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Title: Focus on the soft skills | Matt Demers social media manager for Evil Genuises Guest: Matt Demers social media manager for Evil Genuises Twitter: @mattdemers Instagram: @mattdemers Twitch: twitch.tv/mattdemers Highlights: We talk about the role of the journalist in video games today, and content creators on a broader scale. How the current model of free content paid for by ads and sponsorships is not very solid and certainly not scalable. For Matt this meant that he couldn't see himself as a games journalist in the long term. While he was taking his bachelor in journalism, Matt spend his free time watching Heroes of Newerth matches and later on League of Legends and he realised that the esports industry would need professional journalists. So he started focusing on esports both as a writer and a streamer. After quitting a job at a software company, he started freelancing in esports. While that didn't exactly make him rich, it gave him experiences and connections in the industry. At the same time Matt wa