By Teddy Amenabar and Jonathan Lee
DrLupo has made millions while streaming to his 4.5 million followers on Twitch and another 1.8 million subscribers on YouTube. He’s used that platform to raise millions more in fundraising for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, serving as something of a celebrity to the hospital’s patients, as well as their benefactor. All of this success, he said, can be traced back to five years ago when he decided to start playing a cartoonish shooter game called “Fortnite.”
“It’s the base for a lot of what I’ve been able to do in my career,” Lupo, whose real name is Ben Lupo, told The Washington Post in August. “It was hands down the most important thing that I ever did with streaming.”
“Fortnite,” the wildly popular battle royale that pits a hundred players against each other in a fight to be the last player or team standing, first released in September 2017. The game became an instant success, growing to hundreds of millions of players and raking in hundreds of millions in revenue every month despite being free to play. In the process, it became much more than a moneymaker, resonating in ways few entertainment products ever have.
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