Listed here are the ten most {followed} esports gamers on social media, and Bugha takes the cake by a big margin, with Faker shut behind.
Social media isn’t every thing, however discovering out who the most-followed is may very well be a doubtlessly helpful metric for making an attempt to measure how fashionable a esports participant is. And if that metric is correct, Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf wins by a large margin as he has over 16 million followers throughout social media platforms in keeping with Winz.io.
In a launch printed in the present day by Winz.io, the highest 10 most {followed} esports gamers on social media have been revealed. By measuring the follows on Twitch, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, the corporate discovered that former Fortnite world champion Bugha simply topped the checklist, with nearly eight million extra followers than second place, League of Legends star Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok.
Right here’s the entire checklist detailing the most-followed esports participant on every platform:
Most-followed esports gamers on Twitch, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube
Kyle ‘Bugha’ Giersdorf |
Fortnite |
16.1M |
5.3M |
4.5M |
1.9M |
4.4M |
Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok |
LoL |
7.2M |
3.9M |
1M |
586K |
1.7M |
Seth “Scump” Abner |
CoD |
7.0M |
1.6M |
551K |
2.2M |
2.7M |
Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev |
CS |
6.2M |
3.6M |
1.6M |
776K |
28K |
Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo de Alcântara Sguario |
CS |
5.0M |
1.5M |
1M |
1.2M |
1.3M |
Phillip ”ImperialHal” Dosen |
Apex Legends |
2.8M |
1.9M |
135K |
432K |
341K |
Artour “Arteezy” Babaev |
Dota 2 |
1.6M |
767K |
206K |
637K |
29K |
David “Aqua” Wang |
Fortnite |
1.6M |
479K |
104K |
694K |
338K |
Olof “Olofmeister” Gustafsson |
CS |
1.4M |
786K |
201K |
488K |
18K |
Topias “Topson” Taavitsainen |
Dota 2 |
1.0M |
525K |
135K |
138K |
243K |
As you’ll be able to see it’s an enormous mixture of gamers from totally different video games.
After Bugha, Faker, the Korean “unkillable demon king” and esports participant of the yr 2023 takes the second spot. He is the one League of Legends star within the prime ten, and exhibits that different LoL execs have a protracted option to come when it comes to reputation in comparison with Faker.
Seth “Scump” Abner is available in third, the ifrst and solely CoD participant within the prime 10. Now retired, Scump is likely one of the most legendary gamers in CoD historical past.
Counter-Strike legends take up the subsequent two spots with Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev and Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo de Alcântara Sguario holding the fourth and fifth spots respectively. s1mple is usually considered the best Counter-Strike participant of all time… except you are a Brazilian fan, for who the reply would undoubtedly be FalleN.
The person who cannot cease successful, CEO of Apex, Phillip ”ImperialHal” Dosen, is available in sixth. Maybe essentially the most recognizable Apex Legends participant on the earth, ImperialHal is a three-time champion and one of many winningest gamers in all of esports.
Artour “Arteezy” Babaev, Dota 2’s as soon as prodigy, is seventh on the checklist. The previous EG midlaner has an enormous variety of followers on Twitch… maybe as a result of they did not get the memo he’d switched to Kick months in the past.
Fortnite’s David “Aqua” Wang, CS’s Olof “Olofmeister” Gustafsson, and two-time TI-winner Topias “Topson” Taavitsainen spherical out the ultimate spots.
Lacking some massive platforms?
Whereas the knowledge is certainly invaluable, it is barely incomplete. Fb, whereas considerably outdated, particularly within the west the place it is seen as a boomer social media platform, is absent from the checklist. For Bugha alone it could add one other 242k followers, and considerably enhance most of the different abilities. Fb continues to be a large platform in South America and Southeast Asia, the place followers of a few of these gamers are concentrated.
Equally, TikTok, a extra trendy social media platform is lacking. And Kick, the rival streaming platform to Twitch and YouTube, the place Arteezy is notably lively. General, these extra platforms would not trigger an excessive amount of shifting within the prime 10 of most-followed esports participant, however its fascinating to contemplate none the much less.
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