He read the next username out loud, voice flat.

A grin tugged at the corner of his mouth despite himself. He was trying not to look too entertained. Failing, probably. This was the most fun he'd had on stream in weeks.

He watched the numbers climb. Someone named MidnightQueen88 had been trading blows with another familiar username for the past five minutes.

He'd seen that username flash across his screen dozens of times over the past year. Memberships. Donations. Gift subs to randoms in his chat who couldn't afford it themselves. Always there. Always steady.

The timer kept ticking down. One minute forty.

He read the rules again like he hadn't already said them twenty times tonight.

He was grinning now, wide and sharp, enjoying every second of the chaos he'd created. The timer hit fifty seconds. Y/n was in second place now.

The timer hit zero. Her name sat at the top of the board, glowing with the smugness of a number that nobody was going to touch in the remaining milliseconds.

He looked at his camera. Then at chat. Then back at the leaderboard.

He laughed. Short. Disbelieving. Rubbed the back of his neck.