Concluding a week of unbelievable perseverance, streamer and YouTuber Ross O’Donovan managed to eat a total of 147,000 boiled eggs in Final Fantasy XIV. With Square Enix’s MMO enjoying its highest recent player counts this month, the finale was widely celebrated in-game and by O’Donovan’s Twitch chat, and it achieved so much popularity that #eggwalker started trending on Twitter.

Last Tuesday, O’Donovan—who goes by RubberNinja on Twitch—announced that he would be consuming a full FFXIV inventory’s worth of eggs as part of a subathon. His viewers were encouraged to participate, adding another stack of 999 boiled eggs for every 1,000 viewer subscriptions. On his first day, O’Donovan managed to get through around 17 of those stacks, and over the ensuing week he would slowly chip away at his full inventory of 140 stacks, his viewers occasionally adding more as the subathon went on.

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It took nearly 7 days to complete the challenge, which Ross O’Donovan celebrated on Twitter before taking a well-deserved break (via Heavy). The incredible effort required several amendments while he was streaming to finish. Repeatedly tapping his keyboard to make his FFXIV character eat the eggs started to give O’Donovan carpal tunnel, so he ordered a foot pedal controller to continue with which arrived on his second day. Time limits, hardware problems, and internet outages required maintenance to keep his stream online. He also wasn’t able to make his character eat eggs while he was sleeping. So one of RubberNinja’s moderators made a program that allowed his Twitch chat to type an “egg” command and eat eggs for him while he was away. After days of streaming and his character eating every last egg, the subathon was finally completed on Monday night, the final count being 147,000 boiled eggs consumed.

While O’Donovan’s achievement is worthy of praise, long-running Twitch subathons are the subject of some concern. Earlier this year, streamer Ludwig finished a month-long subathon of a similar style, where his viewers added to its duration by subscribing. The fact that it ran on for so long called into question the streamer’s health and safety. RubberNinja’s look of strung-out exhaustion on his face between stints of eating eggs and the fact that he nearly gave himself carpal tunnel adds to that worry. Subscribers gained out of challenges like these are certainly deserved, but shouldn’t come at a risk to the streamer’s wellbeing.

It is a wonder and a relief that Ross O’Donovan was able to meet his goal of eating nearly one and a half hundred thousand eggs in Final Fantasy XIV without any lasting issues. He’s continued to thank his Twitch viewers for making the stream possible, and hopefully, he isn’t planning to dive into another week-long stream anytime soon. The event will likely go down in history as a testament to legendary online gaming tenacity. And even though FFXIV has been out since the early 2010s, the upcoming Endwalker update aims to have players committing their time to the title for even longer.

Final Fantasy 14 is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.

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Source: Ross O’Donovan/Twitter, Heavy

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