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Over the past few weeks, I've been working on a Documentary Podcast for  the BBC about last year's HBomberguy Donkey Kong Livestream.  

(Currently requires iPlayer to listen)

Written version coming later today.

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BBC Sounds - Original Pilot Material...from The Social, Series 3: Gaming, GAMING EP2: How Donkey Kong Became A Trans Icon

Gaming journalist Laura Kate Dale explains how a 57hr stream brought hope to a community Back in 2019, Youtuber HBomberGuy committed to a completing Donkey Kong 64 to 101% (finding every collectable) while live streaming the whole thing, in what turned out to be one of the biggest charity streams ever seen, raising over $340,000 for the charity Mermaids.

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LauraKBuzz

Written version of the podcast is now live. It's a little truncated compared to the full documentary, but tells much of the same story. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/51zq42Wb04L2yWWpvpQzLsz/how-donkey-kong-became-a-trans-icon

Perpetual Noob

God that whole event was incredible. Just listening to this brought a smile to my face. 🙂