News culture Twitch: “it’s no longer a video game platform”, this big streamer attacks the site and TwitchCon!
When Twitch was born in June 2011, a few years following the founding of Justin.tv and under the supervision of the duo Justin Kan and Emmett Shear, its two creators should not have expected such enthusiasm for the platform a decade later. Today, the platform is renewing itself, evolving, offering a whole host of types of content and allowing us to attend increasingly crazy events, sometimes very far removed from video games. An observation that seems to annoy the streamer Sodapoppin!
Summary
- 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 are a testament to the transformation of Twitch, and the spectacle and entertainment the platform is now able to provide us with 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, bringing together hundreds of thousands of spectators over the whole of a day. All this constitutes the shining face of the platform which, besides that, is entangled in polemics, whether the distribution of income generated thanks to the “subs” or the TwitchCon organization, an event whose safety 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 out on the platform, but also for those who officiate there every day. Yesterday, it’s the American streamer with 8.8 million subscribers Sodapoppinreal name Chance Morris, who spoke during his live on the image he now has of Twitch and the TwitchCon event and we can say that he did not mince his words in front of his spectators!
Twitch is becoming more and more like YouTube
Quickly, a clip of Sodapoppin’s recent live was made and the extract from the streamer (to see in the video below, from 4min40) does not go there by four paths since 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 change that is taking place in the communities present there.. In the clip in question, he also uses a comparison between the previous edition in which he participated and the one that recently took place – and where the streamer Amouranth did not fail to get noticed — to support the drastic change that has occurred in the meantime.
In his eyes now, the TwitchCon event sounds more like ” a convention of YouTubers » and the latter is surprised by the staggering proportions that this event now takes, all the more so when he recalls his first participation and the smaller communities that gravitated around the guests. Twitch is more and more popular, it’s undeniable, and you just have to see the figures published by the platform following this controversial weekend to understand that the platform always attracts more spectators, but also creative people!
