Atrioc Explained

Atrioc
Birth Name:Brandon Ewing
Birth Date:19 April 1991
Organization:OFFBRAND (co-founder)
Channel Name:Atrioc
Years Active:2020–present
Genre:Gaming, news and politics
Subscribers:629,000
Subscriber Date:July 2024
Views:269,529,328
View Date:July 2024
Associated Acts:Ludwig, Nathan Stanz, Mang0, Toph, Linkus, QTCinderella, Aspecticor
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Atrioc
Channel Name:Atrioc
Followers:341,000
Follower Date:July 2024

Brandon Ewing, known online as Atrioc, is an American Twitch live streamer, YouTuber and speedrunner 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 former world record holder in speedrunning the video game series Hitman. He began streaming consistently at the beginning of 2020, and has over 640,000 YouTube subscribers and 344,000 Twitch followers as of August 2024.[1]

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.[2] While studying at Arizona State University, he founded the university's Esports Club, which he himself attended.[3]

After graduating with a degree in marketing, Ewing started his career at Twitch in February 2014 as a marketing and content manager,[4] before moving on to work under marketing at Nvidia.[5]

Streaming career

Ewing is active in the Super Smash Bros. Melee and Hitman speedrunning scene.[6]

During September 2021, Ewing's Twitch account was banned.[7] Twitch did not officially disclose a reason, but according to win.gg, he was banned while browsing Wikipedia on stream and stopping on a page showing an image of a penis.[8]

In 2021, Ewing became the 975th highest-ranked Age of Empires IV player.[9]

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.[10] It was seen that Valkyrae felt she "messed up" due to Ewing's leak of the Discord conversation.[11] 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 gained attention after spending seven hours attempting to beat the first optional boss.[12] He founded a content creation agency, Offbrand, in September 2022 with Ludwig Ahgren, Stanz, and Nick Allen.[13]

During a live stream on January 30, 2023, Ewing accidentally revealed a browser tab with a pornographic website selling deepfakes of other live streamers, including Pokimane and QTCinderella.[14] [15] [16] In response to the controversy, Ewing apologized and resigned from Offbrand.[17] QTCinderella described her friendship with him as irreparable following the incident.[18] [19] In the following months, Ewing spent more than USD$100,000[20] to take down other deepfake porn images across the internet, working with QTCinderella, among others.[21] [22] According to independent analyst Genevieve Oh, web traffic for deepfake pornography exploded after the incident.[23] Following the events, Ewing, with the help of Genevieve Oh, started writing a piece that he hopes to publish with BBC.[24]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Atrioc – Streamer Overview & Stats . 2022-08-02 . TwitchTracker . en.
  2. Web site: 2012-11-21 . LoL – League of Legends . 2022-08-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121121094832/http://competitive.na.leagueoflegends.com/ladders/na/current/rankedsolo5x5 . 2012-11-21 .
  3. Web site: Founded the ASU Esports Association . 2022-08-02 . Twitter . en.
  4. 939202422362091520. Atrioc. 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. .
  5. Web site: Polhamus . Blaine . 2022-10-28 . Ludwig, The Yard crew break into Atrioc's house to record a podcast . 2023-05-20 . Dot Esports . en-US.
  6. Web site: Kapron . Nicola Jean . 2021-09-28 . Twitch Streamer Atrioc Comes Back and Beats Hitman World Record . 2024-05-13 . Game Rant . en.
  7. Web site: Heaton . Andrew Paul . September 26, 2021 . Twitch Streamer Atrioc Has Been Banned . 2022-08-05 . Game Rant . en-US.
  8. Web site: Richman . Olivia . 26 September 2021 . Atrioc is banned from Twitch and we finally know why . 2022-08-05 . WIN.gg . en-US.
  9. Web site: Cyre . Clayton Sterling . December 10, 2021 . Atrioc Reaches Top 1,000 Players in Age of Empires 4 . 2022-08-05 . Game Rant . en-US.
  10. Web site: Cyre . Clayton Sterling . October 28, 2021 . Atrioc Leaks Valkyrae Discord Chat About RFLCT Controversy . 2022-08-05 . Game Rant . en-US.
  11. Web site: Masters . Tim . October 28, 2021 . Valkyrae's leaked DMs paint streamer as victim of RFLCT scheme, hints she's quitting the project . 2022-08-05 . InvenGlobal . en.
  12. Web site: Walters . Whitney . February 26, 2022 . Twitch Streamer Spends Seven Hours Fighting Elden Ring Tree Sentinel Boss . 2022-08-05 . Game Rant . en-US.
  13. News: Grayson . Nathan . 2022-09-27 . Ludwig knows his streaming career won't last, so he's starting an agency . 2024-05-13 . Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
  14. Web site: Gurney . Frances . February 2, 2023 . 'I'm going to sue you': QTCinerella and Atrioc deepfake scandal explained . UK.
  15. Web site: Brandt . Oliver . February 2, 2023 . Streamer QTCinderella vows to sue deepfake porn site after Atrioc Twitch scandal . 13 May 2024 . news.com.au.
  16. News: Donegan . Moira . 2023-03-13 . Demand for deepfake pornography is exploding. We aren't ready for this assault on consent . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-06-08 . 0261-3077.
  17. Web site: Atrioc Quits OFFBRAND Following Deepfake Controversy. Rahman. Shaukat. February 1, 2023. Game Rant.
  18. Web site: Ludwig speaks out on Atrioc paying for malicious deepfake videos of QTCinderella. Kim. Schewitz. February 1, 2023. HITC.
  19. Web site: QTCinderella points out 'biggest issue' with deepfake scandal, confirms friendship with Atrioc is over. Eva. Martinello. February 7, 2023.
  20. Web site: Horetski . Dylan . 2023-07-17 . Atrioc helps remove 200k deepfakes after paying for images of female streamers . 2023-11-28 . Dexerto . en.
  21. Web site: Clark . Nicole . March 16, 2023 . Streamer who incited Twitch deepfake porn scandal returns . Polygon.
  22. Web site: 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 . 2023-06-08.
  23. Web site: 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 . 2023-06-08 . NBC News . en.
  24. Web site: Konstantinos . 2023-03-21 . How This Creator is Turning His Lowest Moment into Something Positive . 2023-06-08 . Medium . en.
  25. Web site: Miceli . Max . All nominees for QTCinderella's Streamer Awards . Dot Esports . . February 22, 2022 . March 14, 2022 . April 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220421081202/https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/all-nominees-for-qtcinderellas-streamer-awards . live . en.

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