Swedish Counter-Strike 2 participant and commentator Tilde ‘ 7liciousCSGO’ Byström goes viral after she posted a photograph of herself at her day job making sandwiches.
Byström posted the picture to X on November 19 with the caption, “After 10 years in esports, I’m formally a sandwich maker.”
She gave the digicam a cheeky thumbs up, displaying her workstation stuffed with sandwiches that she’d put collectively in brown paper baggage.
The publish acted as a cheeky nod to the present state of the esports trade, displaying that, regardless of her data of Counter-Strike 2 and her expertise within the scene as each knowledgeable participant and commentator, she nonetheless has to work a daily 9-5 to make ends meet.Article continues after advert
In just below 24 hours, Byström’s tweet garnered over 300K likes and has been considered over 18 million occasions. It even caught the eye of American chain Pizza Hut, who commented, “Pizza maker can be fireplace.”Article continues after advert
“YO!” she replied. “I understand how to make a pizza.”
YOOOOOOOOOO.. I understand how to make pizza.. 👀— Tilde Byström (@7liciousCSGO) November 19, 2025
7licious explains the actual which means behind her viral sandwich-making picture
We caught up with Byström on November 20 to ask her concerning the viral publish. Throughout our dialogue, she advised us that the picture was each a playful jab on the insults she’s heard from male gamers and a cheeky remark concerning the present state {of professional} ladies’s CS2.Article continues after advert
For context, one among CS2’s largest ladies’s circuits, ESL Affect, ceased operations after Season 8 in October, saying the “present financial mannequin is just not sustainable” to proceed.
Over the previous couple of years, a number of main Counter-Strike groups have additionally dissolved their ladies’s rosters, with the likes of NAVI saying the enterprise mannequin for his or her ladies’s CS2 group “appears unsustainable and doesn’t enable for long-term planning.”
“The publish was really meant as a joke, as a result of as a gamer, I’ve heard, ‘Return to the kitchen and make me a sandwich,’ like 1,000,000 occasions,” she defined.Article continues after adArticle continues after advert
“However additionally it is true that I work by actually making sandwiches from 5 – 10 AM most mornings. It’s a mixture of a joke, however on the similar time, to have the ability to survive and pay hire and nonetheless play CS2, particularly within the present state of the scene for girls’s CS, I’ve to additionally work a traditional job, and just about at all times needed to have facet jobs whereas pursuing my dream!”
Prior to now, Byström has performed for various high-profile esports organizations, together with Evil Geniuses Gold and Ghost Gaming. Nevertheless, they haven’t been in a position to provide her a full-time wage that she will be able to reside on.Article continues after advert
For Byström, her final dream is for girls’s Counter-Strike to evolve to the purpose the place the esport can have blended leagues with each female and male gamers.
“I’ve been taking part in full-time in Evil Geniuses. I’ve additionally been in different organizations and getting a wage, however not any that’s coated for full-time. I began streaming in 2015 after which began to deal with the skilled facet from 2019. The dream for me is that girls’s CS can evolve a lot that we are able to, sooner or later, have blended groups!”Article continues after adArticle continues after advert
