Destiny
Other Interests
Family
He has a son from a previous relationship.
Gaming Origins
Destiny got seriously into video games during high school, when he would spend much of his free time after school playing with his friends. They were the ones who introduced him to both StarCraft and RuneScape. He grew up mainly in a middle-upper-class family until his mother’s business collapsed, causing him to spend his later teenage years in the other extreme.
After high school, he went on to study Music at the University of Nebraska in 2007. During that time, one of his childhood friends recommended that he try out streaming. He thought that it looked interesting and was attracted by the social-interactions aspect of it, and so decided to try it out. He then dropped out when his job as an overnight manager at a casino made it difficult for him to continue.
Professional Gaming
Destiny started streaming StarCraft II on Justin.tv in early 2010. As his viewership started growing, he realized that there was potential to make a career out of streaming. So, after about a year, he decided to start seriously grinding for between 8 – 12 hours per day and was able to make $100,000 USD in that first year and was also the top streamer in that category at the time. This motivated him to quit his job to pursue a fulltime career in content creation.
Around that time, he also joined Root Gaming, but was only with them for a couple of months. He then joined Quantic Gaming’s pro-team in October 2011 and remained with them until May 2012. He then rejoined Root Gaming until the end of September that year. He didn’t receive a salary from either.
Although he originally started out primarily playing video games, he later branched out into political debates after feeling that there were may issues in the gaming community that weren’t being addressed. His channel continued to grow, so he decided to move to Glendale in December 2018, as there is a higher concentration of streamers there than in Omaha.
He was permanently banned on Twitch in March 2022 for expressing an opinion that went against Twitch's view.
Income
According to TwitchStats, Destiny has around 950 subscribers and usually attracts over 4,000 viewers to his streams. Based on this, he should be stating out with a monthly income of at least $3,325 USD. This amount excludes additional income that he receives from tiered subscriptions, tips, Twitch cheer bit contributions, advertising, merchandise sales, and sponsorships.
Streaming Hours
He doesn’t have a set schedule but tends to stream for long hours every day.
Quotes
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The hardest part of streaming… for me at least, is maintaining a consistent schedule. Especially when dealing with the political content, dealing with all the massive amounts of hate you can get online can also be difficult.
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[In order not to get burned out,] when I approached streaming, I made a deliberate decision early on to always make it that the content was something that I wanted to be involved in, so I’ve never done events that I wasn’t interested in or ever played games that I didn’t want to play and I’ve never done things or committed myself to things that I wasn’t enthusiastic about doing. So, I think that’s played a big part in keeping my drive to stream.