Atrioc

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Ewing in 2024
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Born
Brandon Ewing
Occupations
  • YouTuber
  • Twitch streamer
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2020–present
Genres
  • Gaming
  • news
  • economics
  • marketing
  • politics
Subscribers862,000 [1]
Views350 million [1]
Contents are inEnglish
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Followers400,000

Last updated: 2 September 2025

Brandon Ewing, known online as Atrioc, is an American Twitch live streamer, YouTuber and speedrunner. He is known for his news series Marketing Monday, using his prior experience to give presentations within the marketing and business field to his audience. 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]

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Career

Before streaming

Ewing was born at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. As the son of an officer, he lived in several countries throughout his childhood, [3] including on a NATO military base in Germany. [4] [ better source needed ] During college, he was an avid League of Legends player. [5] While studying at Arizona State University, he founded the university's Esports Club. [6]

After graduating with a degree in marketing, Ewing started his career at Twitch in February 2014 as a marketing and content manager, [7] [ non-primary source needed ] before moving on to work under marketing at Nvidia in December 2017. [7] [8]

Streaming career

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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. [9]

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. [10]

In September 2022, Ewing founded the content creation agency Offbrand with Ludwig Ahgren, Nathan Stanz, and Nick Allen. [11]

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. [12]

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. [13] [14] [15] In response to the controversy, Ewing apologized and resigned from Offbrand. [16] QTCinderella described her friendship with him as irreparable following the incident. [17] [18] 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. [19] [20]

Awards and nominations

CeremonyYearCategoryResultRef.
The Streamer Awards 2021 Best SpeedrunnerNominated [21]

References

  1. 1 2 "About Atrioc". YouTube.
  2. "Atrioc – Streamer Overview & Stats". TwitchTracker. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
  3. "YouTube video (timestamp references; e.g., 10:25, 44:33)". YouTube. Retrieved September 8, 2025.
  4. Big A (June 6, 2025). Everyone Ignored This Meeting. 7:10 minutes in. Retrieved June 24, 2025 via YouTube.
  5. "LoL – League of Legends". November 21, 2012. Archived from the original on November 21, 2012. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  6. Nair, Rupesh (March 24, 2021). "Ludwig Reveals Details About His Job Application Getting Rejected by Twitch". EssentiallySports. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  7. 1 2 @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.
  8. Polhamus, Blaine (October 28, 2022). "Ludwig, The Yard crew break into Atrioc's house to record a podcast". Dot Esports. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  9. Wolens, Joshua (January 12, 2023). "These incredible Hitman 2 speedruns will make you believe an assassin can fly". PC Gamer . Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. McCabe, David (September 14, 2025). "Lina Khan Revamped Antitrust. Now She's Pushing the Democratic Party". The New York Times.
  13. Gurney, Frances (February 2, 2023). "'I'm going to sue you': QTCinerella and Atrioc deepfake scandal explained". The Tab .
  14. Brandt, Oliver (February 2, 2023). "Streamer QTCinderella vows to sue deepfake porn site after Atrioc Twitch scandal". news.com.au. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  15. 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.
  16. Falconer, Daniel (February 1, 2023). "Atrioc Apologizes For Deepfake Drama and Offers to Pay For Female Streamers' Legal Action". GameRevolution . Retrieved April 23, 2025.
  17. Schewitz, Kim (February 1, 2023). "Ludwig speaks out on Atrioc paying for malicious deepfake videos of QTCinderella". HITC.
  18. Martinello, Eva (February 7, 2023). "QTCinderella points out 'biggest issue' with deepfake scandal, confirms friendship with Atrioc is over".
  19. Clark, Nicole (March 16, 2023). "Streamer who incited Twitch deepfake porn scandal returns". Polygon.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.