[1/3] It does seem increasingly weird that the tech press never writes about @handmade_hero, despite the high number of people who watch it and the surprisingly large number of people who have gotten jobs from it...
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@WIRED, for example, just ran a piece on twitch coding and mentioned streamers that are much less popular than@handmade_hero. The most-watched streamer they mentioned, as far as I can tell, has 152k views on Twitch. We have _over 3 million_.3 replies 4 retweets 61 likesShow this thread -
[3/3] The views on YouTube were similar. Top streamer mentioned by
@wired was 271k views. We have 4.6 million. I suppose it doesn't really matter, since the people who need@handmade_hero seem to find it organically, but it is pretty bizarre...3 replies 5 retweets 47 likesShow this thread -
And as an aside,
@handmade_hero got those cummulative 9+ million views without ever running a single ad, and without ever having been written up in any mainstream media outlet even once.5 replies 0 retweets 62 likesShow this thread -
The only articles that have ever mentioned
@handmade_hero at all were a@gamasutra article when we first went live (the only people ever to write about us!), and then we were briefly mentioned in a KillScreen article about low-level programming. That's it. In 5 years.8 replies 0 retweets 42 likesShow this thread -
are you serious? I just assumed you were turning down media requests left and right.
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Never had a media inquiry other than those two, and the KillScreen one wasn't really about Handmade Hero, it was about the broader idea of low-level programming.
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