Twitch’s Stream Aid 2020 plans to raise money for COVID-19

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Twitch plans to put its community’s charity muscles to good use on Saturday, by hosting a benefit called Stream Aid 2020 that will feature a host of celebrity guests, a lot of music, and a little bit of gaming. (Think UNO and Fortnite.) The event will go live on Twitch’s channel at 12PM ET and stay up for 12 full hours, and the goal is to raise as much money as possible for the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization. Everyone from Diplo to Charlie Puth to Die Antwoord will be there.

The roster of people set to appear on Stream Aid 2020 shows its ambition, which is also in its name: a callback to Live Aid, that seminal ‘80s event that got the 1.9 billion people watching concerts around the world to care about famine in Ethiopia. (That said, in the end, its impact was possibly not as large as advertised.)

Twitch is known for its streamers’ huge charity drives — last year, Ben “DrLupo” Lupo raised more than $2 million in a single stream for St. Jude’s in 24 hours — and Stream Aid 2020 looks like it’s set to do something similarly big. That’s what Amyoony’s excited about, too. “One of the things I’m excited for is just seeing how much the community will raise in the name of COVID-19,” he says. “Because that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day — using community for good. And I’m looking forward to that.”

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https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/26/21195811/twitch-stream-aid-2020-live-aid-covid-19-coronavirus-celebrities

 

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