Bjørn Lisdorf

Bjørn Lisdorf, or simply Bjorn, is a Danish live streamer and internet personality, mainly known in the IRL genre. After becoming close friends with the American streamer Ice Poseidon, and rising to fame, Lisdorf was featured in Danish newspapers, such as Weekendavisen[1], and international news sites.[2]

Bjørn Lisdorf
Personal information
ResidenceBrøndby Municipality, Denmark
OccupationLive streamer
Websitewww.bjorntv.dk
YouTube information
Also known asBjorn, Bjorn TV, travrevyendk, pealla
Channel
Years active2012–present
Genre
IRL, Comedy, Gaming
Total views3,226,767

Early Life

Prior to becoming a well-known streamer, Bjørn Lisdorf worked for a postal service[1] and as a driver for L'EASY, a Danish consumer goods company.[3] Outside of work, he was an avid chess player and footballer.[4]

Streaming career

Twitch

Lisdorf started his streaming career on Twitch in 2012, where he was a popular streamer for the game, Entropia Universe, and a variety of other games. Under the moniker, pealla, he hoped that streaming could supplement his job for the postal service. However, due to financial cuts in the workplace, Bjorn would lose his job. Lisdorf tried to compensate for the loss of his career by taking out a loan of 70,000 DKK, and risked it on gambling. However, this plan did not succeed, and Lisdorf would later close his online gambling accounts. Shortly afterwards, Bjorn would hear about the success of Ice Poseidon (real name Paul Denino), an American IRL streamer that had recently been banned from Twitch. As Ice Poseidon would actively encourage his viewers to visit him, Lisdorf made his way to Los Angeles and became a part of the community.[1][5]

YouTube

In 2018, Bjorn transitioned from Twitch to YouTube, where he streamed on the "Bjorn TV" channel.[6] Bjorn joined the "Cx network" of IRL streamers, and had a huge surge in live viewer count, which encouraged him to make a second channel, "Bjorn TV 2".[7] His popularity would lead to him becoming a recurring character on the network's RV trips, which were actively watched by tens of thousands of live viewers. The Cx network later folded in 2019, but Lisdorf would continue to live stream to thousands of viewers, in countries such as Denmark, the United States of America, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.[2][6][7][8][9] When Denino moved to the Mixer platform, Bjorn surpassed him in live viewer count. Lisdorf has since appeared on Have a Seat with Chris Hansen, where he would defend his colleague and friend against rape accusations. Lisdorf went on to criticize the host, Chris Hansen. After a police investigation, the case was dropped.[10][11][12][13]

Controversy

Lisdorf's success would eventually become known by Danish academics and businessmen, many of which would offer criticisms. Sten Schaumburg-Müller, professor of Law at the University of Southern Denmark would criticize Lisdorf's career, stating that distribution of streams in a commercial context could be actionable by law.[1] After commenting on Lisdorf's style of online streaming, Schaumburg-Müller would go on to write two publications about the criminal liability for the content of online media and the freedom of speech in Danish online media.[14][15] Lars Lindskov, the chairman of the Danish Union of Press Photographers, commented that Bjorn's style of live streaming was a "betrayal of society".[1]

Outside of streaming

Bjørn has two brothers: his twin brother called Jens, and Peer, a retired professional footballer who currently manages HB Køge's women's team.[16][17] Bjorn has a wife, Bussarin, who is also now a live streamer.[18]

gollark: A third excluding vendored libraries like the two (for annoying internal reasons) ECC libs.
gollark: That's only a third of potatOS in any case.
gollark: It is somewhat documented now, mind you.
gollark: I also had a blasphemy detector hooked up to ingame chat a while ago.
gollark: https://git.osmarks.tk/osmarks/potatOS

References
  1. "I Ice Poseidons kølvand". Weekendavisen (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  2. "The Ballad Of Ice Poseidon and Caroline Burt: Texas Edition". Newsweek. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  3. "Bjørn Lisdorf's LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  4. "Alle hold overlevede" (PDF). KSUA. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  5. "Ice Poseidon's Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  6. "Bjorn TV". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  7. "Bjorn TV 2". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  8. "Ice Poseidon Raided by FBI". 2019-03-21.
  9. "Why Ice Poseidon's CX Network is shutting down".
  10. "Have A Seat With Chris Hansen". YouTube. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
  11. "Chris Hansen now involved as ONLYUSEmeBLADE rape allegation continues to develop". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  12. "ONLYUSEmeBLADE welcomed back onto road trip stream following rape accusation". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  13. "Streamer OnlyUseMeBlade accused of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  14. Schaumburg-Müller, S. (2018-04-17). "Freedom of speech and online media in Denmark, Routledge Research in Human Rights Law". doi:10.4324/9781351017596. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. Schaumburg-Müller, S. (2018). "Strafansvar for indholdet af onlinemedier: Om formidleransvar for medier, der ikke er omfattet af medieansvarsloven". Ugeskrift for Retsvaesen. 19: 113–123.
  16. "HB Køge vil ligestille kvinderne med herrerne". kvindeliga.dk. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  17. "HB Køge satser stort på kvindefodbold: 'Skal vi gøre det her, skal vi gøre det ordentligt". DR. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  18. "Bussarin 555's Youtube Channel". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
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