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American Twitch streamer, YouTuber and internet celebrity (born 1991) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brandon Ewing (born April 19, 1991), known online as Atrioc, is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, podcaster, and speedrunner. He is known for his news series Marketing Monday, where he uses his prior experience to give presentations on the fields of marketing and business. Ewing is also a former world record holder in speedrunning the video game series Hitman. He began streaming consistently at the beginning of 2020, and has over 819,000 YouTube subscribers and 378,000 Twitch followers as of March 2025.[2]
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Early life
Brandon Ewing was born on April 19, 1991[3][4][5] at Luke Air Force Base in Maricopa County, Arizona. The son of a service member, Ewing moved frequently throughout his childhood and lived in several countries,[6] including a NATO military base in Germany.[7][better source needed] Ewing attended Arizona State University, where he founded the school's Esports association.[8] While at college, Ewing became an avid League of Legends player.[9] In 2013, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in marketing.
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Ewing began his career as a freelance Esports writer, writing for organizations like IGN[10] and Team Liquid.[11]
In 2014, Ewing began working at Twitch as a content marketing coordinator, and later as a content marketing manager.[12][13] During his time at Twitch, Ewing co-hosted Twitch Weekly, a weekly series broadcast by Twitch that covered news and events pertaining to the platform.[14]
In December 2017, Ewing left his position at Twitch[15] to work under global consumer marketing at Nvidia.[16][17] While at Nvidia, Ewing appeared in various videos for the company, including its launch event for the GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs.[17]
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Ewing is active in the Hitman speedrunning scene. In 2023, he created and hosted a Hitman 2 speedrun challenge, with first, second, and third place getting $500, $200, and $100 respectively.[18]
During September 2021, Ewing's Twitch account was banned following a Wikipedia race stream, during which the players attempted to navigate from the articles of "Donald Trump" to "Erectile disfunction". During the game, one of the articles featured a photograph of a penis, which is against Twitch's terms of service surrounding nudity.[citation needed]
In 2021 Ewing unintentionally leaked private conversations between Valkyrae and Ludwig about contract issues.[19]
In September 2022, Ewing founded the content creation agency Offbrand with Ludwig Ahgren, Nathan Stanz, and Nick Allen.[13]
In 2025, Ewing and fellow content creators DougDoug and Aiden Calvin started a podcast entitled "Lemonade Stand," focusing on business, technology, and politics. In June, they interviewed former chair of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan.[20]
On September 25, 2025, Ewing appeared on the This is Gavin Newsom podcast, where he discussed economic nihilism, online communities, and gaming culture with California governor Gavin Newsom.[21]
Deepfake controversy
During a live stream on January 30, 2023, Ewing accidentally revealed a browser tab with a pornographic website selling deepfakes of other live streamers, including Pokimane, QTCinderella, Sweet Anita, and Maya Higa.[22][23][24] In response to the controversy, Ewing apologized and resigned from Offbrand.[25] QTCinderella described her friendship with him as irreparable following the incident.[26] Following this, Ewing has worked with QTCinderella and others to take down deepfake porn images across the internet, and Ewing gave $60,000 to a law-firm to help cover the cost of having such images removed and de-listed from search engines.[27][28]
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