Grandpa Joins Twitch, Accidentally Becomes Top Just Chatting Streamer
78-year-old Barry from Leeds just wanted to watch his grandson play Fortnite. Clicked the wrong button and started broadcasting himself drinking tea, feeding pigeons from his window, and ranting about the price of biscuits. Three hours later he had 40,000 viewers.
His stream title is permanently “Having a Cuppa & a Chat – No Games.” Peak concurrent was 180,000 the day he discovered emotes and spent twenty minutes trying to figure out what “Poggers” means. Chat spams “BOOMER POG” every time he says “back in my day.”
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He’s made enough in donations to buy the entire retirement home new slippers and still thinks subs are sandwiches. His catchphrase “Right then, who’s next?” has its own sound alert.
Your grandad could beat all of us at life. Prove it – send him this!