DesithonMerchIt is our great pleasure to announce that we are holding our sixth annual charity event, Desithon 6, on August 2nd 2025 (Saturday), beginning at 2PM Central! Find the schedule for the event here!
Desithon is a charity event where we schedule a 24 hours of games that the community wants to see us play. In the months leading up to Desithon, our community decides together on which games to play and which charity we want to sponsor. This way, we put together a program that the community wants to see and sponsor a charitable cause that is dear to our hearts. Every penny we earn from bits, subs, and ad revenue during Desithon all goes directly to the charity we sponsor!
This year, we are very pleased to announce that we are sponsoring Trans Lifeline! Thank you everyone in the community for participating in the polls and helping us determine the cause that mattered the most to us; especially with so much anti-trans legislation being passed around the states and the current geopolitical climate, we want to do what we can as a community to fight the good fight and raise funds and awareness for such an important cause!
We have completed phase 1 of prepping for Desithon 4: During June, you all nominated different charities for us to support as well as many games that you'd like to see played during the event! New submissions are now closed.
We have also completed the second phase of organizing the event: In our Discord server, throughout the month of June, we polled all of the nominations made back in May regarding which cause to sponsor and which games we should play during the event! It is important to us that the charity we support is decided by a group decision, as well as determining which games would be the most entertaining, to help make for a successful event!
We have put together the program for this year's event! Up until the big day, Desi will be preparing for the event with whatever free time he has (confirming all games run on hardware, making sure controllers are properly paired for each game, arranging the layouts for the event, making the Tiltify campaign, working on surprise projects for the event, etc.).
The idea for Desithon naturally came about from being inspired by other charity events held on Twitch, while also observing that streamers often organize their own 24 hour events (Barbathon, etc.). Desi put the two ideas together: Every 24 hour event our stream has held has been a charity event. We started planning our first Desithon event about a year after we had our first stream.
To provide some context, Desi has always had an interest in giving back to the community. Throughout the span of 2009-2016, Desi spent about three years living in India. For the first year he was there, Desi volunteered in hospitals, orphanages, and schools for the highly underprivileged. For the remainder of the two years he was there, Desi helped establish an NGO that still runs to this day. Sadly, we can't share the name of the NGO (to prevent doxxing Desi), but essentially the organization enrolls highly impoverished children in schools and provides these students with tuition, textbooks, uniforms, lunch money, etc. The program also reaches out to parents in the neighborhood who can offer these underprivileged students daily tutoring. Many of these students have been performing at the top of their classes with the help the NGO offers them.
And so, with this interest in humanitarianism, we decided to plan for our first charity event! We never expected the event to grow so quickly and raise as much money as we have. Check out the site below to find records of our previous events!