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Atrioc
Personal information
Born
Brandon Ewing

(1991-04-19) 19 April 1991 (age 33)
Occupations
  • YouTuber
  • Twitch Streamer
OrganizationCo-founder OFFBRAND
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2020-present
Genre(s)Gaming, News and Politics
Subscribers527,000[1]
(September 2023)
Total views218,814,128[1]
(September 2023)
Associated actsLudwig, Nathan Stanz, Mang0, Toph, Linkus, QTCinderella, Aspecticor
100,000 subscribers
Atrioc
Twitch information
Channel
Followers320,000
(September 2023)

Brandon Ewing, known online as Atrioc, is an American live streamer, YouTuber and speed runner known for his frequent collaborations with fellow streamer and ASU alumnus Ludwig Ahgren. He is known for his marketing-related series Marketing Monday, using his prior experience to give presentations within the marketing field to his audience. Ewing is also a world record holder in speedrunning the video game series Hitman. He began streaming consistently at the beginning of 2020 and has over 315,000 followers as of May 2023.[2]

Career

Before streaming

During college, Ewing was an avid League of Legends player, eventually reaching rank 13 in North America during the game's second season in 2012.[3] While studying at Arizona State University, Ewing founded the university's Esports Club, which was later attended by future streamer Ludwig Ahgren.[4]

After graduating with a degree in marketing, Ewing started his career at Twitch in February 2014 as a marketing and content manager,[5] before moving on to work under marketing at graphics card manufacturer Nvidia.[6] Whilst at Nvidia, Brandon has worked on many projects including the introduction of the GeForce RTX Keyboard Keycap and he presented the final E3 GameReady winners as the GeForce host at E3.[7][8]

Streaming career

Ewing is active in the Super Smash Bros. Melee scene.[citation needed] As a streamer, Ewing became involved in the Hitman speedrunning scene, innovating upon many levels previously thought to be completely explored.[citation needed]

Ewing entered the scene of Age of Empires IV competing in a number of competitive matches until he reached the top 1,000 players.[9]

During September 2021, Ewing's Twitch account was banned.[10] The reasoning behind this decision was not disclosed but many believe the decision to be due to him playing through a Wikipedia speedrun involving NSFW content that breaches Twitch guidelines, such as "erection", "human penis", and "arousal".[11][note 1]

During the controversy surrounding Valkyrae's endorsement contract with RFLCT Ewing continued to stream. Whilst streaming Ewing unintentionally leaked conversations between Valkyrae and Ludwig about Valkyrae's considerations of leaving RFLCT and her contract.[12] It was seen that Valkyrae felt she 'messed up' due to Ewing's leak of the Discord conversation.[13] This incident was seen as a pivotal point in wrapping up the RFLCT drama.

On the launch day of Elden Ring in early 2022, Ewing spent 7 hours attempting to beat the first optional boss.[14] He was sponsored by Public.com during late 2022,[15] which was one of his first big sponsors, paving the way for his content creation agency Offbrand. In September 2022, Ewing, Ludwig Ahgren, Stanz and Nick Allen started the content creation agency Offbrand.[16] Ewing announced his involvement on September 28.[17] Offbrand is a agency that helps connect content creators to brand sponsors, organize events, and help creators' ideas become reality, as quoted from the site.[18]

During a live stream on January 30, 2023, Ewing accidentally revealed a browser tab with a pornographic website selling deep fakes of other live streamers, including Pokimane and QTCinderella.[19][20][21] In response to the controversy, Ewing apologized and resigned from Offbrand.[22] QTCinderella described her friendship with him as irreparable following the incident.[23][24] In the following months, Ewing spent more than USD$100,000 to take down other deepfake porn images across the internet, working with QTCinderella among others.[25][26] According to independent analyst Genevieve Oh, web traffic for deepfake pornography exploded after the incident.[27] Following the events, Ewing, with the help of Genevieve Oh, has started writing a piece that he hopes to publish with BBC.[28]

Personal life

Ewing currently lives in Los Angeles, California.[29]

Awards and nominations

Year Ceremony Category Result Ref.
2022 The Streamer Awards Best Speedrunner Nominated [30]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Despite many fans claiming Ewing purposely lingered on the images in order to get banned, he denies those accusations.

References

  1. ^ a b "About Atrioc". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Atrioc - Streamer Overview & Stats". TwitchTracker. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  3. ^ "LoL - League of Legends". 2012-11-21. Archived from the original on 2012-11-21. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  4. ^ "Founded the ASU Esports Association". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  5. ^ @Atrioc (December 8, 2017). "Excited (and a little sad) to announce that today is officially my last day at @Twitch, as I've accepted a role on the Marketing team for Esports at @Nvidia. Had an amazing four years here, made great friends, learned a lot, and will always #bleedPurple. 💜" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ Polhamus, Blaine (2022-10-28). "Ludwig, The Yard crew break into Atrioc's house to record a podcast". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  7. ^ Ewing, Brandon (February 14, 2022). "Introducing The GeForce RTX Keyboard Keycap". NVIDIA. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  8. ^ The FINAL E3 GameReady Winners!, retrieved 2022-08-05
  9. ^ Cyre, Clayton Sterling (December 10, 2021). "Atrioc Reaches Top 1,000 Players in Age of Empires 4". Game Rant. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  10. ^ Heaton, Andrew Paul (September 26, 2021). "Twitch Streamer Atrioc Has Been Banned". Game Rant. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  11. ^ "Atrioc is banned from Twitch and we finally know why". WIN.gg. 26 September 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  12. ^ Cyre, Clayton Sterling (October 28, 2021). "Atrioc Leaks Valkyrae Discord Chat About RFLCT Controversy". Game Rant. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  13. ^ "Valkyrae's leaked DMs paint streamer as victim of RFLCT scheme, hints she's quitting the project". InvenGlobal. October 28, 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  14. ^ Walters, Whitney (February 26, 2022). "Twitch Streamer Spends Seven Hours Fighting Elden Ring Tree Sentinel Boss". Game Rant. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  15. ^ "A whole new way to invest". Public - Start investing in stocks and crypto with Atrioc on Public.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  16. ^ "OFFBRAND". offbrand.gg. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  17. ^ I'm Quitting., retrieved 2022-10-26
  18. ^ "OFFBRAND". offbrand.gg. Archived from the original on 2022-10-08. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  19. ^ "'I'm going to sue you': QTCinerella and Atrioc deepfake scandal explained". UK. February 2, 2023.
  20. ^ https://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/streamer-qtcinderella-vows-to-sue-deepfake-porn-site-after-atrioc-twitch-scandal/news-story/3aaf362744d19e719c0473957ce39e41
  21. ^ Donegan, Moira (2023-03-13). "Demand for deepfake pornography is exploding. We aren't ready for this assault on consent". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  22. ^ Shaukat, Rahman (February 1, 2023). "Atrioc Quits OFFBRAND Following Deepfake Controversy". Game Rant.
  23. ^ Schewitz, Kim (February 1, 2023). "Ludwig speaks out on Atrioc paying for malicious deepfake videos of QTCinderella". HITC.
  24. ^ Martinello, Eva (February 7, 2023). "QTCinderella points out 'biggest problem' with deepfake scandal, confirms friendship with Atrioc is over".
  25. ^ "Streamer who incited Twitch deepfake porn scandal returns". Polygon. March 16, 2023.
  26. ^ Metcalfe, Charlie (2023-05-27). "A Twitch streamer got caught viewing deepfake porn. His quest to make amends shows how hard removing it actually is". Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  27. ^ Tenbarge, Kat (2023-03-07). "Hundreds of sexual deepfake ads using Emma Watson's face ran on Facebook and Instagram in the last two days". NBC News. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  28. ^ Konstantinos (2023-03-21). "How This Creator is Turning His Lowest Moment into Something Positive". Medium. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  29. ^ "Does Atrioc live with Ludwig?". 2023-03-10. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  30. ^ Miceli, Max (February 22, 2022). "All nominees for QTCinderella's Streamer Awards". Dot Esports. GAMURS Group. Archived from the original on April 21, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
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