In recent days, the story of a Chinese Genshin Impact streamer spending up to $186,000 (over 4.2 billion VND) for a giveaway to his audience has become extremely famous. Even the post sharing this story on the Genshin Impact subreddit received over 10,000 upvotes and hundreds of comments.
The story began last week when the livestream introducing version 2.2 of Genshin Impact went live. At that time, a streamer named Daxiang had a small prediction challenge with his audience about the upcoming character banner for version 2.2. He believed that Tartaglia would never be rerun for a second time. If that turned out to be true, he would give away this character to all viewers who subscribed to Daxiang’s channel by 8 PM that day.
As we all know, Tartaglia will indeed be rerun for a second time in version 2.2 alongside Hu Tao. MiHoYo even created a 5-star bow named “East Star” suitable for this character in the upcoming version 2.2. This means that Daxiang lost the prediction bet and had to give away the character Tartaglia to his audience. As a result, 1,200 people qualified to receive the giveaway from Daxiang, and the amount he had to spend was $186,000 (over 4.2 billion VND).
If you didn’t know, Daxiang is one of the most famous Genshin Impact streamers in China. His Bilibili channel has 4.6 million subscribers, and Daxiang also owns a YouTube channel with 281,000 subscribers. What makes Daxiang special is that he not only plays games but is also a skilled chef. Many viewers come to Daxiang for his videos recreating dishes from Genshin Impact.
As for the aforementioned giveaway, it is the largest GA in the Chinese Genshin Impact community in many months. Many players of this RPG have expressed their admiration for Daxiang for spending such a large amount of money to give away to his audience.