Streamer uses the “Depp vs. Heard” process for his success – now he’s ashamed of it
The court case between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard made huge waves on the internet. Hundreds of thousands of viewers followed the case via various live streams. YouTube streamer Ludwig “Ludwig” Ahgren has now confessed to using the process for content.
Many Twitch and YouTube streamers used the live broadcast of the court case between Depp and Heard. They also showed the stream on their channel and watched it with their viewers. Incidentally, they sprinkled in their own reactions.
The six-week campaign made such waves that it became the new meta on Twitch alongside pool and cooking streams. Well, on June 1st, the process came to an end and one day later Ludwig commented on allegations from his community.
A clip on Twitch also caused a stir. Check out our video to learn the story of the platform’s most popular clip:
“This is sad for me to see, this is embarrassing”
What was the process about? Roughly speaking, it should be clarified who abused whom in the marriage between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. In the case, various pieces of evidence and even wild voice recordings were shared. On June 1, the process ended with Depp winning.
What did Ludwig say? The streamer was accused of using the court process for content. He didn’t deny this any further and openly said: “I used this case for content.” He then went into his YouTube statistics, which revealed how many viewers follow his streams.
Ludwig showed that his top-performing YouTube stream peaked at 85,546 people. He topped this record with the last live broadcast of the trial and achieved 87,538 viewers. He then exclaimed, “That’s sad for me to see, that’s embarrassing!”
He further admitted not to have streamed the case to give the whole thing more attention but to benefit from it and compared himself to a car. People would have followed the process anyway, so they just “sat in his car” and watched the spectacle together with him.
You can see Ludwig’s entire statement in this video:
He did, however, praise himself a little: “Maybe that’s a little cheeky, but of all the vehicles you could have chosen, I guess this car wasn’t that bad.” Ludwig argued that he was trying to comment on the trial “normally” without insulting Amber Heard or to show a counter in the stream that counted how many times she cried.
But Ludwig concluded: “Perhaps it was wrong of me to even cover it. Selfishly, I grew from it. Do you know. And maybe that’s a bad thing.”
Other streamers following Depp vs. Heard
Large, well-known Twitch streamers such as xQc, Asmongold and Pokimane also sat with their viewers in front of the live broadcast from the courtroom. The MMORPG streamer Asmongold in particular covered the process extensively and very actively.
He also regularly brought reactions to it on his YouTube channel and plastered it with it. The videos often brought more clicks than his MMORPG videos and were often at least 500,000 to 1 million views.
On the final day of the trial, Asmongold was watched by an average of 147,500 people, with a peak of 448,161 concurrent viewers. That’s more than some Nintendo Direct or Playstation presentations generated in the past.
If you want to learn more about the court case and the Twitch faces, you can do so in our article on MeinMMO: After hot tubs and cooking shows, the latest Twitch meta is a court case between 2 superstars
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