When WowGrandma78 asked everyone not to subscribe anymore, the audience in the live broadcast room would honestly wait for the countdown to end.
Last year, a Twitch streamer named Ludwig Ahgren created a “live marathon” that broke the highest subscriber count in Twitch’s history at the time. In this event, which is set to extend the live broadcast time of the anchor with each additional subscription to the personal channel, tens of thousands of Leziren viewers “forced” the anchor to live continuously in front of the camera for a whole month.
After him, the live broadcast format of live marathon has been imitated by various anchors. The audience also seemed to enjoy it, helping one after another unbelieving anchor hit a new record.
Recently, another live marathon has attracted the attention of players and audiences, but this time is a bit different from the previous live broadcasts, because the protagonist who came to challenge the audience is an 80-year-old grandmother. Celebrate your own birthday.
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The host who challenged the challenge is “WowGrandma78”, from Yuma County, Arizona, USA. You can guess by just looking at the name, she is a “World of Warcraft” player.
WowGrandma78 is 80 years old this year and has been playing World of Warcraft for 18 years. He is a veritable “hardcore” player. Before this live marathon story unfolded, her fate with the game had to start a long time ago.
In 1998, WowGrandma78, who knew almost nothing about games and computers, noticed the video games that dazzled her at the time. She was quite receptive to new things and burst out with the desire to play games, but at this time, the over-year-old girl The woman in her fifties only had an old Packard Bell (an old Dutch PC brand) on hand.
With a strong desire to play the game, WowGrandma78 hunted around for parts and took them to visit someone who could fit them into their Packard Bell. After tossing and turning, she finally found this technician who could realize her wish, and finally met the other party’s request to “help him look after the child”, and successfully achieved her goal.
WowGrandma78 played many games successively until she met her “favorite”. In 2004, “World of Warcraft” was launched. Seeing that young people have poured into this game world one after another, WowGrandma78 also joined it. As a result, this game has been playing for more than ten years. She has always been fascinated by the teamwork in the game and its unique player community atmosphere.
In early 2020, she opened her own channel on Twitch, dedicated to playing WOW live. The early live broadcast room has been tepid, and she never had any expectations. However, a friend of WowGrandma78’s guild at the time saw the opportunity. He encouraged her to turn on the camera and actively interact with the audience, but WowGrandma78 couldn’t understand this matter: “Who would want to watch an old man play games?”
It turns out she was wrong. With the help of friends, WowGrandma78 adjusted the camera and OBS. When grandma returned to the live broadcast room again, the number of viewers who walked into her live broadcast room began to increase rapidly.
On Twitch, viewers have hardly ever seen such a game streamer—gray-haired but extremely skilled. WowGrandma78 has practiced five Druids successively, and the Alliance Dairy, who has been playing for 767 days, is very handy in the live broadcast.
When the “hardcore” WOW player showed his true colors, many talents reacted. It turned out that the “78” in the anchor’s ID “WowGrandma78” refers to the anchor’s age.
WowGrandma78 began to receive more attention, and the grandma also maintained a serious attitude, insisting on live broadcast from 10:00 to 5:00 in the morning every night, fans persuaded her to give herself a day off, but she felt it was unnecessary. In order to ensure the live broadcast every day, when she took a plane to visit her son in the summer, she also purchased the live broadcast equipment in advance to continue the live broadcast. By the middle of 2021, the followers of her channel have reached more than 40,000, and sometimes the number of viewers can even rank among the WOW anchors.
Due to the increase in followers, she had to make three chapters to her fans. In the channel, it is clearly written that “there is no discrimination here, and we don’t talk about politics, religion, and sex-related topics.” In addition, WowGrandma78 allows fans to directly call themselves “grandma”, and is eager to help the barrage to answer various questions. This kind of problem, acts as a “confidant sister”. This friendly atmosphere has indeed become one of the selling points of its live broadcast room.
However, WowGrandma78 is not willing to let people know who they are in reality – after the identity of the older players quickly attracted attention, the grandmother has been interviewed by many media, but her real name has never been disclosed, and she has always called herself “Grandma”.
What makes people even more puzzling, and what troubles the old man is that now her 6 sons, 9 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren neither play games nor watch live broadcasts, and there is a “generation gap” between herself and these young people.
WowGrandma78 tried to nurture a love of gaming in grandchildren, but it doesn’t seem to be successful
Early last year, in an interview with NBC’s Wired, she reluctantly revealed, “One day a son of mine came into my studio and he said he was still confused by what I was doing.”
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On the 14th of last month, WowGrandma78 posted a message on Twitter, announcing that she will celebrate her birthday with a live marathon from the 17th, which is her birthday.
This news surprised her fans for a while. Relatives and friends offered birthday wishes for the first time, but many people were also deeply suspicious and worried about it. No one dared to imagine how an 80-year-old man would cope with being inseparable. Cameras, fire-loving viewers, and live broadcasts that may not even end in sight.
On the 17th, WowGrandma78 answered this question in the live broadcast. She said that she would not learn from those hardcore “marathon” anchors. She would still rest as usual at the end of the day, but the live broadcast room would not stop broadcasting before the countdown ended. The fans were relieved.
The marathon rule of WowGrandma78 is that for each additional subscription, the live broadcast countdown time will increase by 3 minutes. She wasn’t alone in this predictably long live broadcast – her pet dog Zoey sat next to her and got a shot alone, but the little guy didn’t last long and fell asleep in boredom.
On the first day, WowGrandma78 broadcasted the live broadcast for more than 9 hours before taking a break. During this period, she actively chatted with the barrage while playing WOW, and also took out photos to tell everyone about the past-from the birth on March 17, 1942, to now full of children and grandchildren, She showed her 80 years of life in front of people.
WowGrandma78 is not an otaku, she has loved hiking and mountain climbing since she was a child, and has traveled to many parts of the world before falling in love with video games. At the same time, she also has deep research on musicals. Before the epidemic began, she directed musicals to children at school. Being good at interaction and versatile, she is happy to do tricks in front of the camera, and she also played the piano for the audience during the live broadcast that day.
On Twitch, live marathons are not new, but the grandma’s challenge has garnered a lot of unexpected attention.
These attentions originally came from some of her fans who were not simple. On the first day of the marathon, CouRage, a shooting game blogger with 3.6 million followers on YouTube, publicly recommended her channel on his social account. He called WowGrandma78 his own. Favorite blogger, and his fans praised it as a “legend”.
Under the circumstance that he took the lead and urged fans to subscribe many times on Twitter, the countdown of WowGrandma78 jumped from 10 hours to 200 hours, and the interactive barrage of subscribers in the live broadcast room once filled the entire screen.
Not long after, the big anchor TrainwrecksTV with 1.8 million followers on Twitch also came to the live broadcast room and directly tipped WowGrandma78 $10,000. Judging from the records of the past two years, this is the biggest tip that WowGrandma78 has ever received.
WowGrandma78 received more than $20,000 worth of tips and subscriptions in the first two hours of the first day of the broadcast.
Then WowGrandma78 worked hard to consume these time. In addition to live broadcast of WOW as usual every day, the grandmother still maintains high-frequency communication with the barrage, from recalling childhood to parenting, and pulling parents to make the atmosphere of the live broadcast room unique and warm. When it’s time to eat and sleep, she will leave the camera. At this time, the live broadcast room will loop the introduction and photos of her past experience, or open Words On Stream – a word puzzle game that allows the audience to play through the interaction of the barrage, Let the audience entertain themselves.
At the end of March, more and more media and players noticed that this grandma, who has been live streaming for nearly 300 hours at this time, has countless new people pouring into the live broadcast room of the elderly every day. People are watching her live broadcast countdown with anticipation and worry. I want to see how long she can last.
WowGrandma78 said in the live broadcast that she didn’t feel tired. In her opinion, it was no different from ordinary days, but she was indeed a little worried that the live broadcast marathon would be interrupted because the computer might not be able to support it in advance due to overheating.
However, compared to computers, many viewers seem to be more concerned about the dog Zoey – the little guy really spent more than ten days in front of the camera with WowGrandma78, most of the time he was lying on the stool honestly, unusual Be quiet until the live marathon is over.
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The countdown of WowGrandma78’s live marathon was finally cleared on April 3rd. The whole live broadcast lasted for more than 360 hours. Of course, this result can only be regarded as ordinary in the history of live marathon.
But for WowGrandma78, this live broadcast means a lot. When the last few minutes were approaching, in front of thousands of viewers in the live broadcast room, WowGrandma78 delivered a speech at the end of the live marathon. She asked the audience in the live broadcast room not to subscribe, while expressing her gratitude to all those who accompanied her during this time, saying: To the excited place, the old man fell and choked for a while. At this time, the character she played in the game was also surrounded by her friends, like a grand birthday party.
Someone once commented on WowGrandma78, saying that her live broadcast room is a warm and harmonious small community of players that has nothing to do with the outside world – and those who are happy to live in the live broadcast marathon always hold “Since you dare to play, we dare to let you.” With the challenging spirit of “Never Downcast”, when they came to my grandmother, they all obediently rewarded and played charades. When WowGrandma78 asks not to subscribe anymore, the viewers in the live room will honestly wait for the countdown to end.
When the remaining time of the live broadcast was completely cleared, friends in the WowGrandma78 game set off fireworks around her.
The grandmother was obviously infected by this atmosphere, and immediately decided that she will challenge a live marathon at the age of 81 next year – no matter how long she will live broadcast in the future, but the “78” in the ID will not be changed again, WowGrandma78 said Here’s the advice fans gave her.
Now the old man still insists on live broadcast for several hours a day. WowGrandma78 believes that games help the elderly to keep their minds flexible, and this kind of communication makes her physically and mentally happy. If she can, she should continue the life of playing with children during the day and galloping in the online world at night.
If there is anything that is the great blessing of a gamer’s life, it is probably like her.
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