This was a few months ago. I (24m) go on a first date with this girl (22f) who left me her number at a bar. We go to an arcade bar where she kicks my ass in Mario kart on an old 64 they have there. We played the Simpsons arcade game which is low-key fire. We have a few drinks and it's going well.

Halfway through the date I ask if she prefers watching TV series or YouTube videos and she hesitates to answer but eventually confesses that she prefers watching streamers (as if it were something to be ashamed about). But I want to connect on that so I tell her I watch some streamers too and I'm curious if there's overlap.

I wanted to name some women because I figured that would be more relatable so I tell her "I like ExtraEmily, Maya, QTCinderella and of course that means I watch Ludwig too." Her eyes went wide. For the rest of the night we talked about Ludwig; our favorite videos, MxS, swipe bidets and really just anything Ludwig related.

We ended up going back to her place watching a Ludwig stream and having a great night. We saw each other a few times after that but I ended up moving to a new country. So anyway thanks Lud, I owe you one.