A wave of nostalgia has swept through the League of Legends community this week, with longtime fans trading notes on what happened to the streamers who once ruled Twitch’s front page. The roll call reads like an early LCS yearbook: Rush, Imaqtpie, Dyrus, TheOddOne, Trick2g, Gosu, Nightblue3, and more.
The verdict? Most of them are still grinding, just on smaller stages.
Rush keeps pulling thousands of viewers, even after his break for mandatory South Korean military service slowed his momentum. Fans still tune in for the same unpredictable jungler who either hard carries or goes 0/10 in spectacular fashion. Viewers say he sounds more burned out than his Cloud9-era peak, but the chaotic energy is intact.
Imaqtpie has quietly returned to League after detours through Teamfight Tactics and Deadlock. The former Dignitas ADC is still rocking the laid-back ranked stream format that made him one of the mid-2010s’ biggest names, even if some viewers think his tone has shifted compared to his “Big Dick Club” peak.
Dyrus also recently jumped back into League, with one of his latest sessions featuring Twisted Fate top lane. TheOddOne still streams consistently, though “The General” mostly plays RPGs, strategy titles, and anime games now rather than the jungle role he made famous on TSM.
Trick2g remains the patron saint of split-push nostalgia. His Udyr and Nasus gates content still draws his old crowd, and viewers continue to bring up his classic moments, including a legendary game where he allegedly rushed ZZ’Rot Portal next to Rush’s mid tower and watched the voidlings steal every single CS.
Where the rest landed
Gosu appears only intermittently. The Vayne specialist who reportedly broke a Twitch viewer count record the first time he turned his mic on now streams in short bursts between health-related breaks. Fans still rate his mechanics, but the Challenger consistency that made him a must-watch has faded.
Nightblue3 has effectively migrated to YouTube. His A–Z jungle series continues there while his Twitch channel runs more like a 24/7 rerun. Sneaky and Meteos stay relevant through LCS co-streams, where their old Cloud9 chemistry still lands.
LLStylish has gone quiet, with no YouTube uploads in roughly a year. IreliaCarriesU stepped away to pursue medicine. AnnieBot still queues up League games. Anklespankin rebranded and now streams variety. Sp4zie plays TFT between dad duties. SirhcEz is still Singed, still wearing the flat cap, still vibing.
Tobias Fate continues making viewers question reality with picks like Illaoi support and AP Graves mid, briefly tanking to Silver before climbing back near Challenger. SaltyTeemo still runs, though regulars argue the chaos peaked before Riot added recommended runes and items that tamed Bronze build diversity.
Jankos is the outlier. The G2 veteran recently traveled to Korea, appeared in LCK post-game segments, and remains one of the most visible faces in pro League, making his inclusion in any “fallen off” list a stretch.
The common threads behind the quieter careers are familiar: burnout from a decade of ranked grinding, military service, family life, platform fragmentation across YouTube and TikTok, and a Twitch landscape that no longer rewards solo queue marathons the way it did in 2014.
