Following his success on Twitch, where he became the most subscribed streamer in the platform's history, the former Smash Melee star has moved on to YouTube Gaming, where he will now stream exclusively.

Ludwig's popularity has soared in the last year, culminating in the former Melee player smashing Tyler "Ninja" Blevins' record of most-subscribed Twitch streamer in history with over 220k subs during his now-legendary subathon. Ludwig will begin his new endeavour on November 30th.

I'm excited to announce @LudwigAhgren will now be streaming exclusively on @YouTubeGaming.

Our focus is building a world class VOD, short form, and live platform.

And I have to reiterate; we still aren't done yet! Welcome to the family, Ludwig! pic.twitter.com/pSfCNoLwwM

— Ryan Wyatt (fwiz.eth) (@Fwiz) November 29, 2021

Slime, a long-time buddy of Slime's was sittin next to him,where he made the announcement in a brief YouTube video. The two begin their journey in a purple van, a nod to Twitch's colour design. It explodes up when they both get out of the car and start talking about Ludwig's wits and charm.

:) pic.twitter.com/717LGs0Cvk

— ludwig (@LudwigAhgren) November 29, 2021

As they travel into the sunset, a gleaming new red Volkswagen arrives to save the day. "Do you ever get in trouble for playing music?" says the narrator. Slime inquires. Ludwig responds, "Not in this car, not in this car," an obvious reference to Twitch's DMCA troubles.

Naturally, no details about the exclusivity deal were divulged, but given Ludwig's Twitch channel's over 3 million subscribers, YouTube had to shell out some substantial cash.
Timothy "TimTheTatman" Betar just left Twitch and switched to YouTube in September. Ludwig teased a few days later that "a lot more" content makers will be switching. It's possible that both parties were in talks or had an agreement in place at the time.