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But had The Challenge played out as just Matt from Washington trying to live the 12-year-old boyвЂ™s dream of playing videogames for a living, the whole endeavor may have died on the vine.

Hearing him explain how you must go big when trying to make money on the Internet was even somewhat reasonable. I only play games that allow me to interact with the chat. My goal was to build my channel to the point where livestream broadcasting would become my primary source of income. Stream every night for at least two hours. Says Frag himself, from his Twitch FAQ page and blog: Lethal Frag, an ex chef and single father from Washington state, had been very open about the reasons he decided to embark on The Challenge. With the Twitch platform having so thoroughly streamlined financial incentives for broadcasters, and the live streamer as a fixture in gaming already so self-evident, maybe we havenвЂ™t taken the time to stop and ask ourselves, вЂњIs this weird?вЂќ But instead of вЂњdo a barrel roll,вЂќ they offer shout outs to new subscribers, or people who pay monthly fees for special benefits, such as access to custom stream emoticons. They all can be found shrunk down into the corner of their play screen, like some in-game support programmed to pop up and give tips. And of course, Frag, who until this past January 5 th streamed indie titles every single night for two years. His average mid-30s malaise makes him an accessible but forgettable watch. DansGaming lives somewhere in the middle. Or ShowVideoGames, an 18-year-old married couple who broke into the scene by streaming Pokemon X and Y for 720 straight hours.

Game, with the frat house confidence and accompanying haircut of an ESPN pundit. TheyвЂ™ve built a following not on the games being played but on on the cut of their jib, chat interaction, personality. Look underneath the League of Legends sessions and Call of Duty Prestige runs and youвЂ™ll find a subset of streamers carving out a legitimate space for themselves -a space where the streamer is as much, if not more, of a draw as the game.

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It took two years, but McKnight became something new: another professional gaming personality was born into this world where professional gaming personalities are a thing.ДЇorget, for a moment, about major league gaming channels streaming tournaments with suit-and-tie announcers to some 80,000 people worldwide. And this is the final Dapper Time of what FragвЂ™s 100,000-plus Twitch followers have come to know as The Challenge. He does it after every successful Binding of Issac run. People are spamming custom emoticons of his likeness. The chat box, meanwhile, has lost its mind. He pulls Cheez-Its out of his enormous beard and fires finger pistols into the Logitech webcam (an official sponsor). He wears reflective aviator sunglasses and a top hat. And Matt has been replaced by someone who looks like a cross between a lumberjack and the AV guy at your community college. The shojis have been replaced by dark wood panes superimposed onto a green screen. The whole thing is sad the way it maybe should be when someone says with no shortage of conviction that they plan to play videogames for the next 731 days.Д¬ut to January 5th, 2014. вЂњThere is nothing standing between me and my goals.вЂќ HeвЂ™s just a guy with Internet goals. вЂњItвЂ™s a really good feeling,вЂќ he says, stuffed up and swallowing in pain. He is sitting in front of these white shoji screens which, along with the florescent lighting, make his freshly-shaven face look pale and cratered. Midnight will mark night one of something called The Two Year Live Stream Challenge.

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A video posted in January 4th, 2012 shows Matthew McKnight talking to his computer about how he just quit his job in order to broadcast full time on.

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