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Rayenne Guendil (born: August 2, 1996), better known online as Etoiles, is a French YouTuber and Twitch streamer.
Personal life[]
Etoiles was born in Limoges, France in 1996. He studied computer engineering at Compiègne University of Technology, graduating in January 2021. During his studies, he completed an internship with Solary from April to September 2019.
History[]
Etoiles is one of the most followed and watched French streamers on Twitch. In addition to video game broadcasting, he also produces program formats focusing on culture.
He is also the person behind the host and journalist Samuel Étienne's arrival on Twitch, seen as one of the first bridges between television and the streaming world.
Nuit de la Culture[]
La Nuit de la Culture (Culture Night) is some sort of show that Etoiles had set up for the first time on May 2019. Being passionate about general culture, he got the idea of watching and at the same time playing Questions pour un champion, a popular French game show on the channel France 3 presented by Samuel Étienne. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the show's host get in touch with Etoiles on Twitter. On April 10, 2020, Etoiles broadcasts his Culture Night with Samuel Étienne for the first time, attracting over 45,000 live viewers.
On October 10, 2020, he invited Mehdi Maïzi to take part in a variation of his show, which he called Nuit de la Musique (Music Night). On January 18, 2021, he organizes another version of his show, called Nuit de la Curiosité (Curiosity Night), with Jamy Gourmaud.
Nuit du Musée[]
Since 2022, Etoiles has been organizing private tours of museum or other cultural and heritage establishements, each under the name Nuit du Musée (Museum Night). The name comes from that fact that those visits takes place really late in the evening, at night. These tours are accompanied by a guest streamer and a guide, and broadcast live on Twitch and republished on YouTube.
On February 2022, the first edition was a guided tour of the Paris Museum of Modern Art with Ponce. On June 2022, a tour of the Château de Versailles was organized with Squeezie, and a visit to the gardens of the same castle on September 2022 with Kameto. On January 2023, the Centre Pompidou in Paris is privatized for a visit with the streamer Amine.
With some members of the QSMP, he is planning to go in Brazil and if possible he would like to do a Nuit du Musée episode with a brazilian member of the QSMP.
ZEvent[]
In 2019, he took part for the first time in the ZEvent, a charity event organized by streamer ZeratoR to raise funds association, in this case the Institut Pasteur for the 2019 edition.
He took part again in 2020, where he was joined on Saturdays by Samuel Étienne, with whom he presented the program Questions pour un Streamer (Questions for a Streamer), inspired by and adapted from Questions pour un Champion.
During the September 2022 edition, he again hosts a Questions pour un Streamer, accompagnied by Alain Chabat. Subtitled Burger édition, the show features mechanics and rounds inspired by Burger Quiz (a game show invented by Alain Chabat and Kader Aoun, broadcast on Canal+), such as Sel ou Poivre (Salt or Pepper) and Burger de la Mort (Burger of Death).
Tournaments Joined[]
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[]
Being a fan of the Super Smash Bros, a fighting game franchise, Etoiles participates as a player in numerous competitive Smash tournaments, not always streaming them.
He is also a competition commentator, hosting tournaments on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at the Caribana festival on June 2022, at the L'Odyssée tournament on October 2022, at the Smash Ultimate Summit on March 2023 and at the SmashCon on August 2023.
ZLAN[]
In 2021, he took part in the ZLAN 2021 competition organized by ZeratoR, along with the streamers Khalen and Kenny. They won the competition, beating Skyyart's SSL Team 4-122 in the final.
In 2022, he takes part in the competition with Kameto and BiFresh.
In 2023, he took part again in th ZLAN in its individual format, ending with the 24th place.
Trivia[]
- Etoiles loves flags, he said it multiple times, his favourite flag is the one from Antigua and Barbuda.
- He is diabetic and likes to joke about it.
- He’s part of the DJ group “Insuline et Nicotine,” a parodic group with Antoine Daniel.
- He plays guitar and violin.