Elleigh Bean on Destiny, Streaming, and Everything in-Between

She streams, she claims heads, and most-importantly, she shitposts.

Courtesy of and provided by Elleigh Bean.

When tasked with exploring the game streaming ecosystem on Twitch, writers are often compelled to shed a light on its most-lively corners, ignoring everyone else in the process–but what makes streaming an interesting medium is its ability to mimic that feeling of shared camaraderie when the viewer count doesn’t exceed that of the quadruple digits and chat isn’t moving at lightning speed. Elleigh Bean is one such streamer in that category, and as a fan of both Destiny and the type of content she makes, getting her for an interview seemed only fitting.

“We bounce back and forth rapidly between shitposting and being insanely wholesome on Twitch,” she says. “I’m a trans Twitch streamer, I primarily do Destiny 2 content and don’t break out of it too much.”

For as long as the Destiny franchise has been alive, it congregated players around a common pursuit–that of earning good loot and having fun while doing so. Elleigh’s streamer career didn’t formally start until mid-2020, but her love for the franchise reaches far into its earliest days. “I’ve been playing Destiny since the first DLC — the Dark Below — dropped, and it feels every time an expansion or anything else is announced…