“If you open a Twitch account right now, you just turn it on, you’re gonna get zero viewers, and how do you get people to your stream when there’s hundreds of thousands of other streamers offering the same thing?” he explains. I think once you hit the thousands, you feel like you’ve made it to the point where you can sustain yourself.”Īlthough Twitch is ground zero for the new streaming boom, Toast’s advice to wannabe streamers is to get their start on YouTube, instead. “I spent a long time at just a hundred viewers. “it wasn’t until my second year of streaming that I started going to 2,000 viewers, 3,000 viewers, 4,000 viewers, and slowly building up,” he explained. Toast stopped by DT Daily to chat about life as a Twitch streamer, Valve’s upcoming Hearthstone competitor, and more.Īlthough Twitch is the premier site for gaming streamers, Toast actually got his start on YouTube, making videos that could be both informative and humorous, like this combo compilation. Toast - his name is a play on the Hearthstone card SI:7 Agent, which says “This guy’s toast” when you play it - not only plays games like Hearthstone multiple days a week, he also provides useful guides to popular decks, the best cards to acquire, and more. The people playing the games are as much the draw as the games themselves, and for fans of the digital card game Hearthstone, streamer Disguised Toast is a guiding light. Why would you want to watch someone else play video games, after all? Well, aside from the fact that some games (like Dota or Dragon Ball Fighterz) make for great spectator sports, Twitch is home to some great personalities. Twitch’s popularity may seem weird to people who grew up without the internet.

The streaming service, which largely provides a venue for viewers to watch other people play video games, has grown from a niche site to one of the most popular sites in the world according to Alexa, it’s the 14th ranked site in the U.S. If you’re a 20-something gaming enthusiast - or someone who has kids - you’re probably aware of Twitch. Between early August 2020 and September 17th, 2020, after he started uploading Among Us gameplay videos, the YouTuber gained over 600,000 subscribers on YouTube. Together with xQc, Disguised Toast is largely responsible for the mainstream popularization of the game in August and September 2020.Īs of September 2020, Disguised Toast had over 1.75 million subscribers on YouTube and over 506,000 followers on Facebook. On August 4th, Disguised Toast started streaming the Mafia-inspired video Among Us alongside with fellow OfflineTV streamers and several others streamers on Facebook Gaming and uploading gameplay highlights to his YouTube channel. In 2019, Disguised Toast moved away from Hearthstone to focus on the autobattler game Teamfight Tactics, also playing a variety of other strategy-based and shooter games on his streams and YouTube channel.

In 2017, Disguised Toast joined the content creator collective OfflineTV which, as of September 2020, also includes streamers and YouTubers Scarra, Pokimane, LiluPichu, Yvonnie and Michael Reeves. While the line is 'Ha, this guy is toast,' it can be easily misheard as 'Ha, disguised toast,' which was a subject of jokes in the Hearthstone community. The name 'disguised toast' originates from the summoning quote of Hearthstone card SI:7 Agent. He officially revealed his face in October 2016 during a live stream on Twitch. Early in his career as a Hearthstone YouTuber, Disguised Toast wore a cardboard mask of a toasted slice of bread with a mustache and sunglasses drawn upon it, also using the picture on as his YouTube logo and profile picture. On April 7th, 2015, Hearthstone player Jeremy 'Disguised Toast' Wang launched his YouTube channel, posting his first YouTube video, a Heartstone highlight, on April 23rd, 2015 (shown below, left). Originally a prolific Hearthstone YouTuber and competitive player, Disguised Toast reached significant success with his Among Us videos and streams in August and September 2020 and is largely responsible for the popularization of the game along with streamer xQc. Disguised toast, this guy is toast, jeremy wang, hearthstone, streamer, youtuber, among us Aboutĭisguised Toast is the online handle of the Canadian YouTuber and streamer Jeremy Wang, best known for his Hearthstone, Teamfight Tactics and Among Us gameplay videos.