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Blaire (born June 6, 1994), known online as QTCinderella, is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and podcaster. [3] [4] She is the creator and host of The Streamer Awards. She is also a co-host of the Wine About It podcast [5] and the Fear& podcast. [4]
Blaire [6] was born on June 6, 1994, [7] [8] [9] and grew up in Washington. Raised in a strict Mormon household, she is no longer a member of the faith. [10] She often faced bullying in school due to her family’s financial struggles. [11] After graduating high school, she attended culinary school, honing skills she frequently uses in her Twitch livestreams today. [12] [13] Prior to this, she worked as both a wedding cake designer and an interior designer for several years. [14] [15] Blaire also spent a period portraying Cinderella at Disneyland, which is where her streamer alias originated. [16]
Blaire created her Twitch account "QTCinderella" in August 2018, primarily streaming League of Legends content, [17] though she had wanted to stream since 2015 but couldn't due to not having the right equipment. [13] From the beginning, her content revolved around gaming, baking, and collaborations with other creators. Since as early as June 2019, she has frequently made collaborative content with her partner and fellow streamer Ludwig Ahgren. [18] [19]
In March 2019, Blaire expanded her content creation by launching her main YouTube channel, "QTCinderella," where she primarily uploaded highlights from her Twitch streams. [20]
By June 2020, Blaire had transitioned to full-time streaming, leaving her day job behind. [1] On July 30, 2020, she joined Gen.G, an esports organization. [21] Later that summer, in August and September 2020, Blaire participated in the PogChamps 2 amateur chess tournament hosted by Chess.com, reaching the semifinals of the consolation bracket. [22]
On May 5, 2021, Blaire competed in the Botez Bullet Invitational, an online amateur bullet chess tournament held by Alexandra Botez and Andrea Botez. [23] Later that year, in August and September of 2021, Blaire participated in the PogChamps 4 amateur chess tournament. [24]
Blaire departed from Gen.G on June 16, 2021. [25] A longtime fan of the organization, she then joined Team SoloMid (TSM) three months later, on September 21, 2021. [26]
On September 26, 2021, Blaire organized ShitCamp in Los Angeles, California. The five-day summer event featuring many popular Twitch streamers, including Hasan Piker, Sodapoppin, xQc, Ludwig Ahgren, AustinShow, Myth, Nmplol, JustaMinx, and Adeptthebest, [27] [28] livestreamed activities including a scavenger hunt in Santa Monica, a cooking competition, a day at a gun range, a pajama party with drinking games, and a kickball tournament featuring the ShitCamp participants along with two visiting teams from 100 Thieves and OfflineTV. [29] The event managed to averaged more than 65,000 viewers throughout the stream. [1]
Blaire founded and co-hosted the inaugural Streamer Awards, an annual awards show dedicated to celebrating achievements in livestreaming. [30] The event was held on March 12, 2022, at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and was broadcast live on her Twitch channel to over 381,000 concurrent viewers. [31] [32] [1] It was attended by several prominent streamers as nominees and guests, including Amouranth, Hasan Piker, Pokimane, and xQc. [33] [34]
Two months later, on May 14, Blaire hosted Twitch Rivals: QTCinderella's Sweet Showdown ft. Kitchen League, a baking competition featuring fellow creators Hasan Piker, Myth, Cyr, and Rich Campbell. [35] On June 2, the talent management firm Loaded announced that they had signed Blaire. [28] On June 5, Blaire hosted a Beyblade tournament, which featured 32 streamers competing in a double elimination bracket. [36]
On August 8, 2022, WillNeff, a fellow Twitch streamer, announced that Blaire would be joining him as the co-host of Hey, Donna!, a new G4TV comedy series. [37] Blaire organized the second iteration of ShitCamp in Fresno, California, in September 2022. [38]
On November 1, 2022, Blaire announced that she was no longer with Team SoloMid (TSM). [39] [40] On November 3, 2022, it was announced that she had joined Misfits Gaming. Her signing with the organization was revealed alongside an announcement that Misfits had established a US$20 million content creator fund for original content creation. [41] [42]
From January 15 to 19, 2023, Blaire organized and hosted the first season of Master Baker, a five-day cooking competition featuring six popular streamers who possess little to no prior baking experience inspired by TheGreat British Bake-Off. [43]
On January 30, 2023, Blaire became aware of the unauthorized, pornographic use of her likeness on a deepfake website. The existence of the non-consensual sexual material was discovered after streamer and former collaborator Brandon Ewing, professionally known as Atrioc, inadvertently revealed the website in a browser tab while streaming. [44] In addition to Blaire, the website infringed on the likeness of various other individuals, including streamers Maya Higa and Pokimane. [45] As a result of efforts by Blaire and attorney Ryan Morrison, the website was promptly taken offline. [46] Blaire's boyfriend, Ludwig Ahgren, has stated that the experience has had a lingering impact on her mental well-being. [47]
On March 11, 2023, Blaire organized and co-hosted the second edition of the Streamer Awards with Valkyrae at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. [48] [49] The ceremony averaged 425,000 live concurrent viewers and peaked at over 580,000 live concurrent viewers. [50] She revealed that she had spent more than $900,000 on the event. [51]
From May 31 to June 4, 2023, Blaire organized and hosted Season 2 of Master Baker. From July 27 to 30, 2023, she co-hosted the fourth season of Streamer Camp alongside fellow streamers Fuslie, BoxBox, and Kkatamina. The 4-day streaming boot camp is a competition aimed at improving the skills of up-and-coming smaller streamers. [52]
In July and August of 2023, Blaire participated in the PogChamps 5 chess tournament. She placed second in the consolation bracket after losing to higher-rated Norwegian streamer Wirtual in a live over-the-board finals match held in Los Angeles on August 18. She collected a $5,000 prize for her placement in the tournament. [53]
On October 1, 2023, Blaire organized and co-hosted The Gala for Good charity auction alongside Maya Higa, who is also a conservationist. The gala was live streamed on her Twitch channel and brought together many large streamers to raise money for rainforest conservation. The event raised over US$250,000, which was split across five non-profit environmental organizations: Rainforest Foundation US, Rainforest Trust, World Wildlife Fund, Amazon Watch, and Rainforest Alliance. [54] [55] [56]
On December 7, 2023, Blaire announced that she was no longer with Misfits Gaming. [57]
In February 2024, Blaire faced controversies after she launched a new Twitch channel, named QTEvents, with the purpose of rerunning videos from her YouTube channel in order to generate funds for the then-upcoming 2024 Streamer Awards. [58] On February 10, 2024, both of her Twitch accounts were banned for 41 minutes after her re-run channel, QTEvents, showed an Omegle YouTube clip, which is against the Twitch TOS. [58] [59]
On February 17, 2024, Blaire organized and co-hosted the third edition of the Streamer Awards at The Wiltern in Los Angeles with Pokimane. [60] [61] The ceremony peaked at over 645,000 live concurrent viewers, with a record-breaking 639,609 individual votes submitted by viewers. [62] [63]
On February 29, 2024, Blaire created Late Night w/ QT, a weekly show live-streamed on her Twitch channel. Each episode features a news segment, an interview and game with a guest, and a performance by a music streamer. [64] [65] From April 17 to 21, 2024, she organized and hosted Season three of Master Baker. [66]
In March 2024, Blaire went viral after she started a streaming challenge called the "name 100 women" challenge, a challenge to celebrate Women's History Month in which she asked several popular male streamers to name 100 women during a livestream before the Women's History Month ended. [67]
In May 2024, Blaire broke the Speedrun.com record for baking 12 chocolate chip cookies with a time of three minutes and 46 seconds. Her approved run caused the site to temporarily archive the IRL Cookie Baking category in order to reevaluate its rules and make them more comprehensive. [68] [69] Following the rule update, Blaire submitted a new run of four minutes and 39 seconds which was accepted by the site as the new record. [70]
In November 2024, she was ranked 19th by Complex Networks in its list of "The 25 Best Streamers Right Now". [71]
On December 7, 2024, Blaire organized and co-hosted the fourth edition of the Streamer Awards with TinaKitten at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles. [72] [73] This was the first time the event was held in the fourth quarter of the year instead of the first. The ceremony peaked at over 525,000 live concurrent viewers. [74]
In November 2021, Blaire started a podcast titled Wine About It with friend and fellow streamer Maya Higa. [5] Wine About It went on hiatus in September 2022 after Higa announced her "indefinite" break from online content creation. [75] On March 11, 2023, the duo announced the return of the podcast alongside the launch of the Wine About It Patreon. [76] [77]
In early 2023, Blaire joined the Fear& podcast as a co-host alongside fellow streamers Hasan Piker, Will Neff, and AustinShow. [4] [78]
Blaire began dating fellow streamer Ludwig Ahgren in early 2020. [79] They currently reside together in Los Angeles. [80] [81] [82]
She has frequently voiced her love for singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. [83] [84]
Blaire has openly discussed her mental health struggles. In a YouTube interview, she revealed diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [85] [86] and obsessive–compulsive disorder. [87] Blaire also confided about a years-long battle with body dysmorphia [6] [88] [89] and how the deepfake incident in January 2023 has caused the resurgence of her eating disorder. [89] On August 8, 2023, she tweeted that she had been diagnosed with the dissociative subtype of PTSD. [90]
Year | Ceremony | Category | Result | Ref. |
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2022 | Esports Awards 2022 | Streamer of the Year | Nominated | [91] |
12th Streamy Awards | Breakout Streamer | Nominated | [92] [93] | |
The Game Awards 2022 | Content Creator of the Year | Nominated | [94] | |
2023 | Esports Awards 2023 | Streamer of the Year | Nominated | [95] |
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