Slushpuppy
Family
He and his wife have three cats.
Gaming Origins
Slushpuppy grew up playing video games on the Sega Genesis and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). While he was still at his previous job as a Software Engineer, he was having a bad time with his team, so he would spend a lot of his free time playing CS:GO and PUBG after work in order to unwind. When Escape from Tarkov was released, he couldn’t find anyone to play with, so he started streaming in so as to have company during his gameplays.
Professional Gaming
He started streaming in mid-2017 and slowly gained a following. As his numbers grew, he started investing more of his free time into streaming, as he realized that this might become a viable career alternative at some point. He would then stream for five hours everyday after work, then sleep for four hours and repeat.
In September 2018, he hit 10,000 followers on Twitch and then transitioned to streaming fulltime in January 2019 after resigning from his job. He met Pestily when they had the same number of viewers and followers on Twitch and reached out to him to create joint Tarkov content and they still continue to stream together.
Income
Slushpuppy has ~1,800 subscribers, according to his Twitch layout. This should net him a base monthly income of ~$4,500 USD. This excludes additional income from tiered subscriptions, advertisements, tips, Twitch cheer bit contributions, merchandise sales and sponsorships.
Streaming Hours
- Sunday: 06:00 UTC onwards
- Monday – Friday: 01:00 UTC onwards
- Saturday: No stream
Quotes
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[Some advice for new streamers,] if you want to play with other people and bring a new energy to your stream and stuff like that if you feel like you’re getting burned out on Tarkov,, you’re not going to go into someone’s chat and be like, ‘g’day, mate. Do you want to have a game?’ He’s not going to talk to you. But, look at the people around you [in the game’s category] like form a community with the people around as the same size as you. You can interchange viewers and cross-pollinate your viewers.
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I hear a lot of people say, ‘luck.’ The luck comes from hard work. If you are not online, you’re not going to get hosted. You need to be there and create your own luck by giving yourself the opportunity to be given luck. It’s like saying, ‘I want to win the lottery,’ without buying a ticket; it’s just not going to happen.
Gaming Setup
Streaming Setup
