Kathleen Veronica Belsten (born 22 February 1993), better known by her online aliases Loserfruit and Lufu, is an Australian

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live streamer,

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, professional gamer, and

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. She has the second-most followed channel on Twitch among female gamers, behind

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. She posts

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gaming videos on her main YouTube channel ''Loserfruit'',

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on her second channel ''Lufu'', and additional gaming videos on her third channel ''Loserfruit Daily''. Her main

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channel has 3.31 million subscribers while her vlog channel ''Lufu'' has over 800 thousand subscribers. Belsten specializes in the '' Fortnite: Battle Royale'' game and its variants, and was the second streamer to receive their own ''Fortnite'' outfit as part of the ''Fortnite Icon Series'', after

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. She was one of the leading streamers to compete in the inaugural ''Fortnite'' Summer Smash tournament to be hosted at the

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in 2019, and attended the second edition in 2020 as well. Belsten is sponsored by the

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cosmetics brand and the

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fitness apparel brand. Belsten started her YouTube and Twitch channels by streaming ''

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''. She then moved to ''

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'' before moving to more ''Fortnite''-based content in the end of 2017. Belsten was a member of Click, a since-disbanded group of Australian YouTubers who collaborated on videos that also included

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, Muselk, Crayator, Bazza Gazza, Tannar, Mully, Fresh and her boyfriend Prestige Clips (also known as Marcus). She led a 36 hour-long charity stream in January 2020 with Crayator and Fasffy that raised just over A$318,000 for the Australian bushfire relief effort, in which many other members and friends of Click also participated.

Career

YouTube

Belsten started her YouTube channel "Loserfruit" on 25 March 2013 and initially started posting ''League of Legends'' videos. During the start of her YouTube career, she started making satirical videos on ''League of Legends'', often with a comedic aspect. She hit 100,000 subscribers on her main channel in May of 2017 and has since reached 3.38 million subscribers (as of December 2022). She currently has 461,816,378 views on her main YouTube channel. Belsten started her second YouTube channel known as "Lufu" on 24 September 2016 where she mainly made vlogs of her day-to-day life, often in a humorous manner. She has reached 767,000 subscribers on her vlog channel and has amassed 86,673,874 views on there.

References

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