Ibai Llanos moves away from the streaming world to focus his efforts on YouTube: “I want new challenges and adventures”
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:20 am
You are going to have to get used to me not being here for two months. Right now I'm doing about 1,400 hours a year. I'm going to reduce my streaming to about 900 hours a year. I need new things, new goals, new objectives, adrenaline…” the streamer commented.
This year Ibai will not be doing a live broadcast during the New Year's Eve chimes either, so he can be with his family. The Ibainéfico will not be held in December either, the charity live broadcast in which the streamer donated a large sum of money to social causes every year, since, as he has said, they are putting together something quite special that will have to do with those affected by DANA.
New stage
Why Ibai stops doing live shows
2024 has been a year of changes for the Bilbao native, who seems to be much more focused on his well-being. He has spent almost 100 days focused on his physical change, which, as he says, he could not have achieved without having a change of mentality, since this is not the first time he has tried. After years of hard work, Ibai is taking care of his health, his family and his friends, something that makes him much happier.
The alarm bells went off when he announced on his X profile last Monday that he would stop broadcasting the Kings League live streams , although he will not give up his team's presidency in the league. The person in charge of broadcasting the live streams will be Guanyar , the Galician streamer.
In his live stream, Ibai explained that, after 11 years of fusion database live streams, starting first with the LVP (Professional Video Game League) in which he was the caster and then continuing on his own channel, he wanted to look for new challenges. For some months now he has been seen with a more serious approach on his YouTube channel , leaving behind the re-uploaded content and creating new video series such as the challenge proposed to him by Mr Beast or the Camino de Santiago with elXokas.
Where will the 900 hours he's no longer spending on Twitch go? Ibai is going to focus entirely on YouTube , since before, he spent at most 5% of his time on it. They are going to create a larger team that is much more focused on the YouTube channel, since for the moment it's just him and his editors. They will professionalize his channel and carry out ideas that had not been possible until now.
« It's been five very intense years in which we've set many records on Twitch. We've won, we've lost, we've streamed everything. I'm not going to say that I've done everything because someone can always beat you, but it's true that I felt like I'd hit a ceiling that limited my creativity» commented Ibai in the video uploaded to YouTube. «I love streaming, it's my natural habitat. I'm going to miss it, but it's something I have to sacrifice».
According to statistics, Ibai has been the most watched Spanish-speaking streamer, and the second most watched streamer in the world on Twitch. However, despite the fact that the platform wanted to keep Ibai on the same terms, and Kick had even proposed an offer in which he was paid more than double, he refused, because it was not a question of money.
This year Ibai will not be doing a live broadcast during the New Year's Eve chimes either, so he can be with his family. The Ibainéfico will not be held in December either, the charity live broadcast in which the streamer donated a large sum of money to social causes every year, since, as he has said, they are putting together something quite special that will have to do with those affected by DANA.
New stage
Why Ibai stops doing live shows
2024 has been a year of changes for the Bilbao native, who seems to be much more focused on his well-being. He has spent almost 100 days focused on his physical change, which, as he says, he could not have achieved without having a change of mentality, since this is not the first time he has tried. After years of hard work, Ibai is taking care of his health, his family and his friends, something that makes him much happier.
The alarm bells went off when he announced on his X profile last Monday that he would stop broadcasting the Kings League live streams , although he will not give up his team's presidency in the league. The person in charge of broadcasting the live streams will be Guanyar , the Galician streamer.
In his live stream, Ibai explained that, after 11 years of fusion database live streams, starting first with the LVP (Professional Video Game League) in which he was the caster and then continuing on his own channel, he wanted to look for new challenges. For some months now he has been seen with a more serious approach on his YouTube channel , leaving behind the re-uploaded content and creating new video series such as the challenge proposed to him by Mr Beast or the Camino de Santiago with elXokas.
Where will the 900 hours he's no longer spending on Twitch go? Ibai is going to focus entirely on YouTube , since before, he spent at most 5% of his time on it. They are going to create a larger team that is much more focused on the YouTube channel, since for the moment it's just him and his editors. They will professionalize his channel and carry out ideas that had not been possible until now.
« It's been five very intense years in which we've set many records on Twitch. We've won, we've lost, we've streamed everything. I'm not going to say that I've done everything because someone can always beat you, but it's true that I felt like I'd hit a ceiling that limited my creativity» commented Ibai in the video uploaded to YouTube. «I love streaming, it's my natural habitat. I'm going to miss it, but it's something I have to sacrifice».
According to statistics, Ibai has been the most watched Spanish-speaking streamer, and the second most watched streamer in the world on Twitch. However, despite the fact that the platform wanted to keep Ibai on the same terms, and Kick had even proposed an offer in which he was paid more than double, he refused, because it was not a question of money.