A Fortnite streamer lately shaved his whole head, eyebrows included, for an enormous $2,500 donation from a viewer that wound up taking the cash again.
Lacy is a 20-year-old content material creator on Twitch and YouTube. He began importing in Might 2020 and has since amassed 9,000 subscribers on YouTube and practically 83,000 followers on Twitch, making him one of many quickest rising Fortnite gamers, in response to analytics from TwitchTracker. Since June 18, Lacy’s been working an uncapped subathon—a marathon livestream that runs for so long as the streamer receives bits, Twitch’s proprietary forex—as he performs and watches Epic Video games’ well-liked battle royale shooter (amongst different issues like YouTube movies) for days on finish. However round day three, Lacy came upon {that a} high donor to his long-running livestream wasn’t severe in regards to the donation they despatched the Fortnite participant.
Esports journalist and Twitch watchdog Jake Fortunate tweeted on June 26 that the Twitch viewer who gifted Lacy 251,092 bits (roughly $2,510 USD) refunded that donation even after the Fortnite participant shaved his complete head.
“You made me shave my head bald,” Lacy stated in a June 20 stream. “Shaved my fucking eyebrows. To refund? I don’t even wanna end the subathon, bro.”
Kotaku reached out to Lacy for remark.
It’s unclear why the viewer rescinded the donation, although they later despatched in a greenback. Regardless of being audibly and visibly dissatisfied with the state of affairs, Lacy’s chat nonetheless cheered him on, sending further bits to make up for the vanished $2,500. And every bit donated elevated the size of Lacy’s streams, in order of the time of this writing, the rising Fortnite participant shall be reside for an additional 70 hours if you wish to verify him out.
