To his dismay, Ludwig Ahgren has just made a terrible error on YouTube, promising to stay live and reset his timer every time his donations reach $50, and it’s already turned into “Subathon 2.0.”
With his month-long Twitch subathon, a 31-day broadcast where he stayed live on the site 24 hours a day, Ahgren made his streaming debut in mid-2021.
After switching to YouTube last year, the Los Angeles streamer later vowed to never stage another broadcast like that again. However, on January 27, he devised an innocent challenge that may have trapped him on-stream again – he needs to reset his game every time his YouTube donations reach $50. And here’s the kicker: Ludwig can’t end his stream until he’s completed a single run of Getting Over It. Ahgren saw his error almost immediately. He’ll continue to live out “Subathon 2.0” as long as his followers are on time.
The anxious YouTuber sighed, “This was so dumb. The donations just don’t stop. There’s already been 580 unique donations! This was such a bad idea… oh my god.”
There are a few simple rules to Ludwig’s challenge. He plays a game called Getting Over It, and when his donations reach $50, he restarts the game. Although the maximum donation was $10, his fans were free to donate indefinitely. It was a perfect storm for him to get locked on-stream.
Because of this, he yelled; “Ah, this was such a bad idea! I just thought it would work. I thought I’d get a few donations at the start, and it would cool down. I thought people would think it wasn’t that fun to watch… There’s no point moving [in the game] because donos are coming so fast.”
However, there is a silver lining for Ludwig’s stream-team. Donations made through the broadcast on Jan. 27 will go to his moderators, according to the streamer. He laughed, “This is the most disgusting thing. It’s just like, capitalism simulator. I’m accruing money, I’m not even playing. I’m just seeing the dollar bills roll in.”
Before turning to threats to try and get his fans to slow down, Ludwig spent more than half an hour urging his fans to stop giving, confessing he “severely misjudged” how the challenge would work.
Hours later, Ahgren flipped over to “Baby Shark,” the music video that had previously gotten him banned, and proclaimed that if it meant he could be free of the “Subathon 2.0” he’d accidentally created on-stream, he’d bring that banhammer down on himself again. He yelled again; “What do you think’s gonna f**king happens baby? I’ll take this b*tch down right now! Put your hands up. I want your hands off the keyboards!”
Ludwig was worried that he had unwittingly tied himself into another, far more accidental, subathon because the streamer’s threats, demands, and even bargaining chips didn’t work. The fact that the 26-year-old had baited fans with a “Subathon 2” tweet just 24 hours earlier, before revealing it was merely a hoax from his chat, is even more hilarious.
