ExtraEmily

Emily Xuechun Zhang (born January 16, 1998), known professionally as ExtraEmily, is an American Twitch streamer. She started streaming in May 2020 and continues to today. She originally was most well known for steaming Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Switch and occasional PC games, but has shifted more towards challenge-based variety content, IRL streaming and Super Mario 64 speedruns.

2020: Early career
Emily first started streaming on May 28, 2020 on Twitch. She played Wii Sports and the stream lasted 2 hours and 44 minutes. A few weeks later on June 9, 2020, she was raided by fellow Twitch streamer Nicro (formerly NicroVeda), as well as real life friend and Twitch streamer, Clairytale. She was able to gain many viewers from the raid. Due to the excitement of one of her inspirations raiding her, she decided to stream until she reached the goal of getting all five stamps in the 3-Point Contest game mode in Wii Sports Resort. Exactly a week later, on June 16, Emily played Wii Party for the first time. She set out to do the "All vs. Minigames" category that her friend and Twitch streamer Nicro had created a few weeks prior. A few days later on June 21, she decided to start grinding towards the "All Recipes" category WR in Cooking Mama: Cook Off. Throughout the following month she continued playing Wii Sports Resort and Wii Party, but would occasionally play other games such as Wii Play, Mario Kart Wii and Super Paper Mario. In the month of August 2020, Emily's stream began going through some change as her schedule made a big adjustment. While her schedule gradually went from seven days to four days a week, she finally made the shift to four days in this month. It was due to her starting her other job that she is still doing alongside her Twitch streaming currently. Another big change was her content in the month. On August 12, 2020, Emily finally received and unboxed her Switch on stream. This would also be the month that she upgraded from her laptop to a gaming PC. She purchased a Cyberpower PC and actually had a power issue with the original one that she bought, so she was able to swap it out with another one. On August 17, 2020, she would, for the first time, play a Nintendo Switch game on her stream as well as stream in HD. The game that she played was Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Although she planned on starting her new four-day schedule on the week of August 17, it actually started on August 25, 2020 and she has continued using this format with very few missed streams and rescheduled ones. Also in August, Emily did her first ever 24 hour stream. Her goal was to play Super Mario Odyssey for the first time and beat fellow Twitch streamer and speedrunner, Simply's, at the time Any% personal best time of 1:46:13 that he got during a 12 hour stream where he played the game for the first time. Emily's stream took place on August 28, 2020 and she failed to beat his record. She gifted him 100 subs as a punishment for not beating his personal best time. After this stream, her shift changed over from Wii Sports Resort to Super Mario Odyssey as she mostly played Odyssey in September and October, but she did start playing Super Mario Sunshine at that time as well. She wasn't as great as Sunshine as she was at some of the other games that she played, so that she didn't play that game much after those two months. In November, she started doing in real life (also called IRL) streams, as well as cooking. Her first IRL stream happened on November 1, 2020 and she went to American fast food chain restaurant, Culver's. The stream lasted a bit over two hours. The following week on November 8, 2020, Emily did a second IRL getting supplies for an upcoming cooking/baking stream. The aforementioned stream, set to take place on November 10, was based on one of the speedrun categories for Cooking Mama: Cook Off where you burn a pie. She planned to replicate that in real life by burning a pie on that stream. During the stream, unfortunately, she never actually got the pie to burn. Also in early November, Emily got her best time ever in Any% on Super Mario Odyssey. She finished with a time of 1:20:30, a time that is still her personal best today. As time was going on complications between her and her parents started making it more difficult for her to stream from home. While she didn't deviate much from her schedule, she start getting unhappy with the situation and frequently discussed moving out and into a new place. On December 13, 2020, Emily did another stream in the IRL style. She decided to do one from Dave & Buster's. During the stream, she was consulted by the manager of the restaurant to leave because she breaking their policy. Emily did not comply, so she got consulted a second time. She then left in tears. This would end up becoming one of her most well known streams because it later got turned into her first big TikTok. In mid-December, the tensions between her and her parents had risen to a new level. She had to do an emergency move as a result and began living with one of her friends that lived nearby. That move was short-lived as she moved back in with her parents a week later. On December 23, 2020, Zhang received her largest raid yet while was doing runs in the All Sports category for Wii Sports Resort from GamesDoneQuick. She peaked at 1,776 viewers. Since Emily's job is in New York, she needed to move closer for when in-person working starts again. Emily's streaming also wasn't too popular with her parents, so she wanted to move out of her home in Nebraska and officially did in January 2021.

2021–present: New York and content changes
In January 2021, Emily moved to New York. Since her job is based in New York, she needed to move there for when she officially starts working from that office. She moved into an apartment with her childhood friend, Tiffany. The move to New York City led to a change in the type of content she was making. TikTok became one of her new priorities. She began posting regular on the platform right around the time of the move. It had, as of March 2021, amassed a fanbase of over 20,000 followers making it the platform where she was most popular. As a result of this, Zhang gained viewers from her activity on the popular social media app. Her most popular TikTok being one where she plays the role of a teacher assistant who streams their class on Twitch. The skit is set to the Doja Cat song, "Won't Bite." Another change in her content was the type of games that she would play on her streams. Emily shifted her focus away from NIntendo games and started playing PC and browser games. Games such as Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Club Penguin, the Higher Lower Game, Webkinz, GeoGuessr, Family Feud and Jeopardy. She also did some challenges such as Wikipedia speedruns and a You Laugh, You Lose challenge. The biggest change, however, was the series of "classes" that she started. The skit from the aforementioned TikTok that she did became a reality when she started doing teacher roleplay on her streams after her appearance on a popular YouTube show. Since there was a lot of buzz around the teacher roleplays, she continued doing them. Every Sunday, she does a "class" on a new topic and follows up the class with Kahoot or a game. On March 23, 2021, Emily got partnered on Twitch after getting rejected the first time. Getting partnered on Twitch has caused another shift in her content. Mostly ones that are going back to her roots and include more speedrunning. She has added Ring Fit Adventure to her plethora of games and has brought back Mario Party 8, but this time has committed to speedruns for the game. While she did seem to have committed to runs of Mario Party 8 speedruns at that time, she never did. On April 2, 2021, Emily started an uncapped subathon to celebrate her Twitch partnership that ran for over 105 hours total. On April 22, 2021, Emily received her largest raid ever by SmallAnt allowing her to peak at over 3.7K viewers. As a joke and to also ride on the current Twitch meta, Emily did her first hot tub stream in May 2021. She stated that while these types of streams won't her main type of content going forward, she will continue doing them. Even stating that they could be as frequent as monthly. As of July 2021, this has still been the only hot tub stream to ever occur. Emily celebrated her year anniversary on Twitch on May 28, 2021 with a reverse subathon event that lasted for roughly 2.5 days. As time progressed, Zhang became more experimental with her content as she wanted to pursue YouTube as a new endeavor to go alongside her Twitch streaming. She has shifted quite dramatically from her old speedrunning-focused content and more to challenge-oriented content. While these challenges do include speedruns many times, she is no longer focused on improving her skills at one game in particular. On top of speedrun challenges, she partakes in many "rage game" challenges. The shift in content seems to be linked to her new YouTube focus as she most likely views these types of videos as a good type to translate over to a flashy platform of the sort. Another big shift on Emily's Twitch channel has been the focus on IRL streams. On her July 9, 2021 livestream, she stated that she would be trying to do these types of streams every Sunday.

Daily Dose of Internet
On February 28, 2021, Emily did a Twitch stream where she role played as a teacher giving a class on Twitch. The idea was based on a TikTok skit that she had posted earlier in the month joking about the same thing. She got the idea from discussions on her stream with the chat about formerly being a teacher assistant during her time in college. Through TikTok, the host of the show Daily Dose of Internet found out about this teacher roleplay stream. Emily then appeared on the show the following day, March 1, 2021. That video has amassed millions of views and led to an influx of people in her streams. This "influx" was the second major wave of new viewers to her stream and the first since the raids from Nicro and Clairytale on June 9, 2020.