Twitch Explainer For Bluesky Users - ultrawideo

Understandably a great many people think Twitch is defined by the top 0.1% of channels who draw in 10's of 1000's each broadcast but in truth its a platform with 14+ million (approx. 7 million active) channels, each with an average of 3 or 4 viewers. There is a vast amount of devil in the following details.

Almost all big channels draw in viewers from other platforms such as twitter or youtube
Videogames are the oil keeping engine running but the "Just Chatting" section is the fuel
Despite chatting being the main thing people do, studiously avoiding politics or "both sides-ing" everything including conflicts or even agreed history is the norm
At any given moment there are more people watching mundane stuff (like youtube or tv shows) than there are playing games
Copyright/licensing issues are almost non-existent and largely unpoliced
Channels with over 50 viewers who've grown organically within the confines of twitch are extraordinarily rare and almost always focused on a single game
Most channels under 50 viewers are populated by audiences comprised of other streamers, or ex-streamers, with a great many engaged in a pyrrhic game of "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" (a game where the only real winner is Amazon as it takes most of the subscription money)
Vast swathes of these smaller channels, which twitch call the "torso", voluntarily attempt to conform to the kind of standards you'd expect of a kids tv show
There are no more than a few dozen notable political commentary channels, all but one of which are right-leaning