Brandon Ewing (born April 19, 1991), better known as Atrioc, is an American content creator and online streamer, best known for his economic and political coverage. Since 2025, he has been a cohost of the Lemonade Stand podcast.
Born in Glendale, Arizona, Ewing began streaming gaming content in late 2019 while working as a marketer at Nvidia. In 2020, he began an ongoing news series on his live streams called Marketing Monday, where he uses his prior work experience to break down contemporary topics related to marketing and business to his audience. Ewing gained prominence for his content surrounding the Hitman video game franchise, in which he previously held a world record for speedrunning. In 2022, Ewing became a full-time streamer.
In January 2023, Ewing was the subject of a controversy after he accidentally revealed a browser tab that contained a website selling deepfake pornography of female streamers during a live stream. He subsequently issued a public apology and took a hiatus from streaming. Ewing later made efforts to combat the spread of deepfake pornography by funding legal services and working with companies that could issue takedown notices to websites hosting deepfaked content.
Ewing began shifting his content to center more on politics in 2024. In July 2025, Ewing interviewed former chair of the Federal Trade CommissionLina Khan on his podcast. In September, he was invited onto the This Is Gavin Newsom podcast, where he discussed affordability with the California governor. Newsom later credited Ewing with helping him understand the economic issues faced by young voters.
In 2014, Ewing began working at Twitch as a content marketing coordinator, and later as a content marketing manager.[3][4] During his time at Twitch, Ewing co-hosted Twitch Weekly, a weekly series broadcast by Twitch that covered news and events pertaining to the platform.[5] In December 2017, Ewing left his position at Twitch[‡ 7] to work under global consumer marketing at Nvidia.[6][7] While at Nvidia, Ewing appeared in various videos for the company, including its launch event for the GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs.[7]
Online career
Screenshot from an Atrioc livestream in 2024
Ewing began streaming consistently at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] During his first few years of streaming, he remained a fulltime employee at Nvidia, before joining Offbrand and becoming a fulltime streamer in late 2022.[‡ 8]
Since 2020, Ewing has hosted Marketing Monday, a live news series covering the latest developments in marketing, business, and politics.[citation needed] In 2023, Ewing began posting daily clips from his live streams to his second channel, Big A. These segments typically consist of contemporary economic and political coverage.[8]
Ewing plays a variety of games on his streams, including the Hitman series.[9] He is also active in the franchise's speedrunning scene. In 2023, he organized a Hitman 2 speedrunning challenge, where competitors who came in first, second, and third place would receive $500, $200, and $100 respectively.[10]
During a live stream in January 2023, Ewing accidentally revealed a browser tab which contained a pornographic website selling explicit deepfaked material of female streamers, including Pokimane, QTCinderella, Sweet Anita, and Maya Higa.[14][15][16] In response to the controversy, Ewing admitted to paying for access to the website and apologized to the streamers affected. QTCinderella, who had been a close friend of Ewing prior to the controversy,[16] indicated she terminated her friendship with him following the incident.[17] Ewing subsequently stepped away from his position at Offbrand and took a hiatus from streaming.[18]
Following this, Ewing worked with QTCinderella and wired $60,000 to a law firm to cover the legal fees of women seeking to issue takedown notices to websites hosting deepfaked content.[19] Ewing has also worked with Ceartas, an AI-powered platform which helps automatically delist websites and issue takedown notices faster than traditional means.[20] Ewing revealed in an update that his work with Ceartas had delisted over 200,000 pieces of content.[21]
In March 2025, Ewing launched a business podcast called Lemonade Stand with fellow content creators DougDoug and Aiden McCaig. In June, former chair of the Federal Trade CommissionLina Khan appeared on the podcast for an interview.[22] On October 8, 2025, Vox Media announced that it had entered a partnership with the podcast.[8]
Get To Work
In 2023, Ewing began working with independent video game developer Isto Inc. to create Get To Work,[23] a satirical platform game about climbing the corporate ladder.[24] The game was released on December 2, 2024 for Windows and Xbox Series X/S. Ewing served as voice talent in the game and assisted with its story and marketing.[25]
Personal life
Ewing married his longtime girlfriend Arianna in August 2022.[‡ 9] They moved to Los Angeles together in late 2022, after Ewing left his position at Nvidia in San Jose, California.[‡ 8]
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