On January 12, Twitter was ablaze with mentions of a streamer known asTheGrefg, or just Grefg for short. The 23-year-old streamer broke Twitch’s concurrent viewer record for an individual stream while he was waiting for hisFortniteÂskin to become available.David Cánovas MartÃnez is a popular streamer in the Spanish community and previously held the record for the highest concurrent viewers for an individual stream â of which he amassed over 660,000 viewers. This was during December 2020 when GrefgwatchedÂFortnite’sÂGalactus event. However, last night he broke that record after amassing over 2 million concurrent viewers.
To put it specifically, over2.5 million viewerstuned in to watch Grefg’sÂFortniteskin be revealed,originally finding him break his own recordearlier in the night. As word spread of him smashing his own record, more viewers jumped in.
Hitting over 2.5 million viewers means that he’ssmashed multiple records, including the above mentioned concurrent viewers for an individual stream. Additionally, he surpassed the total of concurrent viewers during an esports event which was held byELeague at 1.1 million.He also beat the all-time concurrent viewers for a single game which was held byÂFortniteÂduring The Device Event that saw 2.3 million viewers.
As for the skin itself, Grefg shows it off in the below tweet that features the key art, with his hair boasting red accents, and a hammer with a gamepad at the end of it. His skin is part ofEpic Games' Icon seriesthat has currently had 7 other skins such asNinja,Travis Scott, and some others. Grefg’s is the 8th skin to join the series.
While I don’t understand Spanish, I did tune into the stream last night and the energy there was ecstatic. Grefg jumping off from his sofa, holding back tears, phoning up friends or family to share the news. The energy in the chat was incredible, and it was a fantastic night. For some statistics, onTwitchhe has over 6 million followers, 4 million onTwitter, and 16 million onYouTube.
