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Friendly Fire is a charity event by German YouTubers and streamers on the live streaming service Twitch. It takes place once a year since 2015 on the first Saturday in December. There was one special on April 12, 2020, collecting money for victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] The most recent stream was on December 4, 2021.
A subathon is a type of livestream in which viewer donations add more time to a descending timer that counts down to the end of the stream. [1] Throughout the streams' duration, Ahgren received 282,191 subscriptions, breaking the previous record set in 2018 by Tyler "Ninja" Blevins of the most concurrent subscribers on Twitch.
The Z Event is a francophone charity project created by Adrien Nougaret and Alexandre Dachary (respectively known under the pseudonyms ZeratoR and Dach) whose goal is to bring together French streamers to collect donations that will support a charity. It is hosted on the Twitch streaming platform.
A streamer refused to refund a $350 donation that the donor claimed was an accident, sparking a debate around the moral ambiguity behind stream donations.
In April 2023, the new CEO of Twitch, Dan Clancy, visited Alveus to meet the staff and ambassadors. [14] [15] Clancy also donated his first month of earnings from his personal Twitch stream to Alveus. [16] In September 2024, during the opening ceremony of the semi-annual TwitchCon event, Twitch announced a donation of $100,000 to Alveus Sanctuary.
A "subathon", short for "subscription marathon", is a type of livestream on Twitch where every time a streamer receives a subscription— US$5 donations from viewers [22] —more time is added to a descending timer. [23] [24] Once the timer reaches zero, the stream ends. [23]
Sean Wiggs, known as SeanDaBlack on Twitch, also credits Piker with being a major influence on his stream. Hasan Piker answers questions about daily politics for his Twitch stream on Aug. 14.
In exchange for the donation, the charity makes a fixed annual annuity payment to the donor for the rest of their life or for the lifetime of the donor and donor’s spouse. The payment must be 5% ...