DRAKE THE RAPPER BECOMES DRAKE THE GAMER

On the night of Wednesday, March 14, Drake, the famous rapper, played the video game "Fortnite" live on Twitch. Twitch is a streaming platform like YouTube. It is dedicated to streaming video of other people playing video games.

Drake didn't play alone. He played with Ninja, a rising video game streaming star. He also played with another rapper, Travis Scott. JuJu Smith-Schuster, a Pittsburgh Steelers football player, also joined the March 14 game. The resulting stream broke viewing records for Twitch. It became an extremely big deal online very quickly.

WHY THIS AFFECTS THE WORLD

• A lot of people play fortnite
• It’s one of the most popular game on Xbox.

NEWSWORTHY

• This is newsworthy because it talks about important people and a incredibly popular video game.

LENS?

The lens is social cultural

BECAUSE...

• The is social because fortnite is a social
• This is also cultural because this was made from a certain culture.

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