During the reveal of his Fortnite skin, popular streamer Grefg shattered various Twitch viewership records, helping to set a new record for concurrent users on the platform in the process. Millions of viewers tuned in to Grefg's Twitch stream as he gave the world a first look at his upcoming Fortnite skin.
Fortnite has given various other streamers and content creators their own skins as a part of The Icon Series including Ninja, LoserFruit, and Lachlan. Each of these creators held their own reveal streams on Twitch or YouTube, but none came close to the number of viewers Grefg was able to amass.
During Grefg's stream, 2,470,347 concurrent viewers tuned in to watch the reveal of his Fortnite skin. Grefg was able to single-handedly break three of Twitch's all-time concurrent viewer records: Single Streamer All-Time Concurrent Viewers previously held by Grefg with 660K viewers, concurrent viewers during an Esports Event held by ELEAGUE Boston Major 2018 Finals with 1.08 million viewers, and Single Game All-Time Concurrent which was held by Fortnite's The Device Event with 2.3 million viewers. It was also reported that during Grefg's stream, Twitch surpassed its previous all-time concurrent platform viewership, with a staggering 6.466 Million users.
Grefg's viewership isn't the only thing impressive about today's stream as his official skin garnered a lot of love from the Fortnite community. While the Lachlan, LoserFruit, and Ninja skins closely resembled the creator, Grefg's skin has more of a fantasy design. He was also able to showcase the reactive capabilities of the skin as well as its pickaxe and emote. Humorously, Grefg explained on stream how his original emote pitch was declined by Epic Games for being too graphic for younger players.
Whether players love or hate Fortnite, it's impossible not to be impressed by Grefg's staggering viewership. Many viewers who tuned in today may not have known who Grefg was before today, but gamers rallied together to set the bar for viewer records much higher than it's ever been before. It may be a long time before Twitch sees the same numbers it did today, and it's hard to fathom what event could take place that would draw the same number of viewers. Regardless, those who attended today's stream witnessed internet history as one man captured the attention of 2.4 million individuals.
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