MicawaveTV Goes 'Inside The Screen' With Aaron "Don" Dukes

“I stress this a lot; I spend a lot of time on myself and a lot of time evaluating my situation,” he tells Don before diving into the importance of personal happiness and self-care while pursuing what you love. “I like to stress that being happy should be your number one priority. A lot of people only think about the money part of it, and I need to be in this place or that place. The bottom line is you have to be happy.

Growing up, I really didn’t know what I wanted to do. I played basketball and stuff like that, but it wasn’t until I spent time with myself and thought about what I liked that I realized I always loved gaming, entertaining, and making people laugh. Content creating and streaming on Twitch is the perfect combination for that, and I set goals for myself, did my research, and used money from the part-time job that I had to fund my occupation.”

As the two begin their Fortnite match, Don asks the content master what drew him specifically to playing Fortnite, and what the game itself means to him. “I was playing Fortnite before I started creating content. A lot of people were skeptical about the game before it blew up because it looked so “childish,” and that was the same thing I was thinking. My friends would be playing Fortnite having fun while I would be on Call of Duty. I kept thinking “Nah I’m not doing that!”

I decided to give it a try one day during Season 3. I actually had a good time and started watching people who were growing the game like Ninja. A few months later I got all of the stuff needed to start doing streams like the Elgato HD60, things with just enough specs to start up a stream and handle the game capture. I set that up and started doing my thing!”