In 2017, Jaryd garnered widespread attention for surpassing Tom “Syndicate” Cassell in the number of followers on Twitch. And in 2018, Jaryd became the most-followed channel on the platform, surpassing Riot Games.

In May 2018, Lazar streamed with YouTuber Jake Paul and received complaints and criticism from fans for his decision to play with him. In response to backlash from fans — with some even threatening to unfollow his Twitch channel — Lazar told viewers “I’m a little disappointed in chat. I had hoped the 1g squad to be a little bit different. I thought some people had a little bit thicker skin.”

In December 2019, Lazar’s girlfriend, lilchiipmunk, claimed on Twitter that Twitch was promoting racism after a clip of fellow Twitch streamer Sweet_Anita had gone viral, in which she unintentionally blurted out the N word as a result of her having Tourette’s. At the time, lilchiipmunk was not aware that Sweet_Anita suffered from Tourette’s, prompting Lazar to publicly apologize, saying “I would like to apologize to Sweet_Anita. I hope you’re doing okay through all the bullshit. You’re killing it on Twitch, keep it up and keep trucking through.

In May 2020, Jaryd signed a multi-year contract with Twitch, regarding content and partnership support. As of November 3, 2020, he has over 5.3 million followers on Twitch, and is ranked as the eigth-most-followed streamer on the platform.

In April 2020, Lazar was involved in a controversy surrounding comments he made towards Valorant, a free-to-play multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed by Riot Games. He criticized the game for being poorly managed during the game’s closed beta, as well as criticizing other streamers that streamed Valorant at the time for manipulating Twitch’s “Drops” system (which allowed viewers watching Valorant streams on Twitch to randomly receive game keys that provided access to the closed beta) in order to increase their viewer counts and the total number of viewers for the game on the platform. However, Lazar later tweeted an apology on Twitter and called for a truce (which has since been deleted).