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| Birth Name: | Chang Chia-hang | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education: | Chung Yuan Christian University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Channel Name: | asiagodtonegg3be0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Followers: | 557,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years Active: | 2013–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre: | Video gaming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chia-hang Chang (Chinese: t=張嘉航), better known as Godtone (Chinese: 統神), is a Taiwanese Twitch streamer and YouTuber known for his blunt and impassioned commentary. He is a frequent subject of internet memes, most notably "Godtone carrying hot pot".[1] He debuted in 2013 as a League of Legends streamer and occasionally plays the game professionally as a jungler for Hell Pigs, a team which he founded and owns.
Chang first starting live streaming League of Legends on Twitch in February 2013. His screen name is a combination of the character for barrel (Chinese: 桶), a reference to the in-game character Gragas and is mistakenly typed as a different character (Chinese: 統), and the character for deity (Chinese: 神). At his peak in 2015, Chang was one of the most-watched Twitch streamers in Taiwan, drawing around 10,000 viewers per stream.[2] He once held the rank of "Challenger" on the Taiwanese server, which the highest tier of players, and participated in several esports tournaments.[3]
In 2017, Chang started a YouTube channel to upload vlogs, but the channel gained little attention in the beginning; meanwhile, his popularity on Twitch decreased. In 2020, Chang left Twitch and started streaming on a new platform, .[2] [4]
In July 2021, Chang collaborated with Toyz in a livestream to promote the mobile game Moonlight Blade Mobile (Chinese: 天涯明月刀M). The two engaged in several of in-game battles, most of which Chang lost. As a punishment for losing, Chang was told to change his in-game name to "Toyz's Dog", who became enraged and refused to do so. After the event, Toyz posted a highlight reel from the livestream, which further angered Chang. The two continued to argue over the Internet, and Chang claimed that he felt disrespected by Toyz's taunts throughout the stream.[5] [6]
In April 2024, in respond to Mickey Huang's child sex video scandal, Chang commented that he believed the scandal was not a serious matter, and he would like to sex with minors as well. After the comment, several companies terminated their collaboration with Chung. His YouTube channel was also terminated.[7] [8] On the other hand, Justin Wu (吳崢) and Miao Poya criticised Chung's comment, and had debated with him.[9] [10]
"Godtone carrying hot pot" (Chinese: 統神端火鍋) is an internet meme that circulated in early 2021. The video depicts a man who looks like Chang carrying a big pot, then slipping onto the ground and repeatedly saying "itai", the Japanese word for "painful". The original video is believed to be from Latin America.[11] The meme was commonly used in a bait-and-switch manner that's similar to Rickrolling.[12] Chang clarified that the man in the video is not him, but later parodied the video on social media.[13]
In 2013, Chang insulted a police officer and the moderator of the League of Legends board on the online forum PTT. In 2014, he appeared in court, where he was charged with slander and served a 2-year suspended sentence.[14] [15]
In 2016, Chang appeared on a Facebook page created to promote the mobile game The Legend of Heroes (Chinese: 超神英雄傳說), but the page was suspended by Facebook for unknown reasons. The game's developer, Wayi, refused to pay Chang the full amount for the job, claiming that Chang had a negative public image that led to poor publicity for the game. Chang sued Wayi, and a court ruled in his favor.[16] [17]
In 2019, Chang was involved in a traffic accident in Zhonghe District, New Taipei, and a video surfaced of Chang engaging in a heated argument with eight men. Chang's fans subsequently doxxed the other men and flooded their workplaces with negative reviews online; meanwhile, Chang urged his fans to be rational. A police investigation found that Chang was not at fault, and one of the other men was charged with defamation.[18] [19]
Chang is a graduate of Chung Yuan Christian University.[20] His older brother, is also a video game live streamer that plays under the screen name Guodong (國動). Chang married his former agent in 2015, and his wife frequently appears in his YouTube vlogs.[21] Chang has two children.[22]