This article was first published in May 2016 and is now republished as a part of the NoHate-day the 4th of November. No changes have been made to the article.

"Don't care about the hate, just do what you love!"

August aka "b4ngcsgo"

"We started translating ourselves using Google Translate and learned some keywords", the 14-year old explained.

A convincing shop assistant saved August from having to play Plants vs. Zombies.

"I have always watched the big streams and I think that it's a nice idea to watch people play", he told Fragbite.

"I started to chat with my mentor, "RagekulaN" and with "Kreativ", and he wrote to Chapmad who started to host my stream and then came the love", August explained the sudden change of comments, from hate to love.

"Xaylol" was one of many generous viewers donating money to August.

"It's huge to be added by him", August told Fragbite and continued "I watch all his games and analyze everything he does. My friends were quite jealous since they love him as well."

"Don't care about the hate, just do what you love!", and with that we're ending our chat so that August can prepare for his second interview for the day.





Writer: Per "Xerm" Sjölin

Translation: Sam "Wndwrt" Nordmark





14-year old August and one of his buddies were set to begin a 24-hour long stream this past thursday where they’d be broadcasting in english, mostly as a novelty. After five hours in front of the computer, they still only had each other for company as not a single viewer had joined them. A break for the pair was in order. Following this pause August and his friend decided to start streaming in Swedish instead, and linked the broadcast to a big Swedish CS:GO groups on Facebook. This was where it all started. In the comment section of the Facebook group, a hailstorm of negative comments came raining down on the two. Despite this, August who goes by the handle b4ngcsgo on his stream, couldn’t even begin to imagine what would happen next.August isn’t a newcomer when it comes to streaming on Twitch or uploading gaming videos to YouTube. As an 8-year old, in fact, he was already uploading Minecraft videos to YouTube and had already begun endearing harsh comments. Whilst he had a hard time dealing with them to begin with, he quickly learned how to handle them. Minecraft wasn’t August’s introduction to gaming, however, as he began playing Runescape roughly four years before taking a liking to Mojang’s revolutionary title. Runescape, being entirely in english, saw him learning the language very early on. In the beginning, this task fell upon his parents, but their enthusiasm quickly ran dry.A few years ago August wanted to get his hands on a firts-person shooter game, but his parents weren’t exactly enchanted by the idea. Whilst visiting a gaming store, they asked if there were any FPS-titles suited for younger children, and were then recommended “Plants vs. Zombies”. A game that the majority of gamers around August’s age probably aren’t all too keen on, which the shop assistant noticed, and before August and his mother left the store, the assistant had managed to convince her to let her son play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.Two years has passed since August first got his hands on CS:GO, and he’s already managed to put 2,300 hours into it. He’s also streamed quite a bit of his progress, though his computer only just manages to run the game when he streams. To August himself, streaming games seemed like an obvious move.One thing lead to the next and August has now been streaming for quite a while. In terms of viewers, his stream would very often remain barren, but he kept at it mostly to keep himself occupied. He often streams in english, as he’s very comfortable with the language given his efforts to learn it when he played Runescape. Up until yesterday, August had not had to endure all too much negativity on his stream, as he presents himself as a very open and friendly person, whilst also playing with his tight-knit group of friends. Yesterday was different, however..The barrage began with the usual insults people are far too quick to dish out, like “horunge” which literally means whore’s child. This escalated quickly, however, after August was tricked into giving out his phone number. Someone said that they’d donate him a large sum of money on the mobile app “Swish”. Instead of delivering riches, the person in question instead used August’s number in order to find his address, and all of a sudden the 14-year old was forced to endure death threats. Unsurprisingly this got to August, who was growing afraid at the amount of death threats being thrown at him. At one point, he believed that he had turned his webcam off, and began, unsuspectingly, crying on the air. The hate stopped at that moment, and was instead replaced by words of encouragement and support.Soon enough a thread showed up in one of the other big swedish CS:GO communities on Facebook, known as “CSGOSWE”. The users condemned the behavior August had been forced to endure and encouraged each other to head to his stream as an act of solidarity.August suddenly saw a massive influx of viewers to his channel, who showered donations over the streamer. The donations came in the shape of skins and cases but also actual money, so much money in fact that he’s now well on his way to affording a new computer, which won’t lag when he tries to stream. There was one kind gesture that separated it from the rest, however, and that was when one of Fnatic’s star players in Jesper “JW” Wecksell added August on Steam friends.August’s parents also seem to be very aware of what their son is going through. In the middle of our call he’s all of a sudden interrupted by a phone call from his parents. They’re just making sure that he hasn’t gambled away all of the donations and skins he’d been gifted. Just like it should be. He vehemently tries to explain that he’s in the middle of being interviewed by Fragbite, and that he’ll get back to them soon.It’s obvious that the 14-year old boy from Stockholm truly burns for CS:GO and esports. This probably made the words of encouragement from the four-time major champion Wecksell matter all the more. There’s no doubt that August will continue streaming, with the hopes of soon being able to finally get a better computer. Before we hang up I ask him if he has any advice for other streamers, and his answer is obvious:We at Fragbite could not agree more. Would you like to support August and his streaming? Then pay his Twitch channel a visit at twitch.tv/b4ngcsgo