ZEvent 2021 — Showcase Of Exceptional Moments, 10 Million Euros Donations And Controversy
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ZEvent 2021 — Showcase Of Exceptional Moments, 10 Million Euros Donations And Controversy
ZEvent 2021, a charity stream marathon, raised 10 million euros in donations for the association Action contre la Faim. A crazy figure that matches the outrageousness of the event, which now goes beyond the scope of the video game community. The scale has exceeded its creators and when the numbers are big, so have the controversies. But the ZEvent is neither just a number, nor just a war on Twitter!
Tis ZEvent 2021 has certainly been, even disproportionate, based on records of donations and viewers beaten (twice in the same evening for the last), exceptional human moments, animations more wacky than each other and unfortunately, sexist polemics.
ZEvent 2021 Raised 10 Million Euros
In 54 hours, the 50 or so charity marathon streamers broadcast on Twitch raised 10 million euros!
To reduce the event to a number huge or to a controversy, however justified, would be illusory. For longtime viewers, the ZEvent was above all a unique moment of community cohesion. Gaming at the start, but not just anymore. As evidenced by the Montpellier - Moscow flight organized on Flight Simulator on Saturday evening, by Jean Massiet, bringing together dozens of aircraft of players, united.
Initially, the ZEvent was the Avengers project, in 2016: a bunch of streamer buddies in a garage, the majority of whom are still in the room today, raising € 170,000. A sum now reached one hour after the start of the edition. Over the years, the event has grown, far, too surely, without Zerator and Dach, the organizers, necessarily being able to do much about it, but also without deciding to moderate it. Zerator cleared himself by the way at the time of the announcement of the streamers invited to
ZEvent 2021 Raids and Huge Sums
As the event has grown, criticism has been mounting in recent years: too much emphasis on donation raids, and not enough content. Domingo, one of the attendees, mentioned the concern on his Pop Corn show last week: “People don't just want traders who just talk about donations, which was kind of the case last year. So this year, the alumni have calmed the game down on raids, those times when all viewers donate small amounts to drive up the jackpots exponentially by force of numbers. The new guests wanted to experience the phenomenon and went on all Sunday evening, undoubtedly losing the reality of the numbers that paraded, pot after pot. Can we blame them as the sums are immense?
Exceptional Human Moments of ZEvent 2021
The ZEvent is also the meeting of streamers who, the rest of the year, gather very little or in small groups. During a game of Fall Guys on the vocal server inaudible by so much enthusiasm; during a pumpkin carving contest; a Doigby showcase with Guerrier , (a song that has become a meme for the whole community); with the culture competitions with the Ponce Flower Master, the Attic Player's Attic Quiz and especially Questions for a streamer with Stars and Samuel Étienne, the Sims tournament in Ultia , the ping-pong tournament.
But especially during one of the strongest moments “of all the ZEvent together” according to Dach: the karaoke of the Saturday night. Streamer and singer LittleBigWhale (who opened the pre-event concert on Thursday night with LEJ, Kikesa and Fianso) is singing as usual. First, the stream goes to two, then four singers ... and a few hours later, it is about fifteen streamers, from Right Angle to Kameto , a big gap on the platform, who come together for versions sometimes revisited, like a particular Hey Jude ___ A moment of grace, as they say.
Sexist Controversy ZEvent 2021
The million simultaneous viewers and the excessiveness of the event also mean that the risks of slippage are greater and much more intense. Evidenced by the false bomb threat that required the evacuation of the room on Saturday afternoon, but especially the controversy born on the live of Inoxtag , after the invitation of Andrea Pedrero, a Mexican singer met during his holidays with the Croûtons team, made up of YouTube stars like Michou.
The fiery streamer of 19 years did not measure the scope or the seriousness of his remarks by speaking crudely in French of "the siren" as he nicknamed her, in front of her, while she did not understand the words spoken. Ultia, a streamer also present at the event, expressed her disgust for this sequence. The apologies of Inoxtag who explained "not to have realized" will not change anything: the young die-hard fans of the community were unleashed against the streamer.
A wave of harassment after sexist comments is nothing new for the Twitch platform . But it would undoubtedly have been welcome for the organization to get wet by supporting Ultia officially and not just in private. Denounce the error of a streamer does not take away his merit of having managed to collect many donations, but his investment cannot justify it.
54 Hours Broadcast ZEvent 2021
Being a viewer of a ZEvent is always a special moment. With 54 hours of live and as many lives to follow, at the end of the weekend, if the fifty or so streamers are exhausted, we can almost say the same for the hundreds of thousands of spectators who spent their weekend in front of their screens. .
In order for this charitable celebration to continue to last without losing its flavor, it may be necessary to regulate practices more closely, to prevent the controversy from taking precedence over the beauty of the event. Because if the feeling of belonging to a community is great, that of participating in something that is beyond us all is even more so. Especially this year.