Audience Profile Sheet

Socialization Through Streaming - Douglas Wreden Profile 

Reader’s Name: Douglas Scott Wreden 

Reader’s Job Title:  

• Owner of Twitch account DougDoug and its respective Youtube channel. 

  • Wreden also runs DougDougDoug, a secondary channel. 

  • One of the main members of the Lemonade Stand Podcast on Youtube 

  • Programmer, formerly professionally for Electronic Arts (EA). 

Kind of Reader:  X  Primary       Secondary

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Computer Arts from University of California, Berkley 

Professional Experience: 

• Full-time owner of the DougDoug Twitch account, which currently has over one million followers. 

• Designed and participated in Esports tournaments for Hearthstone (Leslie, 2018). 

• Brother of Davey Wreden, creator of the critically acclaimed The Stanley Parable. 

Job Responsibilities: 

• Streams at least once a week, for many hours at a time. Often raises money or awareness for charities. 

  • Since 2019, Wreden has raised over $1,000,000 for Monterey Bay Aquarium (Bronn, 2025). 

• Innovates and adapts constantly to current content-creation trends to retain and grow his fan-base, which was notably evident in his incorporation of generative AI in 2023. 

  • Additionally programs a wide variety of alterations to his streams to make them directly interactive with his viewers. This is relevant to goals related to social interaction through videogames. 

Personal Preferences:  

• Prefers professional, intellectually captivating interactions and communications, consistently expressed a value in formal interviews and in-person discussions (DougDoug Clips, 2025).  

A balance between his humorous, leisurely streams and his serious take on the social health crisis in teens is an important trait. 

Cultural Characteristics: 

• Exhibits an extreme understanding of current media culture, frequently attending conventions and interacting with collegial streamers. 

  • This led to him winning the League Of Their Own award (The Streamer Awards, 2023).  

  • Contact via email is possible through his website. 

Attitude Towards the Writer: Enjoys collaboration with other groups and organizations, especially when pertaining to important aspects of society.  

• Not a stranger to supporting projects with his own programming skills, such as when he re-coded games such as GTA V and TES VI: Skyrim to help raise money (DougDoug, 2024). 

• Wreden has extensively spoken directly about mental health struggles of his own (DougDougDoug, 2022), showing that he would not be averse to speaking out about the problems with social health among his own teen audience. 

Attitude Towards the Subject: Very passionate about technologically and socially ambitious projects, frequently implementing them into his own content.  

• Often, indie games such as Peggle are featured in his streams (DougDoug, 2023). He has a history of featuring lesser-known videogames to his audience, which is helpful for exposing a larger audience to a topic. 

Expectations About the Subject: The project should be proposed with a working prototype, especially highlighting the communication aspect of the game. 

• The game’s programming should be available to him to view and critique, but the focus should be around the online interactive features and implications on the larger socialization problem. 

Expectations About the Document: Should include a detailed, in-depth summary of the game’s mechanics, premised with the company’s values and vision, as well as how the game will fulfill that vision.  

• The game’s mechanics and story should be shown through presentation and/or video, whenever possible. 

Reasons for Reading the Document: A strong value for establishing socialization through videogames, as well as a passion for lesser-known indie games that can be used for socialization on the internet.

Way of Reading the Document: Document should include intuitive descriptions of the game’s mechanics and the company’s goals.  

• Diagrams and pictures should convey the technical aspects of the project to appeal to his computer science interests. 

Reading Skill: Remarkable; Wreden often exhibits advanced interpretative skills when reading documents and articles, as well as restating them for his younger audience.  

• Additionally, he has been observed to implement technical or scientific explanations for his audience to resonate more with his content, even humorously without sabotaging the meaning and purpose of his presentation. 

  • This was displayed when he gave an hour-long presentation on how generative artificial intelligence functioned (DougDougDoug, 2025). 

Reader’s Digital/Physical Environment: Utilize digital means whenever necessary to cater to his daily environment. Physical informative sheets should not be needed, and any presentations should be moderately formal to convey a sense of seriousness. 

• Wreden has exhibited an excellent ability to ‘improvise’ technical or serious topics during his videogame-focused streams. He can introduce any topic seamlessly into the current tone. 

  • These ‘bits’ are often the center of the entertainment in his streams and are usually posted on one of his extended secondary channels, such as DougDougDoug. 

Douglas Wreden has presented himself to be a successful content creator with a passion for socializing with his viewers, which aligns with the solution for the teen socialization issues from COVID-19 isolation. 

• His involvement with serious topics and his ability to control the conversations around them is beneficial to the overall narrative, and his entertaining content that involves interaction from viewers directly contributes to the global issue. 

Resources 

Bronn, C. (2025). Remembering Rosa - DougDoug Charity Streams. Rememberingrosa.com. https://rememberingrosa.com/dougdoug-charity-streams/index.html 

DougDoug (2023, September 28). Peggle Speedrun, but an Ai Robot threatens me with trivia. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqK2Tsujho  

DougDoug (2024, October 30). We raised $600k for the greatest Sea Otter to ever live. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5bYBAxFkyo

DougDoug Clips. (2025, August 28). DougDoug was almost late for his interview. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H63dCDP65e0

DougDougDoug. (2022, October 16). Doug rants about Health Stuff, 2022 Edition. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkZDz6p9ebs

DougDougDoug. (2025, April 9). How the hell does Ai actually work?? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8M_BjRErmM

Leslie, C. (2018, July 3). Meet the man behind your favorite Hearthstone events. Dot Esports. https://dotesports.com/hearthstone/news/hearthstone-history-esl-gloudas-30618

The Streamer Awards. (2023, March 12). DougDoug WINS the League Of Their Own award. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTwuaIsy1RI