ZEVENT 2022. 2021 was the year of all records for ZEvent. The charity event is back for a 2022 edition which will take place next September. We explain everything you need to know about it.
[Mis à jour le 5 juillet 2022 à 18h07] With its ten million euros collected in 2021, congratulations received from the President of the Republic, and more than 750,000 spectators live on Twitch, the ZEvent has become one of the most anticipated events of the year. The charity streaming marathon is back in 2022 with over 50 participants announced. The stars of French streaming are therefore meeting once again under the aegis of Adrien Nougaret, who is once again planning to do things big by organizing a pre-ZEvent concert lasting more than three hours. There will be many personalities of French music, including Soprano and BigFlo and Oli. While waiting for September and the start of this weekend of crazy generosity, we summarize everything you need to know about the event, and the little controversies it is already creating.
Adrien Nougaret and his teams presented the 2022 edition of ZEvent at the beginning of July. The weekend will take place from September 9 to 11, and will bring together more than 50 streamers for more than 50 hours of streaming dedicated to the GoodPlanet association. As usual, the ZEvent aims to associate the communities of several fun content broadcasters on the Twitch streaming platform, in order to accumulate donations for the benefit of a charity association. Last year, the event succeeded in freeing up more than 10 million euros for Action contre la Faim.
The ZeratoR event once again plans to welcome more than fifty French-speaking streamers. There are essential stars of streaming on Twitch like Mister MV, Skyyart, Skyrroz and Chow1, but also regulars of the event like LittleBigWhale, Domingo, Solary or Xari. You can view the full guest list for the event below. Also note that various artists will participate in the charity concert on the sidelines of the event, including BigFlo and Oli, PV Nova, French Fuse and Berywam. We explain everything about the concert a little further down in this article.
Regarding the debates generated by the announcement of this list of participants, they were limited to the indignation of a certain part of the communities of certain absent streamers (Michou, Inoxtag, Amine, Squeezie or others) on the networks social. Some malicious and dishonest posts forced the main interested parties to react and calm the crowds in front of the cries of racism and discrimination. As a reminder, the 2021 event had been tainted by acts of cyberbullying and inappropriate behavior during the broadcast. The young Inoxtag streamer, 19 years old in 2021, had invited a South American actress during his live broadcast before indulging in a humorous tone of sexist remarks in front of a hilarious chat. These actions were then openly criticized by Ultia, a streamer also present during the ZEvent. Only the criticism did not seem acceptable to part of the young man’s community, which subsequently covered the different profiles of the young woman with insults and threats of all kinds. Behaviors belatedly condemned by ZeratoR. You can learn more about the 2021 edition a little further down in this article.
(And one last point: the ZEvent was already working very well without us and will always work very well after us. ‘AntoineDaniel will always remain so incr)
— Billy (@RebeuDeter) July 4, 2022
Faced with the wave of hate tweets from some fans disappointed not to be able to see their favorite streamer at the event, ZeratoR broke into a series of tweets explaining his take on the situation. These tweets explain:
“For streamers who can’t come to ZEVENT, don’t bump into them, we sent out most invites on May 4th to be exact. When it’s a scheduling issue it’s bad luck but we can’t shift everything and we thought that warning 5 months in advance would be enough.
I am obviously disappointed not to see some very important streamers from the platform, know that they have all been invited but no one is obliged to come. Everyone does as they can/wants but I am the first saddened, ZEVENT is for me a way to bring together a large part of our community once a year for 3 days to try to come together for something bigger than us, which is beyond us.
We try to do our best to make everyone as good as possible and we will always continue to do that for all the events we organize. Regarding the disappointed now, I understand your frustration and that you may be annoyed. But always coming back to this race for figures is for me a very harmful element. ZEVENT has NEVER been a race for the pot. YES it’s good to break the record every year, YES it makes us very proud to see that more and more people trust us, but in reality, beyond 1€ it’s already a successful event for us.
If the atmosphere on site does not correspond to what you expect from a ZEVENT, I invite you to make a donation for the association of your choice during this same period and to defend the associative cause for which you want to fight. Everyone can act!
Regarding the choice of the association now: I obviously saw a LOT of questions. And that’s normal, you have every right to ask questions and seek information (it’s even much healthier than the reverse!).
@GoodPlanet_ has already responded to a lot of people since yesterday and they are doing a great job of pedagogy and providing elements for those who would like to receive them. Don’t hesitate to see their “Tweets and replies” to see what they have already replied. It really is a wealth of information. As usual, there will also be an on-site interview with someone very involved in this foundation so that I can ask him the questions you have (positive and negative, like every year of course). Nothing is perfect, we are just trying to get things moving in the right direction, while remaining positive.
This is the end of this thread. I hesitated a lot to speak but I saw a lot of reactions which I think legitimized some details and I thank you for the confidence you bring to the event. Thank you all????”
The list of participants at ZEvent 2022:
- Alexclick
- Alphacast
- Altair
- Right angle
- Anthony Daniel
- Arkunir
- Avamind
- Baghera Jones
- belu
- BlitzStream
- Bob Lennon
- Bren
- CaMaK
- CarlJr
- ceb
- Chap
- Chow1
- Dash
- DamDamLive
- Doigby
- domingo
- DrFeelgood
- stars
- Guis
- Gom4rt
- Horty
- ImSoFresh
- Jbzz
- John Massiet
- jeel
- Jiraiya
- Kenny
- lapi
- LeBouseuh
- Lege
- LittleBigWhale
- Master Snakou
- Mister MV
- MoMan
- Mynthos
- NBK
- Pumice
- Rivenzi
- sardoche
- Shaunz
- shishyu
- SkyRRoZ
- skyyart
- Solary
- uncle
- TPK
- Trinity
- Ultia
- A33D
- xari
- ZeratoR
If the 2021 edition had been dedicated to Action against Hunger, the ZEvent 2022 changes slightly by teaming up with GoodPlanet. Founded in 2005 by photographer and director Yann Arthus-Bertrand, this French foundation recognized as being of public utility aims to “place ecology and humanism at the heart of consciences and to arouse the desire to act concretely for the Earth and its inhabitants.” She offers access to green energy to the most disadvantaged populations and joins forces with various companies to offer them a commitment to reduce their carbon emissions. She was notably behind the film project human by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, released in 2015.
The choice of this association has been debated for several hours on Twitter, with some Internet users criticizing its proximity to Total and Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s support for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Even if the latter has since claimed to have made a mistake in this association carried out for the quest for funding for his film Human, the links between GoodPlanet and certain energy circles are disturbing. Often associated with “Greenwashing”, Goodplanet nevertheless remains a recognized public utility foundation involved in numerous humanitarian and charitable projects around the world.
As in 2021, the ZEvent will be preceded by a 3-hour concert where several French music artists will meet. This concert will take place at the Zenith in Montpellier and will be broadcast live on Twitch. We will notably find the rapper duo Bigflo and Oli, the streamer LittleBigWhale who will perform once again on stage with PV Nova, the electro duo French Fuse and the rapper Soprano. The ticket office for the event is already open and confirms that the event will take place on Thursday September 08, 2022 at 7:30 p.m., 24 hours before the start of the ZEvent. The profits from the concert will be used to finance the ZEvent and will be donated to the Goodplanet association.
The ZEvent is an event organized by Adrien “ZeratoR” Nougaret and Alexandre “Dach” Dachary since 2016. Each year, these two big names on the French streaming scene bring together a whole panel of streamers for a weekend. More than 50 hours of continuous streaming on Twitch, Amazon’s go-to live streaming platform. Concretely, the guests gather during a gigantic LAN where everyone broadcasts their stream and participates in common activities. The amount of donations offered by all the spectators, or viewers, is accumulated in a kitty donated at the end of the weekend to a charity association. Each streamer encourages its viewers by imposing “donation goals”, challenges to achieve if the donations of their viewers reach certain amounts. It is also necessary to add to this amount all the sales of derivative products (mainly t-shirts) which represents a non-negligible amount each year. In 2021, ZEvent joined forces with Action against Hungerthe French NGO that fights against malnutrition in the world.
If we could have believed that the 2020 edition had been the peak of the ZEvent, in terms of donations or audience, nothing is less true today. The French streaming charity event closed with a monstrous prize pool of €10,064,480. A sum that smashes the record for the year 2020 which was 5.7 million euros, and proves once again that streaming is an essential element of French culture. More than a million spectators watched the closing ceremony of this crazy weekend, making ZEvent a kind of new generation Telethon that is now impossible to ignore.
If nothing can tarnish the success of an event that has raised more than 10 million euros for a good cause, the ZEvent 2021 was still polluted by a small controversy. Indeed, at the height of the show, the young streamer Inoxtag gave us a relatively uncomfortable sequence by making openly sexist remarks in front of his guest, a non-French-speaking Mexican actress Andrea Pedrero, and in front of more than 400,000 viewers. hilarious. A situation that seems to have escaped the organization of the event but not Ultia, one of the few streamers present at ZEvent. The young woman openly criticized the inappropriate behavior of the young man and the general complacency in the face of this disturbing sequence, before suffering waves of harassment herself on social networks. In addition to the violence of the interactions on Twitch, Twitter or Instagram, this sequence also showed the limits of the young medium that is Twitch. It was known that the majority of users of the platform are young men between 15 and 25 years old, and that Twitch has often been singled out for its lack of moderation of chats and spectators, too often leaving the field open to misogyny latent encouraged by the anonymity of users. It also somewhat demonstrated the dangers of the show for the show, and the need for the organizational body of the ZEvent to be more attentive to the content it broadcasts.