Northernlion
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| Born | Ryan Letourneau November 28, 1988 Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| 🏫 Education | Queen's University (BA) |
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Ryan Letourneau (born November 28, 1988) is a Canadian Twitch streamer and YouTuber.[1] Letourneau streams full-time on Twitch and partially uploads parts of his streams to YouTube while also creating content exclusively to upload to YouTube.
Career
YouTube
Letourneau created his YouTube channel "Northernlion" on May 30, 2006.[2] In 2011 he began regularly posting content to YouTube full-time, mainly consisting of Let's Play videos of various indie games.[1] In 2011, Letourneau began uploading gaming videos of The Binding of Isaac, which became one of his most popular Let's Play series and helped garner him an online following.[1][3] Alongside other Let's Play videos, Letourneau's videos of The Binding of Isaac were credited with bringing the game popularity; game creator Edmund McMillen stated that Let's Play videos boosted sales of the game.[1] In 2013, Letourneau interviewed McMillen about The Binding of Issac, where he stated that the popularity of the game convinced him to make Rebirth.[4] One year later, he attended the Game Developers Conference to discuss the impact of Let's Play videos on the sales of various video games, also referencing how the popularity of his Binding of Isaac videos led to increased exposure of the game.[1][5]
Letourneau has also been credited for popularizing other video games with his gaming videos, such as Enter the Gungeon,[6] Slay the Spire[7] and Monster Train.[8] Bob McCann of TechRadar described Letourneau as "[managing] to be both informative and talk through his tactical choices during games, which many viewers find useful."[3] Jonathan Lee of Yahoo! News has also noted Letourneau for his "quick wit."[9]
Twitch
Letourneau created his Twitch channel "Northernlion" on August 5, 2010.[10] On February 25, 2013,[11] Letourneau uploaded the first "Northernlion Live Super Show" (NLSS), a three-hour stream in which he and his co-hosts would play a variety of video games, usually divided into three one-hour long segments.[12] He alongside other members of the show were included in the indie game Spelunky as an easter egg.[13] The final episode of the NLSS aired on January 21, 2021.[14]
In 2016 Letourneau participated in an esports tournament sponsored by Amazon where he competed against Twitch streamer Adam "B0aty" Lyne in Pac-Man 256 where he won the match.[15] In 2020, Letourneau was invited to stream the video game Among Us with United States congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Canadian member of Parliament Jagmeet Singh; the stream also featured internet personalities Hasan Piker, ContraPoints, Corpse Husband, Sykkuno and xQc.[16] In 2022, Letourneau received a nomination in the 2022 Streamer Awards for the category of the "Best Strategy Game Streamer."[17]
Personal life
Letourneau was born on November 28, 1988[18][19] and grew up in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.[20] Letourneau married Kate Letourneau in May 2014.[21] On September 29, 2020, their daughter Luna Letourneau was born.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kollar, Philip (March 21, 2014). "YouTube star Northernlion gives advice on how indie devs can succeed on video". Polygon. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
- ↑ Northernlion. "Channel description". YouTube. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 McCann, Bob (July 8, 2016). "Gaming on YouTube: Why and who to watch". TechRadar. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
- ↑ Nunneley, Stephany (April 19, 2013). "The Binding of Isaac has passed the two million sales mark". VG247. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
- ↑ Gutelle, Sam (March 21, 2014). "Indie Game Developer Claims YouTubers Helped Boost Sales Tenfold". Tubefilter. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
- ↑ Wright, Steven T. (September 28, 2018). "There are too many video games. What now?". Polygon. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
- ↑ Chan, Stephanie (April 15, 2018). "Slay the Spire has China to thank for launching its 700,000 sales in Steam Early Access". VentureBeat. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
Popular streamers like Northernlion helped boost the game's visibility, and as more players picked it up, it became the second most-downloaded Steam game at the end of January.
- ↑ Linken, Andre (May 26, 2020). "Monster Train: Huge hit of roguelike card game mix on Steam". PC Games (in Deutsch). Retrieved November 25, 2022.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lee, Jonathan (April 8, 2021). "Streamer shares 'genius' response to troll who shamed him for being bald: 'Here's what you do'". Yahoo! News. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
Ryan “Northernlion” Letourneau is a YouTuber and Twitch streamer well known for his quick wit... The Canadian streamer has also recently become a father. He and fellow streamer Kate Letourneau announced the birth of their daughter Luna in September 2020.
- ↑ Northernlion. "NORTHERNLION". TwitchTracker. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ↑ Northernlion. "Northernlion Live Super Show! [February 25th, 2013]". YouTube. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ↑ Linhares, Nádia (November 17, 2020). "New Fall Guys mode, the Star Show, available today for limited time". Dot Esports. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
- ↑ Shaw, Luke (November 11, 2020). "Spelunky 2 and Hades use chaos to spark conversation, making them the perfect lockdown games". GamesRadar+. Retrieved December 7, 2022.
Spelunky had a healthy streaming community that built up around it, from the Spelunky Showlike, to the NorthernLion Super Show – the members of which are even referenced in an easter egg in the Dwelling's Udjat Eye room.
- ↑ Northernlion. "The Northernlion Live Super Show! (January 21st, 2021)". YouTube.
- ↑ Johnson, Leif (December 16, 2016). "The Unexpected Drama of Amazon's Casual E-Sports Tournament". Paste. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
- ↑ Shaw, Luke (November 28, 2020). "'Among Us' stream sees Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jagmeet Singh raise $200k". NME. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
- ↑ Alford, Aaron (March 14, 2022). "All the award winners at The Streamer Awards 2022". Inven Global. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
- ↑ Bachhuber, Robert (December 1, 2022). "Streamer Gets Emotionally Blackmailed By Twitch To Stream More". EarlyGame. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
- ↑ @Northernlion. "thanks for the birthday wishes y'all" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Missing or empty |date= (help)
- ↑ Northernlion. "I was actually robbed? (Peglin)". YouTube. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ↑ Kate LovelyMomo. "20,000 Subscribers! Thank you! Q&A Time! Cat cam & face cam". YouTube. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
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