10 hours a day, live: How streamer Aussie Antics plans to be set by 35
The 31-year-old, six-foot-something native of Sydney's Sutherland Shire streams video games online under the alias Aussie Antics. He has amassed millions of dedicated followers doing so, and his face and voice are associated in particular with the global phenomenon that is video game Fortnite.
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