User:Johnthenoone/Silviu Istrate

Silviu Istrate (n. 25 august 1995), known as Silviu Faiăr, is a romanian streamer and vlogger. Known for his commentary on political and social topics, he is has the most viewed stream of Twitch in Romania, followed by Creative Monkeyz.

Silviu Istrate also is known for his entertaintment content. His reactions to videos from Youtube and Tiktok, Instagram pages and housing garner hundreds of thousands of views.

Biography
In the past, he has worked in advertising for 8 years.

Content
The content of Silviu Istrate is centered around commentary and reaction. He is known for his opinions on politics and social topics, being an active supporter of human rights and center-left political ideas. The themes approached by Silviu Faiăr include: the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community, supporting the right to abortion in the face of the pro-life movement, the rights of the roma minority, the problem of gambling, slots and betting addictions, misoginy and feminism, urban planning, conservatism and progressivism

On December 1st 2020, Faiăr has had his first stream on the live-streaming platform Twitch, alongside his friend Alexandru Zlăvog. This formula was adopted before he started on Twitch, on Youtube, making clips together

On October 29th 2021, he set a new record the on the Twitch platform in romania, reaching a number of over 9.000 people that were watching concurrently, streaming alongside TJ Miles.

In 2023, in the context of a campaign by the Declic Association against ads for gambling games, Silviu Istrate criticized the influencers who made these kinds of advertisements. His followers left comments with the emoji "empty plate", with it signifying "The hunger is great" (an accusation of greed) to the comment sections of those influencers. Some of them were convinced to give up on those ads.

He also remarks himself through his charity streams, through which he manages to raise significant sums of money for a variety of causes.

The news website G4media has catalogued Istrate as a "left-leaning" anti-capitalist, and anti-american influencer.