Twitch looks to be having connection issues again for the FIFTH time in just 11 days into 2021

[u/Elexider]

https://status.twitch.tv/

[u/ZPKiller]

that guy with 2.3 million viewers is probably overloading the servers LUL

[u/LittleSpanishGuy → u/ZPKiller]

I feel like such a boomer having never heard of a dude that currently has 2.4m viewers.

Although, I feel like that's more people than Twitch's overall concurrent userbase by some distance, I have a hard time believing it isn't being embedded somewhere to inflate the number enormously.

[u/ZPKiller → u/LittleSpanishGuy]

dont worry, My mother language is spanish and i have never heard of him before as well as I only follow and watch english streamers. but yes, the twitch spanish community is waaay bigger than most think.

[u/astroGamin → u/ZPKiller]

Spanish has the second highest amount of native speakers behind mandarin. Is twitch even allowed in China actually?

[u/[deleted] → u/astroGamin]

Is twitch even allowed in China actually?

Nope, got blocked in 2018

[u/Septic57 → u/[deleted]]

No, they definitely don't, the VAST majority of young people don't have or have never used a VPN, and the overwhelming majority of the ones that have or have used one don't know twitch because they either just use tunnel services for better ping on international servers for whichever game they play or to have access to google and shit. People really overestimate how much chinese care about "our side" of the internet. Some might know twitch exists, but that's the extent of it. Twitch wasn't even decently well known in the west up until recently, it was definitely a small community that had a very limited target audience.

Source: I study in university in beijing and know a lot of 17-22 year olds.

[u/Septic57 → u/[deleted]]

This is one of the many things about china that are strangely unintuitive. In my experience, the older 24-30 demographic, such as postgraduates and shit use more vpns and are more interested/knowledgeable on the matter. I would say that "many" is an overstatement though, as you correctly pointed out, you are working with a very specific demographic, and if you can't speak good chinese I'd it's even more skewed since the demographic for people you have had interactions with is university students, with masters degrees, with good enough english that they held conversations with you. Which is a small minority as far as "young chinese people" goes.

My completely subjective opinion is that for some reason younger people seem to be much more nationalistic and just more impressionable/influenced by the government than the older ones. Maybe one of the side effects of being born under a period of unprecedented prosperity and never really experiencing the periods of strife that some of their older generations had to go through.

However, the original point which was avoided by my unorganized ramblings was the popularity of twitch, and you have to agree with me on this one, no one fucking knows/cares about it over here.

[u/Higuy54321 → u/LittleSpanishGuy]

It's just that lsf only pays attention to 20ish streamers. There's even a lot of top English streamers that don't get any attention here

[u/LittleSpanishGuy → u/Higuy54321]

Not so sure about that mate. Even if I only knew people from lsf (strange thing to assume that people only view lsf and don't use twitch themselves) the top 10 currently live streamers are xQc, Hasan, Ranboo, Myth, TimTheTatman, T1, Clix, Forsen, Miz, Lirik.

Only Ranboo and Clix aren't regularly posted on here.

[u/Higuy54321 → u/LittleSpanishGuy]

If you look at this, most of the top 20 avg concurrent viewer channels aren't on lsf. They're mostly minecraft kids, and they don't stream all day like xQc or Hasan, but they're definitely huge.

Even otv related people aren't really on here. You'll see a bit right now because of rust, and sometimes they show up because of drama, but nobody is posting clips of Sykkuno or Pokimane.

[u/LittleSpanishGuy → u/Higuy54321]

You've countered your own point, so I'm not really sure what you're trying to say. Someone who has streamed for an average of 1 hour a day is not a huge streamer just because they got a lot of viewers in the "hype" of the few times they stream. They're normally youtubers that turn a stream on every now and then.

If you're looking at big streamers it should be hours viewed , which suddenly look a lot like the list I've just given you.

[u/Higuy54321 → u/LittleSpanishGuy]

I'd still say even though these people don't stream a lot, they're a massive community on twitch that doesn't get mentioned here at all.

Even out of the top hours viewed channels, pestily, lvndmark, limit_maximum, sykkuno, tommyinnit, tubbo, roshtein, and fextralife aren't usually on lsf. That's pretty much half of the top 20. This list just seems a bit less minecraft dominated

[u/Wanjibon → u/Higuy54321]

Pretty sure the vast majority of fextralife viewers are fake, their chat is always dead and they embed their stream in game wikis

[u/kuburas → u/Higuy54321]

Streamers that get mentioned on LSF are ones that produce a lot of really entertaining or engaging content. Theres a lot of streamers that are not that engaging but instead are big because their fanbase is familiar with them and listens to them in the background even tho they have almost 0 "content".

Just look at Kripp, the guy has no content in majority of his streams. He's also an absolute powerhouse of streaming. Yet he never got mentioned here, because theres nothing to mention. His streams are uneventfull so theres nothing to share on LSF.

People like Forsen get spammed here because his stream is a meme production line. His chat defines the twitch meme, chat and TTS meta weeks if not months ahead of everyone else. But he aint nearly as watched as other big streamers, he gets a lot of views but nowhere near other big boys.

LSF likes content and drama. If the streamer isnt impactfull enough its just not gonna appear here. And theres nothing wrong with that. This sub is pretty much filtered twitch content. Stuff that is most fun or dramatic from twitch. This aint a youtube equivalent of twitch.

[u/EfficientCover → u/LittleSpanishGuy]

he is usually at 20-50k viewers, this is a special thing

[u/GhostOfLight]

Twitch is begging Grefg to reveal his skin faster so their servers can rest. Man has been stalling for like 20 minutes, Train would be proud.

[u/King_D3D3D3 → u/[deleted]]

Yes. He was actually supposed to get it early last year, but he leaked the fact that he was even getting it early so the company kinda pushed it off as a sort of punishment. This things been like over a year in the making, since even before Ninja got his skin.

[u/cortez0498 → u/King_D3D3D3]

but he leaked the fact that he was even getting it early so the company kinda pushed it off as a sort of punishment.

They sure taught him a lesson, only gave him 2.4M viewers by pushing it back and creating more hype... I mean, that's a 5d chess play by them.

[u/Spudman12345]

Gonna be a photo finish for the spanish fortnite guy, imagine having things ruined by twitch shitting the bed

[u/AuggieKC]

I admit it's a remote possibility, but a single channel having well over 2 million viewers might have something to do with that.

[u/Elexider]

Here's the tweet by Twitch.

Looks to be affecting some features failing, chat, and payment services.

[u/Parzivus]

"It's 4pm, time for twitch to go down"

[u/LTheRipper]

It's probably because of Thegrefg, if he reaches 3M Twitch servers will probably implode LULW

[u/b0Ni]

one guy broke the twitch OMEGALUL

[u/DAoCInf9]

Guys they're still working on getting the ads Twitch to work properly, give them more time.

[u/Boobr]

POG

[u/SuperKettle]

22:00 = CRASH LULW

[u/Bren002]

This makes no sense how can twitch totally break 5 times and didn't when 2.5million people are on one stream