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Destiny Twitch Streamers raise over 500k for St Jude Children's Hospital
Posted on 8/26/16 at 5:41 pm
Posted on 8/26/16 at 5:41 pm
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In a weeklong streaming marathon, the community of fans that have formed around Destiny raised over half a million dollars for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
It all started with an idea for a community convention. Popular Twitch streamers kmagic101, King Gothalion, and Professor Broman decided after a massively successful meet-up of Destiny fans last year, that they would put together a bigger event to celebrate the community that has formed around Destiny. That became Destiny Community Con 2016 (DCC 2016).
As a part of that, there would be a weeklong charity stream leading up to the event to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. After that stream concluded the Destiny community that rallied behind the event raised $503,815.99.
The original goal for the stream was half of that, just $250,000. That goal was met a little over halfway through the weeklong stream, but the streamers kept pushing on and donations kept coming in. The donations reached a fever pitch during the last day, where more than $100,000 were donated in just the last six hours of the stream.
Bungie and its employees even got involved during the last shift of the stream. Cozmo, one of the community managers at Bungie joined Professor Broman on his shift of the stream to play Destiny with him while the other Bungie community manager, DeeJ, hopped on to help read out the donations that were pouring in. Bungie employees (including CEO Pete Parsons) started donating as well, and Bungie’s own charitable arm, the Bungie Foundation, promised to double every donation made by a Bungie employee while Cozmo was on-stream.
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It all came to a fever pitch in the last minute of the stream as the $500,000 mark was crossed. According to St. Jude, this is the largest amount raised by a gaming community for the hospital. The previous record had been $250,000.
Posted on 8/26/16 at 5:51 pm to joeyb147
pretty good
Castro(fifa player), has done a 3 day dealio for UK charity and children charity for few years.
In the past year, he's done 2, 30 hour charity streams and has hit 84K and 76K.
He's one of the good guys on twitch, and never forgets who and how he is where he is. He gives back to community, unlike shite heads like lyrik,summit,etc.
Sure, he looks like a clown with that stache these days, and he's a MAN Utd fan, but guy is some one u can get behind.
Castro(fifa player), has done a 3 day dealio for UK charity and children charity for few years.
In the past year, he's done 2, 30 hour charity streams and has hit 84K and 76K.
He's one of the good guys on twitch, and never forgets who and how he is where he is. He gives back to community, unlike shite heads like lyrik,summit,etc.
Sure, he looks like a clown with that stache these days, and he's a MAN Utd fan, but guy is some one u can get behind.
Posted on 8/26/16 at 7:41 pm to stlslick
Despite all the bullshite there are a lot of twitch streamers using their influence for good. Gothalion is one of them.
Posted on 8/26/16 at 8:19 pm to joeyb147
That's amazing. Hats off to those guys.
That is one hell of a charity event.
That is one hell of a charity event.
Posted on 8/27/16 at 5:18 am to joeyb147
The game catches a lot of flack, but the Destiny community is one of the best out there for the most part.
Posted on 8/27/16 at 9:00 am to joeyb147
Awesome. Love that they picked St. Jude
Posted on 8/28/16 at 2:55 pm to stlslick
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He's one of the good guys on twitch, and never forgets who and how he is where he is. He gives back to community, unlike shite heads like lyrik,summit,etc
I'm pretty sure you posted this exact message in a previous thread about twitch streamers so I'll post mine again.
Lirik raised over $47k for doctors without boarders earlier this year. It's okay not to like them or even envy their success but give the ones that do give back a little credit.
I watch King Gothalion and Prof. Broman on occasions and they seem like good dudes. Pretty impressive what the Destiny community has done.
This post was edited on 8/28/16 at 2:58 pm
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