INTERVIEWER: But $200,000.
How do you feel about this?
It's incredible.
So I usually wake up around
8 o'clock, do schoolwork,
and then I stream
from, really, whenever
I'm ready until
whenever I go to sleep.
INTERVIEWER: How many hours of
"Fortnite" do you play a day?
GRIFFIN SPIKOSKI:
Like, eight hours.
And then on weekends,
I play, like, up to 18.
INTERVIEWER: What are you
going to do with the $200,000?
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GRIFFIN SPIKOSKI: So I usually
wake up around 8 o' clock,
eat breakfast, take a shower.
And then I just do
schoolwork until that's over,
usually around 11:00 or 12:00.
And then I stream
from, really, whenever
I'm ready until
whenever I go to sleep.
CHRIS SPIKOSKI: The first
money being was Twitch.
He started streaming on
Twitch back in April.
And probably around June we
got his first $100 from Twitch.
People on Twitch--
so they could subscribe
for $5, and I get
$2 and 1/2 dollars out of that.
And people just continually
subscribe through that.
And when you do
make YouTube videos,
you can put
advertisements on them.
And you make money off of ads.
CHRIS SPIKOSKI: And we were,
like, blown away at the time.
We're like, oh my god, he's
actually made some money.
And the next thing you know,
his YouTube video blows up,
and he gets more subscribers,
and more people take notice.
So basically I
went into a game,
and I don't really know
how, but I got into a game
with a really big streamer.
The biggest at the time,
and still the biggest.
He had, like, 20,000
viewers at the time.
He gets to, like, 60,000 now.
And I got a lucky shot on him.
I got a really cool hit on him.
And I took that clip,
uploaded it to YouTube,
and it got 9 million views.
Oh, I actually killed Tfue!
I actually killed Tfue!
No way.
I actually killed Tfue, bro.
I mean, if you're going to
try to do this as a career,
you've got to be patient, and
you've got to have dedication.
People always put, like, full
force into it, but it's not--
it's kind of just
luck in the end.
It is lucky.
Cause my video, when I
first exploded and got
all this popularity, my video--
I got lucky.
And it got 9 million views.
INTERVIEWER: But $200,000.
How do you feel about this?
CHRIS SPIKOSKI: It's incredible.
It's incredible.
But we try to keep
him humble about it,
and try and keep him focused.
Like I said, school
is top priority.
And that's his main focus.
INTERVIEWER: What are you
going to do with the $200,000?
I don't have interest
of spending it.
I'm just going to save it.
If I go down the road, or if
this goes down or whatever,
I could use in on college,
a house, anything.
I want parents to
know that, you know,
if their kids do
enjoy playing games,
and they have a passion for it,
and they're really good at it,
they should treat it
as any other sport.
Same way we would
treat baseball games
and bringing our kids
to games, and buying
all the equipment for them.
Just encourage them, and help
them follow their passion
and follow their dreams.
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