Soulja Boy is convinced he’s the reason Twitch is so popular: “That was all me”
DeAndre ‘Soulja Boy’ Way is convinced he’s the reason Twitch is so popular, with the superstar rapper claiming he “made it cool” to play games for an audience online way back in 2007, when Justin.tv was still in its early years.There’s no denying Twitch is an internet powerhouse these days.Streaming stars like Pokimane, Shroud, and Ninja have risen to becomepopular modern-day celebritiesin their own right offthe back of the broadcasting platform, while others like Valkyrae and TimTheTatman have usedtheir stardom on the Amazon-owned websitetoleverage multi-million dollar deals.Things get a little more blurry, apparently, when it comes to who built the foundations of the site. Way back yonder, in 2007,Twitch was called Justin.tv. That site’s founders likely have a big claim, as do Amazon and Curse.Then there are the streamers themselves, who draw in viewers.One man believes he knows the reason though. According to Soulja Boy, he’s one of the big reasons Twitch is the streaming juggernaut it is today.
The rapper suggests “esports came out in 2010. Google it, YouTube it, Wikipedia it, whatever you gotta do (which we did,Google says 1972). I had SODMG since 2004.”
That doesn’t stop Soulja Boy from sticking up for Twitch though; just last week,he blasted TimTheTatman, accusing him of “selling out” by joining YouTube.
