Twitch sensation Ludwig Ahgren promised to pay his mods $5,000 a day to keep his chat clean (and entertained) across his 31-day subathon. However, the final payroll is a bit more than $155,000, with the streamer paying his staff almost $170,000 for the month-long gig. Paid Twitch mods are few and far between on the platform. Some streamers are vocal in paying their moderators, who clean up chat and run things behind the scenes every day.

Former Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez has claimed that the current generation of children will be outlived by their parents due to video games and esports. [ad name=”article1″] As esports and the acceptance of making a career from video games continues to grow, the stigma around sitting in front of a screen for hours upon end has died down a little. Yet, some still harbor the older mentality of gaming titles being dangerous towards someone’s health.

A Pokemon Sword & Shield trainer has finally broken their dry streak and hatched themselves a Shiny after going through over 2,000 eggs in total. As with any Pokemon game throughout the franchise’s long history, a significant goal for a lot of trainers in Sword & Shield is picking up their first Shiny. For some players, this encounter will come while they’re playing casually without them having to put in any effort.

Jay ‘Sinatraa’ Won invited his former Sentinels teammate Shahzeb ‘ShahZaM’ Khan to a game of Valorant on June 2 but was soon left in tears due to the reaction on Twitch. Despite local law enforcement continuing an investigation into Sinatraa’s alleged sexual abuse towards his ex-girlfriend Cleo ‘cle0h’ Hernandez, he recently returned to streaming on Twitch. While he had to watch his former teammates win the first international Valorant event, just days later Sinatraa invited ShahZaM to duo in some ranked games online.

A series of videos from TikTok user ‘alessiavaesenn’ has gone super viral, showing a woman supposedly breastfeeding a cat on a plane – but not is all as it seems. Social media users are desperately trying to work out what’s really going on behind the viral posts. The four-part video, which appears to take place on a passenger jet, shows a man first complaining to the onboard staff that the woman next to him is in fact breastfeeding a cat, rather than a baby.

YouTube star Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg has started a Terraria playthrough for his channel following the success of his recent Minecraft series. The Swedish content creator has built a massive following of over 102 million subscribers on YouTube, entertaining fans with hilarious gaming playthroughs such as his recent Minecraft series. However, after defeating the Ender Dragon and completing many additional challenges in his Minecraft playthrough, the YouTuber began to set his sights on what was next for his channel.

Genshin Impact’s Arataki Itto banner will be released in the 2.3 update, so find out everything we know about the upcoming launch.  Arataki Itto will make his long-awaited debut in Genshin Impact 2.3, which will see the 5-star receive his own special rate-up banner. During this time, travelers will be able to spend their hard-earned Primogems for a chance to unlock Itto permanently.  This imposing claymore character is known for his incredible strength, channeling his inner Oni to pummel opponents with powerful Geo-based attacks.

In FIFA 22 Career Mode, having good youth prospects is just as important as having star players, but it’s hard to know which ones are worth picking up. Here’s a list of some of the best wonderkids we’ve found. FIFA Ultimate Team is all the rage these days. However, Career Mode has always been the heart and soul of every FIFA title, and it isn’t any different in FIFA 22. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of taking an unsuccessful club from rags to riches or leading a successful one to even more silverware.

Fnatic jungler Gabriël ‘Bwipo’ Rau has announced he’s leaving social media “indefinitely” following viral speculation about his relationship with the team, and online abuse directed at his girlfriend. Fnatic crashed out of Worlds 2021, but following the tournament it is their jungler who is attracting headlines. One week after he unfollowed the organization and several prominent executives on Twitter, Bwipo announced he was leaving social media. In a lengthy post on TwitLonger, Bwipo stated he was doing this primarily due to the abuse his partner has received.

Fortnite Chapter 2 is coming to a close with a finale live event known as ‘The End’, and we’ve got all the details you need on start times and streams so you can watch along as it happens. After two years and eight incredible seasons of battle royale madness, Chapter 2 of Fortnite is bowing out to make way for Chapter 3. Before that happens, though, there’s a huge live event to enjoy where players will work together to take down the Cube Queen.