Streamer and content material creator Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo joined the ranks of streamers who’ve raised ten-digit figures for charity in 2022. Lupo is certainly one of many gaming content material creators utilizing their platform to elevate cash for charity. As of his most up-to-date Construct Towards Most cancers (BAC), he’s raised a cumulative $13 million for St. Jude Youngsters’s Hospital over the 5 years he’s held the occasion.

Throughout BAC, Lupo performs numerous video games, resembling Minecraft. 2022 marks the primary time he livestreamed the occasion on the St. Jude campus in Memphis, the place he interviewed and gamed with a number of friends, together with different content material creators and St. Jude sufferers.

Construct Towards Most cancers 2022 raised over $1 million for the hospital. Lupo instructed GamesBeat in an interview that this marks his most social BAC up to now. “The most important factor for me was having so many individuals there in individual. I’ve grow to be accustomed to doing issues like Construct Towards Most cancers mainly alone in my studio. It was jarring — in a great way — to have so many individuals round all working to make the occasion what it was. Couldn’t think about doing BAC by myself once more.”

Whereas the symbiosis between players and charity predates the pandemic, there was a transparent uptick in giving throughout that point. Lupo himself raised $4 million for St. Jude in BAC streams held by way of 2020 to 2022. The Video games Carried out Fast group raised $9.3 million for the Forestall Most cancers Basis (by way of Superior Video games Carried out Fast) and $8.3 million for Medical doctors With out Borders (by way of Summer season Video games Carried out Fast). Jacksepticeye raised $22 million for numerous charities by way of his Thankmas occasions throughout that very same time interval.

Based on Lupo, players may also help in different methods in addition to cash: “Spreading the phrase about what we’re doing for St. Jude by way of gaming is essentially the most highly effective technique of supporting when monetary contributions aren’t potential. Not everybody can donate, which is completely nice. However even Danny Thomas mentioned he’d moderately get $1 from one million folks as an alternative of one million {dollars} from one individual. That may solely occur when others hear about what St. Jude is attempting to do.”