Atrioc

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Atrioc
Atrioc - I Trained The Worst Hitman In Human History. (SBUX7pKeimM - 1993x1121 - 54m12s) (cropped).png
Ewing in 2024
Personal information
Born
Brandon Ewing

(1991-04-19) April 19, 1991 (age 34)
Education Arizona State University (BS)
Occupations
  • YouTuber
  • Twitch streamer
Spouse
Arianna Ewing
(m. 2022)
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2020–present
Genres
  • Gaming
  • news
  • economics
  • marketing
  • politics
Subscribers872,000 [1]
Views361 million [1]
Contents are inEnglish
Associated acts
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers
Twitch information
Channel
Followers406,000

Last updated: September 29, 2025

Brandon Ewing (born April 19, 1991), known online as Atrioc, is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, podcaster, and speedrunner. He is known for his news series Marketing Monday, where he uses his prior experience to give presentations on the fields of marketing and business. Ewing is also a former world record holder in speedrunning the video game series Hitman. He began streaming consistently at the beginning of 2020, and has over 819,000 YouTube subscribers and 378,000 Twitch followers as of March 2025. [2]

Contents

Early life

Brandon Ewing was born on April 19, 1991 [3] [4] [5] at Luke Air Force Base in Maricopa County, Arizona. The son of a service member, Ewing moved frequently throughout his childhood and lived in several countries, [6] including a NATO military base in Germany. [7] [ better source needed ] Ewing attended Arizona State University, where he founded the school's Esports association. [8] While at college, Ewing became an avid League of Legends player. [9] In 2013, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in marketing.

Career

Before streaming

Ewing began his career as a freelance Esports writer, writing for organizations like IGN [10] and Team Liquid. [11]

In 2014, Ewing began working at Twitch as a content marketing coordinator, and later as a content marketing manager. [12] [13] 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. [14]

In December 2017, Ewing left his position at Twitch [15] to work under global consumer marketing at Nvidia. [16] [17] While at Nvidia, Ewing appeared in various videos for the company, including its launch event for the GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs. [17]

Streaming career

Screenshot from an Atrioc livestream in 2024 Atrioc - I Trained The Worst Hitman In Human History. (SBUX7pKeimM - 1993x1121 - 58m52s).png
Screenshot from an Atrioc livestream in 2024

Ewing is active in the Hitman speedrunning scene. In 2023, he created and hosted a Hitman 2 speedrun challenge, with first, second, and third place getting $500, $200, and $100 respectively. [18]

During September 2021, Ewing's Twitch account was banned following a Wikipedia race stream, during which the players attempted to navigate from the articles of "Donald Trump" to "Erectile disfunction". During the game, one of the articles featured a photograph of a penis, which is against Twitch's terms of service surrounding nudity.[ citation needed ]

In 2021 Ewing unintentionally leaked private conversations between Valkyrae and Ludwig about contract issues. [19]

In September 2022, Ewing founded the content creation agency Offbrand with Ludwig Ahgren, Nathan Stanz, and Nick Allen. [13]

In 2025, Ewing and fellow content creators DougDoug and Aiden Calvin started a podcast entitled "Lemonade Stand," focusing on business, technology, and politics. In June, they interviewed former chair of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan. [20]

On September 25, 2025, Ewing appeared on the This is Gavin Newsom podcast, where he discussed economic nihilism, online communities, and gaming culture with California governor Gavin Newsom. [21]

Deepfake controversy

During a live stream on January 30, 2023, Ewing accidentally revealed a browser tab with a pornographic website selling deepfakes of other live streamers, including Pokimane, QTCinderella, Sweet Anita, and Maya Higa. [22] [23] [24] In response to the controversy, Ewing apologized and resigned from Offbrand. [25] QTCinderella described her friendship with him as irreparable following the incident. [26] Following this, Ewing has worked with QTCinderella and others to take down deepfake porn images across the internet, and Ewing gave $60,000 to a law-firm to help cover the cost of having such images removed and de-listed from search engines. [27] [28]

Awards and nominations

CeremonyYearCategoryResultRef.
The Streamer Awards 2021 Best SpeedrunnerNominated [29]

References

  1. 1 2 "About Atrioc". YouTube.
  2. "Atrioc – Streamer Overview & Stats". TwitchTracker. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
  3. Atrioc VODs (April 19, 2022). Was Ninja's Rebrand Smart?. 3:10 minutes in. Retrieved September 29, 2025 via YouTube.
  4. Atrioc VODs (April 18, 2025). I'm Addicted To This Game. 11:09 minutes in. Retrieved September 29, 2025 via YouTube.
  5. Atrioc VODs (April 21, 2025). Why are we in a trade war?. 0:37 minutes in. Retrieved September 29, 2025 via YouTube.
  6. The Ben and Emil Show (February 15, 2024). Talking trash with Atrioc. 10:25 minutes in. Retrieved September 29, 2025 via YouTube.
  7. Big A (June 6, 2025). Everyone Ignored This Meeting. 7:08 minutes in. Retrieved September 29, 2025 via YouTube.
  8. Nair, Rupesh (March 24, 2021). "Ludwig Reveals Details About His Job Application Getting Rejected by Twitch". EssentiallySports. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  9. "LoL – League of Legends". November 21, 2012. Archived from the original on November 21, 2012. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  10. Ewing, Brandon (August 9, 2012). "TAC3 Finals Preview - Liquid Manager, Robin 'Bumblebee' Nymann". IGN. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  11. Ewing, Brandon (September 1, 2013). "[Ultimate Guide] Fizz, the Tidal Trickster". tl.net. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  12. Gutelle, Sam. "Ludwig's new company helps creators make "cool stuff." He'll start with a game show hosted by xQc". Tubefilter. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  13. 1 2 Grayson, Nathan (September 27, 2022). "Ludwig knows his streaming career won't last, so he's starting an agency". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  14. "Twitch Weekly goes LIVE this Friday — Q&A for hoodie and Turbo giveaways!". Twitch Blog. April 24, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  15. @Atrioc (December 8, 2017). "Excited (and a little sad) to announce that today is officially my last day at @Twitch, as I've accepted a role on the Marketing team for Esports at @Nvidia. Had an amazing four years here, made great friends, learned a lot, and will always #bleedPurple. 💜" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  16. Polhamus, Blaine (October 28, 2022). "Ludwig, The Yard crew break into Atrioc's house to record a podcast". Dot Esports. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  17. 1 2 Nvidia GeForce (September 1, 2020). NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series - Official Launch Event [4K]. 6:50 minutes in. Retrieved October 1, 2025 via YouTube.
  18. Wolens, Joshua (January 12, 2023). "These incredible Hitman 2 speedruns will make you believe an assassin can fly". PC Gamer . Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  19. Masters, Tim (October 28, 2021). "Valkyrae's leaked DMs paint streamer as victim of RFLCT scheme, hints she's quitting the project". InvenGlobal. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  20. McCabe, David (September 14, 2025). "Lina Khan Revamped Antitrust. Now She's Pushing the Democratic Party". The New York Times.
  21. This is Gavin Newsom (September 25, 2025). Economic Nihilism, Online Communities & Gamer Culture w/ Brandon "Atrioc" Ewing . Retrieved October 3, 2025 via YouTube.
  22. Gurney, Frances (February 2, 2023). "'I'm going to sue you': QTCinerella and Atrioc deepfake scandal explained". The Tab .
  23. Brandt, Oliver (February 2, 2023). "Streamer QTCinderella vows to sue deepfake porn site after Atrioc Twitch scandal". news.com.au. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  24. Donegan, Moira (March 13, 2023). "Demand for deepfake pornography is exploding. We aren't ready for this assault on consent". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  25. Falconer, Daniel (February 1, 2023). "Atrioc Apologizes For Deepfake Drama and Offers to Pay For Female Streamers' Legal Action". GameRevolution . Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  26. Martinello, Eva (February 7, 2023). "QTCinderella points out 'biggest issue' with deepfake scandal, confirms friendship with Atrioc is over".
  27. Clark, Nicole (March 16, 2023). "Streamer who incited Twitch deepfake porn scandal returns". Polygon.
  28. Metcalfe, Charlie (May 27, 2023). "A Twitch streamer got caught viewing deepfake porn. His quest to make amends shows how hard removing it actually is" . Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  29. Miceli, Max (February 22, 2022). "All nominees for QTCinderella's Streamer Awards". Dot Esports. GAMURS Group. Archived from the original on April 21, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2022.