Ryyudo

Ryyudo

@Ryyudo

That "I Fucked Up!" guy

  • He/They

That Twitch dot tv dot com streamer. That once FGC commentator and memer with some bangers.

On the front cover of The Lara-Su Chronicles Beginnings by Ken Penders (top-right)

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LRC: Memory Unlocked Like I'm in Lost Odyssey.

I was reminded though the Last ReChost about someone I happened to find on Twitch once upon in 2014. Way before I ever considered streaming.

Extra small channel e.g I believe I was the only viewer.

Maybe as a result of that, they dumped their life story unto me (but this is just a thing that happens to me anywhere).

He told me about how he....

  • Quit his job
  • To become a streamer
  • His girlfriend bought him a capture card
  • (The killer app [incorrectlly used]) She is paying all their expenses "until he makes it."

I'm just sweating from the other end like "brother.... she loves you to death and you're trying to test if that's true."

Dunno what happened to him but I hope he became successful somewhere along the line. The content game is fucked up.

You clicked here so here's a second, softly related story

There was also a guy who I met between commentary blocks in 2019 at a fighting game tournament.

He said wanted to get into fighting games because "he wanted to make a living off it," so he left his job

Not content creator, tournament organizer, commentator, or news writer (which he WAS a writer based on his business card I still have).... just being a top player.

At the time, Justin Wong, Mang0, HungryBox, etc weren't into the content creator zone yet... but I wish I had something explicit to wave at like "Here's why this won't work!!!"

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KindestWeapon
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I initially wrote up a very large comment to this about a college friend I reconnected with because they happened to be near where I moved to after I changed jobs. A friend who had, and currently still has, ample opportunity to do many cool things in her life, but is instead giving it her all streaming full time. I am just give a short summary of it instead.

My friend loves streaming, but dislikes large parts of her audience she built up. She and her mods don't ban anyone in fear of numbers going down. I think she is a cool, smart person that I would love to share her stream to other peeps, but I don't even watch her streams because of the culture she has inadvertently built up there. The culture she is afraid to lose because that would mean failure.

It's tough. Some people throw themselves into the grind and lose sight of who they are and what they can do.

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Ryyudo
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I've always kinda feared this (and by kinda feared and mean "have said it out loud often lmao,") and I emphasize for your friend.

There's just so much you may inadvertently give up when you work for money in general. But what's given up being part of what makes the community you're reliant on and struck with is... tough, as you said.

I don't blame her for keeping at it. Even on the side of "success" in the content game, it requires giving so much of yourself into it.

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