Dude was totally serious about the charity fundraising thing, and CDawgVA turbo-cyclothed for the fourth time since he actually pedaled on for a pretty darn engrossing $1,069,561 Cyclethon. Apparently this complete maniac has raised well over $3.8 million since 2021 looking for better treatments for his fellow VTuber IronMouse’s immune deficiency condition. What is sleep anyway really, when saving lives is almost purely through sheer willpower and anime energy drinks filling life’s void?
I’d say the numbers themselves could be enough to make one cry a small waterfall-a single 24-hour stream where CDawgVA basically became a human-shaped battery, with no time for rest, apart from the vague interaction with chat, challenges, and the impossibility of collapsing into a pool of sweating purposeful determination. I mean, absolutely, his legs may be from vibranium. And, the best part? Every single dollar goes directly to support research of primary immunodeficiency diseases through the Immune Deficiency Foundation.
For those who may have been living under a rock, IronMouse is actually one of the coolest VTubers in the world because of her unhinged pure energy and heartbreaking story of life with Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID). She has been really open about years literally stuck in her room, and then change came in the life of streaming to give her a world of opportunity now. Hence, CDawgVA, that friend’s fellow content creator, took it upon himself to turn his platform into a fundraising behemoth for the dirt-poor like her.
This year’s Cyclethon was nightmare-tier extreme, as he went through all sorts of bizarre donation incentives that included combinations ranging from cursed food for CDawgVA to letting chat control his bike resistance, which is not going to get someone cycling uphill at 3AM after pretty much not sleeping. The last hours turned into an absolute hype train as the community came together smashing stretch goals with IronMouse herself jumping in to commentate through tears.
A quick math? $3.8 million in under three years. Beyond crazier depths than some small country’s GDP. If it truly goes this way, CDawgVA might misperceive and perhaps cure the immune diseases through just sheer force of meme donation and twitch chat spam. Dude basically turned charity streaming into a sport-there really isn’t any need for the Olympics with people putting a good charitable cause into these extreme 24-hour cycling marathons with the added challenge of reading four superchats in different languages.
This is getting crazier by the year. First Cyclethon in 2021 collected “only” $400k (which was already insane, let’s face it). Then in 2022, another $1.2 million. Then $1.1 million last year. And now one’s back in seven figures like it was nothing-hence the microscope would be better placed on Earthly real-life anime protagonist CDawgVA by the scientific community at this point all.
The real MVP here? The community. Thousands of people donating everything from $5 to five figures to help strangers they’ll never meet from the support of Nyanners, Veibae, and even Myth from TSM. From wholesome chaos, it reminds you that not everything on the internet is doomscrolling and crypto scams-it’s sometimes a bunch of nerds in cat ear headphones literally pedaling to a better tomorrow.
What’s next? Probably a weeklong beauty sleep for CDawgVA and then the inevitable announcement of Cyclethon 5.0 with even crazier goals. IronMouse continues to do her work, singing, screaming at video games, and living proof that medical conditions don’t define your potential. And somewhere in a lab, researchers are investing these millions into developing treatments that might put immunodeficiency diseases in the history books. Not too shabby for an anime-loving streaming community.
