LAGTVMaximusBlack

He and his wife have been married since 2014 and have a son. They also have a dog named Thor. He has a sister.

LAGTVMaximusBlack grew up playing video games with NovaWar, with his parents often buying him new video games and consoles as presents for birthdays and holidays. While he was growing up, he always had an entrepreneurial spirit, and was conceiving of new ways to make money, including unloading groceries for people in exchange for the quarter in the cart or making baby shower cakes with his girlfriend (now wife).

Prior to creating content fulltime, he was working as a server at Swiss Chalet for five years, as well as a freelancer at a company for three years. He had also dropped out of university even though he had received a scholarship to go there. He was getting bored with partying and didn’t really know what h wanted to do with his life.

Although his father and wife have always been supportive of his decision, it took his mom a couple of years to come around to supporting his career choice after seeing his success and realizing that it was a financially viable path.

He decided to StarCraft II competitively and create video content for a bit while he tried to figure out what he wanted to do. He approached NovaWar with his idea for a new channel and sold him on it. They launched LifesAGlitchTV (LAGTV) on October 28, 2010. It slowly gained traction and continues to be a successful channel today. As their various series and podcasts took off, he decided to also attempt creating his own solo content as well.

At the time, there was no real potential to be a potential video gamer, so LAGTVMaximusBlack had considered it to be a temporary distraction until he figured out what he really wanted to do with his life. He therefore worked really hard for a year, while streaming part-time, in order to save up as much money as possible before trying it out as a fulltime option.

He therefore began uploaded his first video onto his solo channel YouTube in January 2011. It was a StarCraft II Mirines vs Banelings video that successfully attracted over 1 million views and while his future videos didn’t attract nearly as many views, it did set him up with enough subscribers to ensure that each of his following Starcraft II and variety videos often achieve between 6,000 – 8,500 views. He then went on to grind on Twitch for 150-200 hours a month, in addition to creating YouTube content on both his channels. By May 2012, he had accumulated over 10 million views on his YouTube channel and started being featured on Team Liquid’s home page on Twitch.

In August 2012, he joined Quantic Gaming’s StarCraft II team and left in May 2013. He then went on to join Trick2G’s team, Team2G, July 2014 in order to create collaborative content with other streams, and he also launched his first music album. He left them in December 2014.

His language isn’t clean.

According to twitchstats.net, he has ~ 6,600 subscribers. He should therefore be earning at least $16,500 USD per month, excluding additional income from tiered subscriptions, tips, sponsorships, Twitch cheer bit donations, and advertisements.

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