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Millions of people watch this young lady playing video games

Who is Annie72127?
Who is Annie72127?

When it is online, her avatar, a graphical representation of an Internet user, is a lady with a purple hat, golden brown long hair, a white T-shirt, and a pair of blue trousers. When you see this, you know you are seeing one of the most handful, full-time game broadcasters in Taiwan – who solely used her voice to build up her career, without showing her face in the past. Annie72127 is her ID in Minecraft and other games.

 

Only using her voice to interact with the audience until early this year, she has now got nearly 600,000 subscribers in YouTube made her number 14 in Taiwan, beating a number of famous singers, like Sodagreen, JJ Lin, and Show Lo, along with 100,000 followers on Facebook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And she has done all of this without showing her face - until early 2016. Her voice is sweet and attractive when singing and can be really crazy when laughing. Some netizens say she can have four rising levels of laughters.

 

Annie Liu, also known by the nickname “dried fish” . It is a play on her Chinese name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annie, now in her 20s, runs her business online: FacebookInstagramTwitch, a streaming medium and subsidiary of Amazon; and YouTube, and she streams herself playing games the most.

 

Streaming, in which a host does something live and is to be watched by the audience, is very popular in Taiwan. Statistics show that there are around 460 streamers there. Many of them only play games while doing that, so they are called game broadcasters as well.

 

In all these platforms, we can see videos of her making up, cooking, singing, and of course, playing games. The former three can be generally seen from a girl, but the last one, perceively a boy’s thing, indeed suprisingly helps her start her business and attact the most audience.

   

Annie's Instagram account, established on May 2015, has 30,000 followers now.

Watch: Annie's four rising laughter levels. (From 7:27.)

Link: 【菜喳麥塊】EP.39 第22屆建築遊戲大賽--Chefs Played The Building Game 22nd

Unknown Track - Unknown Artist
00:00 / 00:00

© 2016 by Thomas Chan. 

International Journalism Honours Project 2016

Hong Kong Baptist University

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