The German twitch streamer Erik “Gronkh” Range received a lot of support from the community in his 1st live stream after the “shitstorm” about Hogwarts Legacy. In a stream on Friday, February 3, he received over 9,000 subscriptions.
Why was the stream special?
Community showering Gronkh with love and subscriptions on Twitch
How did the community react? Gronkh was a bit shaky at the beginning of the stream and explained that he had hardly slept at night. At one point in the stream, when about to open a tab, the streamer confessed his hands were shaking.
The community showered the streamer with heart emotes and approval, but also with donations.
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How much money did Gronkh get from Twitch Subs? According to statistics from the Twitch Tracker site, Gronkh received 9,304 subscriptions in this stream alone, of which 6,641 were donated subs.
Assuming for the sake of simplicity that all of these subs were Tier 1 subs, people donated $31,122.96. Depending on the contract with Twitch, Gronkh receives 50-70% of the earnings, the rest goes to Twitch.
Since Gronkh was already at a high for the last 5 years with 18,347 active subs in January (twitch tracker doesn’t count any longer); he has now reached a new high on Twitch trackers with 27,637 active subscriptions. This makes him the German twitch streamer with the most active subs after EliasN97 (38,000 subscriptions).
Twitch had reduced the subscription prices in Germany from €5 to €4 in 2021, and the maximum share that streamers can receive will also be capped at 50% in June 2023:
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“I didn’t want to do so long today”
How did Gronkh react to this flood of subscriptions? He was visibly touched, but the subscriptions also knocked him out. Gronkh was once interrupted by an initial flood of subscriptions while he was still making his statement.
However, most of the subscriptions came in after his statement, when he was actually going to show “Land of the Vikings” – a quiet game to wind down from all the excitement.
The problem for Gronkh: The many subscriptions repeatedly interrupted his stream. Because with 50 and 100 donated subscriptions, OBS announced two different effects.
So Gronkh sat silently in front of the camera again and again while the effects played in.
In particular, the Twitch streamer Tanzverbot has repeatedly entered the list of top donors with large donations.
At one point Gronkh said: “I didn’t want to do so long today”, at another “I should have shitstorms more often.”
With 44,360 viewers at its peak, it was also the most watched stream for Gronkh in 2 years. The peak came after his statement, during the flood of donated subscriptions.
Gronkh felt the love of his community in the stream that seemed so difficult for him.
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