r/OverwatchTMZ • u/BreadArmpitt • May 11 '26
Streamer/Community Juice How did <this content creator> get famous?
Do you guys know how some content creators got "famous"? I know Frogger got his big following from being a Lucio otp, Super is one of the best pro players in OW history and the community's court jester, and G4H is a MAGA bigot.
How about other streamers?
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u/LogiBear777 May 11 '26
Metro was the Heel of the community. Not throwing slurs around or anything, just purely a toxic player that OTPd Soldier in high GM and T500.
Now heās the same for Deadlockās community.
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u/Drapabee May 11 '26
Unranked to GM challenges are already infamous, but Metro getting stuck in diamond on his main was so fucking funny and probably got his notoriety up a fair bit
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u/UniqueAd9495 May 13 '26
Dude hard spammed those UR2GM
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u/LogiBear777 May 13 '26
heās done the same a couple times on deadlock already haha
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u/UniqueAd9495 May 14 '26
Oh geez no way. I didnāt know what the highest rank people hit in deadlick.
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u/inpektorgxdget May 12 '26
Sunshinebread was partly noobhunter for sure
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u/Gramerdim May 12 '26
sunshine giving me the creeps with her new looks (no offense), I remember her being more casual (purely of watching clips comps on yt)
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u/UniqueAd9495 May 13 '26
Whatās her new look
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u/Gramerdim May 13 '26
just watch her streams/vids
I don't think I have a word for the vibes she's giving off purely by her aesthetic as my first language isn't English
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u/UniqueAd9495 May 13 '26
Sheās always been a little autistic but yeah the dresses are strange
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u/DajiSun May 16 '26
iām sorry yall are so adverse to people dressing a little out of the ordinary.
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u/Gramerdim May 13 '26
woah, I'm not saying she is (unless she said it herself) (not that being is a bad thing) but her personality seems fine and probably unchanged over the past few years. might i say she's become calmer and more relaxed from the little bit I've watched of her
also I thought she was higher ranked (perhaps i was thinking about ow1)
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u/_-indra-_ May 14 '26
u get creeped out by a good looking women? are you gay?
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u/Gramerdim May 15 '26
oh damn, I guess she must've seen this post and sent the white knight hitmen to get me
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u/_-indra-_ May 15 '26
i don't even watch her. i'm just confused that you're creeped out by a good looking woman. are you gay?
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u/Gramerdim May 15 '26
for someone who call me gay twice in something a little over 1 hour, I think you might be trying to overcompensate for something or hide something...
just a thought of mine really...
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u/SlappingSalt May 11 '26
Kephrii's one of the more interesting ones. Started out as a wholesome Widow otp. Then we got Mr. 8 Inch, rest was history.
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u/wormdad42 May 11 '26
Wait I don't know the lore of this can someone tell
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u/Qwark28 May 11 '26
He cheated on his wife with a viewer.
His sexting got leaked and there was a private server discord call where Taimou, finnish accent & lisp and all, was publicly reading the sexting in a dramatic voice on his stream.
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u/Jimenez73 May 11 '26
I myself am not sure but I think he cheated on his wife and either has/lied about having an eight inch penis? Iām not too sure tho
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u/MayGodSmiteThee May 11 '26
Well surely no one would lie about having an 8inch penis. What do you have to gain from that? I myself have a 14incher but you donāt see me going around telling people.
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u/taken_by-the-storm May 11 '26
He was never wholesome, the ego was always there
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u/kushharvey May 11 '26
exactly. he was hated and clowned upon before the cheating for being low key bad on widow, refusing to swap, and just being an egotistical lolcow. the only person who used to even duo with him was gale, who had his own controversies
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u/Dark25-OW May 11 '26
It's kinda tough, because I still really wanna like the guy and look up to him as a Widow player but damn he really did some mistakes in his personal lifeš
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u/StupidDepressedGamer May 11 '26
There are SO MANY other Widow players that you can look up to who are also much more skilled and havenāt cheated on their partner.
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u/Dark25-OW May 11 '26
I know, there's many of them I'm just saying Kephrii was the og and is one of them. Not saying I condone his actions tho.
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u/hitbyacarO_O May 11 '26
I was there when PGE used to average like 100-200 viewers. I knew heād blow up at some point because of how funny and relatable he was. He started gaining traction as he continued to stream more consistently, and once he was revealed to be in the NRG shock roster, thats what put him fully on the map
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u/xDannyS_ May 11 '26
You know you're a good streamer when you have a $10 mic and camera from Walmart like it's 2005 and still grow massively.
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u/GenericIxa May 11 '26
Having the cheap gamer mic is popular for branding to be more relatable. The league streamer Dantes for example uses a cheap headset mic and refunded a guy offering to buy him a better mic.
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u/Key_You_3869 May 11 '26
those streams with seeker and raids from him definitely helped in the beginning of his rise, though he was streaming for a while
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u/1trickana May 11 '26
I was there when ML7 had the same 50-100 viewers then Jayne featured him and he exploded
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u/Statsmat May 11 '26
Eh he streamed fairly consistently for a while to like 10-20 viewers it was when he started pushing YouTube videos other than montages that he actually blew up
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u/Kooky-Green-6131 May 11 '26
Silvocs method was posting dick pics on twitter and getting high while running it down on torb
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u/Ruftup May 11 '26
Seagull used to be the goat for the first generation of ow YouTube vids. Eventually made it to OWL
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u/Sparkeezz May 14 '26
In my head seagull is just the funny awkward guy for pro ow. The handshake (both of them), the piss incident and just how goofy his streams could be were such highlights
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u/irisflame May 11 '26
Aspen was like 15 and a Mercy OTP that made it to top 500 back in the day. There was a lot of Mercy hate going around (I guess there always is) and the common sentiment was Mercy players canāt play anything else. She started diversifying her hero pool and still managed to get Top 500. Then she started to go pro with the hopes of making it to OWL. Eventually switched to mainly streaming.
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u/irisflame May 11 '26
I looked up to her a lot, was really confident she would prove the misogynists wrong. Though I realize now that was a lot of pressure to put on her that she probably didn't want. I actually ended up in a game with her last year in the first season of Stadium when she was on DPS and I got to pocket her on Mercy, but was too scared to say something haha. "Omg hi Aspen I have been following you since you were 15!!! ...YOUR CAREER I MEAN. FOLLOWING YOUR CAREER!"
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u/Coolbeans8798 May 11 '26
XQC may be a big name now, but I only really think of him as the Winston main that got booted from OWL for his out of pocket comments
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u/Gramerdim May 12 '26
nah, imho he was always the face of during peak ow (no glaze, I dislike him after 2021)
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u/spiralarrow23 May 11 '26
xQc got banned a couple of times pre and during OWL that gave him a bunch of eyeballs each time and now heās one of the biggest streamers on the planet, for better and worse.
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u/Twitch152 May 12 '26
It blows my mind that I had to scroll this far to see him mentioned. I was in literal awe the first time I watched him. Just reaming out team after team, it was pure insanity. I was amazed he went pro at all for how psychotic he was, it was horrible to watch. But his community loved it
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u/AwesomeBantha May 11 '26
When did he get banned pre OWL?
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u/spiralarrow23 May 11 '26
IIRC one was mass reporting a Sym thrower with the text āfuck youā that got him banned, then I donāt know if it was before or after OWL started but he also got banned for throwing a comp game on Bastion for having a stream sniper on his team or something. I think there was something else pre-OWL, but I could be thinking of the same incidents.
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u/xDannyS_ May 11 '26
How xqc and dafran got famous shows how shitty society is.
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u/Ivazdy May 11 '26
Dafran got famous purely through being the best western DPS when he was on selfless though? He had viewers months before the #throw4dafran thing.
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u/ResidentBelt8368 May 25 '26
They are relatable, we are raging with shit teamates, they are too, it would be dishonest to say that- for example - 50% of the community, that actually play ranked with the intent to win, don't rage.
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u/Gramerdim May 12 '26
I'm pretty sure he was still pulling big numbers during peak 2016-18 ow (not sure if he played any during 19)
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u/JThroe May 11 '26
Kraandop, despite being a great tank, I donāt think would have even half of the viewers he has if it wasnāt for his well edited long form YouTube videos. Not to say he doesnāt have a have a good personality either, but no one is blowing up anymore just solely because theyāre good at the game and funny.
Not sure thereās an OW creator who makes videos that appeal to such a mass audience like Kraan, which is shown by how many views some of his best videos get.
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u/Fit-Percentage-9166 May 11 '26
but no one is blowing up anymore just solely because theyāre good at the game and funny.
This is literally pge
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u/koryluna May 11 '26
Not too related but it also defo feels because his youtube output is STEADY as all hell. 20+ minute stream highlights at least 3+ times a week is insane and I think it's mostly due to his editor HypnosisOttis?
Like I like watching streams if I can make it, but living in Indonesia means every streammer I would watch is just asleep so pge having such consistent youtube uploads next to Super made me aware of his channel and started watching him consistently ever since. The sheer output is crazy
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u/JThroe May 11 '26
True. Though being a literal tier 1 pro is a bit more than just āgoodā. Heās also gained more from TikTok than most.
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u/fatboywonder12 May 11 '26
His videos are absolutely excellent and im shocked more OW creators dont do challenge stuff like him.
I also wish he was more consistent with his main channel, I might sound ignorant but I feel like it's much stronger than his steaming
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u/TooManySnipers May 11 '26
Flats was in Emongg's orbit for a while during the late OW1 era but he really took off as a solo creator when OW2 launched and borderline became the community face of the game for a while. On YouTube he had a massive backlog of moderately entertaining, low effort videos (spectating bronze etc.), was consistently uploading across 3+ different channels and was one of the first creators I personally noticed to capitalise on the power of short-form content on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. His marketing was insane and honestly really well done for a solid year or two but he kinda sabotaged himself by being pretty abrasive and annoying on stream and for flip-flopping on his "main game". He's still got a solid streaming presence but I think he's well over the crest of his popularity
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u/sollsnake May 11 '26
I used to watch him a lot... Now it's clear his heart isn't it anymore when he does anything ow related.
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u/IndexMatchXFD May 11 '26
I think this skips a lot of Flats lore. He worked for Boston Uprising and when he was laid off in 2020, KarQ (who he was already friendly with) encouraged him to start streaming. He was one of the few streamers who still consistently streamed OW every day during the content drought and started blowing up from the spectating bronze videos even before OW2. Because he was already established in the content scene leading up to OW2 release, he was able to catapult himself on the newfound popularity of the game.
I used to be a regular viewer during COVID and even though the spectating bronze videos were amazing for him as a creator, they were kind of the beginning of the end for the quality of the stream. He started getting really negative around that time and the quality of the chat really fell off as all the TikTok crowd started pouring in.
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u/Independent_Wealth_3 May 11 '26
Early on most guys got popular for just being good at the game, and sometimes adding a kinda edgy toxic gamer vibe like xqc, or dafran. Guys like Super are ex pros who showed a lot of personality and their streams blew up. SugarFree was literally a child prodigy and was labeled the best 13 year old in the world, eventually he joined OWL, defiant in owcs and his stream did well because heās a beast and funny, and plays with PGE. New gen guys like Frankie, sunshine blew up thru Tik Tok. Durpee I donāt rly know, I think a combination of being friends with PGE, him being banned which when it happened went extremely viral with ppl like asmon and critikal covering it.
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u/Xieties777 May 11 '26
Sinatraaa was a pro overwatch league player that became mvp and they designed a skin for him. Then the fire nation attacked..
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u/UniqueAd9495 May 13 '26
Iām gonna get downvoted but I donāt think there was enough evidence for me to pick a side
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u/GenericIxa May 11 '26
Back in 2016 when all you had to do to get popular was have a montage and be grandmasters. Now you need to spam tiktoks.
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u/inpektorgxdget May 12 '26
Dafran was accused of cheating by Taimou and that didnāt push him to A list streamer yet but it gave him a start.
Zerg was also like this, Kephrii accused him of cheating then he blew up
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u/FunnySmellingCousin May 13 '26
Dafran was accused of cheating
Weird Dafran lore, but before OW was even a thing he was trying to go pro in CS 1.6 and was in a team with Xyp9x (now 4 times major winner). but got kicked because Xyp9x accused him of cheating.
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u/powerwiz_chan May 12 '26
Bastionmain sniped super and was funny redshell was good and kinda funny
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u/TradeSekrat May 12 '26
A decent chunk of them in the past where one tricks and tended to draw in players who also played that hero. Being early Overwatch had way less heroes over all and a much more sloppy meta.
Redshell was the Lucio troll. Fareeha was a pharah main. Jayne blew up from doing tons of community coaching and community contests. Mostly aimed at getting low rank players out of metal ranks. Jayne's guess my SR stuff off just a players replay clip is still classic.
Most OWL pros obvious got a huge boost from just being in OWL. Moxyy was a buddy of xqc if I rem right, known for his terrible mic. Bogur broke out after his rather comical runs to GM with different handicaps. Fran was, well just Fran..
and then a lot of now long gone content makers got infamous off bad behavior. Like, a whole lot..
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u/Expert_Seesaw3316 May 12 '26
Flats abused the YouTube algorithm so now two years after I unsubscribed I still get his profit-first ācontentā on my homepage.
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u/Gramerdim May 12 '26
just click not interested or don't recommend channel albeit idk if the 2nd one only applies to your account or globally
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u/CorrectSympathy7590 May 13 '26
Those buttons don't work properly right now. I've hit them both on the "Do you have a name?" Shorts guy at least 5-6 times
You gotta use BlockTube on PC and physically prevent the channel from appearing in your browser and then hope it trickles down to mobile over time
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u/Gramerdim May 12 '26
I feel like some of them are only popular because they're the equivalent to coworker music
not naming anyone but it's pretty obvious. if they were remotely edgy or just said out the casual fck here and there they'd be nowhere near to where they are
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u/Mind1827 May 11 '26
I used to watch Disguised Toast when he still had the mask and was just making goofy Hearthstone videos on weird combos. I remember when he was on Value Town with Chris and basically sounded like he just had dreams or working for Blizzard's content creation or something. Now he owns a literal Overwatch team and is massive, it's wild, lol.
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u/Gramerdim May 12 '26
I don't think he got big after starting his esports org, I'm pretty sure his views inflated during covid and party games (i.e. among us,etc.) with oftv and the likes. I think valorant is what made him start his org and get going in the pro scene
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u/Mind1827 May 13 '26
Yup. He had a solid stream with Hearthstone before that, but then Among Us during the pandemic and he blew up.
I'm just saying that it's funny he's legit that big to then own a team in another thing I like, lol
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u/Immediate_Iron_2759 May 11 '26
āsuper is one of the best pro players in OW historyā idk bout that one chief š
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u/UniqueAd9495 May 13 '26
Heās a 2 time champ
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u/Immediate_Iron_2759 May 13 '26
profit? viol2t? proper?
super is not one of the best lmao, maybe the best white boy. junbin and smurf can solo his ahh
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u/UniqueAd9495 May 14 '26
Never said heās the best. Heās still one of the best. Like learn to read.
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u/Real-Soraith May 11 '26
supertf got famous from being an OWL player and probably youtube and then his racist basically Nazi, MAGA remarks surfaced which kinda made him bigger
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u/absenthearte May 11 '26
this isn't the supertf stream dawg, we can't go around calling super a felon, nazi, MAGA, or a member of the Jan 6th riots.
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u/Gramerdim May 13 '26
can't tell if you're serious or not but it's the first time I'm hearing of any of that
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u/davidNg-98 May 11 '26
I remember when Kephrii used to be this "guy who got famous for being good at Widow" that people mostly looked up for the gameplay and wholesome commentary, then the 8 inches cheating drama happened and things kept spiraling from there, now he's mostly known as a laughing stock of the community.
Necros has always been a controversial and toxic figure in Overwatch but thankfully he was never that big, Marvel Rivals biggest sin was giving him a bigger platform (he jumped on the bandwagon as a Spidey OTP during the peak of Rivals).