Polish Streamer Latwogang Shatters Charity Livestream Record, Raising Nearly $70M for Cancer Kids

Nine days. One small Warsaw apartment. 251 million Polish zloty.

That's the short version. The fuller picture is something a bit harder to wrap your head around.

Polish streamer Łatwogang, real name Patryk Garkowski, set a world record for a livestream charity campaign by raising at least 251 million zloty (roughly $69 million USD) for a foundation helping children with cancer. The stream ran from April 17 to April 26 this year, clocking in at 179 hours and 25 minutes of continuous broadcast.

The whole thing started from a pretty simple idea. For every like on his TikTok announcement video, Łatwogang would listen to an 11-year-old leukemia patient's song for one second, which resulted in a 767,000-second marathon broadcast. That song, "Ciągle tutaj jestem (Diss na raka)" (roughly: "I'm Still Here, A Diss Track Against Cancer"), was recorded by Maja Mecan alongside rapper Bedoes 2115 and became the beating heart of the entire event.

What started with a goal of 500,000 PLN (around $138,000) quickly grew into over 251.8 million PLN, making it the largest online charity fundraiser ever. That figure is reportedly a new Guinness World Record for the most money raised during a single livestream, though award officials have yet to officially confirm the record.

Who Held the Record Before?

The old benchmark belonged to a couple of familiar faces. MrBeast and xQc's Team Water campaign in August 2025 raised over $12 million in a 15-hour stream. After that, the French Z Event 2025, where 325 streamers raised approximately €16.2 million over four days, took the title. Latwogang cleared both of those figures and kept going.

MrBeast, who was flagged about the stream by Polish esports player Wojtek Kardys, expressed his appreciation at other creators "using their platforms for good." Class move.

Head-Shaving, Lewandowski, and a Nine-Day Circus

The stream was, by all accounts, unscripted and chaotic in the best possible way. Multiple guests shaved their heads on-stream during the broadcast in a show of solidarity with cancer patients and their families. Near the end, several children from Cancer Fighters joined the broadcast , which, if you weren't already emotionally levelled by that point, probably finished the job.

The celebrity appearances were something else entirely. Spanish football star Lamine Yamal made a short appearance on the stream. FC Barcelona players Wojciech Szczęsny and Robert Lewandowski recorded their own covers of "Ciągle tutaj jestem", donated over one million zlotys (about $276,000), and pledged a retro Barcelona jersey signed by the squad for a charity auction.

Several companies also stepped up, with brokerage firm XTB donating around 6.3 million zloty and fintech company Zen.com contributing 5.6 million zloty.

In a nail-biting finale, the stream broke through the 250 million zloty mark in the final seconds before the deadline expired. Absolutely cinematic.

Charity Streaming Is Growing Up

Events like this don't happen in a vacuum. The Games Done Quick organisation has spent years building a charity streaming model around speedrunning, and 2025's Summer Games Done Quick earned $2.4 million throughout its weeklong stream, with proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. VTuber Ironmouse has also built a reputation for charity broadcasts with her community. The format works.

What Latwogang pulled off takes it to another level entirely, though. The scale, the nine-day commitment, the raw emotional core of a song written by a child fighting leukemia, it turned a livestream into something closer to a national event.

Latwogang described the fundraiser as a "miracle," downplayed his own role, and praised contributors as well as the resilience of the children fighting cancer. "I believe that only they should be spoken of as people who have done something great," he said, referring to the young patients as "little warriors".

Hard to argue with that.