While Warzone has experienced its own problems lately, including player complaints about the condition of the game, many producers are still doing well with the game.
According to data from SullyGnome, the French phenom Chowh1 and Russian superstar Recrent shared the top viewing position in March 2023. But there is one name that isn’t quite as well-known in the Warzone community, with Primroze accumulating more than 400,000 hours viewed throughout the month, alongside well-known names like Fifakill, Nadia, and HusKerrs.
Primroze, who was featured on the Twitch front page throughout the entire month of March as part of Women’s History Month, is paving the way for female broadcasters in the industry. Here is who she is and how she is avoiding being affected by the haters.
Who is Primroze?
Primroze began broadcasting in January 2019 while enrolled in her third year of a television journalism programme at a four-year university. She claims that speaking to a camera “felt natural” while playing Fortnite and having a background in broadcasting.
She changed titles over the ensuing years, playing Madden since 2020 before switching to Warzone more recently. She has played Warzone since its release, but until the release of Warzone 2 and the new battle royale experience it introduced in November 2022, she “never focused” on the Call of Duty success.
The move was obviously effective because Twitch chose her to be featured in a campaign honouring women on the entire platform during Women’s History Month, which attracted a tonne of new viewers to her broadcast.
“I honestly don’t even know how I got that opportunity but I am so grateful for the exposure it brought to my stream,” Rose told Dexerto. “What I tried for March was just going live whenever I woke up and streaming for as long as I felt like I could. I never forced myself to go live at a certain time and I never forced myself to stay live for a certain amount of time. This really helped get my name out there because now I was streaming to the people waking up and getting ready for school or work in the morning, the people on their lunch breaks, the people getting home from school or work in the afternoon, the people getting ready for bed.
“I was live all the time at random hours during the day so I saw new people come into my community who would’ve never seen my stream otherwise if I stuck to a specific schedule. Now, I’m able to go live at whatever time I feel is best for me and I know I’ll have people watching because I was able to grow in that way.”
Primroze began to face criticism on social media, as is common when women find success on Twitch. She was accused of fake fans, view-botting, and other things.
“At the end of the day, I’m a new name to the COD community,” she said. “I get that there are people out there that don’t know who I am and have never heard my name before March. I grew most of my community and most of my followers from Madden and I was able to get partnered on Twitch from Madden. None of that is fake and the people that know me from Madden know that none of that is fake.”
She continued: “I received an incredible opportunity that anyone would be over the moon about. People are just jealous and love to hate on things they don’t have instead of celebrating the successes of others. I have an incredible community that has my back and will support me no matter what. I wouldn’t have received this opportunity if any of my community has been faked.”
Primroze continued by saying that she has the fortitude to disregard the bullies and anything they may have to say. I’ve always had a really thick epidermis, so these days nothing really worries me. Whatever they want to say about me, they can. They don’t truly know me. At the end of the day, that keeps me going.
