Growing pains are an aspect of life, such as moving to a place or starting a new job. People will rarely ever feel right at home immediately, and instead need to find their footing before they can really get things going. Streamer Ludwig Ahgren appears to be going through such growing pains in a very public manner after a series of rapid-fire bans during his first week of streaming on YouTube.
Ahgren, or Ludwig for short, is among the biggest streamers in the world who made headlines online in November by announcing he was switching from streaming on Twitch to YouTube for the next two years. It was the latest in a series of major talent acquisitions by YouTube, alongside TimTheTatman and DrLupo, as the video platform looks to expand its foothold in the livestreaming space. Before the change, Ludwig had become one of the top streamers on Twitch averaging almost 20,000 viewers normally, and held the most successful subathon in Twitch history during March and April 2021.
However, as mentioned above the switch to YouTube has not been a smooth one for Ludwig since his first post-Twitch stream on November 30. Since his first YouTube stream, he has been hit with three short bans for what he revealed to be DMCA-related violations while reacting to videos on stream. He addressed the bans on one of his last streams, though he was sure to inject the typical humor viewers know Ludwig for.
"Boys, we got a bit of a problem," Ludwig told viewers on his Dec. 5 stream. He says the react content he was known for, alongside streamers like xQcOW and Mizkif, is "gone forever" while he is on YouTube because of the website's copyright rules. "Apprantely, I'm gonna need to actually make content."
While he jokes about having to make content, his viewers would argue this won't be a problem for the man whose subathon went uninterrupted for one month. Ludwig, himself, said previously a big reason for the switch to YouTube was greater freedom in terms of stream content he would not have had on Twitch. He cites Mogul Money, the streamer dodgeball invitational, and his previous Super Smash Bros tournaments as examples of the kind of content he wants to do more of and said staying on Twitch would have made producing them far more difficult.
That said, even with all the content he teased with the move, keeping company with streamers like HasanAbi means Ludwig will be roasted regularly for his first week bans.
Source: YouTube