Doigby

Doigby — born Arif Selim Akin on December 10, 1991, in France — is a pillar of French streaming: a Twitch partner since 2013, a former League of Legends professional, and a variety broadcaster whose channel bio reads “Ma vie est un jeu, donc je joue ma vie!” — my life is a game, so I play my life. Fourteen years after creating his account, he remains one of the Francophone scene’s most-watched figures, with a community approaching two million followers.

The esports roots run deep. Before the streaming personality, there was the competitor: Doigby played League of Legends at a high level for Millenium — one of France’s landmark esports organizations — and later coached its Millenium Spirit roster. He studied accounting through BEP, BAC PRO, and BTS programs before leaving formal education to chase the competitive scene full-time, the classic gamble of esports’ first generation.

He created his Twitch account in October 2011, in the platform’s infancy, and became a partner on October 29, 2013 — among the first French creators ever to earn the checkmark. By August 2026 he had amassed roughly 1.9 million followers, placing him in the top 0.11% of all Twitch channels and among the most-followed French-language broadcasters on the platform. Across more than a decade of broadcasting, he has never received a single ban — a quiet statistic that speaks volumes about his professionalism.

The content is pure variety: League of Legends, Fortnite, Minecraft, Mario Kart, Among Us, and long Just Chatting sessions where the personality carries the show. He has hosted and casted across the French esports calendar — Monday evening programs alongside Gotaga, the Domino’s Radio Stream, and countless tournament desks — bringing the instincts of someone who actually lived the game at a competitive level.

His follower list reads like a hall of fame of French streaming: Squeezie, Gotaga, ZeratoR, Domingo, Kamet0, mistermv. When the scene’s biggest names want to watch someone, they watch Doigby — peer respect is the currency that matters most in the Francophone ecosystem, which is famously loyal, famously engaged, and entirely self-sufficient.

He is a fixture of France’s charity-streaming tradition, appearing in ZEVENT — the annual Francophone charity marathon that has repeatedly broken world fundraising records, regularly clearing €10 million per edition for causes from environmental action to medical research. His 2026 edition streams ran under the “ZEVENT J-2” banner, and his community turned out in force.

The cross-platform footprint is substantial: his YouTube channel, Fingery, counts around 1.26 million subscribers; his X account draws roughly 860,000 followers; his Instagram pushes past a million. Live on Twitch, evergreen on YouTube — the modern streamer’s rhythm, executed since before it had a name.

What makes him matter is the arc. French streaming has cycled through eras — the LoL boom, the Fortnite wave, the IRL years, the platform wars — and Doigby adapted to every one without losing the thread. He is a bridge between the scene’s esports origins and its modern variety era: a player who became a caster who became a personality. Still streaming. Still relevant. Still the wolf of his own motto — en français, bien sûr.

The longevity deserves its own chapter. When Doigby became a Twitch partner in October 2013, French Twitch was a fraction of its current size — a small, tight-knit scene where everyone knew everyone. He grew up alongside it: through the platform’s explosion, through the arrival of the mega-streamers, through every format wave. Fourteen years on the same platform is an eternity in internet time, and Doigby has spent nearly all of it live, broadcasting, building. His streaming anniversary — July 8, 2015, when he became an affiliate — is just one more milestone in a career measured in them.

The casting and hosting work is the other half of the résumé. Doigby spent years behind the desk at French esports events — Monday evening programs alongside Gotaga, the Domino’s Radio Stream, tournament broadcasts — lending the voice of a former pro to the scene’s biggest moments. In an era when French esports was figuring out what it wanted to be, he was one of the people explaining it to the audience, in real time, in French.

And then there is the motto. “Ma vie est un jeu, donc je joue ma vie!” — my life is a game, so I play my life — paired with the wolf emoji, has been his banner for over a decade. It is more than branding; it is the philosophy of the variety streamer, the esports lifer, the guy who turned a game into a life and a life into a show. The wolf is still playing.

That he did it all in French matters. The Francophone streaming world built itself parallel to the English-speaking internet — its own stars, its own jokes, its own universe — and Doigby is part of the furniture. He never had to switch languages to find an audience; the audience was always there, fiercely loyal and famously engaged. Fourteen years in, the furniture is beloved.