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Destiny Twitch streamer

Destiny

Name Steven Kenneth Bonnell II
Age 36
Birthday 12th December
Nationality US
Hometown Omaha, NE
Streams Variety
Former Teams Root Gaming and Quantic Gaming.

Other Interests

Playing electric guitar and the keyboard.

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

  • 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.

  • [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.

Sources

Destiny (Steven Bonnell II) - Red Suit Interview #6 link
Steve Bonnell Made Big Bucks Following a Simple Plan link
StarCraft II Pro Gamer Steven "Destiny" Bonnell Explains How TwitchTV Is Changing the Game link
Destiny joins Quantic Gaming link
Destiny and Quantic parting ways link
Destiny talks about his history and future in livestreaming, SC2 esports, politics, and more! link
Destiny’s Twitch commands link
TwitchStat’s Destiny profile link
Destiny’s Streaming setup link

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Gaming Setup

Asus ROG Swift PG279Q 27-inch
Logitech G903
Logitech G Powerplay
Logitech G810
Sennheiser HD 600
Intel i9-9900k 
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Asus ROG Strix Z390-E
Samsung 960 EVO 1TB
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB)

Streaming Setup

ASUS ROG Swift PG27AQ 27-inch
Blue Baby Bottle SL
K&M 23860
Peavey PV 6 BT
ART Pro Channel II
Sony a7 III
Sony SEL28F20 FE 28mm f/2-22
Logitech C930e
i9-7980XE
MSI Geforce GTX 1050 TI
ASRock Motherboard X299 Taichi
Samsung 960 EVO 1TB
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