh*t?\u201d the Twitch star continued. \u201cAll downhill from here? Maybe! But there\u2019s nothing wrong with that, at all.\u201d It’s finally over \ud83d\ude22@LudwigAhgren’s historic Twitch subathon has come to a close after a 31 day live broadcast and more than 282,000 subs. pic.twitter.com\/IPZ59dGD5g \u2014 Dexerto (@Dexerto) April 14, 2021 It has been quite a ride for Ludwig and his fans. Over the past 31 days, the Twitch superstar has basically streamed his whole life. He has been doing all his usual gaming, chatting, and watching VODs. On top of that, however, Ludwig has also been sleeping on stream (in a big red race car bed, which he later smashed in the broadcast\u2019s final hours), hosting movies with his roommates, and working out for hours. Ahgren has even been showering \u2014 in shorts \u2014 on stream. There was a period where Ludwig even worried the stream may \u201clast forever\u201d. He was forced to put a hard 31-day cap on the subathon, and let loose his moderators with the banhammers on anyone that dropped more than 100 gifted subs. This even, hilariously, caught well-meaning stars like Dream. At the end of the subathon, Ahgren\u2019s total subscriptions capped out at more than 282,000. That\u2019s more than $1.6 million, before Twitch takes their cut. His sub haul is now the clear highest in Twitch history. Ludwig eventually cracked Ninja\u2019s lofty all-time subscriber record \u2014 the Fortnite star boasted an incredible 269,154 subscribers before defecting to Mixer \u2014 as well as overtaking other huge Twitch stars like Ranboolive (114,387 just last month), Shroud (101,588 in 2019), and Summit1g (94,941 in 2020). \u201cBigger number, better person,\u201d Ahgren tweeted after he became the platform\u2019s most-subbed star. \u201cThis was my dream since when I first started streaming on Twitch three years ago. Thank you to all my fans.\u201d Ninja also congratulated the newly-crowned Twitch king, writing on Twitter: \u201cRecords are meant to be broken. I would be lying if I said wasn\u2019t a little sad, but congrats Ludwig on holding the new sub record on Twitch.\u201d So now, the historic Twitch subathon run is finally over. Ludwig, who may finally get some much-needed off-stream rest, says he\u2019s going to look back on his subathon fondly; it\u2019s a little slice of Twitch history he\u2019s carved out for himself. That said, he\u2019s got \u201cabsolutely\u201d no plans to do it again. \u201cI think this was a cool, once-in-a-lifetime experience,\u201d Ludwig said of the subathon. \u201c[During the stream] I was excited every day to wake up, because it\u2019s never going to happen to me again. Will I do it again? Definitely not.\u201d Read More: Top 20 most followed Twitch streamers – Ludwig has confirmed he will now take another short break from streaming before returning to his usual, albeit fairly irregular, Twitch schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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