Streamers on the Rise: PointCrow's goldfish beat Malenia. Also, he's building a massive …

Welcome to Streamers on the Rise, where we find streamers who are growing their channels, content, and audiences in extraordinary ways. Each week we’ll talk with a creator about what goes into livestreaming–both on and off camera. If you don’t know PointCrow (which is unlikely considering he has 602,000 Twitch followers and 2 million YouTube subscribers), you probably know his goldfish Tortellini. Tortellini, you see, is the fish who beat Malenia.Subscribe to get the latest creator newsSubscribe Back in July, Tortellini went viral after PointCrow (aka Eric Morino) rigged a controller that would translate his swimming movements into game input and set him loose on Elden Ring‘s notoriously difficult boss, to incredible results. Tortellini’s debut was part of Morino figuring out where he wanted to go next with content. He got his start streaming with the Zelda game Breath of the Wild, and had completed numerous grueling challenges on stream, including full playthroughs where he couldn’t walk and couldn’t turn left. But he didn’t want his entire online presence to be dependent on a single game or games from a single studio, especially when Nintendo is known for being anti-mod and for filing takedown notices against content about its games. “I took all of the effort that
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