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SHiFT / @shiftposting
SHiFT as he's known by. Is a spongebob battle for bikini bottom speedrunner who makes his living streaming his attempts at whittling down his world record by mere seconds. Spending the last 8 years or 20,000 hours of playtime mastering the skill's required to be the very best in this one specific game, and he is! Having held the world record since 2016 and amassing enough subs on twitch to be at one point the 18th most subscribed channel on the platform. Earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year streaming!
The bleak reality of his situation are his days spend playing the same exact game for 10 hours at a time. Most runs ending in 5 minutes or less. Despite being an expert of the game twice over, SHiFT is still at the mercy of luck and frame prefect precision. The skills required to be the best at an individual speed game are largely non-transferable, SHiFT has confined himself to a life of running the same 44 minute speedrun for years. For some reason SHiFT rarely streams other games, making no consistent effort to branch out to other genre's of streaming despite having a sizable audience.
This concoction of circumstance's slowly eroding his patience over the many years of his career and his generally short temper has turned him into one of the angriest gamers ever documented, going ballistic constantly. Whether it be messing up a glitch 30 minutes into a run, fucking up that same jump 5 minutes into a game for the 10th time in a row or a well meaning fan voicing his deturbed concern. There is no shortage of him losing his shit!
Early Life
Having started his internet career speedrunning spongebob battle for bikini bottom. His entire history is intertwined with its speedrunning scene. His first videos would consist of demonstrating tech intended for other runners of the game. The route was much more unoptimized and the crowd was bigger so there was much more to be learned and a community to share it with. This era was rather boring as SHiFT did not rage at all or stream with a face cam.
It took SHiFT about a year of grinding out runs to achieve his first world record on june 5 2016. Only losing it once for a week it would remain uncontested to this day. Even by speedrunning standards battle for bikini bottom is brutal, Featuring hundreds of different frame-perfect jumps and glitches that if performed wrong can end a run instantly. This would filter out the vast majority of potential runners who could only learn these glitches by talking to the runners personally or by bashing your skull against a wall via trial and error. Which is what SHiFT did, The current route of the game is one he came up with all by himself as resources didn't exist back then. the community only consisted of 12 live viewers shared between SHiFT, his nemeses fluff, and a few other weirdos who were actively competing for a world record, they would all eventually dip leaving SHiFT to optimize and grind the game by himself. spending the next 6 years finding new more risky starts, further shortening the run at the pace of about 2 minutes a year.
Rise to popularity
What SHiFT is most known for are his documentaries about the speed lore of battle for bikini bottom. Most of his audience would find him from these videos. He even got a shout out from critical.these documentaries and well made for what they are, SHiFT sucks himself off a lot and takes centerstage for most of it, which is why only two of the four parts are currently released as the rest of it would just be him talking about himself in the third person. Most of the people who watched them are totally unaware of his notorious aptitude for sperging out.
Part one
Typical SHiFT stream
SHiFT streams usually for around 10 hours at a time, the heavily optimized nature of the run and consistency of frame-perfect tricks means most of his runs don't make it past the five-minute mark, some not even making it to two. According to him, a run ender happens every 30 seconds. This has the predictable result of driving him past the point of insanity unseen by even notorious rage tards like wings of redemption. When he's not screaming SHiFT is usually silent, scowling at the game anticipating a reset. This has earned him the name squward among alogsSHiFT abuses his fans
Despite only speedrunning one single game SHiFT has managed to gain a sizable audience who are often concerned that he will die of a heart attack playing spongebob before he's 30. This is met with the same amount of vitriol.SHiFT's response to trolls
SHiFT seems to deal with all stresses in life the same way he deals with dropping a frame-perfect trick. By yelling at them. This has created a wings of redemption style alog sektor that prods him into long winded rants for their amusementSHiFT's disaster subathon
In the wake of a reduction in revenue on twitch, in an effort to make as much as much money as possible. SHiFT would start his subathon, a variety stream that would consist of viewers donating to increase a timer that would end the stream if it reached zero. This event would go on from august to october of 2022 or 2000 hours of content. During this 80 day stretch on content. SHiFT would find himself in a major controversy after he started e begging despite already being the 18th most subbed channel on twitch and making around 150k during the event.The consensus on this video was very bad, many former fans speaking up about the atmosphere of his streams being awkward, my favorite comment comparing it to being over at a friend's house when he starts arguing with his parents.
This outburst got the attention of a much larger streamer ludwig who lambasted him for being ungrateful and his general attitude. This comment is lost to time, but it really rattled his cage and talked about it for an hour after it happened.
The stream otherwise still grated on him, he was only getting around 2 hours of sleep a night and was receiving a lot of negative attention due to the aforementioned event. Viewers would start edging the timer, waiting for it to go down to one minute in which it would beep loudly before donating a small amount again. One person even exploited a workaround with twitches regional currency system. spent $15USD to force him to play some boring garbage shitpost game for 10 hours
Responds to ebegging accusations
A-log's emerge
Because of his propensity to rage at anyone and the general sour vibes of his streams. A considerable trolling clique would form. Made up of jaded former fans, clip farmers and general lolcow rage enjoyers.His detractors have gained considerable popularity compared to him now and are unavoidable to any current and prospective viewer.
Some of his alogs are
LOWTIERSHIFT some non-binary brazilian who singlehandedly created SHiFT ditractor-vers. The sean ranklin of SHiFT. None of this would exist without him.
SHIFT COMMUNITY W Makes edits of SHiFT streams showcasing his breakdowns. much like Wings007 and others
WURT WEAKLY Inactive but has a massive backlog of videos for you to watch
MR HOUSE
This playlist is huge and super fun
SHIFT_COMMUNITY Is a bot that automatically uploads his twitch vods for prosperity
TLDR
♦SHiFT is a spongbob squarepants: battle for bikini bottom speedrunner of 8 years, 20,000 hours of in game time and 6 year undisputed world record holder♦Insists on streaming the exact same game for 10 hours a day. Never branching out to another game or subject
♦Battle for bikini bottom is a brutal speedrun, most runs end within 5 minutes. a run ending frame perfect trick occurs every 30 seconds
♦Debatably the angriest gamer you ever heard, trumps prime wings of redemption by several factors
♦Takes out frustration on fans, bans them frequently in fits of tard rage
♦Unwarranted ego. SHiFT thinks really highly of himself who being the de facto leader of spongbob speedrunning and having the world record
♦Has gained a anti-fan following similar to darksydephil or wings of redemption
SHIFTS Socials
Youtube (A)Twitch (A)
Speedrun.com profile (A)
Twitter/X account (A)
Subreddit (A)
TikTok (A)
Further reading
6 hour SHiFT rage video, covers 8 years of his antics to sleep/study toGoogle paste bin doc covering more of his degeneracy (A)
Liquid richard style album (A)
Saturated content's video about him.
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