Swedish Counter-Strike 2 participant and commentator Tilde ‘ 7liciousCSGO’ Byström goes viral after she posted a photograph of herself at her day job making sandwiches.
Byström posted the photograph to X on November 19 with the caption, “After 10 years in esports, I’m formally a sandwich maker.”
She gave the digicam a cheeky thumbs up, exhibiting her workstation crammed with sandwiches that she’d put collectively in brown paper baggage.
The submit acted as a cheeky nod to the present state of the esports trade, exhibiting that, regardless of her information of Counter-Strike 2 and her expertise within the scene as each knowledgeable participant and commentator, she nonetheless has to work an everyday 9-5 to make ends meet.
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In slightly below 24 hours, Byström’s tweet garnered over 300K likes and has been considered over 18 million instances. It even caught the eye of American chain Pizza Hut, who commented, “Pizza maker can be fireplace.”
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“YO!” she replied. “I understand how to make a pizza.”
7licious explains the true which means behind her viral sandwich-making photograph
We caught up with Byström on November 20 to ask her concerning the viral submit. Throughout our dialogue, she informed us that the photograph was each a playful jab on the insults she’s heard from male gamers and a cheeky remark concerning the present state {of professional} girls’s CS2.
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For context, one in all CS2’s largest girls’s circuits, ESL Affect, ceased operations after Season 8 in October, saying the “present financial mannequin is solely not sustainable” to proceed.
Over the previous few years, a number of main Counter-Strike groups have additionally dissolved their girls’s rosters, with the likes of NAVI saying the enterprise mannequin for his or her girls’s CS2 group “appears unsustainable and doesn’t enable for long-term planning.”
“The submit was really meant as a joke, as a result of as a gamer, I’ve heard, ‘Return to the kitchen and make me a sandwich,’ like one million instances,” she defined.
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“However it is usually true that I work by actually making sandwiches from 5 – 10 AM most mornings. It’s a mix of a joke, however on the similar time, to have the ability to survive and pay lease and nonetheless play CS2, particularly within the present state of the scene for girls’s CS, I’ve to additionally work a traditional job, and just about all the time needed to have aspect jobs whereas pursuing my dream!”
Up to now, Byström has performed for various high-profile esports organizations, together with Evil Geniuses Gold and Ghost Gaming. Nevertheless, they haven’t been in a position to provide her a full-time wage that she will reside on.
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For Byström, her final dream is for girls’s Counter-Strike to evolve to the purpose the place the esport can have blended leagues with each female and male gamers.
“I’ve been taking part in full-time in Evil Geniuses. I’ve additionally been in different organizations and getting a wage, however not any that’s coated for full-time. I began streaming in 2015 after which began to concentrate on the skilled side from 2019. The dream for me is that ladies’s CS can evolve a lot that we will, sooner or later, have blended groups!”
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