Fuslie

Leslie Fu[2] (born November 23, 1992), also known by her online alias fuslie, is an American Twitch streamer.

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Fu at TwitchCon 2017
Personal information
BornLeslie Fu
(1992-11-23) November 23, 1992
San Francisco Bay Area
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Irvine (BS)
OccupationStreamer
Partner(s)Edison Park (2016–present)
Websitehttps://fuslie.com/
Twitch information
Channel
Years active2015–present
GenreGaming
IRL
Games
Followers701,000
Total views25.4 million
Follower and view counts updated as of January 27, 2021.

Early life

Fu was born to Chinese parents in the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended Homestead High School in Cupertino, California.[3] Fu graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 2014, earning a bachelor's degree in biological sciences. Fu attended graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles for two weeks before dropping out to pursue streaming full-time.[4]

Career

Fu began streaming in February 2015 after being introduced to the activity by her roommates. Before branching out towards a wider variety of games, she primarily streamed League of Legends.[5][6] She briefly was a streamer for professional League of Legends teams Immortals and the now-defunct Phoenix1.[7]

In December 2018, Fu, along with fellow Twitch streamer BoxBox, hosted a 4-day streaming boot camp titled "Streamer Camp", an event aimed at improving the skills of up-and-coming Twitch streamers and content creators. A second edition of the event was held in June 2019.[8]

In March 2019, Fu partnered with the North America Scholastic Esports Federation (NASEF) and the Anaheim Ducks hockey team in holding an NHL 19 tournament.[9] The tournament gave away over $25,000 in scholarships and grants to high school students.[10] Fu has also spoken to NASEF voicing her support for women in gaming.[11]

In April 2019, Fu was featured in an advertisement for karaoke video game Twitch Sings.[12]

On December 2, 2019, Fu held a charity fundraiser stream for Stand Up to Cancer. Fu and her viewers raised over $30,000 for cancer research.[13]

Fu was one of many streamers affected by the large wave of DMCA takedown notices issued against Twitch in June of 2020.[14][15] After receiving two strikes, Fu criticized the platform's response to the situation saying, "On top of it being near impossible for me to delete >100,000 clips, the creator dashboard isn't loading any of my old clips. How am I supposed to protect myself here? This is an issue way bigger than me. Content creators aren't being informed by Twitch on the proper steps to protect themselves from this happening, and there has to be a better way to handle this than suddenly striking our accounts and banning us out of nowhere"[16][17]

In June 2020, Fu participated in a Chess.com tournament for Twitch streamers titled PogChamps.[18] She made it to the quarterfinals of the consolation bracket, where she lost to fellow streamer xQc.[19]

On September 2, 2020, Fu announced that she signed an exclusive contract with Twitch.[20]

Personal life

Fu is currently engaged to former OfflineTV manager Edison Park.[21] Park proposed to Fu during a live stream on April 7, 2019.[22]

References
  1. Higgins, Chris. "Fuslie gives a Crash Course on Animal Crossing, haircuts and K.K. Bubblegum". All Gamers - HyperX. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  2. Chmielewski, Dawn. "Fast Twitch: Female Gamers Are All the Rage, And This Young Hollywood Talent Agent Is Cashing In". Forbes. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
  3. "Homestead High 2010 Graduates". Mercury News. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
  4. Coomes, Kailla. "Twitch streamer Fuslie gives a glimpse of her life and future plans". Digital Trends. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  5. May, Ethan. "Get to Know Fuslie — A Streamlabs Streamer Spotlight". Streamlabs. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
  6. "Fuslie - Bio". VENN. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
  7. "Sentinels on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  8. May, Ethan. "Streamlabs is proud to sponsor Streamer Camp". Streamlabs. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
  9. "Ducks v. Oilers Watch Party ft. NHL19 Esports Tournament Finals". North America Scholastic Esports Federation. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
  10. "Ducks NHL 19 Tournament Finals and Watch Party". Anaheim Ducks.
  11. "Esports are for everyone". North America Scholastic Esports Federation.
  12. Shanley, Patrick. "Twitch Launches Its First Game". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  13. "A look back at 2019". Tiltify. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
  14. Suciu, Peter. "Social Media's Latest Copyright Crackdown". Forbes. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  15. Beckhelling, Imogen. "Twitch apologises for mishandling thousands of copyright claims". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
  16. Stassen, Murray. "Twitch users face potential channel bans following platform's 'sudden influx of DMCA music takedown requests'". Music Business Worldwide. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  17. Farner, Shawn. "The real reason Twitch streamers are scrambling". SVG. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  18. "Twitch Streamers To Compete In Chess Tournament". TenEighty. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
  19. Stapczynski, Colin. "xQc Through To Semis After Knocking Out Fuslie". Chess.com. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  20. Twitch, on Twitter. "5 years of fusUwU just wasn't enough. We're thrilled to continue being home to you and the fusfam for a long time to come". Twitter. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  21. Goodling, Luke. "Streamer sets the record for most hours streamed in a single month on Twitch". Dot Esports. Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  22. Katzowitz, Josh. "Twitch star uses record-breaking live stream to pop the question". The Daily Dot. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
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