Dark partnerships in gaming & esports
2020 (queue horrifying flashbacks) was a year that many industries may want to forget- many industries other than the buoyant esports industry. Whilst many of us were locked down involuntarily, gaming seemed to jump to the aid of many individuals. It wasn't just playing either, there was a major influx in the amount of people watching gaming streams and esports. To put this into perspective, the esports audience grew by 7% in 2020 alone . More recently, a Spanish Twitch streamer by the name of TheGrefg saw the record broken for the most amount of concurrent viewers (with an astounding 2.4 million people) for his Fortnite skin reveal. Nickmercs (a well known Twitch streamer with almost five million followers) has also started to think of innovative ways to build his online streaming audience. This includes the creation of gym workout streams and the watching of NFL games. So what is a dark partnership? This is the idea that esports (or any other industry for that matter) may in