A Fortnite streamer lately shaved his complete 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 almost 83,000 followers on Twitch, making him one of many quickest rising Fortnite gamers, in accordance with 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 foreign money—as he performs and watches Epic Video games’ fashionable battle royale shooter (amongst different issues like YouTube movies) for days on finish. However round day three, Lacy came upon {that a} prime donor to his long-running livestream wasn’t critical 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 mentioned in a June 20 stream. “Shaved my fucking eyebrows. To refund? I don’t even wanna end the subathon, bro.”
Preserving his promise to his followers
In Twitter DMs with Kotaku, Lacy mentioned he shaved his head on June 21 and has since dyed the rising peach fuzz pink. He wasn’t certain why the donor rescinded the cash however defined what occurred subsequent.
“[The donor] didn’t clarify something,” Lacy mentioned. “They deactivated their Twitch, then blocked me on Twitter and Fortnite. I came upon as a result of a number of folks within the streaming house DMed me and mentioned the identical particular person donated a whole bunch of {dollars} to them and in addition refunded.”
Lacy mentioned that though he loves his hair as a result of it’s by far his “greatest trait,” he made a promise to his viewers throughout the subathon and would by no means break his phrase even when the cash by no means materialized. That mentioned, he nonetheless isn’t the largest fan of the brand new look he’s rocking.
“It didn’t really feel dangerous at first, to be sincere,” Lacy mentioned.” I liked my hair, although. I had lengthy curly hair and by no means shaved or did something to it all through my complete life. However as soon as I dyed it pink (which was one other aim of the subathon), it actually sucked as a result of I don’t just like the look and I don’t even wanna go into public trying the best way I do proper now.”
It’s unclear why the viewer rescinded the donation, although they later despatched in a greenback. Regardless of being audibly and visibly disenchanted with the scenario, Lacy’s chat nonetheless cheered him on, sending additional 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 has been marathoning for 9 days and might be stay for an additional 4, if you wish to test him out.
Replace 06/27/2023 6:25 p.m. ET: Added remark from Lacy.