Peepo Animation

About

Peepo Animation, also known as Spending Time Without Your Favorite Streamer, is an animated short film and viral video following the story of an anthropomorphic Peepo, a Twitch emote, who represents a fan of Twitch streamer xQc who is blocked from chatting on his channel. The video loosely follows a real-world interaction between YouTuber HeydoubleU, who created the animation, and xQc. In September 2020, the short went viral online and received numerous reaction videos from xQc himself and many other streamers.

Origin

The first video to feature the Peepo animation was uploaded by YouTuber^[1] HeydoubleU to his channel on July 9th, 2020. In the original video (seen below), the story follows Peepo loosely based on a real interaction between HeydoubleU and xQc after the Twitch streamer commented on one of his animations, called “Big Schnozer,” which was posted to his fanbase’s subreddit.^[2] Since being uploaded, the video received over 3.2 million views, 324,000 likes and 32,000 comments in roughly two months.

The second video, which takes place after the events of the first, was posted on HeydoubleU’s YouTube^[3] channel on September 15th, 2020, (shown below). This animated short, called “Spending Time Without Your Favorite Streamer,” accumulated over 1.5 million views, 252,000 likes and 16,000 comments in nine days.

Spread

After the animation was uploaded to YouTube, several streamers posted their reaction videos to the clip over the course of the next week. On September 16th, 2020, xQc posted his reaction to the animation on his YouTube^[4] channel (seen below, left), receiving over 967,000 views, 65,000 likes and 2,600 comments in nine days. On September 17th, Twitch streamer Adept also shared her reaction to the Peepo Animation on her YouTube,^[5] receiving over 168,000 views, 9,400 likes and 429 comments in eight days (seen below, right).

On September 17th, Asmongold also shared a reaction clip on his YouTube^[6] (shown below, letf), receiving over 170,000 views, 6,400 likes and 383 comments in eight days. On September 19th, Pokimane uploaded her reaction clip to her YouTube^[7] channel (shown below, right), receiving over 262,000 views, 19,000 likes and 1,000 comments in six days.

On September 18th, HeydoubleU uploaded a compilation video of the various streamers reacting to his animation on his YouTube^[8] channel (seen below), accumulating more than 766,000 views, 65,000 likes and 3,300 comments in one week.

On September 17th, Twitter^[9] user drawnbyj0hnny shared artwork inspired by the Peepo Animation (shown below, left), receiving over 1,500 likes and 65 retweets in eight days. That same day on the /r/xqcow subreddit, Redditor^[10] McGrim_ also shared fan art (shown below, right), receiving over 2,300 upvotes, 21 comments and several Reddit awards.

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