With the countdown timer rarely falling below 24 hours, it seems incredibly likely that Ludwig's record breaking sub-a-thon will be going the full distance. If so, the stream will end on April 14th following 31 days of constant broadcasting. One person who won't be joining in, however, is the popular Minecraft streamer Dream after he was banned from the channel's chat for gifting his fellow streamer a whopping 300 subs.
For those who are out of the loop, Ludwig's current Twitch stream began on March 14th with a 30 minute countdown timer on screen. For every sub he has received since going live though, that timer has increased by between ten and one hundred seconds; thus extending the length of the stream. Almost two weeks later and it's still going on, much to the surprise of many of his friends and Twitch viewers.
Even Ludwig himself seems somewhat astonished by the success of the sub-a-thon and, after becoming the most subbed user on Twitch just a few days ago, he decided to bring in some new rules to discourage people from spending more than they could afford. Under these new edicts, viewers who gift more than 100 subs will receive a warning or a ban. Unfortunately for Dream, his donation of 300 subs was well in excess of this limit and he was duly kicked from the chat just like any other rulebreaker.
Despite how things may seem though, the banning was all in good fun. Ludwig and Dream are good friends and the latter has been incredibly supportive of the record breaking stream since the very beginning. Even so, this was not enough to save Dream from a ban, nor did it stop Dream's fans from tweeting out their feelings about the ruling. So many of them did so, in fact, that "#FREEDREAM" even began trending on Twitter shortly after the incident. Whether Ludwig and his mods will eventually oblige though remains to be seen.
Given the runaway success of the sub-a-thon, many are now wondering just how much money Ludwig stands to make for his efforts. Some viewers have calculated the total earned from subs, bits and media shares to be in excess of half a million dollars, although this figure should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt. Indeed, Ludwig's own estimate is quite a bit more conservative, with the streamer predicting that he'll only walk away with around ten thousand dollars once expenses and taxes have been taken into account.
Source: Dexerto