Atrioc

Atrioc
Ewing in 2024
Personal information
Born
Brandon Ewing

(1991-04-19) 19 April 1991 (age 33)
Occupations
  • YouTuber
  • Twitch streamer
OrganizationOFFBRAND (co-founder)
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2020–present
Genre(s)Gaming, news, economics, marketing and politics
Subscribers667 thousand[1]
Total views288.18 million[1]
Associated actsLudwig, Nathan Stanz, Mang0, Toph, Linkus, QTCinderella, Aspecticor
100,000 subscribers
Twitch information
Channel
Followers351 thousand
Last updated: 14 October 2024

Brandon Ewing (19 April 1991), known online as Atrioc, is an American Twitch live streamer, YouTuber and speedrunner. He is known for his news series Marketing Monday, using his prior experience to give presentations within the marketing field to his audience. Ewing is also a former world record holder in speedrunning the video game series Hitman. He began streaming consistently at the beginning of 2020, and has over 660,000 YouTube subscribers and 346,000 Twitch followers as of October 2024.[2]

Career

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Before streaming

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During college, Ewing was an avid League of Legends player, eventually reaching rank 13 in North America during the game's second season in 2012.[3] While studying at Arizona State University, he founded the university's Esports Club, which he himself attended.[4][non-primary source needed]

After graduating with a degree in marketing, Ewing started his career at Twitch in February 2014 as a marketing and content manager,[5][non-primary source needed] before moving on to work under marketing at Nvidia in December 2017.[5][6]

Streaming career

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Ewing is active in the Hitman speedrunning scene.[7]

During September 2021, Ewing's Twitch account was banned.[8] Twitch did not officially disclose a reason, but according to win.gg, he was banned while browsing Wikipedia on stream and stopping on a page showing an image of a penis.[9]

In 2021, Ewing became the 975th highest-ranked Age of Empires IV player.[10]

During the controversy surrounding Valkyrae's endorsement contract with RFLCT, Ewing continued to stream. Whilst streaming, Ewing unintentionally leaked conversations between Valkyrae and Ludwig about Valkyrae's considerations of leaving RFLCT and her contract.[11] It was seen that Valkyrae felt she "messed up" due to Ewing's leak of the Discord conversation.[12] This incident was seen as a pivotal point in wrapping up the RFLCT drama.[by whom?]

On the launch day of Elden Ring in early 2022, Ewing gained attention after spending seven hours attempting to beat the first optional boss.[13] He founded a content creation agency, Offbrand, in September 2022 with Ludwig Ahgren, Stanz, and Nick Allen.[14]

During a live stream on January 30, 2023, Ewing accidentally revealed a browser tab with a pornographic website selling deepfakes of other live streamers, including Pokimane and QTCinderella.[15][16][17] In response to the controversy, Ewing apologized and resigned from Offbrand.[18] QTCinderella described her friendship with him as irreparable following the incident.[19][20] In the following months, Ewing spent more than USD$100,000[21] to take down other deepfake porn images across the internet, working with QTCinderella, among others.[22][23] According to independent analyst Genevieve Oh, web traffic for deepfake pornography exploded after the incident.[24] Following the events, Ewing, with the help of Genevieve Oh, started writing a piece that he hopes to publish with BBC.[25]

Awards and nominations

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Year Ceremony Category Result Ref.
2022 The Streamer Awards Best Speedrunner Nominated [26]

References

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  1. ^ a b "About Atrioc". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Atrioc – Streamer Overview & Stats". TwitchTracker. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
  3. ^ "LoL – League of Legends". 2012-11-21. Archived from the original on 2012-11-21. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  4. ^ "Founded the ASU Esports Association". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  5. ^ a b @Atrioc (December 8, 2017). "Excited (and a little sad) to announce that today is officially my last day at @Twitch, as I've accepted a role on the Marketing team for Esports at @Nvidia. Had an amazing four years here, made great friends, learned a lot, and will always #bleedPurple. 💜" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ Polhamus, Blaine (2022-10-28). "Ludwig, The Yard crew break into Atrioc's house to record a podcast". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  7. ^ Kapron, Nicola Jean (2021-09-28). "Twitch Streamer Atrioc Comes Back and Beats Hitman World Record". Game Rant. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  8. ^ Heaton, Andrew Paul (September 26, 2021). "Twitch Streamer Atrioc Has Been Banned". Game Rant. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  9. ^ Richman, Olivia (26 September 2021). "Atrioc is banned from Twitch and we finally know why". WIN.gg. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  10. ^ Cyre, Clayton Sterling (December 10, 2021). "Atrioc Reaches Top 1,000 Players in Age of Empires 4". Game Rant. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  11. ^ Cyre, Clayton Sterling (October 28, 2021). "Atrioc Leaks Valkyrae Discord Chat About RFLCT Controversy". Game Rant. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  12. ^ Masters, Tim (October 28, 2021). "Valkyrae's leaked DMs paint streamer as victim of RFLCT scheme, hints she's quitting the project". InvenGlobal. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  13. ^ Walters, Whitney (February 26, 2022). "Twitch Streamer Spends Seven Hours Fighting Elden Ring Tree Sentinel Boss". Game Rant. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  14. ^ Grayson, Nathan (2022-09-27). "Ludwig knows his streaming career won't last, so he's starting an agency". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  15. ^ Gurney, Frances (February 2, 2023). "'I'm going to sue you': QTCinerella and Atrioc deepfake scandal explained". UK.
  16. ^ Brandt, Oliver (February 2, 2023). "Streamer QTCinderella vows to sue deepfake porn site after Atrioc Twitch scandal". news.com.au. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
  17. ^ Donegan, Moira (2023-03-13). "Demand for deepfake pornography is exploding. We aren't ready for this assault on consent". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  18. ^ Shaukat, Rahman (February 1, 2023). "Atrioc Quits OFFBRAND Following Deepfake Controversy". Game Rant.
  19. ^ Schewitz, Kim (February 1, 2023). "Ludwig speaks out on Atrioc paying for malicious deepfake videos of QTCinderella". HITC.
  20. ^ Martinello, Eva (February 7, 2023). "QTCinderella points out 'biggest issue' with deepfake scandal, confirms friendship with Atrioc is over".
  21. ^ Horetski, Dylan (2023-07-17). "Atrioc helps remove 200k deepfakes after paying for images of female streamers". Dexerto. Retrieved 2023-11-28.
  22. ^ Clark, Nicole (March 16, 2023). "Streamer who incited Twitch deepfake porn scandal returns". Polygon.
  23. ^ Metcalfe, Charlie (2023-05-27). "A Twitch streamer got caught viewing deepfake porn. His quest to make amends shows how hard removing it actually is". Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  24. ^ Tenbarge, Kat (2023-03-07). "Hundreds of sexual deepfake ads using Emma Watson's face ran on Facebook and Instagram in the last two days". NBC News. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  25. ^ Konstantinos (2023-03-21). "How This Creator is Turning His Lowest Moment into Something Positive". Medium. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  26. ^ Miceli, Max (February 22, 2022). "All nominees for QTCinderella's Streamer Awards". Dot Esports. GAMURS Group. Archived from the original on April 21, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
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