news culture Twitch: “It’s not a video game platform anymore”, this big streamer attacks the site and TwitchCon!
When Twitch was launched in June 2011, just a few years after Justin.tv’s founding and led by duo Justin Kan and Emmett Shear, the two creators could not have expected such enthusiasm for the platform a decade later. Today the platform is renewed, evolving, offering a whole range of types of content and allowing us to take part in increasingly crazy events, sometimes very far from video games. An observation that seems to annoy streamer Sodapoppin!
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- An intense week for Twitch and TwitchCon
- Twitch is becoming more and more like YouTube
An intense week for Twitch and TwitchCon
The past seven days have been a testament to the transformation of Twitch and the spectacle and entertainment the platform can now bring us from its biggest stars. To take a silly example, le GP Explorer organized by YouTuber Squeezie is undoubtedly one of the events of the year that brings together hundreds of thousands of viewers over the whole day. All of these are the positive sides of the platform, which is also embroiled in controversies, be it the distribution of revenue through “subs” or the organization of TwitchCon., an event the safety of which has been debated in recent daysas evidenced the accident of this streamer on the spot !
Such news therefore raises questions for those who are used to hanging around the platform but also for those who officiate there on a daily basis. Yesterday, it is the American streamer with 8.8 million subscribers Sodapoppinreal name Chance Morris, who spoke about the image he now has of Twitch and the TwitchCon event during his live performance and we can say that he didn’t mince his words in front of his viewers!
Twitch is becoming more and more like YouTube
A clip of Sodapoppin’s last live was quickly made and the excerpt from the streamer (can be seen in the video below, from 4min40) doesn’t work in four ways as we quickly hear him say that, according to him, ” Twitch is no longer a video game platform “. However, what seems to annoy him the most is the TwitchCon event and the changes that are taking place in the communities present there.. In the clip in question he also uses a comparison between the previous edition he attended and the one that took place recently – and where the streamer Amouranth did not go unnoticed — to support the drastic change that has now taken place.
in his eyes now the TwitchCon event sounds more like ” a gathering of YouTubers » and he is surprised by the overwhelming proportions that this event is now taking on, even more so when he remembers his first attendance and the smaller communities that grew around the guests. Twitch is growing in popularity, it’s undeniable, and you just have to see it the figures published by the platform after this controversial weekend to understand that the platform attracts more and more viewers, but also creative people!
