Remembering Rosa - DougDoug Charity Streams

2019

$320.18 Raised

Doug often used to play the live otter cam from MBA on his streams as an adorable distraction for his audience. During one such stream in 2019, he learned that Rosa was both the world's oldest living sea otter and that her birthday was in only a week's time. So, on her birthday, Doug and his community hosted a small charity stream in which they played otter-related games and donated all the funds raised to Monterey Bay Aquarium. It was only $320.18 that year, but that was only the beginning....

Rosa's 20th Birthday

2020

$2,676 Raised

After such a positive response in 2019, Doug hosted another charity stream for Rosa's birthday the following year. After setting a stretch goal of $400 plus the $250 Doug was adding out of his own pocket, his Twitch chat exceeded all expectations by raising over two and a half thousand dollars over the course of a 4-hour stream, making sure Rosa got to eat plenty of delicious shrimp cocktails in her retirement!

Rosa's 21st Birthday

2021

$14,172.92 Raised

By now, the Rosa's Birthday Celebration event had become not just another funny stream idea in Doug's repertoire, but perhaps his most anticipated stream of the year. The Rosa streams are a compendium of all of Doug's most memorable challenges throughout the year. In a sense, they are a celebration of both Rosa and the community Doug has built. And following the tradition of absolutely smashing their fundraising records each year, Doug's Twitch chat did it again by tripling their previous donation, and then tripling it again.

Rosa's 22nd Birthday

2022

$104,327.89 Raised

Rosa's 23rd birthday in 2022 was the year the dam broke open completely. The previous year, it took Twitch chat 7 hours to raise around 14 thousand dollars. In 2022, they broke that milestone in 25 minutes. Doug's maximum stretch goal for this year was $25K, which flew by so quickly that he had to keep adding new stretch goals periodically as several thousand online viewers donated one hundred thousand dollars to an otter in retirement who was already living life to the fullest. She is super adorable though, can you blame them?

Rosa's 23rd Birthday

2023

$302,014.21 Raised

In 2023, the DougDoug community achieved a new high: they beat Google. Not even one of the world's largest tech conglomerates could raise over $300,000 dollars for a sea otter, but thousands of kindhearted people could do it in a single day. Sadly, though it was unknown at the time, this would be the last birthday celebration while Rosa was still with us. But what an end it was! Rosa knew how to throw the greatest birthday parties of all time!

Rosa's 24th Birthday

2024

$625,375.68 Raised

After Rosa passed away on June 5, 2024, the Rosa birthday streams became a celebration of Rosa's life and of all her many achievements as the queen of Monterey Bay Aquarium. The DougDoug community made her proud this year by raising well over half a million dollars in her memory. There can be little doubt that Rosa will go down in history as the most beloved otter of all time, so long as Doug and Twitch Chat are there to love and remember her.

Rosa's Celebration of Life

Grand Total:

$1,048,886.46