Poncereal name Aurélien Gilles[1]born September 21, 1991 in Avignon, is a French streamer.
Ponce was born on September 21, 1991.[2] in Avignon. He attended nursery school and primary school at the Marcel Pagnol elementary school in Morières-lès-Avignon. After CM2, he left Morières-lès-Avignon to go to Joseph Vernet middle school then to Théodore Aubanel high school in Avignon[3].
He continued his higher studies at Polytech Montpellier but finally reoriented himself towards the world of theater thanks to the Toulouse conservatory. Disappointed with the Florent course in Paris, he becomes a mathematics teacher for the preparatory classes for the nursing and caregiver competition.[4].
In 2016, he launched into streaming on Twitch solo and then joined Web TV LeStream. When he registered on the platform, he used the pseudonym “PonceFesse”, which he later changed to “Ponce”[2],[4]. His favorite games include World of Warcraft but also many Nintendo games such as Mario Kart[4] or Animal Crossing[5].
In 2019, he launched the show “Ponce la nuit”, first broadcast on the LeStream channel, before being broadcast on his Twitch channel, in which he notably received Antoine Daniel[6] and Samuel Étienne[7].
The same year, he joined Domingo’s team as a regular columnist on the talk show Popcorn[4],[5].
Also in 2019, he completed a “Video Game Tour de France” with the streameur Rivenzi and their friend Manu: for three weeks, they streament — on Ponce’s Twitch channel — their meetings with different video game players and their walks in several cities in France[8].
He has been participating in the Z Event since 2020[9],[10],[11].
In April 2021, he launched a general knowledge game on the Internet, The master of flowers[4],[12].
His account was temporarily suspended by Twitch in June 2021 for broadcasting “a 1970s movie trailer featuring a nipple.”[13] » ; this temporary ban is relayed by Madmoizelle as being a symbol of the exaggerated puritanism of the platform[14].
On August 2, 2022 with the streamers Etoiles, TheGuill84, Ultia, JimmyBoyyy and Jiraiya he became European champion on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe by winning Twitch Rivals (in) about this game[15],[16]. In the final they concluded with a score of 302 points against 190 against Spain[16].
On September 29, 2022, to meet one of the donation objectives of Z Event 2021 “Doing live music with Tip Stevens in public”, Ponce is organizing the Floral Party, a concert bringing together the artists Tip Stevens, Ceylon and Cemented Minds on stage of the Bataclan and broadcast live on its Twitch channel[17],[18]. At the same time, he announced the creation of his music label Floral Records[19].
- 2022 : Floral feat. Ceylon, Princess Näpalm and Léo Lenvers
- 2015 : Apartment for saleby Jeanne Tachan: Man 1[20]
- 2021 : Le patron de YouTube VS TikTokby Cyprien Iov: cameo
- 2022 : Lorenza – Dona dona (clip IRL) – Ultia GTA RPZmusic video by Ultia: Fabien Torez
- ↑ « Ponce: the cream of streamers », on France Inter, January 14, 2023 (consulted August 5, 2024)
- ↑ a et b « Ponce », sure ActuStream (accessed January 9, 2022).
- ↑ DrFeelgood, « PONCE GOES ON THE COUCH – WHAT’S NEW DOCTOR? Episode #1 » on YouTube, October 1, 2020 (accessed April 25, 2021).
- ↑ a b c d et e Diego Caparros, « Ponce, streamer from Avignon, star of the Twitch platform in France », sure La Provence, December 18, 2021 (consulted January 8, 2022).
- ↑ a et b Romain Cheyron, « 9 streamers and YouTubers to follow urgently », on Ouest-France, November 6, 2020 (consulted January 8, 2022).
- ↑ « Ponce la nuit receives streamer Antoine Daniel », on actustream.fr (accessed January 11, 2022).
- ↑ « Ponce The night back with Samuel Etienne », on actustream.fr (accessed January 11, 2022).
- ↑ Yacha Hajzler, “Video Game Tour de France: a day in Tours with the duo Ponce and Rivenzi”, France 3 Centre-Val de Loire, 24 avril 2019 (read onlineaccessed May 5, 2022).
- ↑ La tribu Pokaa, « Head elsewhere: discovering the Twitch platform and the streamer Ponce », on Pokaa, November 12, 2020 (consulted January 11, 2022).
- ↑ « ZEvent 2020: streamers will meet you from October 16 to 18 for a good cause! » on NRJ, October 16, 2020 (accessed January 11, 2022).
- ↑ Victor Vasseur, “ Seven notable moments of ZEvent 2021, more than ten million euros raised in total », on France Inter, October 31, 2021 (consulted February 4, 2022).
- ↑ « Ponce quiz, how to play Master of Flowers? », on Breakflip, April 10, 2021 (consulted June 4, 2022).
- ↑ Isabelle Thierens, « Ponce gets banned from Twitch and already reveals the reason », on Dexerto, June 17, 2021 (consulted January 8, 2022).
- ↑ Mymy Haegel, « Twitch bans Ponce for a nipple, and surprise (no): it’s the girls who toast », on Madmoizelle, June 18, 2021 (consulted January 8, 2022).
- ↑ « Twitch: Thanks to Ponce and his team, France is European champion on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe! », on Jeuxvideo.com (consulted October 18, 2022)
- ↑ a et b « The Ponce team, European Mario Kart champions », on Gaming Up, August 3, 2022 (consulted October 18, 2022)
- ↑ « Ponce is going to play at the Bataclan for a Floral Party, how to attend the concert? », on Breakflip (consulted October 13, 2022)
- ↑ Bataclan, « PONCE X FLORAL PARTY » on bataclan.fr (consulted October 13, 2022)
- ↑ « Ponce launches Floral Records, his own music label », on Breakflip (consulted October 13, 2022)
- ↑ « Apartment for sale », on IMDB (consulted July 29, 2022)