LazarBeam, like many streamers and other people in the gaming industry, actually had some impact on “Free Guy” insofar as it handles gaming culture authentically. “I had minor input, I would say,” LazarBeam explained. “[Director Shawn Levy] asked me questions through the whole process.”

And certainly if there’s one thing that LazarBeam excels at it’s playing his favorite games as broken as possible. When SVG brought up the fact that Guy spends much of “Free Guy” intentionally breaking his own game, LazarBeam joked, “That’s my business, man.”

Guy’s “Free World” may not be a real game in our world, but it’s not difficult to see what real games it’s influenced by. Running around, shooting people, and then motoring away in violent car chases is classic “Grand Theft Auto.” Meanwhile, there’s a lot of fast building of weapons, ramps, walls, and other objects — a clear reference to “Fortnite“.

It turns out that part of the movie in particular spoke to LazarBeam. SVG asked him what his favorite game to play broken and the answer, in a word, was “Fortnite.”

“I’ve got a love for “Fortnite” and some of the glitches and the, what I would call, meme strategies and stuff that we came up with over the years,” he says. “I think that is just always going to have such a special place in my heart. When you find something that is just so broken — that this billion, billion, billion-dollar company just could not find, and you just completely invalidate the entire game — it’s so funny. It’s just so great. There’s invincibility glitches, ones that make your character look funny. I don’t know. That always made me laugh.”

“Free Guy” is in theaters now.