ZEVENT 2022. No doubt, after the success of ZEvent 2021, the event will make a comeback for a new edition in 2022. What to wonder about the dates of this unmissable event. We summarize what you need to know.
[Mis à jour le 6 avril 2022 à 12h44] The ZEvent is more than ever at the center of attention, becoming in recent years one of the biggest charity events in the world, and probably the most watched on Twitch in France each year. Especially after the monstrous success of the 2021 edition, which made it possible, despite difficult organizational conditions, to raise more than 10 million euros for Action Contre la Faim. Something to wonder about the nature and dates of the ZEvent 2022 edition, which will undoubtedly be an event not to be missed for many French people. Dates of the event, essential information, we summarize everything we know so far about Adrien “ZeratoR” Nougaret’s charity streamathon in 2022.
For the moment, no date has really been confirmed for the organization of ZEvent 2022, which in itself is already information. But we can however speculate on the period during which the event will be organized. Indeed, the ZEvent is usually held during the last quarter of the year, namely between the months of October and November. The official date of the 2022 edition will probably be announced during the summer.
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.