NZXT PODCAST - #223 - Top 500 Ana to Full Time Streamer and Hardcore Raver (Ft. Marlea)

Episode Date: June 26, 2026

On this week's episode of the #NZXT Podcast... We are joined by Marlea... a variety streamer and hardcore raver who games by day and chases bass drops by night. We go over how she built one of the most loyal communities on Twitch over the years and the ups and downs of her streaming career! Also, please leash your dogs. Watch Marlea and her Counter-Strike rave matches here: twitch.tv/marlea Marlea's Socials: beacons.ai/marlea #NZXT #Marlea #NZXTPodcast #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #Overwatch #OverwatchAna #Top500 #VarietyStreamer #Streamer #RaveLife #Uptempo #Rawstyle #EDM #GamingPodcast #TwitchPartner #ContentCreator #StreamerLife #PCGaming #GamingCommunity

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 223 of the NXT podcast, the official podcast of the NXC community. This podcast recorded live on Friday is at 10 a.m. Pacific Saturday on the official N60 Twitch is available to stream on demand on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and SoundCloud. My name is by Kim, and before I introduce our very special guest. I want to do a quick shout out to Intel for helping us sponsor the NXT Intel Club. You guys can go Eskommation Point Club, and you guys can join the NXXCintel Club. to earn poochie points by doing some quests and from there you can use those poochie points to enter into our monthly giveaway for shirts plushies and the greatest thing all is a monthly PC we're

giving a pc every month so might as well do it and the more points you start now the more quest you do the more points you get and the more points you get the more entries you have into the giveaway so start asap uh and that is it for that so now i want to go ahead and introduce are very special guests, introducing a triple threat who games like a pro, streams like it's second nature, and raves like there's no tomorrow.

For nearly a decade, she's been live almost every night, except Fridays, building one of the most loyal communities on Twitch from the ground up. From horror games that make her scream to shooters that bring out her killer instinct, she's turned controlled chaos into an art form.

And when she's not behind a screen, she's in the crowd, deep in the world of music, and all things raving. Please welcome Marlea or Leah. Leah, Leah, can you please introduce yourself to our audience and tell us what you're all about? Yes, hi, everyone. I am Marlia.

So I have been streaming for, I want to say about like five years now. I'm a variety gaming content creator. I love playing everything and anything. But for the longest time, I was an Overwatch streamer. I was actually a hardcore Overwatch streamer up until January. That's when I started doing variety streaming. But I am definitely very known for my personality. I'm very loud.

I love the talk. I love to talk a lot. and I am known for the music I listen to. It is a little different. I feel like compared to what you normally hear on Twitch. So that has been a very big thing with me and my community. But yeah, I'm basically just a big ball of energy. And I absolutely love having a place to be able to be myself over here on Twitch.

And we really appreciate that, especially in this day and age, a lot of people have to do certain personas and everything. It's breath of fresh air to see someone that's just like themselves. So that's awesome. Yep. We want to go back before we, you know, all this streaming and everything like that. We want to go back into the early days of like childhood and gaming stuff like that. So before we get into that, how did you first get into gaming?

I had to be like genuinely like one of my first ever thoughts ever. I was a very, very small child. So I have an older brother. He's two years older than me. And he was into gaming. And so like I definitely tried it. And I was probably like three years older whenever my conch just started working, you know. So very, very young.

It's one of my first ever things I've probably done in my life as gaming. So I got into it from him. Oh, what was the first game or console that you guys owned? I want to say it was probably the GameCube. I want to say it was definitely probably the GameCube. I loved my game, my GameCube when I was a child. And then we also had a Wii as well. I had a Nintendo DS.

And all three of those are like my baby when I was a kid. Did you have a specific game that was like, this is the only game I'm playing for the next couple years or like the ones you always went back to? I mean, I would probably have to say Minecraft. I started playing Minecraft when I was like seven years old and, you know, that will always be a favorite of mine for my entire life. But when I was like super young, I really loved Super Mario Sunshine, Paper Mario, Luigi's Mansion. Like those were some of my absolute favorites. And, you know, sometimes I can play them on my Switch now, you know, Super Mario Sunshine.

It's like I sometimes will go back and play it on my Switch. But those are some of my favorite games ever when I was very young. That is single-handedly my favorite game of all time, Super Mario Sunshine. I love that. Yes, it's so good. It's so good. For those that haven't played it, like, you know, a lot of other Mario games, you know, it was very standard, like, you know, going through to the World. The Super Mario Sunshine with the flood gnauz.

It's so good. It's so good. And the music. I love the music in it, too. It's so nostalgic. Delphito Plaza, the first. Yes. So good.

I love it. It's perfect. I love whenever I hear someone that goes like, oh, Supermar or Sunshine. right because like honestly we don't have a lot of people that actually have played that before so yeah i know super dope uh well did you have a game i know like so you know you started gaming and stuff like that but did you have a game where it was like i play games to like i am a gamer i want to say it came very naturally so it's hard to say like i fell in love of gaming immediately it wasn't something that i did here and there it's like i've been stuck in my bedroom from my whole life now at this point

Like, I've always really, really loved playing games. So I can't really say it's one game that did it. I just really liked everything. You know, when I was very young, I've always loved animals and all my DS. I had a bunch of like dog games. I don't remember the names of all of them, of course, but like a bunch of animal games or my DS, I love those. Like I said, Minecraft, I've always really loved survival games. But it wasn't until, like, I was a little bit older where I got into shooter games.

But I've really just loved everything and everything's always really kept my attention with gaming. Were your parents, like, supportive of gaming growing up? Or was it like, you kind of had always? had to fight for like screen time and they're like this is not worth it um i wouldn't say i ever had had to really fight for screen time i mean there are definitely times where i would say i was going to sleep but i'd be under my covers on my ds you know i feel like we've all had that as a kid but it wasn't something where i was like i had like a set amount of time a day because even though i played a lot of games when i was young i still was like going out seeing my friends i was really involved in gymnastics

so it's like i still had my real life stuff but i definitely played a lot of games in my free time as well when I wasn't doing those things. Did you, did you ever do a lot of all-nighters when you were a kid playing games? Or were your parents like, hey, you got to keep things up with gymnastics and school and stuff like that? I never had a problem with getting gymnastics or school or anything like that.

But I think the first ever all-nighter I pulled, I was 12. I remember it because it was one of my online friends at the time. And I always thought it was the coolest thing in the world. Like, I remember seeing the sunrise. We played Minecraft all night together. And I remember looking out my window and I used to live,

like, surrounded by farmland. And so I'm watching the sunrise like over a cornfield. And it was awesome. So that was my first ever one. And it's very, very specific to me a very good memory. But, you know, ever since then, I was like, wow, I like this. And they've kind of just happened naturally ever since then. Oh, that's actually a question I was going to ask is like, you know, I've had people that love gaming by themselves.

You know, they're like, oh, I'm the only gamer in my, like, friend group or my family. It sounds like you grew up with like either friends or like a gaming crew. Essentially, yeah. So my brother is what got me in a game. when I was younger. We didn't play too much together, but I made online friends very, very quickly. I think one of my first ever online friends I made, I was like eight, and I was through Minecraft.

And so, you know, I've always had little friend groups here and there, like online at least, because none of my IRL friends play games or games or anything like that, but I was very social when I was younger and I would like to say I still am. But yeah, I just had a lot of friend groups and I would play games with them, you know, would be like Minecraft at first because that's what I hardcore got into and I was younger. And then we eventually all started playing CS together, then I moved to Overwatch and a bunch of things like that. So yeah, I've always had a lot of online

friends to play with. So I would love to kind of go into that transition into gaming, you know, for fun, playing with friends to eventually like making career off streaming. So like what what made you hit that go live button? Well, one of the first ever times I streamed, I was 12, I believe, but it wasn't just like, I want to like do this as a job or anything. It was more so I just want to see what it was like. you know, I watched a lot of YouTubers and I was younger,

a lot of Minecraft YouTubers I really liked. And so I was always like, you know, why can't I try doing that? I used to make YouTube videos actually when I was 12 on Minecraft. They weren't great. Didn't get any views or anything by any means. I think I got like 200 subscribers, which I feel like for being 12 and back in the day, not bad.

That's great. Honestly, not bad. I remember one of my videos had a thousand views and I was like, this is the coolest thing in the world. But I just thought the whole idea of that was really, really awesome and seeing all these people that were doing it at that time. I just thought to myself, you know, what if I did something like that? Streaming wasn't much of a thing back then.

I feel like I was very niche. It was more so just YouTube videos, YouTubers, that was the big thing. But the older I got, I remember when I was like 14, that's when I was like, okay, there's more people that are streaming now, you know, like I'm seeing this more and more. I want to try it, but my mom wouldn't let me because she didn't understand anything about it. You know, of course, I lived at home and she just saw it as my daughter is online. Like, she didn't understand that. Like, I had Instagram, of course, and everything.

But it's like, she understood what that was. she didn't understand what streaming was or anything like that. So I wasn't allowed. You know, sometimes I would do it like here and there. But essentially, I wasn't really allowed. At the time, I didn't really think anything of it. But it was when I got older. I kind of was like, you know what, I do want to try this.

I was very heavily into gaming, you know, like when I was like 16, 17, 18, and so on. And so I was really playing a lot of Overwatch and Counterstrike at that point. I just thought I know a lot of people that also play these games. You know, I have a lot of friends that play them. Why don't I just fry it? And so I did. It wasn't anything in specific that necessarily made me go live. want to try it well what is uh what was that like those early streams like because i know a lot of people

i know there's probably some streamers in the chat right now that you know trying starting out and you know they're barely hitting a viewer maybe five to 10 so like what was like the how were the early streams like like how many people were watching like you know was it always just minecraft or were you swapping between different games so when i first started streaming it was what overwatch because that was the game I was playing the most at that point, and the most comfortable with. But I'm gonna be so honest, I was shitting myself every single stream.

My anxiety was so beyond bad, so bad. Like, I have no problem with talking to people or anything like that, but something about doing something I wasn't used to, you know, streaming and it being live and having people watching me, I was so nervous. I would uncontrollably shake. Like it was like literally sitting here my mouse like this. Like you could see in my game, but it was bad.

I could barely speak, no face cam, nothing, which is very different obviously compared to what it's like now, But it was bad. And I will say I was fortunate enough to always kind of have viewers when I first started streaming. I had a lot of friends that would watch me. And, you know, I just, maybe it was because, like, I was a little bit higher rank and Overwatch at the point. But I just, like, always had people that would watch.

I'm not saying it was, like, a ton of people or anything like that. But, like, you know, 10 to 20 viewers. Like, I was very lucky to start off with a little bit of something rather than nothing. But it was very nerve-wracking. Wow. Like, even just having, like, if I had, like, three viewers, I would still be sitting there shaking. Like it was really bad and very anxiety-inducing for me at the start. Well, how so that is actually something that a lot of people, I think, even for me sometimes,

like going live, I'm like, oh, gosh, I talking to, you know, 60 people right now. Like, that's a, like, if you put 60 people in a room right now, that's a lot of people. How did you get over? Was there like, is there something that you do in a routine to like get over that fear? Or is it just like, you just got to get used to it? You definitely have to get used to it. There wasn't anything I did in specific. You know, it lasted for a while that my streams are like that,

where I was just very quiet and soft-spoken and just shaking and anxious because it was something I had never done before. And it just felt scary. You know, even when I didn't do face cam, knowing people were essentially still like watching me, watching my gameplay, listening to me, it felt very overwhelming and very scary. But the more that you do it, the easier it gets. And I feel like that goes in a lot of places, what just life and streaming and social media in general.

So it gets easier with time and just doing it over and over because then it becomes more familiar but it is at least for me it was very tough at the start uh i think this is also very fun to ask how people like you know you have you know back in the xbox playstation you know gaming usernames you know x-x sniper xx you know uh 360 your tag is just marlia so like what what made you decide you know what instead of this world of everyone having this like crazy name i'm just going to use my own name. Honestly, I'm just unoriginal. I wish I had a cool username.

I wish I could sit here and be like, I have this really cool, short, clean username. Say like, NZXT, for example, that's short, it's clean, it's nice. Yeah, no, mine's just my name. I guess I have no creativity. I mean, I don't know. It just kind of happened that I went by my name, but at least, like, I do have a cool name that is original. So it does work, you know, not cheating on people that don't have original names,

of course, but it's like, you know, my name could be like Jessica, which would still be cool, but it's like, at least my name is a little bit more unique, so it stands out. No shade to Jessica's. I love the name, Jessica. I think it's cool. I just met more so like, you know, you see Marlilla and you're like, okay, that's like different. Like you could think it is a username. That is true. That's true. Did you ever, like when you're making it, did you ever think that you're going to change to like a persona username or anything like that? Or you always like, I'm sticking with it. Yeah, I kind of wish I had a username, you know, not necessarily for privacy reasons. Well, I just think it's cool. You know, I grew up with people that had, like,

really cool usernames and I still call them their username to this day. I don't care how close they are. Like, some of my friends I've met through streaming, even in person to their face, I'll still call them their username. You know, I think that's so cool. I like that. It's like having a second name. So I kind of wish I had that. But when I did first start everything, I didn't expect to have it to be to the point at now. So I kind of just stuck with it. I've thought about rebranding, but at the same time, I'm like, there's no point. Yeah. I mean, necessarily, especially now there really isn't a point. And also is kind of nice that, like, you know, if someone recognizes,

you on the street, it's going to be your name. So you're like, okay, that's it. You know, it's not going to be like, oh, you know, I'm thinking of like some YouTubers like PewDie Pie or Disguised Toast. You're like, oh, no, it's my name. Like, they, they're calling out to be. It is more personal this way. So you've been, you're streaming for X amount of years, five years, I think you said, correct?

Yep. Was there a specific moment during your career that you're just like, oh, this is like, like I could make this like my thing. Like it's not just like a small little hobby. I wouldn't say there was a specific moment that made me realize that. You know, like I said, when you first asked my for about my first ever streams, I definitely was fortunate enough to kind of, I guess, have a little bit of advantage because I knew so many people that I was able to like kind of get viewers right away.

But I don't know. I mean, I feel like I've always kind of had my own bubble with streaming in a sense of like standing out a bit, you know. that's like watching right now. If they've watched my streams before, they know something's a little wrong with me. And I just think that's entertaining the people. You know, I don't just sit here, play a video game

because I'm like good at it. I mean, I'm like, okay, I guess sometimes. But, you know, my personality is definitely unique. And I feel like that sets me aside from some people. And so because of that, you know, I've gotten viewers because of it. I've had people compare me to certain people or like accused me of having like certain like mental illnesses because of it.

And I just think because of that, you know, that's allowed me to be like, okay, maybe something is different about me. This is something that people are interested in and you know what? Maybe it can just work because of it. So yeah, I can't really say it was something in specific, but more so just a bunch of things combined

that's made me realize, you know what? I can do this. So yeah. I always say that for a lot of like people that are starting at. Like, you know, I've had people DM the NCC thing like, hey, I want to start streaming like, how do I do it? I've had people in the chat whenever we do these things. Like how do I stand out?

I think that's the way to do it. For me, I always think of it as in two different pillars. You either have to be like insane professional gamer where people are going to learn from you or you have to be fun to watch. Yeah. And I think that's that's something that like you said. You may people are like, is there something wrong with it? Like that's fun. Like that's like something that makes you stand out.

And honestly, it makes it kind of like you could just be yourself and no one's going to really judge you for that. Yeah, of course. And at the end of the day, I wouldn't care if people judge me. Like, of course people do judge me. And, you know, they say this and that about me. I don't care personally. You know, I'm very much so myself when I stream. I've never faked anything.

I've never faked a personality or fake trying to be like someone else. Like, that's not my vibe that would get exhausting very quickly. I've always just been myself. And it feels very rewarding that way. Not that I know what it's like to like fake being somebody, but knowing that people do like me for me and watch me for me and, you know, actually show up because of it. It's a very nice feeling compared to if I, like, faked my personality in some way

or faked anything. you know, because that's not who I am. I'm very much so me, and I'm happy that people enjoy who I am. I see someone, I knew you played a lot of Overwatch. I didn't realize that you reached Top 500 as Anna in Overwatch 2. Yeah, so I used to be. When I started streaming, I definitely fell off.

So I feel like there's a little correlation there between that, you know, I used to, yeah, be consistently like GM and Top 500 in Overwatch, especially at Overwatch 1. And I started streaming. And I guess at that point, started paying attention more to chat and talking more, less attention on the game. And then ever so slightly, my rank would kind of just like drop lower, lower, lower because of it. But then Overwatch 2 came out.

I climbed the champion one right away after the game came out, which is like the highest for- I think I might have one above it now. I don't really play too much Overwatch anymore. I think there is one above champion now. But when Overwatch 2 first came out, I did get the champion one very quickly and then come jump down again. So yeah. At least you, that's amazing to do to be a top 500.

like really like keep that to heart like don't feel like oh just like I don't think any there's barely anyone here that could say they've hit like a top 500 and almost anything so that's awesome well played yeah thank you so much was it tough doing grinding uh I know how ranked it competitive is for a lot of games it's it could be a grind was it was it difficult was it like it was actually kind of fun no I thought it was kind of fun I really like Anna she I one tricked her I only played her and coming from CS before I started playing Overwatch, you know, like I loved using the SG, I love using the AWP,

I've always been very drawn to sniper characters and just sniper guns in general. So I guess having that transition, I was MGE in CounterStrike before I started playing Overwatch. So I feel like just being like a little bit higher rank and CS definitely gave me an advantage when I first came to Overwatch.

But no, I wouldn't really say it was a hard grind or anything of the store, you know, I kind of just played all my friends and just had fun. I mean, I've treated my rank games the way I treat my streams. You know, I was just there to have fun and kind of like yell at people on the mic.

in a nice way, not a toxic way, and just be loud, calm with my team, but just play. I don't know. There's only so much you can do as a support. So it's not like I was like a tank or a DPS where I feel like I have to like hardcore carry. You know, like there's a lot you have to do as a support. But for the most part, like I can only do so much while my team kind of has to, you know, do the rest. Right, right. Yeah.

I have a support player too. Like I play like League of Legends stuff like that where I'm like, I'll, I'll help you guys get there. But I'm not going to be the one that has to do all to engaging, you know, taking everything. I'm like, you guys, you guys figure it out. I'll help you out though. Yeah, exactly. That's the way it is. I know you talked a little bit about this.

You know, your mom was like, this is odd. Like I don't really. What when was that specific moment of like your family started to be like, oh, you know, you're, you can do this now. Like, I don't understand it, but I will accept that you do it. I guess just some more social media started to rise and streaming became more of a thing because my mom uses a lot of social media. So, you know, at the time when it started to become more and more of a thing, she started to realize, like, oh, this isn't some weird random thing my daughter wants to do. There are people that are doing this.

And there are people that are making their whole livelihood off of it. So I think when it just became a little bit more like normal, she was like, okay with it. You know, she understood that I was literally just playing games and streaming it. I wasn't doing anything weird of the store or anything like that. So, yeah, the older I got as well, you know, it's like at a certain point, you know, it's like I've already been playing games my whole life anyways. You know I have online friends. I've met my online friends in person.

You know, there's only so much that could be said at that point. So after a while, she's kind of like, you know, you do you. If you want to do that, you go for it. It's fully supportive of it. It's very nice that, you know, I know, I know, there's a lot of parents out there that, you know, even till this day. I think back then it was still very tabooed to say like, oh, I have a career off playing games or, you know, streaming stuff like that. I guess now it's a little bit easier, especially with social media now. So I think it's a little bit easier for people to understand.

But back then, oh my gosh, can you imagine, can you imagine little Leah saying like, oh, yeah, by the way, you'll be playing games in front of people pretty much every day. And that's like, what you're like, you probably wouldn't be like, what are you talking about? No, for sure. And sometimes I use that as motivation, you know, I'll think about like, wow, 12 year old me would be so happy right now to know that I have what I have, even just with the way my office is, you know, I'm very proud of how my office looks. Like, I love my office so much. And little me would be so happy, you know, like, wow, I have an actual.

gaming room I stream I may call it to like younger me would be so happy and so proud I think that's a good way to bring back to think about you know what like look how far I made so that's that's awesome yeah I do I would love to start to pick your brain so for those that are here that want to start streaming you know I mean you you have a prime example someone had has made it uh we'd love to hear the insights of streaming because a lot of people think it's just all bells and whistles and And, you know, it's just like, oh, yeah, you just play it. Right. And that's it.

You don't need to do anything. But there's a lot of stuff that happens behind the scenes. Yeah. So, first of all, streaming. It's live. You know, you're not behind a computer. You can't edit it. There's no second takes or anything like that.

So, like, what is the hardest thing about being, like, in presence for hours on end? With streaming itself, honestly, it's a hard. hard question to answer because I feel like it comes very naturally to me. I've always loved the talk. You know, I'm someone that really likes to speak a lot. And so I feel like if you're just a talkative person, that aspect isn't really tough unless maybe you're not sure what to say and what to speak about. You know, when you're first due to streaming, you don't know how to talk 24-7 and not stop. That's something that just came naturally to me over time, of course, but it has gotten very easy. I can definitely see how at the start, not knowing how much to talk, what to talk about,

when to say things, when not to say things, how that can be challenging. But I think it's more so a lot of people might think, you know, if you want to make it a streaming, you got to stream for like eight hours at a time, which is not the truth whatsoever, you know, even if you go live for, in my opinion, like two hours and it is such a crazy two hours, that is so much more valuable than say like eight hours and nothing, you know? So I feel that if you just learn to talk and just keep doing it and just speak and speak, that aspect does become easier with just getting started in that regard.

You can't start streaming or want to start streaming and do it like maybe like once a week or like once a month and expect anything to happen by any means. Like that is not going to happen. That is not it. Actually, we got a couple questions in chat and I guess it kind of correlates with like how to get started. So Buzz King asked, do you have any streaming tips to make your life, a streaming life easier? And the follow up question is like, do you use a stream deck or do you? Do you have any equipment that you use that helps?

So for the equipment, I'll get into the tips part right after because the equipment part is shorter. I do use the stream deck. I love my stream deck so much. It's having some problems right now, so I need to get a fix. But it's really nice. You know, I have all my overlays on the top. So I have a starting screen. I have my full cam screen.

I have my game screen. I have my game screen. So it's really nice, you know, especially if I'm in game. There you go to be able to use that and not have to like tab out of, I can focus camera. So not have to tap out of games or anything. Using that is super nice. I would say that's something you should splurge on is getting a stream deck. They're awesome.

You know, I can mute my mic on it. I can make a clip on it, run ads. I have a sub-chat on it. I can clear my chat, which is nice. If there's like a hate rate or a bad message or anything like that, very nice to have that as an option. And then I have all my social commands on it as well. So I love my stream deck.

It's great. It's awesome. As to my other equipment, I wouldn't really say having like the best of the best is something you should get at first. You know, I didn't start with it. I had the Logitex C920 as my webcam, which it's fine. you know, but like now, obviously I have a professional camera, but you don't need to start anything crazy.

I had a blue Yeti mic at the start, you know, I wouldn't say you need crazy equipment. Like if you have everything else going for you in terms of personality, good at games, that will carry you so much further. I mean, like, look at Koso, for example, his camera's not good, his microphone's not good, Jigsie's camera's not good, his mic's not good. They're fine.

You can hear them, you can see them. But like, Koso specifically, he's in a dark room. His camera's not good. So he used to be proof that you don't need great equipment. to be able to, you know, make it. We're streaming. But as for tips that make my streaming life easier, I would just say believing in yourself is such a big thing.

It's cliche. You know, everyone's going to be like, oh, believe in yourself. But like, it's true. People say it because it's true. If you don't believe in yourself, literally no one else will. And even if no one else does, it's not important. You don't need other people to believe in you. Because here's the thing, right?

A lot of people are jealous. A lot of people aren't open-minded or optimistic or anything at a sort. So there will be people you have to realize that are not. not going to believe in you, will shit on you for it, we'll do whatever that's negative. But if you believe in yourself and you push yourself, you will get something out of it. You know, there will be haters. That's normal. Your friends will judge you. Your family will judge you, whatever. But if you believe in yourself and you just push, that will make your life so much easier. If you go in it from the start and realize like, I'm not going to care

to anyone thinks. I'm not going to look at what other people say it's bad about me or whatever. If you just do it, your life will be so much easier. Do it for you, now for other people and be yourself. Being yourself is also another big thing. I think that's also that leads. I think that's also that To my next question, like you are variety streamer. So, you know, you play almost anything. You know, you talk about Overwatch, CS. Recently you just played Mecca Camillion. Yeah, to horror games and stuff like that.

Like, I know that for a lot of people, they will play one game only. Like they only play Counterstrike. They only play Overwatch. And then people switch games and then they see their viewers drop because they want to see that. How do you keep people along for the ride as you see? switch games. So that's a great question. I was a hardcore overwatch streamer for years. I actually only started doing variety back in January. So I'm six months into doing variety right now, and

it is exactly what you just said. I watched my viewership drop. I lost a ton of followers. I lost a lot for it, you know? And I expected it. It's a very scary thing. And I wanted to do variety for the longest time. I was just so scared. You know, I have like 43,000 followers on Twitch. Maybe when I started doing variety, I had maybe a little under 40,000. But I was so terrified because I'm like, okay, these, we'll just use like 40,000 as an example. I had these 40,000 followers that followed me literally just for Overwatch. That's it.

That's 40,000 people for Overwatch, you know, not 2,000 or 5, which is still a lot. 40K is a big chunk of people. And so I was super scared for the longest time to do variety, but now that I've taken the jump for it, I'm so much happier this way and could be more thankful. You know, it was a little discouraging at first to watch my viewership cut in half, be a third of what it was beforehand. my chat completely slowed down, you know, this is my full-time job. So financially, I took a cut to, and I expected it, but seeing it actually happened was scary. And it put a lot of doubts in my head.

I was like, you know, damn, did I just make the right decision? Did I just mess up? This and that's been about six months since I started doing it, it's been a lot easier and I'm a lot more thankful for doing it now. So the way I keep a lot of people along for the ride with doing variety, I would like to say is, well, you know, it's still me at the end of the day. You know, some people did stay because they like me and not Overwatch. But I would just say continuously trying to grow my social media presence outside of Twitch. I've always said Twitch is like the tiniest part of actually being a streamer. It's everything you do outside streaming that will get people to you. And so, you know, if you're just constantly putting your face and your name and everything in front

of others, especially outside of Twitch, you will have people that are going to come along. So just focusing more so on other social media is to be able to get people now that I am doing variety to stay has been the biggest thing. I've heard a lot about that because, I mean, if you think about Twitch, majority of time, if you're going to look up like a game or like a streamer, you'll see how many people they own. So like if you only have like one to five viewers, it's really, really tough to get your name out there just on Twitch.

So probably I think I forgot who said it, but there was a very popular show. Oh, I think it was Koso. Koso did a thing where he's like, I just kept posting on TikTok. The only thing I posted on was TikTok. was TikTok after I did a stream. I would literally finish stream, do a bunch of TikTok clips. And all he did was just that.

And that's how people found him. So it's really tough to do it based on the Twitch algorithm. But if you, like you said, put yourself out there. People will then come to the stream. And then that's how you keep going for there. Yep. I guess kind of going along with that is how did you build like a loyal community? I mean, you know, you have people to come in and they're viewers,

but then you have people that have stuck around for X amount of time, months, years. How did you build that loyalty? That's a great question. And that's a hard thing for a lot of people's building communities. So I can't say there was something in specific that I did that I'm like, okay, this is why people are saying around. But things that I have done that I think have contributed to it is I like to do viewer games. I like to have my people come together and we all play together.

So recently that's been mecha chameleon, like you mentioned, I've been loving that game. I don't know if you tried it yet, but I've literally only been playing on my viewers. You know, I'm not going into random public lobbies. I'm having everyone join me. I'm making a lobby and they come in. And I feel like doing something like that allows people to, you know,

feel a little bit closer to me and be a little bit more personal. It's just having the opportunity to be able to play with me. And then, of course, there's Discord. I think having a Discord server is such a massive thing. Because I only stream for about four hours or maybe a little more or less every day. And so with that, that's only a very small portion. You know, 24 hours in a day. that's a very, very tiny portion

where people can actually communicate with me but having something like Discord, you can talk to me at any time, any day. I have voice channels, which I don't join too often. I definitely should join more that are in my Discord. I have a bunch of different channels, so that's a very nice way people can talk to me.

I respond to all my comments just about all my social media is too, and I think that's a big thing. Because as a viewer, you know, you want to feel like you have a connection with a streamer or that goes for anything, you know, a music artist or a celebrity or whatever, you know, if you feel like maybe you have a little bit

of a connection, not in a parisocial way with them. It makes you want to stick around, you know, because you can be over here, you know, I'll use like, we could take like Drake as an example. You know, Drake is, everyone knows who Drake is, but is he over here commenting and responding to all of his Instagram comments and stuff? No.

And that's fine, you know, he's so massive, he doesn't need to, but it's like nobody in his comments will feel like they know Drake like that, you know, but say, this feels like such a weird comparison. I don't mean it in an egotistical way or anything, but, you know, I respond to my people people because I want them to feel like, you know, they have something with me. They can talk to me. They can reach out to me and they will get something back. You know, like, I care about everyone that

watches me. And I feel like some people don't believe that. You know, I've had people be like, oh, she's saying it just to say yet. But like, I truly do care about the people that watch me. I constantly ask people what they're doing in their life, you know, what's new. If they tell me they're moving, I ask how their move goes, if they're getting a new job or if they're applying, if they're applying to get it, this and that. I feel like paying attention to things people say is a big way of keeping people around for having a hard community. If they feel important, if they feel cared about, if they feel like they can join you on things,

doing things like that, I feel like is very, very important for growing community and getting people to stick around. Because if you just act like they don't exist, you don't know if there's a sense. They don't matter. They're just another number on the screen. Then they're going to feel like just another number on the screen.

I think it's basically just like having friends, you know? Like if you're a friend that doesn't understand what's going on and you're not really a good friend. So I think that is a huge thing that people need to realize. Like, you have to, in order for people to care about you, you also have to care about them. What is that, the golden rule? 100%. Yeah.

Yep. I actually had a question from Buzz Kings. Like, what is the best part about streaming? Like, what makes you want to keep streaming every day, basically? I love that question. I just love my community. I feel very lucky to have the community that I have. I just, I don't know.

Like I said, something's probably a little wrong with me up there. But it's just like knowing I can be myself and just listen to the crazy music that I do love and just have people watch me for, you know, whether I'm playing a game that I'm really good at or really bad out or whatever. Just knowing I have people that want to be around me, you know, that might sound a little lonely. I don't mean in a lonely way. Just having people that show up and just let me do my thing and be me. That makes me so happy.

That makes me so excited every day. And I would say a big portion of that has to do what me doing variety streaming now. Towards the end of, if I want to say like my Overwatch career, I was very unhappy. so unhappy. I just, I fell out of love with the game. I started playing Overwatch when I was 14. I'm 23 now. That's a lot of time. It's a good game. You know, I wouldn't be where I'm at right now. If it wasn't for Overwatch, I have met so many amazing people. I met some of my best friends ever because of the game. I've done things in my life because of the game. You know, like, I will always have a very special love for it. But at a certain point, I was like, I can't do this anymore. It's too much. So I finally took the leap of face, start doing variety.

And all of a sudden, I'm like, I love everything again. So that, that, definitely helps. That's all. You talked about how, like, your community is, like, one of the main reasons that you help. Is there, like, one, if streaming had to end immediately now, is there one specific moment or viewer message or someone from your community that you will always remember? Oh, well, that's a tough question.

I need to think about that. Maybe not a specific moment, but back in January, I just did a. sub-a-thon that lasted for two weeks. And that was probably the craziest stream I've ever had. Two weeks straight, you know, like, I went to sleep, of course. But just, I don't know, the amount of support that I felt, it has nothing to do with the subs whatsoever, you know, like, it was capped at two weeks if I hit a certain sub-gold. But that has, like, nothing to do with it.

Like, I genuinely don't care about that part. I'm thankful. But it's more so, like, I had people there all hours of the day. Normally, I go live at 8 p.m. Eastern time. And so I'm used to having people around at nighttime. But knowing I had people there at, like, 3 a.m., 8 a.m., or, you know, like two in the afternoon, just like feeling so loved throughout the entire day

and just having people watch me play so many different games during the Sub-Athon and just, you know, having all these fun goals I was able to hit and do in my community and just all these things. Like, I don't know, I just felt so loved and I felt so thankful. And I had so many new people come in during that Sub-Athon because I had a video of mine go viral at that point. So I had so many new people come in, literally right in the middle of my sub-a-thon

because my video was going viral while I was live. And so, I don't know, the whole thing felt very, very crazy. but it was such a really fun moment. I'll probably never forget that. Like I've done other sub-athons in the past, and they were also amazing, but it was just a really crazy, chaotic two weeks, and it was just really, really awesome.

I mean, that kind of goes into my next question. You know, sub-a-thon long, like two straight weeks, basically, of you being live. You know, like you said, talking about Overwatch and playing for almost a decade. You get tired. You may get burnout. So how do you, have you ever dealt with burnout with streaming?

And like, how did you climb out of that? So I feel like I definitely experienced a lot more burnout when I was streaming only Overwatch because it's the same thing every single day. Of course, every match will be a little different. But it's like, it's not even like I played a bunch of characters. I only played on it. That was it. So it's like only on the same video game, the same thing every day.

And so, of course, there's going to be burnout without a certain point. the way I would say I was able to deal with this, just taking breaks, you know, realizing when something is feeling like it's becoming a little too much, just taking a second to step back in doing that, I feel like is very important, you know, doing something off my computer and for my mental health is a very big thing for avoiding burnout or just taking care of it, you know, being able to take care of yourself is just super important. It goes without saying, but, you know, I do have things in my personal life that I love to do that helps, you know, like I'm very big in the raving.

And so going to raves is like a very big reset on my, brain to be able just like step away from my computer it's like such a big mental reset totally different than overwatch and everything you know i love my dogs going outside just spending time with them being more so in the present moment and just doing normal personal life things is a very good way that i would like to avoid burnout that's what helps me but it is definitely different for everyone especially depending on the context as well i spinning said 10 years of only on it is insane like i i i was a 10 years of a game One game is a lot.

One character only for 10 years. That's like, how? How did you get through almost a decade of only Anna? Like, I don't, it's fun. Like, I was a one-trick thrash in Leger Legends. Like, I love that. In Overwatch, I was Mercy and Lucio. Like, at least I swapped between, how did you only do Anna?

I might be a robot. I don't know. At a certain point, I feel like it became autopilot. You know, I'm just so used to it. And with streaming at that, it's not like I started streaming the moment I started playing Overwatch. But I just think because I was really focused on my chat, for a while it felt like chat was the priority.

And then Overwatch was like a side thing. And I just feel like, because I was so used to Anna, I was able to go on autopilot while just entertaining my chat and talking to my chat and everything. But I feel like that kind of help. I don't know. I just loved Anna. There was no other sniper support character.

You know, Yusuf is saying I did have an ash arc. When Stadium came out, I did start playing. a little bit of ash for the small, like, bit of my ending of like my overwatch time. But that was fun as well. Again, another sniper character. But that was only for like a very small portion of time. I don't know how I did it.

I just autopilot. I didn't think I just did. I feel like that's really the only way I could answer that. Did you ever think, has there ever been a moment that you're like, I don't want to do streaming anymore or content creation or anything? Yes. So, you know, of course, sometimes those thoughts over the years would cross my mind a little bit here and there. But really, I wouldn't say I started having those thoughts until back in February.

So very, very recent, it's not because of my community or streaming itself or anything. It's just, you know, I don't let hate get to me. Hasn't think to hate really, really weird, creepy people. Like, I'm talking, like, I'm not even going to say it on this stream. I mean, I can DM you about it if you want to know, but like, genuinely the most distaste. disgusting things I've ever seen in my life that people were saying about me. Again, not a hateful way, just a genuine gross, like, unimaginable way. And hearing those things, I was like, do I even want to keep doing content?

Because I never wanted to see those things. Again, it was that bad, you know? So that was the only time I've really ever thought, like, do I want to keep doing this? Especially with the rise of AI, because it didn't have a little bit to do AI and things like that. You know, I was like, do I want to keep doing this if things are going to get worse? But I mean, I'm still here. I didn't let it get to me, but it is definitely something in my head sometimes

where I'm like, I cannot handle this, but at the end of the day, it's not my people. I can't control what other people do, what other people say, what other people think. They are not in my community,

those people that are thinking those insane things or whatever. So that's what I have to try to view it as, but it does definitely get to me sometimes in regards of like what that specific thing is that I unfortunately did have to like see and deal with. I'm so sorry. I mean, especially I've done a couple,

podcast with female influencers and it is tough especially a female gamer too like to to to be a woman and also stream and also play games you're going to deal with a lot of things especially misogyny and some awful awful stuff for those that are you know probably thinking like oh you know i want to play games but i don't want to do with it how did you how is there anything that you can give tips on to like manage it and just fight your way through. So with the specific thing that I'm talking about that really was like getting to me, I just, if,

you know, if I can control it, I will, you know, blocking those people. You know, if I'm seeing something that I do not want to see my comment section, I block them.

You know, if someone's saying something really gross in my Twitch chat, I ban them. That's all you can do. You know, anything that happens that's outside of my control. I try, you know,

I really try not to focus too much on and worry about because ultimately I can't do anything about it. I can't control it if someone's doing something that's not on my platforms. I can only control what's on my platforms. You know, don't like a tip I can give with that. I was like, just don't obsess over it. You know, it might suck the things you have to see or deal with if it's not on your own platforms.

But like, don't obsess over it. At the end of the day, it's only going to make it worse for you. You can't do anything about it. You just got to acknowledge it. Be like, okay, that's terrible. That's disgusting and just move on. But if it's on your own socials, block the people, ban the people, delete the comments.

Just get rid of it and just move on. It sucks. You can't do anything else. Yeah. It sucks because it's like you don't want to say like it is what it is. Like that's always like the word, but it really is. It's, you know, we see things on NXC all the time. I've seen some awful things on NZXDMs for some reason that people are asking for free things.

And then you see that and you're like, buddy, come on, man. Like really, real. It is, it is what it is. And you just have to just kind of move on. It sucks. And, you know, I, Philanx had a great one. And it's like you tell them no and walk away. You just hope that is enough.

I guess we'll go a little bit into, you know, we talked a little bit about burnout. And, you know, you're like, oh, man, this is a lot. How do you stay consistent with keeping things off stream, on stream, and having a healthy work balance, you know? That's a really good question. So right now, I wouldn't say I have the best work-life balance. I feel like I've definitely been very much so like in my grind recently, which is fine. I'm sure it'll definitely dwindle down a little bit once I'm like, okay, I need to take a little bit of a break with all of it. But, you know, having a good sleep schedule, not that mine's good right now.

I feel like that's really important. And what's streaming, you know, you are home and stuff. So just having set times for everything, you know, I try to be live at 8 p.m. every night. So it's like, I know at my night times from there on out, you know, that's when I'm streaming. So having that set portion, you know, I usually start getting ready and doing everything at 6.30. You know, I feed my dogs. I usually eat myself. And then I'll get ready and everything like that. So it's like from 630 usually onwards my night I already have like reserved for all that and everything. You know, that's when I take care of things. But during the day, mostly, especially right now, I'm just like editing almost all day long.

You know, I wake up very late right now. And so that's pretty much why I'm editing all day long. You know, I'm waking up at like 2 p.m. It's not even 2 p.m. right now. So I'm normally. for making you wake up early. No problem at all. This needs to happen. But yeah, just having, I feel like a good way, even though I'm not going to take my own advice right now,

because I haven't been a good way to have a good work-life balance is just having set times for everything rather than everything being very sporadic and random. You know, like I said, 630 on words is like my time. Like get ready for work and do all the live streaming aspect of things. But my mornings is usually when I try to get my edits done. You know, whether it's my short form content working on a YouTube video. I usually do my YouTube videos after stream. But doing short form content is usually what I like to.

do right when I wake up. I'll get on my PC and do that. But it's also just having time set aside, you know, having specific times and like a routine for everything. I feel like a routine is very, very important. And a little bit about your life, you're, you know, you're super into music and raving and stuff like that. So you call yourself a gamer, raver, and a streamer.

So what does the rave scene like is, what does the race scene give that like something that you just love about that. People. I mean, of course, I love the music too. You know, I really love the music. I've always been into EDM my whole life. You know, my dad was a DJ growing up, so I've always been super surrounded by the music and involved in it.

My brother is a DJ. Like, I'm very, and my mom loves EDM. So very much so in EDM family, and I'm super thankful for that. I've always been super involved in it. But something that they've seen gives that makes my life so happy that I just love so much is, you know, outside of loving the music is the people, you know, here in America, plur is a very big thing what raves, which stands for peace, love, unity, and respect.

And so with that, you know, everyone is very accepting, very welcoming. It doesn't matter who you are, what you are, what you look like, what you dress like. It doesn't matter. People are just super welcoming. And I love that. You know, not that I'm the most different person in the world,

but it's just, I don't know, man, feeling so loved by strangers you don't even know. And it's like, you can just walk a new rave of people like, oh my God, I love you, I love your outfit. I love this, I love that. Like, I love your vibe. I love your energy. It's just, it's such a welcoming, loving,

accepting place and that makes me really happy. I genuinely really, really love that. And it's just so different from real life. It's a really awesome escape, you know, whether it's an actual festival or a local venue or whatever, you know, it's like, this is a bedroom. Everyone has a bedroom. Everyone's been in a house. But then you go, you know, I travel a lot for music. So I've seen so many different awesome venues. And it's just being able to kind of like escape reality for a little bit, go to a super cool place, hear music that you love, be surrounded by people you love, whether it's your first, or just meeting new people. I love that.

I find that so awesome. I genuinely really, really love a person aspect of it. Because I've been to events where the people are not it, and it's ruined the event for me. Like, I'm such a people person, and I've been to events where the people were not it.

And so, like, I don't like that. Great music, but if the people aren't it, like, that's a big thing for me. I just love, like, being surrounded by happy loving people. It's very, very big for me. Yeah, you know, I think,

I think people really misunderstand the raving aspect. you know, for outsiders. Like if you think like you're like, oh, all they do is just dance and, you know, go crazy and moshpin and stuff like that. But is there like a misconception that you want to clear up for those that have never been to a rave or to a festival? Yeah, I feel like a really big misconception where raves is that people just think all ravers, I mean, I hope I could say just on the stream or like D word addicts. I don't know. Am I love to say that word?

It's okay. Okay. I feel like a lot of people just think raves is that. Ravers are drug addicts, which is the furthest thing from the truth. A lot of people are sober at raves or like they don't indulge in drugs. They just drink or whatever it is, you know, I think a lot of people just be like, oh, you raved and your brain's fried, this and that. Like you just go to get messed up, which is the furthest thing from the truth.

You know, raving is an escape for a lot of people, even sober. And so I just like a lot of people don't realize how much of like a spiritual thing it is for some people or just how much of like a confidence boost it is or just anything like that for people, you know, with me at least for raving, you know, it's an escape from reality from my online life. I just get to go listen to the music I love, see the people that I love, see artists that I love, and just enjoy my time there.

It's my escape. It's something I've always loved doing my first rave I ever went to. I was 16. I went to my first ever festival at 16, my first ever concert, 16. Like, it's always been something I love. And I just feel like people don't realize that people go because they do love the music

and it's not just them wanting to go and get messed up. I feel like that's genuinely always been a very big misconception is that ravers are just drug addicts when that's just not the truth. And I feel like people don't realize that until they go to one themselves and see, oh, these people are having fun. These people know every lyric to every song or like, whatever. You know, a lot of people don't see that. You know, that's the same thing with me.

Like, I've been to a couple of rays and festivals before. I grew up listening to a bunch of EDM. Like I was, you know, there when Dubstep was first ever made, right? Like, I'm like, oh my gosh. Like, I was there when it, when it was first created. And I again like as someone that grew up in it I also thought the same thing you know I was grew up in high school listening to it and then all of a sudden I went to my first festival obviously I don't drink or smoke or anything like that so I was just like oh man well I have I had the best time man like I had so many bracelets on me by the end and I was like it was like my first ever like experience that and I agree like I think that's something that people don't think oh you know they're you know like metal bands. They think, oh, they're so crazy. No, they're like the kindest people you will ever meet.

And I love that. Yeah. Is there actually for those that don't listen to EDM or anything like that, is there a single track that you would have someone start on if they have never even do it and are interested in getting into it? For EDM as a whole, I mean, I feel like I would have to pick something. a little bit more chill and basic because I feel like what I listen to at EDM

is most definitely like on the very extreme side of it. So I feel like if I was to recommend a song for like someone that's never listened to EDM in their life, probably a John Summit song if you're familiar or a John Summit. Maybe like Where You Are by John Summit or Shiver because it's super easy. You know, you've probably heard it like Zara or something like that

or just being out. So yeah, John Summit's very easy to get into. I feel, you know, it's just very like nice, pretty house music. So yeah, maybe where you are, John Summit or Shiver. Both are very beautiful, good songs. And that is something I would do want to talk about, you know, for a lot of people, they listen to, you know, house, you know, very standard R&B maybe. You're into the harder side, you know, you know, something with a very great, you know, melodic sound and then a heavy drop.

It's like, what draws you to that heavy drop? I don't know. I've just always like chaotic things. I guess because I'm chaotic myself. I don't know. It's really hard to describe, you know. It's just like trying to describe your favorite food or place or person, whatever. It's just like, it's just a feeling, you know?

I just really, really love the hard aggressive stuff. I like nice chill stuff too, but the really hard. It just does it for me. I can't explain it. I just genuinely really, really love it. I've always been really drawn to it. It's just fun. I don't know.

It's just fun. It brings my mood up. You know, I can be having them the worst day, but I'll put on one of the crazy songs I love, but all of a sudden I got a big old smile on my face. Do you think the streaming world and the rave world collide more than you think? Like, does your community come out to events or anything like that or go to raves a lot? So I think I have built up a community of people that love to go to raves or started going because of my stream.

You know, there are a lot of people that started watching me and they're like, I don't listen to EDM, you know, but you've gotten me into EDM or I started going to Raves because of you. I started going back to raves because of you. So I think in that regard, I've been able to make a little bit of a cross. I do think even outside of me, there is a cross between EDM and gaming. And I think it's becoming more and more and more. I feel like maybe it's a little bit more prevalent in the Valoran scene. I don't know how familiar you are with like Ballarat and stuff like that. But there's this one artist, Dabin.

And I know he's done collabs with Valerant for making music for them. I'm pretty sure Zed has a couple of collabs of Valoran as well for like skins and stuff like that. So in that regard, you know, those are two big people that have crossovers. And Zed even plays Overwatch as well. You know, like Zed has done Overwatch streams as well. So I think there are. are crossovers and it's becoming only more and more of a thing. But I don't know, it also feels very niche at the same time.

Because I'll click on a lot of streams. I never hear anyone playing EDM. So when it comes to that, I'm like, maybe it's not as big as I am hoping for. But then there also are people that, like artists themselves that do play games. At the end of the day, a lot of EDM artists are massive nerds. And, you know, if you make EDM, you probably listen to EDM or have at one point in your life or whatever. So there are crosses.

I just don't think it's like a very massive cross. I see some people in chat are talking about your last CS stream. What happened during that stream? A lot of people are talking about it right now. Oh, I don't even know how to describe this. So I literally just ran it down the entire stream with the crazy music that I like to listen to, basically on a full blast on my OBS. It was basically on 100% compared to my voice volume.

You know, at a certain point, I have a unicorn mask. I was bringing that out wearing the unicorn mask while running it down in every CS match. and I had a white monster and I was literally just going crazy. Oh, you know what? It all makes that sound now. I totally get it. Yeah. Yes, I feel like that's the easiest way to put it together.

But that was a very love stream. Everyone loved that and I'm going to start doing it more. It was kind of like I also had all my govi lights in my room and my nanolives. Like they were all flashing like short white colors and everything. It was just, it was a lot. It was very over-simulating, to say to least. And everyone loved it. It kind of felt like everyone was saying I kind of brought the rave to the stream.

And I want to do that more. For the people that can't go to raves or anything like that, I'm going to start bringing the rave too much. my chat. Have you ever had noise complaints from neighbors or anything like that? No, I'm lucky to not have people that close. Thank God. I don't think I'd still be living here if that was the case. Yeah. Sounds like, yeah, if you were saying it was a vibe, sounds like a amazing time. You shouted every drop. Yeah, I get a little excited sometimes. And it's like, you know, I'm not looking at my Spotify if I'm in the middle of a game and a song that I love, which is just about every song will come on.

I'll just let out like a little yell because I'm like, I love this song. And yeah. Wow. I, you know what? I think, again, like I talked about, you have to have something that, like, people are drawn to watch. And you see, you're just scrolling through Twitch, you're like, oh, let's see what type of channels are going. You see a unicorn mask, counterstrike, and blaring. I mean, that sounds like a great time, in my opinion. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It was honestly one of the most fun streams I've had in a while. It was really fun. I guess I do want to talk a little bit about your boyfriend. By the way, congrats on him, three years. That's awesome. I also just hit, we hit three years, me and my fiance hit three years four, five months ago. I can't do backwards thing.

But congratulations. I do want to talk about having someone that's in the music space because I think you're the first ever person that I've ever had to have significant. other into it. So how did you two meet and like how does the music work? Like is he always blaring music whenever you come visit or you're just like you can't say anything about the unreleased music that he has? So we've only been together for a year. I don't know where the three years came on. No, definitely. I mean, we've only almost known each other for two years. But no, it's really cool. you know, we definitely like have very different jobs, you know, it's very different spectrums, but it's almost very similar in the same way in the sense of, you know, he has to do a lot of social

media, as do I, you know, just promoting yourself, you know, same thing, just different worlds. But we first ever met through social media, you know, he lives in the Netherlands, I'm over here in America, so obviously the chances of a meeting person was very slim and very small. But we met through, I mean, Instagram, I want to say is the more direct way, but the way it sort of happened was originally when I was just scrolling through TikTok two years ago, you know, a video of his came up of just him promoting one of his songs. And I was like, I love that. I just liked the video, moved on, whatever.

And then a couple months later, another video has came up on my feed of him promoting another song. And I was like, okay, I like this too. I'm going to like the video. I'm going to follow. Left into that, right? The next day, I see he follows me back. And I'm like, hmm, okay, interesting. And that was on TikTok.

And then I opened Instagram that morning. He followed me on Instagram too. And I'm like, all right. interesting, interesting, I follow back. I bite. I'm like, okay, interesting. Then he DMs me. Wasted no time, didn't hesitate, DMs me. Just basically saying, like, I don't think we already was just like,

this is going to sound a little random, but like, I've seen you on my for you page as well. And so I'm like, wait, that's so interesting. You know, like that kind of cross-ever. I'm like, that's so interesting. So we kind of just started talking about music at first, you know, like some of the music artists I like because that kind of music that he makes and that I listen to is not very big in America. It's growing.

It's definitely become a lot bigger in the last couple of years. but still very niche here. So he was just asking about that a little bit, you know, like where I'm from, the kind of music I like. And then we just, you know, we add each other on Discord, started playing CS together.

And then the rest was kind of just history. We just started running it down and see us together, listening to that music together. Does he also have a unicorn mask? No, he should get one, though. I should give him my unicorn mask. We should twin. By the way, apologies.

I misread. There was a post that you had for 25. I read it as one 25 weeks. So that's my bad. Sorry about that. That's all right. No worries. No worries.

So I have a question. Are you a honest critic of like whenever he does like a DJ set or anything like that? Or are you just like, oh, okay. Yes. I'm so sorry, Delano. Sometimes he's not singing the lyrics, right? And I always tell him, I'm like, dude, you got to know the lyrics. You don't know the lyrics.

I'm like, it's so obvious. please no lyrics. But yeah, he'll show me unreleased music and I'm always like honest about it. I'll be like, I really love this. Or I'm like, this could be better. Like, why don't you try turning this down or making this louder do this?

Like, I'm very honest. I'm not just there like, yeah, baby, love that. Like, I try to be as honest as I can. Because I would appreciate honesty too. You know, if like I do something in a YouTube video or like I show him a video before I post and he's like, wait, you should change this. You should do this.

You know, you should add this. Like, we help each other in that aspect where like we'll show each other like, you know, unreleased stuff. then he'll either help me in that regard or I'll help him and I appreciate that you know I feel like honestly goes a big way and something like that and so yeah that's what what lyrics says he mess up is it because is it because of his uh Dutch is it is it just no he speaks perfect English I don't know he says adrenaline just like being in the moment I get it you know he's not saying anything I think I scared him off I'm so sorry it's okay it happens I mean I mean looking at me I

I, the only language I know is English and I still get it wrong 90% of time. We all do. We all do. I can barely speak it sometimes. It happens. It happens. I know my lyrics. Right.

Anyways. Let's see. Oh, yes. For the final question. If someone wants to get into raving or raving or, music. Is there a festival or an event that you would recommend for them to try for the first time ever? That's hard to say because I feel like it really depends on the kind of music that you like. You know, part of me wants to say EDC in Las Vegas just because they have every single genre.

You know, EDC has every EDM genre. But I don't think EDC is that great of a festival, which might be a little bit of a hot take. Like I've been once. It was awesome. You know, it's a really cool festival. But I just, you know, like I said, I'm very big on people. I mentioned that beforehand. And like the people are fine at EDC. There's nothing wrong with them. But I don't know. I mean, I just think EDC is a good way to maybe see what genres you really like live and just have access to all of it in one festival. In that regard, that's amazing. But I will say my favorite festival ever is Lostlands because the people there are unlike any festival I've ever been to before. They are the kindest, sweetest, most amazing people.

genuinely ever, but Lost Lands is only dubstep for the most part. There's a little bit of drum and bass now, sometimes a little bit of hard style, but for the most part, it is primarily a hardcore dubstep festival. And so if you don't like dubstep, then you might not like Lost Lands. I mean, one of my friends came with two years ago, and she doesn't really like dubstep like that. You know, they had a pretty decent drum and bass and hard style lineup at that point a couple years ago. And so, like,

you know, we kind of went for that aspect. And she loved it for that. But she just, she thought the people were amazing. She loved it. And so If you can kind of like vibe with Dubsstep as not your favorite, but you still want to be surrounded by great people, would say Lost Lands is a great option. But if you have the same amount of money to spend because Los Lands is expensive and so is EDC, I would probably maybe just say EDC,

so you have access to every single EDM genre and figure out what you do like. I love that. Let's see. Okay, we're going to go into some Keep Three Cut Threes and then some fun little rapid fires I have for you. So we'll just do three little Keep Three Cut Three Blind ranking you have no idea what's going to happen so you can only keep three at ease and cut three

of these okay you ready better not be my dogs but go ahead oh no no don't worry about that we'll talk about them into rapid fire okay keep three cut three overwatch heroes so either playing as or playing against so keep that in mind the first one zarya keep keep zaria yeah i like zaria two so you have uh two keeps left winton Keep Winston Oh, okay So you have one keep left Just keep in eye out

You have one keep left Okay, okay, okay, okay Three Tracer Cut I play Anna, she's annoying Especially if it's a good one, you know I tried to find some Some

Anna counters Send the next one Genji Cut, damn He can go, bye bye bye All right So you have one cut One keep left

last second to last one is Sombra cut out of there no I consider Sambra my most hated character especially as that support me too

I think a lot of people would agree with that so you cut so you cut Tracer Genji Sambra and then you're going to keep Zaria, Winton and finally Diva Yeah, diva can stay

I think does a solvist I was hoping you were going to say Doom Fist if you were going to say Doom Fis is a keep I would have been a little upset. I hate Duke. I'm sorry about Doom Mains. I can't. What's the most annoying thing about Doomfist?

That he could just fly in out of nowhere, completely punish you and escape without anything happening. Like, you can't even react in time to be able to sleep him because it's that small moment of actually like shooting off your sleep where it's like he pops in front of you. You know, you're already stunned by the time your sleep tries to get out. Can't do anything. Boom, gone, done.

You can't do anything. I hate it. We're going to do another key three cut three. We're going to do games that you, you've played on stream. Okay. All right. So,

so keep three, cut three. I mean, we just talked about it. Overwatch. Cut. Oh. Oops.

Oh. I'm just, I'm over that part now. I'm over that. You've got it. You've had your time with it. So you're like, you know,

it's high for the other ones. The next one, Counter-Strike. Keep. Especially with the rain. I mean, I think that's, I have to hear.

down i'm like that sounds awesome if someone says no way for overwatch cut uh three mecha chameleon keep i've got to make so much fun with that have you played it i have it's been so fun playing with my friends

i've never because um you know like in like the i hate to call it friend slop but like it is a little friend slop it is the most fun i've had like among us was fun you know fall guys is fun repo lethal company but this there's just like so much creativity that you can have is there's just that little aspect where it just makes it so fun what is what has been your favorite thing you've done in mecca commandant i love hiding in plain sight i love literally just painting right in front and seeing how long it takes for them to be able to like realize that i'm right there i love that

aspect i really love that and the creativity part as well you know just it's great because it's not like you're just hiding or collecting things like you were not only trying to find a good spot but also being super creative at that so i just really love that aspect of the whole game have you seen that video of like this person's like an artist and they hit themselves in the mona lisa yes that's crazy i mean they had a limited time so it makes but still i like they disappeared you didn't see them anymore i just like that i'm like i'm over here making the stupidest little things like the cow under things i've done that a couple times like yeah how do you do you do you do you do you do you that man like that is it is poor not so you've kept counterstrike and mecca

chameleon you cut overwatch elden ring is your next one oh keep i i could never cut that scares me for the next two now that's okay next to Minecraft oh that's a shame i know which would you would you keep Minecraft over one of those yeah over mecca just because nostalgia reasons you know i love i love Minecraft I always love it and then the final cut is Resident Evil. Yeah, I could cut that one. It was great. I really enjoyed just playing seven and eight,

and I want two right now, but I don't know, Eldon Ring and then, obviously, like Minecraft, even though I couldn't pick that one, and then Mecca and Cia. I really love those games. Mega Camilla is so fun, man.

It's so fun. Okay. Oh, I would love to get in some rapid fire. I have a ton of questions for you. So this is one of my favorite segments, is because this is where you can kind of say you can do whatever you want for these rapid fire questions so please explain as much as you want explain as little as you want that's a fun part about rapid fire so first of all from philenex actually he asked a question that i would actually love to hear is you know you had your experiences gaming on console when was that move to pc like like you played on a little laptop and then you got into pc how was that transition like that's a good question so it was when i was seven when i first started playing minecraft and And we just had a family computer. And it wasn't good by any means.

It was actually an all-in-one computer. The PC was, like, built into the monitor. It was one of those. I don't even know if those exist anymore, but it was one of those. Not great. Do they even, are they still a thing? I don't think so. I mean, I'm, I'm imagining, like, the old, like, Macintosh ones where it's just, like, the big old, it looks like a tube.

Oh, apparently they do. Oh. No wonder no one talks about it. I mean, I mean, I work in PC industry. I haven't seen anything like that. Well, because you work in a good one. But anyways, no one heard that. But no, it wasn't like a massive PC.

No, it was actually, it wasn't that thick. You know, it was maybe like this thick. But still, we had like a little family computer that was in the kitchen. And so I would just play Minecraft all day. You know, I would do that a lot, you know, whether it was when I got home from school, I would actually do it sometimes before going to school in the morning or after whatever. I would just, you know, I'll play in the kitchen and everything like that. And I use that.

that PC for a super, super long time. Eventually the PC did end up becoming mine. I was able to eventually take over the little all-in-one computer and it became mine. But then at a certain point, it was when I was 13 and I started playing CounterStrike. I was like, okay, I'm getting 20 frames. This is bad. The game's barely running and operational at this point. So any money I got from my Christmas, birthdays, whatever, I saved it up and then I bought my first PC at 14, which was, I think it was I buy power or cyber. No, it might have been cyber power. One of those.

It was a pre-bill. I just got it on a new egg, I believe. But the specs were fine. I didn't know anything about computers. I kind of just saw it, could afford it. So I bought it. And then I was able to get like a hunter frames on CS. And I had that PC for a little bit.

It's left how it all started with me making that transition from like the Wii and GameCube and my DS to going over to PC. I love that. Is there a game you wish you could replay for the first time again? Eldon Ring. I just finished it, too, a couple months ago. And, like, it felt genuinely, especially after, I did the DLC as well, but after the base game, it felt like a divorce. Look, I've never been married.

I don't know what it's like to get divorced, but it's truly what, I feel like it would probably be worse than a divorce. It genuinely felt like a breakup. It was awful. I was like, wow, like, I wish I could explore everything for the first time again. I wish I could do all these things again for the first time, and I'll never have it again. I was, I did a couple of streets before I moved.

and I was doing an Eldon Ring stream. Because I've never played, I played like Dark Soul Street, but for like an hour. So like nothing insane. I started playing on stream for Eldering. And I know a lot of people in the, in the community were making fun of me because I'm like,

I could not. I, I never played these type of like, you have to keep trying and trying and trying games. And then I got into it. And I'm like, I get it now. I will be doing it again, guys.

Just you got to give me time. We're still moving. moving, but once you get set up, I will do an Eldon retreat. I was also using a Nintendo Switch Pro controller with Bluetooth, which means I was literally having input lag and I didn't realize it. So we're good now. I saw you have it in your thing. You have an 8-bit dough control.

I got the same exact one. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. I'm ready now. I will do it. It's a good. Yeah, it's good. Especially for the price.

It was like $25 or something like that. Great controller. I had an Eldron question. Who is your favorite boss you ever beat? Ooh. Oh, that's hard to say. I really loved Mesmer. He's in the DLC.

Mesmer was really good. No, Yusuf, not Moog. No, there's a interesting Twitch clip of me. I had a very unfortunate situation with Moog, but I don't know. I want to say, so I was stuck on Moog for the longest time. I don't know what it was. I could not beat Moog.

It was so bad. And then after trying for, I think it took me like two days. Anyways, I finally beat. him or so I thought. I had killed him and I put my controller down. I kind of just like sat back like this because I was like so happy he was finally done, not realizing I was standing in like his blood rain and I only had a little bit of health left. So I died even though I had killed him, but since it didn't say, what does it say after you kill someone? Yeah, it didn't say it. And I died before it said that. So I had to do it again. And I kind of just like my brain stopped working

when I realized that and like I didn't know how to react. Like my. brain genuinely stopped working. My mic was the closest thing to me. And I kind of was like put my mouth over to Mike because I didn't know how to react and like kind of was like making a bunch of noises. I was like, oh, like I didn't know what was going on. And someone clipped it and then someone put it in a YouTube video and used it as a thumbnail. And the video has like over 80,000 views or something. So it free exposure. But like I genuinely like I couldn't react. I was so mad. Then it took me a good couple of hours to actually beat him. I think I equate that as like when you stub your toe and you can't make noise.

you're just like, oh, oh, like, you're just, yeah, yeah. Yeah, essentially, yes. Was there a game that you, what is the game that you sunk the most hours into? Easily Minecraft. Since I've been playing it for so long, though, since I was a little kid. I can't even, I wish it was like Steam where you could see how many hours you have. I genuinely think it would be crazy if I could see. But I would say Overwatch is probably a very close second, if anything.

I've definitely spent a lot of time on Overwatch as well. Do you have a favorite CS2 item? I love the M4A1S print stream I've always loved the print stream I have a real life replica it's not shown on my stream because it's like above my window

but I have a real replica and it says my name on the barrel it is so awesome and beautiful I really love it why I saw that when I was checking your I think it was your Instagram or something like that I saw that picture I was like that is a sick M4 that's cool

I love that. Oh, what is your most hated CS map? I don't know. I don't really hate any of the maps. Oh, probably Nuke, actually. I don't like Nuke. I've never been a fan of Nuke from the first time I ever played it to now. I don't like Newk.

I'm not a fan of the hostage maps, but it's not like I hate them. I just don't like that play style. But, yeah, nuke I've never been a fan of. I don't know. I can't do it. I'm kind of with you on that. I'm not the biggest fan of nuke either.

I'm fine with it. Yes, I know Marash is old. I know a lot of people. I like Mirage more to Nuke. I agree. Me too. Marage is one of my favorites. Mirage and train.

I really like train too. Where did your love of bugs come from? I don't know. It's hard to say. I just always really like bugs. I've always just, I don't know. I just seem as like another life form, especially with them being so small and like helpless.

They can't speak or anything like that. And just them being misunderstood. I've always just loved them. You know, I don't kill bugs unless they're earwigs. I've been dealing with that. my bedroom recently. I hate them. I don't know if y'all have them in California, but they drive me insane and they only love my bedroom. No, where else I'm out, just my bed and that pisses me off. But aside from those, they don't count. I love bugs. I don't know. I have a couple

bug tattoos. Like, I'm just like, I always help them. If I see them in my house, I bring them outside. They're just, they're cute to me. I don't know. I really like them. Do you have a favorite bug? I love prang mantises. Ah, great one. Fantastic. Which of your hamsters is the biggest stream menace? So for anyone doesn't know he's referring to my dogs that I have. I called him a hamster recently because everyone's always like asking him the breed of my big one was. But I would say cashmere is definitely the biggest menace. He's my small male that I have.

He's just very loud and he loves to make himself known. You know, when we were doing the audio testing before the stream, he was making himself known. He just loves to call at the side of my chair and get my attention. He loves to bark. He's very noisy. He's good right now. And he's good during my streams too. But if he hears something, he definitely makes himself known.

But yeah, they're all very good for the most part. But I would definitely say he's definitely a menace for the most part during my streams. Which one is the cuddliest? Odessa, my small little girl, she is like a genuine baby. And anyone that's ever met her, they know she is like the sweetest little baby ever. What is the favorite thing one of them does that chat just goes crazy over? Definitely when Kezo, my big one, that everyone thinks it's like a dire wolf, definitely just when he shows himself. Everyone loves that.

They're like, oh my God, there's the wolf, blah, blah, blah. Like, everyone loves him. He'll always come up. He'll go on my couch and put his arms on my chair arm and he'll just stand here. He'll pull at me because he loves to have his arm scratched. And he just, he kind of just arm of arms. I don't know how else to describe it. Everyone loves when he does that.

He is literally, like, you could ride him into a battle. Like he looks like that type of dire wolf. Yeah. Yeah. Which one eats everything they're not supposed to? Honestly, they're all really good. None of them really get into anything or do anything. I would probably say Kezo, my big one, because sometimes he'll kill like a rabbit in my yard and like, you're not supposed to eat a rabbit.

But aside from that, they're all really good. No one does anything or eats anything that they're not. supposed to. If you had to assign each of your hamsters, one artist, which one would be which? Like a music artist? Yeah. So that's really funny you ask that. Oh yeah, each one is an actual artist, right? It's named after an art. I really don't have to describe that. I mean, if I had to like choose someone that doesn't have anything to do with their names, I would say Kazo, my husky is kind of like if anyone knows who Salvatore Ganasi is, he's very out there. and weird and crazy and just like not normal

and that's definitely my Husky, so I think that's fitting. If I was to say for Odessa, my small little girl, what kind of artist would she be like? Well, that's hard. That's really tough. I don't know, maybe like some lofi artist

because she's really wholesome. She's just awesome. I don't know. I don't know any low-fi artist names. But as for Kashmir, I don't know, he's loud and crazy. Who's loud and crazy? I think. I don't know.

It's like hard to think of all the top of my head. Someone that's just loud and crazy on the mic. I don't know, maybe they're both Salvatore Ganachi. No, not Little Texas. He doesn't really talk. I don't know. It's hard to say. They all have very different personalities.

What is your biggest grape? Owners that don't pick up after their dogs or off-leash untrained dogs. awfully shuntering dogs. I deal with that so much and they have come after me and my dog so many times I can't handle that. If someone doesn't pick up after their dog,

at least I can avoid that. If you're just out on a walk and someone has an unleashed untrained dog, you can't do anything about that. You can avoid a little bit of poo-poo and sidewalk. You can't really avoid a dog charging at you. What is the most painful piercing you've gotten? I don't think they're painful.

Really? None of them. I mean, like my eyebrow, I used to have lip piercings. I don't have them anymore. I didn't feel those. My eyebrow piercing, it just felt like maybe the,

teeniest pinch. So I'd say that. I don't know. I think I have a really high pain tolerance. So like, but they're not painful to me. What was your first tattoo? So this right here, it's actually the Odessa logo. Are you familiar O'Dazza's music at all? A little bit. I have listened to them beforehand, but I am not like current of them. You're good. So their music has always meant a lot to me since I was 12. I've always really, really loved them and their music. You know, this is my first tattoo, which is their logo. I got it right on my 18th birthday when I was legally able to get a tattoo. You know, my dog is named Odezza.

I have Odezza merch. I have an Odezza fan for my raves. Like I really like O'Dazzo. So that's definitely I would say why that would be my first tattoo. It's not a D-20. Yeah, I was that saying D-20. It does look like a D-20. I get that so much.

Yes, everyone's always like, oh, you play Dungeons and Dragons. I'm like, no, I actually haven't played it one time. That's not what it's for. Which crystal do you like the most? Ooh. I like Black Obsidian. I think Black Obsidian is really awesome. What's a crystal that everyone should have into possession right now? Oh, rose quartz, because I feel like everyone needs more love in their life with the current state of the world and everything. Everyone needs more love and positivity.

Someone says isn't all Obsidian black? Well, the specific crystal is Black Obsidian. It's purple in Minecraft, so I don't know. All right, it is. Yeah. What is your favorite gym exercise? Ooh. Ooh. I love the leg press.

I've always been a little theme for the leg press. I love it. If you could only hit one workout for the rest of your life, would it be legs, cardio, upper body, legs. Legs, for sure. I feel like a lot of people hate doing legs. I absolutely love doing legs. What is your most played track at the gym as of right now? I'm going to go to my on repeat on Spotify because that will tell me.

I have definitely not been very consistent in the last month. So that's a little unfortunate. Probably got you a base by fraud. I'm going to put that on my phone. It sounds like cast iron pans being smacked together and I really like it. I'm serious. I will add that to my list right now. I listen to a lot of EDM during my, I have to have something that's just like blaring my thing before a heavy lift.

I'm like, I got to have something that I can't even think. Too, too, too, too. I think you would love uptempo then. Do you listen to any uptempo? No, I haven't. I was super, super into, like, it was a trap, dub step. I loved house for a long time. And then, like, I just completely stopped after, I think like college.

I got into, you know, a lot of college kids were listening to a lot of rap. and hip hop, so I got super into that, then I got into rock. You know, I definitely think I should get back into some EDM. I think you should. I mean, you're in California. You live in the perfect place if you do end up going to raves and stuff again. Do you have an up-tempo artist I should listen to? I mean, not being biased, but I'll just say illusion because he's my boyfriend.

But he makes great music. He makes great music. I will add it. I got you. I got you. There you go. Would you rather go to festival sets or club shows.

Festivals any day. Any day. I don't like, like, do you mean clubs like for like ED out or just like regular clubs? Just like regular. Yeah. Still festivals. So festivals. More players.

Just so much more fun. Uh, is there a dream festival that you would love to go to? Ooh. I've been, I'm really thankful to be able to say I've been to my dream festivals already, but one that I haven't been to that I would love to go to. I really want to go to Shambala. It's in British Columbia. It's, I don't know, it seems really nice and really amazing.

I would love to go to Shambala one day. Oh, is there a clip that blew up that you didn't completely expect? Is it the one where you're eating your mic? Well, that one didn't really blow up on, like, Twitch or social media. I mean, it did good in that YouTube video, but probably just the one of my dog standing next to me. I really did not expect that. Like, you know, he does look really massive in that clip, and he looks beautiful. I mean, he's a beautiful dog, no denying that.

but, you know, I don't ever post anything expecting it to get a lot of views, but I did not expect that to get. I think I've posted it twice just because I'm going to reform it. Why not? But the first time I posted it on Instagram, it has over 22 million views. And like, to me, I'm just like, I didn't expect that. YouTube has like almost 10 million views the first time I posted it. TikTok has millions of views on it.

Like, I genuinely didn't expect that at all. Wow. Is there a stream or moment that you're generally proud of that nobody clipped? I don't know Hard to say I mean I don't really check my Twitch clips too often you know like for editing and stuff

I clip everything myself so it's hard to say I don't know I don't know if I can answer that one Nothing comes to the top of my end Not beating mode Definitely not I don't know I'm not sure how to answer that one

I can't really think of something in specific Why is your chat obsessed with feet What They're not Not that I'm aware of I mean I make jokes about people that are in the feet. I don't know.

I mean, we all just like to joke with each other and say a bunch of random things. In one of the, guys, it was in your video, it was like asking questions from the community. And then like, there was like eight questions

about just like, oh, you have 11 toes. And I was just like, why are they obsessed with feet? I don't know. I just, we all like to joke with each other are the most random ways.

I really like that my community. I like, we're close in that regard, We'll just say whatever. Like, I let a lot of things slide if it's cool or if I know the person or whatever. But yeah, I don't know. We kind of just say a lot of really random things together. So, yeah.

Also, I agreed with that video of like, you know, you meet someone. They're like, oh, I love that. But you meet someone that loves feet. Oh, you saw that one. Yeah, well, they're crazy. They love feet. Be into whatever you want to be in. I don't care.

But it's like, no judge. Feet people are a monster. They, oh, my gosh. Like, like, like he said, like if you like, you know, raves, you like music, you like gaming. Yeah, I like people that like feet. Oh, they, they like it. They love it.

You can hear it from a mile away that I could probably hear someone down the road right now talking about it. Who doesn't like Marlia's feet? Great. Understandable. This is why I don't show my feet on stream. Is there the best piece of advice that you've ever been given? Ooh. This piece of advice I've ever been.

be given. Let me think. That's a tough one to answer. I don't know. I feel like I don't really have any advice that's necessarily stuck with me. I will say, even though it's not really advice, it's more so something someone said about me that's always stuck with me. I mean, I wouldn't take it as advice, but

my grandpa has always said since a very young age that he always felt like something was just very different about me and that he just felt like I was capable of doing something really big. And that's not advice, but I'll seem kind of realm a little bit. I don't know. That's always really stuck with me. And I just kind of always wanted to make him

proud. I love that. So not advice, but kind of more like motivation, because I'm not sure for advice. I listen to my own advice. I don't know. Is there a dream collab person or brand that you would love to work with? Ooh, for a person, I want to say maybe jinxie. Jynxie's so funny. I just watched him play Eldon Ring and like I never really watched them before. But I don't know. I just, I like people that are loud and crazy and jinxie is loud and crazy. So him or I can compare to XQC a lot. I feel like XQC would probably be a fun one. I feel like we'd probably be able to bounce off of each other really well. Or speed. Speed would be funny too. I just like loud, crazy people. As for maybe like a brand, I don't, I mean, I've

always had Astros. That's the headset I'm wearing right now. I've used them since I was 12. I know they got bought out by Logitech. So it's a little different now. I've worked with Logitech. But like my dream sponsor since I was little is always Astro because I've always loved this headset. I had Astor 840s back then. Oh my gosh. Fantastic headset. Love those things. Thank you for saying that.

Everyone trashes on them. I love that. Why are you trashed out of the 840s? I don't know. Everyone says they sound terrible. Anyone that's ever come over to my house and put my headset on literally says they sound like shit. I think they sound great. I don't know.

They don't have good ears like us. Thank you. Hey, they don't sound out. Hey, they don't sound out bad. Oh, my everyone's sad. I'll just go, wow. Everyone says they're off. Everyone says they're bad.

I'm with you. They're great. And for the final question, any creators who inspire you that you love to shout out? Ooh. I don't know. I really honestly, it might sound a little weird to say, I don't really keep up with any creators or watch anyone. I try to just like do my own thing for the most part. Not that that would interfere with it, but I don't know.

That's really hard to say. I mean, let me think for a second with that at least. I don't know. It's hard to answer that question. I mean, I kind of mentioned, like, I would love to do a collab with Jingsy one day. I guess maybe him. I just love people that aren't afraid to be weird and be themselves and just are loud. I'm loud.

I love loud people. I am one of those people that believes loud equals funny. Like, that's just how I feel. And I don't know, seeing someone at his size that's that big and is that big known for being loud and crazy. Like, that makes me happy knowing that like, okay, there's someone is someone out there that is loud and insane that has made it. You know, like him, XQC speed. You know, all those people, like they're very loud enough. And so like, I guess then because it lets me know, like, I can be the way I am and people do enjoy that.

I love that. All right. I'm going to go into a couple announcements and then I'm going to hand it back over to you to answer something. So two quick announcements, everyone. We currently have some prime day deals happening right now. So you guys get discounts on things like the NCC Crackett Plus and core coolers. Our old 86 flow, since we now revamped our new 86. Single fray friends and a ton of more.

You guys can go to nzxt.com slash Amazon or Esclamation point prime in chat. You guys go check them out. Today is the last day of the prime sales, but we will have some sales after that. So just keep an eye out on Amazon page. Like we said, thank you so much to Intel for helping a sponsor our lovely little club. You guys can get some free stuff like shirts, plushies, and the biggest prize of them all on Intel PC. You guys go to nzxte.co slash club. you guys sign up and participate in our community to earn poochy points.

And the more points you earn, the more entries you get into the giveaway. So please start ASAP and get more points now. Anyone else get the invite for the feedback invite? Yes, we are having a feedback event. This is something that we've started that I've kind of been helming. And I don't see a lot of other companies doing this. We are inviting people into either virtual or to our HQ here in Monterevey, California, to literally like talk to like our CEO, our product team,

and you guys are literally helping us shape our things. For a reason why we only want feedback from SoCal for the in-person ones, we can't provide like people, we can't fly people out to us. So that's why we say like, if you could get to us, probably be better if you're just in SoCal so you don't have to fly in and spend a ton of money. We can't provide funds to fly you in. but we are seems like you're only looking for one per sec that's why we do a virtual event

every other month that we can do you know every anywhere in the world we had a couple people in germany uh how to deal with the weird time changes it's weird but don't worry think you guys should come to me we could i mean i would love to fly out that'd be awesome germany mentioned uh yes uh so please uh dare a feedback forum on our website if you guys wanted to join and seriously you're helping us shape the future of nzxd so thank you guys so much for that um let's see okay i'm gonna hand it back over to you leah um is there anything next for any exciting projects or events or anything you have coming up that you want to shout out Not necessarily. I'm sorry to get a Minecraft server for my community soon. That should be done.

Hopefully soon. I'm excited for that. I'm really looking forward to that. But outside of that, not necessarily, no. I mean, I'm just going to continue doing variety content and just doing my own thing, being consistent on social medias and just, I don't know, just being me.

I mean, I don't have anything exciting right now going on, unfortunately. I wish I did. But I've just been so locked into the grind recently. So just continuing to do that, continuing being myself, putting out content and just trying to grow everything I've already done. I'm going to go ahead and put your socials into the thing,

but if you want to tell people that are listening, where to find your online content. Yes. So I go by Mar-L-L-E-A. That is my Twitch name. And if you ever want to see my clips on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, well, my YouTube is different, actually, Instagram and TikTok or Facebook, it's all Mar-L-L-E-A.

And for my YouTube, it is spelled a little bit differently. It's M-A-A-R-L-E-E-E-A. That's why I also post YouTube videos and shorts as well. So, yeah, you can just, I'm sure, search Marlia anywhere and myself will pop up since it's a little bit of an uncommon name. But yeah, that's me. And I like doing variety gaming content. And if you like EDM and crazy people that are loud and don't know how to stop talking, I think you would love me. Quick thing before we go into the secret code.

I don't know if they're still here. Zexvier did a cute little comment for you. You are such an inspiration. I'm a big rave or two and have always wanted to get into streaming. So I really hope that they listen to the podcast today and hopefully they start streaming soon. So I thought that was a very lovely comment to end the podcast on. Yeah, that's so sweet. I didn't see that.

Oh, if you're still listening, you can do it. There's more of us out there, I promise. So we have a secret code word for those that stay till the end of the podcast for a thousand extra entries into the giveaway, because that's my way of holding these guys hostage. I would love to hand it over to you for the secret code word. So what would you like the secret code word to be? It could be anything you want. Mimi.

My chat will understand that one. Am I? Am I? Am I? Yep. Mimi. My chat will know. They'll understand.

First of all, the, her Twitch is right here. I saw someone asking where her Twitch is. It's Twitch. TV slash Marlia. But I'm going to go change the code to Mimi right now. It is updating. So please refresh your gleams before you type in the code. That is for a thousand extra entries into the giveaway.

Do you have anything else before I go ahead and end the podcast, Leah? Sure. Yeah. If there's anyone watching a chat right now that is an aspiring streamer or YouTuber or content creator or anything of this sort, I want you to know that it's definitely possible and you can do it. You don't need to be the most crazy person in the world or best gamer in the world or anything. If you could just provide something of value in any way to somebody, you can do it.

You can make it. Believe in yourself. Leaving in yourself is the most important thing. I never thought I'd be at the point I'm at right now. I don't think anyone thinks that at any point that they're at. So you can do it, believe in yourself, just do the things that make you happy and people will follow along. Even if it takes a little bit. It might take a little bit.

It might be a little long, but that doesn't mean it won't come on camera. That doesn't mean it won't happen at all. So you got to just believe in yourself and do what makes you happy. It will be, it's about the journey, not the destination, everyone. Exactly, yes. You got that. Well, thank you guys for joining us today. And remember, tune in live on Fridays at 10 a Pacific Center Time on the official NCC Twitch.

And don't forget to listen to previous episodes on Apple Podcast, Spotify, SoundCloud, and YouTube. If you have any questions for us, send an email to podcast at ncc.com or tag at NXT on social media platforms. Thank you, Leah for joining us today and giving us some awesome, awesome insights into the rave and streaming community. I hope everyone has a very, very safe weekend. Bye, everyone. Thank you for having me. Bye, guys.