Twitch star Ludwig is moving his stream to YouTube Gaming

YouTube Gaming is now home to Ludwig Ahgren. Ludwig Ahgren was a streamer on Twitch who gained fame for his streamers and 31-day marathon streaming. Ludwig’s move to YouTube was announced Monday by a short skitThis is the YouTube Gaming brand and the channel’s name.

With a few funny jokes, Ludwig and his friend start the skit innocently. They finally park their car, get out, and discover that the vehicle was actually purple all the time. After a few more jokes, the purple car explodes and Ludwig and his friend get in a red car, commenting that it’s basically the same car anyway. When Ludwig turns on the radio, his friend asks if he gets in trouble for playing music, and Ludwig replies, “not in this car.” (A not-so-subtle dig about Twitch’s DMCA music issues over the last few years.)

Ludwig started streaming in 2019, and while he gained a following in 2020, his real breakthrough didn’t come until 2021. Earlier this year, Ludwig orchestrated an exhausting “subathon” where he promised to keep streaming as long as viewers kept subscribing. What started out as a bit that included him sleeping on stream quickly grew into a monthlong livestreaming phenomenon that wound up hitting the streamer’s self-imposed 31-day limit. During that stretch, Ludwig managed to set Twitch’s new individual subscriber record with 283,066. Ludwig has been a popular Twitch personality ever since.

It’s worth noting that while Ludwig has enjoyed enormous popularity on Twitch, his YouTube presence was impressive as well — even before it became his official streaming platform. Ludwig’s channel is currently at 2.07 million subscribers on YouTube, and that’s before his first stream has even started.

Ludwig’s YouTube streams will begin on Nov. 30 with a question-and-answer segment.