Gaming is a lifeline: why the number one Make-A-Wish request type is video games

okay yeah that's that's awesome good context and i'm aware of something called stream for stream for the wishes i believe it's called yeah but i just a quick caveat my my daughter's 10. uh she's really into this uh they're up your way crew which is out of canada

they're

big like roblox streamers and they do other things uh but pretty amazing she actually actually gonna get her this book the 75 physical book that they they did the art on it and everything anyway i mean i'm in deep with that with crew because of her right but i think that they're they're a streamer right like a youtube streamer popular some people do twitch other things like this but am i right that stream for which stream for wishes is about uh youtube or maybe twitch and maybe some other platforms but can you kind of give me some sense on you know how that fits into I guess the picture of, uh, some of the kids that are after, um, getting wishes granted.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I mean, um, so I can, my, my role, I can kind of divide into two things, right.

There's the industry side, you know, which is connecting with the games industry for support.

And then there's the content creator side.

And so, you know, charitable fundraising by content creators for a long time was kind of built into the culture of content creation, right.

Especially on the Twitch side of things.

It was very much like kind of an expectation and a given, you know, that people in that space would be doing some sort of charitable events and things like that.

Now I will say, as you know, things seem to be coalescing into like a top, you know, 10% scenario with content creators, you know, where now they're not just, they're not just the talent behind the content.

They're a brand, they're a force, right? There's endorsement deals and, you know, they're making their own beverages and, you know, so there is a bit of a shift in the space as far as that goes.

So it is a little bit.

would say more challenging to connect with those people for charitable reasons um but that's a big part of what i do too is also you know letting them use their content their community um their talent to do some good in the world and so a lot of times what they'll do is they'll pick a charity and they'll do like a few live streams where the sole goal is not subs or bits or you know any of that stuff it's solely to raise money for a charity so The more we do of that, right? The more awareness we raise that we're in the space, what our kids need in the space, that we have a reason for being there.

I think that's probably one of the most compelling things about us is that we're not just parachuting into these spaces.

We really have a legitimate reason and need and demand from our wish children to be there and to be doing what we're doing.

okay yeah that's that's awesome good context and i'm aware of something called stream for stream for the wishes i believe it's called yeah but i just a quick caveat my my daughter's 10. uh she's really into this uh they're up your way crew which is out of canada

they're

big like roblox streamers and they do other things uh but pretty amazing she actually actually gonna get her this book the 75 physical book that they they did the art on it and everything anyway i mean i'm in deep with that with crew because of her right but i think that they're they're a streamer right like a youtube streamer popular some people do twitch other things like this but am i right that stream for which stream for wishes is about uh youtube or maybe twitch and maybe some other platforms but can you kind of give me some sense on you know how that fits into I guess the picture of, uh, some of the kids that are after, um, getting wishes granted.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I mean, um, so I can, my, my role, I can kind of divide into two things, right.

There's the industry side, you know, which is connecting with the games industry for support.

And then there's the content creator side.

And so, you know, charitable fundraising by content creators for a long time was kind of built into the culture of content creation, right.

Especially on the Twitch side of things.

It was very much like kind of an expectation and a given, you know, that people in that space would be doing some sort of charitable events and things like that.

Now I will say, as you know, things seem to be coalescing into like a top, you know, 10% scenario with content creators, you know, where now they're not just, they're not just the talent behind the content.

They're a brand, they're a force, right? There's endorsement deals and, you know, they're making their own beverages and, you know, so there is a bit of a shift in the space as far as that goes.

So it is a little bit.

would say more challenging to connect with those people for charitable reasons um but that's a big part of what i do too is also you know letting them use their content their community um their talent to do some good in the world and so a lot of times what they'll do is they'll pick a charity and they'll do like a few live streams where the sole goal is not subs or bits or you know any of that stuff it's solely to raise money for a charity so The more we do of that, right? The more awareness we raise that we're in the space, what our kids need in the space, that we have a reason for being there.

I think that's probably one of the most compelling things about us is that we're not just parachuting into these spaces.

We really have a legitimate reason and need and demand from our wish children to be there and to be doing what we're doing.