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Ludwig Anders Ahgren (; Event occurs at 13 minutes, 34 seconds. born July 6, 1995), sometimes known as Ludwig, is an American Online streamer, YouTuber, podcaster, esports commentator and competitor. He is best known for his live streams on Twitch from 2018 through late 2021, and on YouTube beginning in late 2021, where he broadcasts video game-related content as well as non-video-game-related content such as game shows and contests. Ahgren is also known for his work as an esports commentator at various Super Smash Bros. Melee tournaments. He is the co-owner of the esports organization Shopify Rebellion. He began streaming full-time in 2019.
While holding a widely publicized "subathon" event, Ahgren became the most-subscribed Twitch streamer of all time in 2021, eventually reaching around 282,000 subscribers at its peak, beating the previous record set by fellow streamer Ninja. In 2021, Ahgren announced that he had signed an exclusive deal with YouTube Gaming. At the 2022 Streamer Awards, Ahgren won the award for "Streamer of the Year". He became a Red Bull athlete in 2024.
In January 2020, Ahgren, among other Melee competitors and personalities, such as Mew2King and Plup, competed in an invitational tournament for Pokémon Sword and Shield by 2016 Pokémon World Champion, Wolfe Glick, where Ahgren finished first. In June 2020, Ahgren was invited to compete against other popular Twitch streamers in the amateur chess tournament PogChamps of Chess.com, placing second in the consolation bracket. Ahgren subsequently made an appearance on the cover of the August 2020 edition of Chess Life.
In December 2020, both Ahgren's YouTube channel and his Twitch channel reached over one million followers; Cale Michael of Dot Esports credited his rapid growth to his "Twitch stream expanding, continued collaboration with other big creators, and his willingness to try new forms of content out both live and for his YouTube channel."
In January 2021, Ahgren began hosting a game show on Twitch, titled Hivemind, with fellow streamer Cr1TiKaL. In October 2021, Ahgren was among a multitude of streamers whose earnings from Twitch were revealed in a data breach; between August 2019 and October 2021, Ahgren had earned $3.3 million through Twitch, which Ahgren confirmed.
In December 2021, Ahgren received two DMCA-related bans, temporarily suspending his streams. On September 11, 2022, Ahgren was banned for a third time during a stream where he deliberately played the copyrighted song "Go!!!" to see how quickly he would be banned. He was banned after one minute and thirty-one seconds which he claimed was a "world record".
On July 2, 2022, Ludwig hosted an in-person version of his game show, Mogul Money Live, to over 5,000 people at the YouTube Theater. Contestants included Pokimane, xQc, Sykkuno, Mizkif, Sodapoppin, and Fuslie, among others.
On September 23, Ahgren announced a chess boxing event, the Mogul Chessboxing Championship, that was held on December 11, in the Galen Center in Los Angeles; It featured both streamers and professional chess players. In the event, Ahgren was both co-host and a participant in a surprise chess-slap match with CDawgVA.
From October 21 to 23, Ahgren organized an invitational tournament for Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in Las Vegas, Nevada with 32-player brackets and a prize pool of $30,002 for both games, which was increased to $52,502 due to a cross-promotion with Capital One. The event was broadcast across Ahgren's and Alpharad's channels. On October 20, the day before the event was scheduled to begin, Ahgren revealed that a major sponsor had backed out at the last minute. YouTuber MrBeast signed on as a sponsor through his company Feastables. According to Ahgren and tournament organizer Aiden 'Calvin' McCaig, the event cost $200,000 to produce. hosted another Smash invitational, the Scuffed World Tour, on December 18, in light of community uproar surrounding Nintendo and Panda due to the cancellation of the 2022 Smash World Tour Championships. Intending to rival Panda's Panda Cup Finale, which was to be held on the same weekend before it got postponed, Ahgren invited the top sixteen Melee and Ultimate players from Smash World Tour 2022 to compete with the primary goal of raising money to support VGBootCamp, the organizers of Smash World Tour.Ludwig Ahgren @LudwigAhgren (December 4, 2022) " 16 people per game now" (Tweet). Retrieved December 6, 2022 – via Twitter.
From September 2 to 3, 2023, Ahgren collaborating with YouTube, hosted a livestreamed gaming tournament called World's Greatest, where he invited 17 participant to compete in various game such as Street Fighter 6, Minecraft, Tetris, Fortnite, TrackMania, and many more.
On July 13, 2024, Ahgren appeared in a MrBeast video titled "50 YouTubers Fight for $1,000,000". From August 17 to 18, Ahgren hosted a livestreamed athletic competition called Ludwig's Streamer Games, where content creators competed in a mix of traditional track and field events alongside schoolyard games with a twist, including the 1m + 99m Dash, Gymnastics, and the Tungsten Cube Toss. The event featured content creators from gaming organizations such as FaZe Clan, 100 Thieves, OfflineTV, Red Bull, and more. In December 2024, the event won Best Streamed Event at The Streamer Awards.
In March 2025, Ahgren and fellow YouTuber Michael Reeves documented their journey across Japan in daily vlogs, traveling on motorcycles without the use of smartphones, maps, or expressways. The duo began at Cape Sata, the southernmost point of Japan, and reached Cape Soya, the northernmost point, fourteen days later.
On June 22, 2025, Ahgren hosted a Mario Kart World tournament, known as the Beerio Kart World Cup, in which participants had to drink an entire can of beer before they could finish a race. During the livestreamed event, professional Smash Bros. Melee player Mango was seen touching other participants inappropriately and walking around shirtless. The livestream showed Mango Dry humping other creators including Maya Higa, ExtraEmily and Cinna who all called him out for his inappropriate behavior. On June 23, Ahgren condemned Mango's behavior and apologized to participants who were affected, while confirming that Mango was banned from all future events produced by Mogul Moves. However, Ahgren himself has also faced criticism for this incident, with several people including Mango's wife Lauren accusing him of enabling Mango's alcoholism.
On September 28, 2022, Ahgren and Jschlatt, a fellow content creator, founded the YouTube channel "Lud and Schlatts Musical Emporium" , a project to release royalty-free recordings of famous compositions and two original songs in the style of Nintendo video game music for use in content creation.
On October 15, 2022, Ahgren announced the launch of Swipe, his bidet product line.
In January 2023, Ahgren announced that he had joined as a co-owner of Moist Esports, an American esports organization founded by fellow streamer Cr1TiKaL. In January 2025, Ahgren and White would become co-owners of Shopify Rebellion, effectively merging Moist Esports with the Canadian organization.
In February 2021, Ahgren paid and donated $53,000 to hang out with Shroud at a charity auction stream for the fundraiser for Alveus Sanctuary, a non-profit exotic animal sanctuary and virtual education center, owned by fellow Twitch streamer Maya Higa. Gamerhood Challenge charity event in 2023|220x220px]]In January 2022, Ahgren held a charity auction stream where he auctioned his stream-related items such as his Youtooz figure, custom controllers, his Cars bed, where he slept during his 2021 subathon, and his silver YouTube play button to his viewers. He managed to raise more than $100,000 for No Kid Hungry.
At DreamHack Atlanta 2022 in November 2022, Ahgren raised more than $315,000 for Alveus Sanctuary and No Kid Hungry through a 50-hour glass box stream. According to Stream Hatchet, the stream received 882,000 hours of viewing and peaked at 57,500 watchers at the end.
In June 2023, Ahgren participated in the 5-week State Farm Gamerhood Challenge charity event along with content creators such as Ninja, Jessica Blevins, Typical Gamer, Krystalogy, ImDontai, and BlackKrystel. Ahgren and Typical Gamer ended up winning the event and raising $100,000 for their non-profit of choice, Feeding America.
From May 31 to June 2, 2024, Ahgren organized and hosted Ludwig Fast 50, a livestreamed speedrunning charity event featuring popular content creators and speed runners attempting to break speed run records in a variety of retro and new games. By the end of the event, they managed to raise over $251,924 for Wings For Life and No Kid Hungry.
In November 2025, Ahgren hosted a charity stream raising over $105,000 for The Trevor Project, following the death of one of his long-time transgender viewers.
| +Awards and nominations received by Ludwig Ahgren ! Ceremony ! Year ! Category ! Work ! Result ! | |||||
| Esports Awards | 2021 | Streamer of the Year | Himself | ||
| 2023 | Esports Personality of the Year | ||||
| The Game Awards | 2022 | Content Creator of the Year | |||
| The Streamer Awards | 2021 | Best Variety Streamer | |||
| Streamer of the Year | |||||
| 2022 | League of Their Own | ||||
| Best Streamed Event | Mogul Chessboxing Championship | ||||
| 2023 | Best Variety Streamer | Himself | |||
| Best Streamed Event | Creator Dodgeball World Championship | ||||
| 2024 | Streamer Games | ||||
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| Streamy Awards | 2022 | Streamer of the Year | Himself | ||
| Collaboration | My Gameshow Broke YouTube | ||||
| Variety Streamer | Himself | ||||
| 2023 | Streamer of the Year | ||||
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| Podcast | The Yard |
| +List of music video appearances by Ludwig Ahgren ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Artist(s) ! Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | |
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