# Streamers.wiki — full knowledge dump This document is the entire wiki concatenated as plain markdown, intended for LLM consumption and training. Generated at build time from the canonical markdown sources. --- # Adin Ross - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/adin-ross/ - Tags: variety, american, english, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer who moved to Kick after his 2023 indefinite Twitch ban, known for celebrity-guest streams and provocative Just Chatting content. Adin Ross is an American streamer whose rapid 2020–2022 rise on Twitch was driven by celebrity-guest streams (Drake, 21 Savage, Kanye West), NBA 2K content, and Just Chatting. He was indefinitely banned from Twitch in February 2023 and moved to Kick, where he has been one of the platform's flagship creators. --- # Agent 00 - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/agent-00/ - Tags: amp, nba2k, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 American creator and AMP co-founder, historically NBA 2K-focused. Agent 00 is an American creator and AMP co-founder whose early content was NBA 2K-focused, expanding through AMP-wide group productions and IRL collaborations in the 2020s. --- # Alanzoka - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/alanzoka/ - Tags: portuguese, brazilian, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 One of the most-followed Portuguese-language streamers on Twitch and a formative figure in the Brazilian streaming scene. Alan "Alanzoka" Fonteles is a Brazilian streamer whose blend of gaming, variety and Just Chatting content made him one of the most-watched Portuguese-language creators on Twitch. Brazil represents one of Twitch's fastest-growing markets through 2024–2026, and Alanzoka's long-form format is central to the platform's Portuguese-language identity. --- # Amouranth - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/amouranth/ - Tags: variety, american, english, irl - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer whose extensive cross-platform content portfolio and investment activity have made her a recurring example in platform-meta and creator-economics coverage. Kaitlyn "Amouranth" Siragusa is an American creator known for cosplay, ASMR, Just Chatting, and IRL content. She was central to the 2021 "hot tub meta" discourse. Off-platform she has been widely covered for treating streaming revenue as a vehicle for diversified investment — publicly disclosing holdings in real estate, a gas station, and a number of small businesses. --- # Asmongold - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/asmongold/ - Tags: wow, mmo, american, english, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 American MMO and variety streamer, co-founder of OTK, and one of the most-watched World of Warcraft creators in the game's streaming history. Zack "Asmongold" Hoyt has been one of the most-watched MMO streamers on Twitch since 2017. He began with classic World of Warcraft content and expanded into Final Fantasy XIV (2021 arc), Lost Ark, New World, Elden Ring, and broad Just Chatting content. He is a co-founder of OTK and remains one of the organization's most-watched members. Asmongold's streaming style is intentionally low-production — single webcam, minimal graphics, long-form unfiltered commentary — and is often cited as a counterexample to the assumption that stream production budgets drive viewership. --- # AuronPlay - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/auronplay/ - Tags: spanish, variety, comedy, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 One of the most-followed Spanish-language creators on Twitch and a founding figure of modern Spanish streaming culture. Raúl "AuronPlay" Álvarez Genes is a Spanish YouTuber-turned-streamer whose transition to Twitch in 2019 was a pivotal moment in the platform's Spanish-language expansion. Together with Ibai and Rubius, he represents the first wave of Spanish creators to reach top-10 global follower counts on Twitch. His streams blend sketch comedy, reaction content and long-form Just Chatting in Castilian Spanish. --- # Behzinga - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/behzinga/ - Tags: british, sidemen, fitness - Updated: 2026-04-19 Founding Sidemen member whose solo channel blends fitness/marathon content with variety and gaming. Ethan "Behzinga" Payne is a founding Sidemen member. His solo output has increasingly focused on fitness — culminating in his completion of the London Marathon in 2020 and the "Behzinga Goes Ultra" documentary series covering his ultramarathon training. He is a regular at Sidemen Charity Match and Sidemen group content. --- # BotezLive - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/botezlive/ - Tags: chess, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 Sister duo Alexandra and Andrea Botez, co-hosts of the BotezLive Twitch and YouTube channels, formative figures in bringing chess to mainstream streaming audiences. **BotezLive** is the joint channel of sisters Alexandra and Andrea Botez. Alexandra is a Women FIDE Master and former five-time Canadian National Girls Chess Champion; Andrea is a competitive player and the channel's second host. Their blend of chess, banter, and guest appearances helped drive chess's 2020–2022 streaming expansion alongside Hikaru Nakamura. --- # BruceDropEmOff - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/brucedropemoff/ - Tags: variety, kick, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer in the Kai Cenat / AMP orbit, who moved to Kick in 2024 and has become one of the platform's most-watched Just Chatting creators. Bruce "BruceDropEmOff" Condones is an American streamer associated with the post-Kai Cenat AMP-adjacent scene. He moved his primary stream to Kick in 2024 and has been among the platform's most-watched Just Chatting and IRL creators. --- # CaseOh - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/caseoh/ - Tags: variety, horror, american - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer who grew from near-zero to 5M+ Twitch followers in under two years (2023–2024) on the strength of reaction content and horror-game streams that clipped viral on TikTok. Case "CaseOh" Baker is an American streamer whose 2023–2024 growth trajectory is among the most accelerated in modern streaming history. His content — variety, horror games, reaction content — pairs with a clipping ecosystem that produces consistent TikTok Shorts virality, which feeds discovery back into his live Twitch audience. Frequently cited alongside Jynxzi as the defining examples of the post-2022 "clip-first" streamer career. --- # Clix - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/clix/ - Tags: fortnite, competitive - Updated: 2026-04-19 American competitive Fortnite player and streamer, 100 Thieves member and one of the most-watched Fortnite streamers of the 2020s. Cody "Clix" Conrod is an American competitive Fortnite player and Twitch streamer, signed to 100 Thieves. He is among the most-watched Fortnite streamers of the post-2020 era, consistently ranking in Twitch's top Fortnite category watch-time. --- # CohhCarnage - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/cohhcarnage/ - Tags: variety, rpg, og - Updated: 2026-04-19 American variety streamer with one of the most consistent long-term Twitch broadcast schedules, heavily focused on RPG playthroughs. Ben "CohhCarnage" Cassell is an American Twitch streamer whose nearly-daily 2,500+ day streaming streak and focus on complete-playthrough-style RPG content — Witcher, Fallout, Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077 — made him one of the most-respected "steady hands" in the variety-streaming ecosystem. --- # Corpse Husband - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/corpse-husband/ - Tags: faceless, music, among-us - Updated: 2026-04-19 Faceless American creator who broke into the mainstream during the 2020 Among Us wave on the strength of his distinctive deep voice, later crossing over into music with viral tracks like "E-GIRLS ARE RUINING MY LIFE." Corpse Husband is a faceless American creator who began with horror-narration YouTube videos in 2017. His breakout came in October 2020 when he joined the Valkyrae/Pokimane/Sykkuno Among Us lobbies, where his low-vocal-range voice became instantly recognizable. He crossed into music in 2020–2021 with several Billboard-charting tracks. Chronic health issues have limited his output in the 2020s but he retains one of the largest faceless-creator followings on YouTube. --- # CouRage - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/courage/ - Tags: variety, american, english, fps - Updated: 2026-04-18 American former esports caster turned streamer, 100 Thieves co-owner and content creator, exclusive to YouTube Live since 2019. Jack "CouRage" Dunlop is an American streamer and 100 Thieves co-owner. Formerly an esports caster at MLG, he became a full-time streamer in 2018 and signed an exclusive YouTube Live deal in 2019 — one of the early marquee YouTube Live signings. --- # Destiny - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/destiny/ - Tags: politics, debate, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 American political commentator and debate streamer, one of the longest-tenured political voices in the streaming medium, permanently banned from Twitch in 2020. Steven "Destiny" Bonnell II is one of the longest-tenured political streamers in the medium, broadcasting since 2005 (starting on Justin.tv). His format centers on live debate and political discussion. He was permanently banned from Twitch in 2020 for policy violations; since then he has primarily streamed on YouTube and later Kick. Despite smaller follower counts than top variety streamers, his political-streaming influence is widely cited as disproportionate to audience size. --- # Disguised Toast - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/disguised-toast/ - Tags: variety, among-us, hearthstone, business - Updated: 2026-04-19 Canadian streamer and entrepreneur, Offline TV member, and founder of the esports organization Disguised that acquired DSG Valorant in 2023. Jeremy "Disguised Toast" Wang is a Canadian-Taiwanese creator who rose to prominence on Hearthstone in 2016–2017 and later led the Among Us wave of 2020 as one of the format's signature voices. He is a member of Offline TV and in 2023 founded **Disguised**, an esports organization whose Valorant team qualified for the Valorant Champions Tour Americas — making him one of the few content creators to successfully own a franchise-level esports team. --- # Dr Disrespect - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/dr-disrespect/ - Tags: fps, character, american, english - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer who broadcasts as a scripted action-movie character. Permanently banned from Twitch in 2020 under then-undisclosed circumstances; currently streams on YouTube. Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm broadcasts as a fully-realized fictional character ("Dr Disrespect") — mustache, mullet wig, sunglasses, scripted bits — that he has maintained since 2015. He was one of Twitch's most popular FPS streamers until his permanent ban on June 26, 2020. In 2024 former Twitch employees publicly alleged the ban stemmed from inappropriate direct messages to a minor on the platform. Beahm acknowledged the messages while disputing the characterization, which resulted in his being dropped by multiple sponsors and his game studio. --- # DrLupo - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/drlupo/ - Tags: variety, charity, tarkov - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer known for charity fundraising (St. Jude) and Escape from Tarkov content, among the early Twitch-to-YouTube exclusivity deals in August 2021. Benjamin "DrLupo" Lupo is an American variety streamer best known for extensive charity work — he has raised tens of millions of dollars for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital across annual "Build Against Cancer" fundraising streams — and Escape from Tarkov content. In August 2021 he signed one of the earliest major exclusive deals with YouTube Live. --- # Duke Dennis - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/duke-dennis/ - Tags: amp, nba2k, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 AMP co-founder and one of the most-subscribed NBA 2K creators on YouTube. Duke Dennis is an American creator, AMP co-founder, and one of YouTube's most-subscribed NBA 2K creators. His content has expanded from 2K-focused highlights into broader Just Chatting and IRL collaboration with the rest of AMP. --- # ElXokas - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/elxokas/ - Tags: spanish, variety, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 Spanish Twitch streamer known for long-form Just Chatting and provocative commentary, one of the faster-growing top-tier Spanish-language creators of the 2020s. Joaquín "ElXokas" Domínguez Maeso is a Spanish streamer who rose to prominence on Twitch during 2020–2022, known for sharp, argumentative Just Chatting content and an unusually hard-working stream schedule. He signed with KOI (Ibai's esports org) and has been a Los Premios Ibai fixture. --- # Emiru - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/emiru/ - Tags: cosplay, variety, american, english - Updated: 2026-04-19 American Twitch streamer, cosplayer, and OTK co-founder known for high-production cosplay streams, IRL events and variety content. Emily "Emiru" Schunk is an American Twitch streamer and cosplayer who joined OTK as one of its co-founders in 2021. Her content mixes cosplay, League of Legends, WoW, and in-person OTK productions. In 2024 she publicly disclosed being assaulted by a fan at TwitchCon, an incident that prompted an industry-wide conversation about creator-event safety. --- # Fanum - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/fanum/ - Tags: amp, variety, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 Co-founder of AMP with Kai Cenat, known for the "Fanum tax" meme that crossed into mainstream Gen Z culture in 2023. Roberto "Fanum" Gonzalez is an American streamer and co-founder of AMP. His on-stream running bit of **"Fanum taxing"** friends — taking food from Kai and other AMP members — crossed into broader Gen Z vocabulary through 2023 TikTok virality, the term becoming one of the most-used pieces of streamer-originated slang in the post-2020 cohort. --- # Felps - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/felps/ - Tags: portuguese, brazilian, cs, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 Brazilian former Counter-Strike pro turned variety streamer, one of the most-followed Portuguese-language creators on Twitch. João "Felps" Vasconcellos is a Brazilian former Counter-Strike professional and variety streamer. His post-competitive streaming career has centered on Twitch as one of the most-followed Portuguese-language creators, alongside Alanzoka and Gaules. --- # Filian - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/filian/ - Tags: vtuber, vrchat, english, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 Independent English-language VTuber whose chaotic VRChat-based variety content rivaled major corporate VTuber agencies in watch-time by 2024. Filian is an independent English-language VTuber whose VRChat-native variety format and unusual technical setup (multiple cameras, heavy avatar-driven physical comedy) helped establish "indie VTuber" as a category capable of competing with corporate agencies like Hololive and Nijisanji on Twitch viewership. --- # Fuslie - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/fuslie/ - Tags: variety, valorant, american - Updated: 2026-04-19 American variety streamer, 100 Thieves member, known for Valorant content and multi-platform collaborations. Leslie "Fuslie" Fu is an American variety streamer and 100 Thieves content creator. She signed with 100T in 2020 and transitioned to YouTube Live exclusivity in 2022. --- # Gaules - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/gaules/ - Tags: portuguese, brazilian, cs, esports, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 Brazilian former Counter-Strike pro turned esports co-streamer, whose Portuguese-language CS broadcasts regularly lead global tournament viewership. Alexandre "Gaules" Borba Chiqueta is a Brazilian streamer and former Counter-Strike professional. His co-streams of Counter-Strike majors with Portuguese-language commentary routinely top global tournament watch-time, consistently outperforming the official broadcasts in his region. He is widely cited as one of the most influential figures in the Brazilian esports ecosystem. --- # Gawr Gura - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/gawr-gura/ - Tags: vtuber, hololive, english, gaming - Updated: 2026-04-19 The most-subscribed VTuber in history and a founding member of Hololive English's first-generation "Myth" — widely credited with bringing VTubing into the English-speaking mainstream. Gawr Gura is an English-language VTuber under Hololive Production's Hololive English Gen 1 "Myth" branch, debuting in September 2020. Within weeks of debut she crossed 1M YouTube subscribers — then the fastest single-channel YouTube growth recorded — and she remains the most-subscribed VTuber channel in history. Her shark-girl character design, casual humor, and role in Myth's early-Hololive-EN dynamic cemented her as a defining figure of English VTubing. --- # GMHikaru - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/gmhikaru/ - Tags: chess, grandmaster, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 American chess Grandmaster, five-time US Chess Champion, and one of Twitch's most-watched chess streamers — central to the 2020–2022 chess-streaming boom. Hikaru "GMHikaru" Nakamura is an American chess Grandmaster and five-time US Chess Champion. His Twitch and YouTube Live channels became the centerpiece of the 2020–2022 chess-streaming boom that was further catalyzed by *The Queen's Gambit* and the PogChamps invitational tournaments. He remains one of the world's top-ranked active classical and blitz players. --- # Hanryang - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/hanryang/ - Tags: korean, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 Korean streamer who moved to YouTube Live following Twitch's February 2024 Korea shutdown, one of the most-followed Korean creators on the platform. Hwang "Hanryang" In-ho is a South Korean streamer whose Twitch Korea audience transitioned with him to YouTube Live following the platform's February 2024 withdrawal from the country. He is among the most-followed Korean-language streamers on YouTube Live, representative of the post-2024 restructure of Korean streaming onto YouTube Live, SOOP, and Chzzk. --- # Hasan Piker - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/hasanabi/ - Tags: politics, american, english, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-18 Turkish-American political commentator and the most-watched political streamer on Twitch, formerly of The Young Turks. Hasan "HasanAbi" Piker is a Turkish-American political commentator and Twitch streamer, previously a producer at The Young Turks. Since 2020 he has been the most-watched political commentary creator on the platform, known for long-form news reactions, interviews with politicians and journalists, and election-night coverage streams. He is a co-host of the Leftovers podcast and frequent collaborator with other top Twitch streamers. --- # 0-san - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/hikaru-zero/ - Tags: japanese, variety, comedy - Updated: 2026-04-19 Japanese indie streamer and YouTube Live creator, one of the most-followed non-VTuber Japanese creators on the platform. 0-san is a Japanese YouTube Live streamer whose variety and comedy content has made them one of the most-followed non-VTuber Japanese creators on the platform. Representative of the broader 2023–2026 expansion of Japanese YouTube Live streaming outside the dominant VTuber category. --- # Ibai - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/ibai/ - Tags: spanish, variety, football, events - Updated: 2026-04-19 Spanish Twitch streamer who co-founded KOI esports and produces the Evento annual awards and La Velada boxing event — the largest Spanish-language streaming phenomena. Ibai Llanos Garatea is a Spanish streamer and the most-followed Spanish-language creator on Twitch. He co-founded the esports organization KOI with FC Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué in 2022, and is the producer of two tentpole annual events that consistently set Twitch concurrent-viewership records: - **Los Premios Ibai** — an annual streamer/creator awards show. - **La Velada del Año** — an annual creator boxing event at stadiums across Spain. The 2024 edition (La Velada IV) peaked over 3.8 million concurrent viewers on Twitch, setting the platform's all-time concurrent record for a single-channel broadcast. --- # Ice Poseidon - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/ice-poseidon/ - Tags: irl, american - Updated: 2026-04-19 American IRL streamer widely credited as the originator of modern IRL streaming, whose 2017 Twitch ban is a foundational moment in platform-policy discourse. Paul "Ice Poseidon" Denino is an American streamer widely credited as the originator of the modern IRL-streaming format — broadcasting his daily life outside on a mobile rig through 2016–2017. His 2017 permanent ban from Twitch (following a series of incidents culminating in a mid-flight swatting) is one of the most-cited moderation case studies in platform history and directly influenced subsequent IRL-category TOS language. --- # IlloJuan - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/illojuan/ - Tags: spanish, variety, gta-rp - Updated: 2026-04-19 Spanish streamer and GTA RP leading figure, whose Marbella-accented personality and long-running RP storylines made him one of the defining voices of the Spanish Twitch roleplay scene. Juan "IlloJuan" García Reyes is a Spanish streamer from Málaga whose career accelerated through GTA V roleplay servers, particularly the Spanish-language server Marbella Vice, which he co-founded. His broad variety format and distinctive Andalusian humor have made him a tentpole of Spanish Twitch culture. --- # Ironmouse - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/ironmouse/ - Tags: vtuber, english, variety - Updated: 2026-04-18 The most-subscribed VTuber in Twitch history, whose 2024 subathon briefly set the Twitch all-time active-sub record. Ironmouse is a Puerto Rican VTuber affiliated with VShojo. Her 2024 subathon briefly set the Twitch all-time active-subscription record (approx. 326,000 active subs) before being surpassed by Kai Cenat's Mafiathon 2 later that year. She is widely credited with bringing VTuber content to a broader English-speaking Twitch audience. --- # IShowSpeed - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/ishowspeed/ - Tags: irl, variety, football, american, english, youtube - Updated: 2026-04-19 American YouTube streamer whose high-energy reactions, global IRL tours, and obsession with Cristiano Ronaldo have made him one of the largest creator brands of the 2020s. ## Career Darren "IShowSpeed" Watkins Jr. began posting gaming videos to YouTube in 2016 as a young teenager in Cincinnati, Ohio. His audience grew sharply in 2020–2021 during the NBA 2K and FIFA era, with his combination of manic on-camera energy, unfiltered reactions, and unusual streaming style becoming one of the definitive aesthetics of post-2020 YouTube Live. By 2023 he had transitioned his primary format from in-studio gaming streams to ambitious multi-week **IRL world tours** — broadcasting from London, Tokyo, Seoul, Manila, Mumbai, Riyadh, Istanbul, Lagos, Cairo and dozens of other cities, each tour cross-promoted with local creators, athletes and musicians. ## Football (soccer) Speed is perhaps the most prominent creator-fan of football in the world. His on-stream obsession with **Cristiano Ronaldo** — manifested in chants, tattoos, and extended reaction streams — culminated in a 2024 meeting with Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia that generated mainstream global coverage. He has played at halftime events, streamed from UEFA Champions League and FIFA Club World Cup matches, and appeared on-pitch with professional clubs. ## Notable moments - **2022 World Cup run** — multi-match reaction streams during the Qatar tournament made him a global figure in football-streaming. - **2023 Sidemen Charity Match** — appeared as a featured participant, scoring a viral goal. - **2024 Cristiano Ronaldo meeting** — in-person meeting aired live, trended globally. - **Multiple IRL tour arcs** — UK, China, Japan, Korea, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Brazil, Africa. ## Brand and business IShowSpeed is one of the most commercially active individual creators on YouTube. He has collaborated with major brands across music, gaming, sportswear and energy drinks, and his tours are frequently structured with local sponsor integration. ## Style Speed's streaming style is defined by extreme on-camera energy, rapid topic-switching, and a willingness to put himself in unpredictable real-world situations. He is often cited alongside Kai Cenat as a defining voice of the post-2022 YouTube/Twitch IRL generation, though he has remained predominantly on YouTube Live. --- # Jake'n'Bake - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/jakenbake/ - Tags: irl, travel, japan, korea - Updated: 2026-04-18 American IRL travel streamer best known for Japan and Korea food-tour streams. Jake "Jake'n'Bake" Weber is an American IRL streamer whose Japan and Korea travel streams are among the most-watched examples of modern travel-IRL content. His format pairs long-form walking tours, food coverage, and real-time viewer interaction — often featuring collaborations with other IRL streamers like Jinnytty and Cyr. --- # Jinnytty - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/jinnytty/ - Tags: irl, travel, korean, english - Updated: 2026-04-19 South Korean IRL streamer widely credited with popularizing modern travel-streaming, whose global tours paired with chat-driven navigation became the reference format for the genre. Ji-Min "Jinnytty" Kim is a South Korean IRL streamer whose global travel tours — across Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East — established many conventions of modern travel-IRL. She is often cited alongside Jake'n'Bake as defining the post-2018 IRL-travel genre. --- # Jynxzi - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/jynxzi/ - Tags: fps, r6, american - Updated: 2026-04-19 American Twitch streamer who became Twitch's most-followed creator for a period in 2024, driven by a dominant Rainbow Six Siege position and heavy cross-platform clip distribution. Nicholas "Jynxzi" Stewart is an American Twitch streamer whose 2023–2024 ascent was among the fastest in platform history — crossing 5M followers within roughly a year of his breakout. His content is primarily Rainbow Six Siege with heavy Just Chatting between matches. His aggressive cross-platform clip distribution (TikTok Shorts, Instagram Reels) is frequently cited as a case study in how post-2022 streamer careers are built on clips as much as on live viewership. --- # Kai Cenat - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/kai-cenat/ - Tags: variety, american, english, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer who broke the Twitch all-time concurrent-subscriber record twice with his "Mafiathon" subathon events, widely considered the defining streamer of the early-2020s era. ## Career Kai Cenat began on YouTube in 2018 before moving his primary output to Twitch in 2021. His style blends Just Chatting, IRL, and game streaming with live in-person guest appearances — a format that brought a wave of mainstream artists, actors and athletes onto Twitch as guests. ## Mafiathon and subathons Kai is the current holder of the all-time Twitch concurrent-sub record through his two **Mafiathon** subathons: - **Mafiathon 1** (February 2023) hit ~306,000 concurrent subs, surpassing Ludwig's 2021 record. - **Mafiathon 2** (late 2024) extended the record further to approximately 727,000 concurrent subs. ## Streamer Awards Kai has won Streamer of the Year at the Streamer Awards in multiple consecutive years (2022, 2023, 2024). ## Cultural impact Kai is widely credited with drawing a younger, more diverse generation of viewers to Twitch and with normalizing high-production celebrity-guest streams. His collaborations span Drake, Kevin Hart, Kevin Durant, DJ Khaled and Grimes. --- # KSI - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/ksi/ - Tags: british, variety, music, boxing - Updated: 2026-04-18 British YouTube creator, Sidemen co-founder, professional boxer, and co-founder of the Prime Hydration beverage with Logan Paul. Olajide "KSI" Olatunji is a British YouTuber, musician and professional boxer. A founding member of the Sidemen, he is also one of the most commercially successful individual creators in YouTube history, with platinum-certified music, the Misfits Boxing promotion, and Prime Hydration (co-founded with Logan Paul in 2022, which has generated well over a billion dollars in retail sales). --- # Kson - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/kson/ - Tags: vtuber, japanese, english - Updated: 2026-04-19 Japanese-language VTuber and CEO of VShojo Japan, one of the highest-profile ex-Hololive graduates and a founding figure of bilingual VTuber content. Kson is a Japanese creator, CEO of VShojo Japan, and one of the highest-profile former-Hololive talents (having graduated from Hololive as Coco Kiryu in 2021). Her post-Hololive channel combines Japanese and English content and has been central to bridging Japanese and Western VTuber audiences. --- # Kyedae - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/kyedae/ - Tags: valorant, canadian, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 Canadian Valorant and variety streamer, partner of TenZ and 100 Thieves member, notable for public disclosure of her 2023 acute myeloid leukemia diagnosis. Kyedae "Kyedae" Shymko is a Canadian Valorant and variety streamer. She is one of the most-watched female streamers in Valorant content. In November 2023 she publicly disclosed her diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia; her community raised significant public attention and donations toward blood-cancer charities, and she has continued streaming through treatment. --- # Lacari - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/lacari/ - Tags: wow, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 American Twitch streamer in the Asmongold/WoW orbit, known for conversational long-form MMO and Just Chatting streams. Lacari is an American Twitch streamer closely associated with the post-Asmongold WoW streaming community. His long-form conversational format and regular collaborations with Asmongold, Mcconnell and adjacent creators make him a fixture of that orbit. --- # LilyPichu - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/lilypichu/ - Tags: variety, art, music, lol - Updated: 2026-04-19 American artist, composer and streamer; Offline TV co-founder known for music, art streams and League of Legends. Lily "LilyPichu" Ki is an American artist, composer and Twitch streamer. A co-founder of Offline TV, she is known for musical performances, live art streams, and League of Legends content. She has composed official music for several game and anime properties. --- # LIRIK - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/lirik/ - Tags: variety, og, fps - Updated: 2026-04-19 Pakistani-American variety streamer, one of the longest-tenured top-tier Twitch creators, foundational to the modern variety-streamer format. Saqib "LIRIK" Zahid is one of the longest-tenured top-tier Twitch streamers, broadcasting continuously since 2011. His variety format — cycling rapidly through new releases across FPS, survival, RPG and GTA RP — is widely cited as foundational to the modern variety-streamer template. Consistently placed in the top 20 of monthly Twitch watch-time leaderboards through much of the 2010s and into the 2020s. --- # Logan Paul - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/logan-paul/ - Tags: american, vlog, boxing, podcast - Updated: 2026-04-18 American YouTube creator, podcaster (Impaulsive), professional wrestler with WWE, and Prime Hydration co-founder. Logan Paul is an American creator who rose to prominence on Vine and transitioned to YouTube vlogs in 2016. After a 2017 controversy in Japan that led to significant platform and advertiser consequences, he pivoted toward longer-form podcast content (Impaulsive), professional boxing, WWE wrestling, and the Prime Hydration beverage line he co-founded with KSI in 2022. --- # Ludwig - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/ludwig/ - Tags: variety, american, english, poker - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer whose 31-day 2021 Twitch subathon set a concurrent-sub record and was followed by one of the first and largest YouTube Live exclusivity deals. ## Career Ludwig Ahgren began streaming Smash Bros. melee on Twitch in 2018 and transitioned into a variety format that combines game streams, poker, chess, and long-form discussion. - **March 2021** — Subathon that ran for 31 days and set Twitch's then-record 282,191 concurrent subs. - **November 2021** — Announced exclusivity deal with YouTube Live, one of the first high-profile such deals. - **2022–present** — Hosts Mogul Chessboxing, operates the creator collective Mogul Moves, and co-owns the talent management company Offbrand. ## Legacy Ludwig's 2021 subathon didn't invent the format but it established the playbook modern subathons still follow. His move to YouTube Live validated the platform's creator-signing strategy and influenced subsequent deals with Valkyrae, Dr Disrespect (post-ban), and Pokimane. --- # Michael Reeves - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/michael-reeves/ - Tags: tech, engineering, robotics - Updated: 2026-04-19 American engineer-YouTuber and Offline TV member whose cursed-robotics YouTube videos and live streams redefined the tech-humor creator format. Michael Reeves is an American software-and-hardware engineer and YouTube creator whose "cursed robotics" videos — build-driven tech-comedy content in which he creates deliberately hostile or absurd machines — helped establish the modern tech-humor creator format. He is a member of Offline TV and a public partner of LilyPichu. --- # Miniminter - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/miniminter/ - Tags: british, sidemen, fifa, football - Updated: 2026-04-19 Founding member of the Sidemen and one of the UK's most-followed creators, best known for FIFA content and the Sidemen business empire. Simon "Miniminter" Minter is a founding member of the Sidemen and one of the most-followed British YouTube creators. FIFA gameplay commentary was his signature format through the 2010s; in the 2020s his output has centered around Sidemen group content, Sidemen Sundays, and co-running the Sidemen business portfolio. --- # Mizkif - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/mizkif/ - Tags: variety, american, english, just-chatting, austin - Updated: 2026-04-19 American variety streamer and co-founder of OTK, known for elaborate in-person stream production and community game shows. Matthew "Mizkif" Rinaudo is an American Twitch streamer and co-founder of OTK. His content is primarily Just Chatting and elaborate in-person game shows and challenge streams filmed in the OTK Austin house. In 2022 he was temporarily removed from OTK's organizational roles during an internal dispute over the handling of allegations against a former streamer; he subsequently returned to the organization. --- # Mori Calliope - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/mori-calliope/ - Tags: vtuber, hololive, english, music - Updated: 2026-04-19 Grim Reaper-themed VTuber from Hololive EN Myth whose music career crossed into mainstream Billboard and J-pop charts. Mori Calliope is an English-language VTuber from Hololive EN Gen 1 "Myth" (debut September 2020). Her music career — hip-hop and J-pop — has produced multiple Billboard-charting singles and Oricon-charting albums, making her one of the most commercially successful musicians to emerge from the VTuber medium. Her "Myth or Treat" Halloween collaboration with Hololive EN Myth members is among the branch's most-viewed pieces of music content. --- # Myth - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/myth/ - Tags: variety, fortnite, valorant - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer, former TSM Fortnite pro, and one of Twitch's breakout stars during the 2018 Fortnite era. Ali "Myth" Kabbani is an American streamer whose rise paralleled the 2018 Fortnite wave, where he served as a mainstay of TSM's competitive Fortnite roster. He transitioned to variety streaming during 2019–2020 and joined 100 Thieves in 2022. --- # Nadeshot - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/nadeshot/ - Tags: cod, esports, business, american - Updated: 2026-04-18 Former Call of Duty world champion and founder/CEO of 100 Thieves. Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag is a former Call of Duty world champion (OpTic Gaming, 2014) who transitioned into content creation and founded 100 Thieves in 2017. He remains CEO of the organization and streams intermittently on YouTube Live. --- # Nickmercs - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/nickmercs/ - Tags: cod, fps, american, english - Updated: 2026-04-18 American FPS streamer, formerly of FaZe Clan and MFAM. Moved his primary stream to Kick in 2024 after his long-running Twitch deal expired. Nick "Nickmercs" Kolcheff is an American FPS streamer best known for Call of Duty: Warzone, MW3, and Apex Legends. A former FaZe Clan member and the leader of the MFAM community, he was one of Twitch's most-watched shooter streamers from 2019 to 2023 before moving his primary stream to Kick in 2024. --- # Ninja - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/ninja/ - Tags: fortnite, american, english, gaming - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer who was the first gaming creator to reach mainstream household-name status, driven by his Fortnite dominance during the game's 2017–2018 peak. ## Career Tyler "Ninja" Blevins began his career as a competitive Halo player before transitioning to streaming Fortnite on Twitch in 2017. His March 2018 Fortnite stream with rapper Drake briefly set the Twitch concurrent-viewership record (~628K) and pushed him into mainstream US culture — late-night TV appearances, an ESPN magazine cover, a Red Bull deal. In August 2019 he signed an exclusive deal with Microsoft's Mixer platform. When Mixer shut down in July 2020, Microsoft released him and paid out the remainder of his contract. He briefly streamed on YouTube before returning to Twitch in September 2020. ## Cultural impact Ninja is the most prominent example of a platform-spanning creator whose deal structure ended with the platform's closure — a cautionary tale that still shapes how top creators negotiate platform exclusivity. ## Health In March 2024, Ninja publicly disclosed a melanoma diagnosis and underwent treatment; he returned to streaming in the months that followed. --- # Nyanners - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/nyanners/ - Tags: vtuber, indie, vshojo - Updated: 2026-04-19 American VTuber and VShojo co-founder, a foundational figure in Western indie VTubing. Retired her avatar in 2023. Nyanners is an American VTuber and co-founder of VShojo, a foundational figure in the pre-Hololive-EN Western indie VTuber scene. Her comedic content and music cross-overs helped establish what a non-Japanese VTuber could be. She retired her avatar in 2023, citing the structural-unsustainability pressures that several early indie VTubers have publicly discussed. --- # Usada Pekora - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/pekora/ - Tags: vtuber, hololive, japanese, minecraft - Updated: 2026-04-19 Hololive Japan's top-earning VTuber for consecutive years, a rabbit-girl character whose Minecraft content defined the Hololive JP Minecraft server era. Usada Pekora is a Japanese VTuber under Hololive Production's third-generation "Fantasy" branch, debuting in July 2019. She has repeatedly topped Hololive Japan's Super Chat revenue rankings and is the most recognizable figure from the Hololive Minecraft server's golden era. Her catchphrase "peko" appended to sentences became one of the most-referenced verbal tics in VTuber culture. --- # Plaqueboymax - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/plaqueboymax/ - Tags: variety, kick, music, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer whose Kick-simulcasting variety format and music-adjacent content made him one of the most-watched creators of the 2024-2025 Kick/Twitch hybrid era. Plaqueboymax is an American streamer whose rise in 2023–2024 on Twitch, and subsequent 2025 Kick signing, positioned him as one of the defining figures of the simulcast era. His content blends Just Chatting, music-listening streams (especially hip-hop releases), and occasional guest-heavy variety segments. --- # Pokimane - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/pokimane/ - Tags: variety, canadian, english, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 One of the most-followed female streamers in history, Pokimane left Twitch for a YouTube exclusivity deal in early 2024 after a decade on the platform. ## Career Imane "Pokimane" Anys began streaming League of Legends on Twitch in 2013 while attending McMaster University in Canada. She transitioned full-time to streaming in 2016, eventually becoming one of the most-followed female creators on Twitch. Her format is primarily Just Chatting and variety content. In **January 2024**, Pokimane signed an exclusive deal with YouTube Live, ending a decade-long tenure on Twitch. ## Cultural role Pokimane co-founded the original Offline TV creator house in 2017 with Scarra, LilyPichu, Disguised Toast and others, which became one of the first and most influential streamer collectives. ## Business Off-platform: Myna (snack brand, 2022), investments in Passes, board/advisor roles with multiple creator-economy startups. --- # QTCinderella - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/qtcinderella/ - Tags: variety, american, english, awards - Updated: 2026-04-19 American Twitch streamer, baker, and founder/host of the Streamer Awards. QTCinderella is an American Twitch streamer best known for cooking streams, Just Chatting content, and as the founder and host of the annual Streamer Awards, which she launched in 2022. In January 2023 she publicly addressed a high-profile deepfake incident involving multiple female creators — a moment widely credited with accelerating legal and platform-policy discussions around non-consensual AI imagery. --- # Rubius - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/rubius/ - Tags: spanish, variety, gaming - Updated: 2026-04-19 Spanish-Norwegian creator who became one of YouTube's largest Spanish-language channels in the 2010s, later transitioning to Twitch as a headline Spanish streamer. Rubén "Rubius" Doblas Gundersen is a Spanish-Norwegian creator who rose to prominence on YouTube in the early 2010s with gaming commentary and sketch content. His relocation from Spain to Andorra in 2021 for tax reasons — an episode that drew public commentary from Spanish officials — coincided with his shift in primary activity to Twitch live-streaming. He remains among the most-followed Spanish-language creators across both platforms. --- # Scarra - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/scarra/ - Tags: lol, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 Former League of Legends pro turned streamer and co-founder of Offline TV, one of the formative creator collectives of the late-2010s. William "Scarra" Li is a former League of Legends professional (Dignitas, Team Dignitas EU) turned Twitch streamer. In 2017 he co-founded **Offline TV** with Pokimane, Disguised Toast and LilyPichu — one of the earliest creator collective houses, which prefigured OTK, AMP and the broader 2020s house-content format. --- # Shroud - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/shroud/ - Tags: fps, canadian, english, gaming - Updated: 2026-04-19 Canadian former Cloud9 CS pro widely considered one of the most mechanically talented FPS players in streaming history. Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek is a former Cloud9 CS:GO professional who retired in 2018 to focus on streaming. His reputation rests on FPS mechanics — particularly his PUBG, Apex Legends and Valorant play — and he is regularly cited by other pros and streamers as among the most naturally gifted aimers of his generation. Shroud signed a Mixer exclusivity deal in 2019 and returned to Twitch after Mixer's 2020 shutdown. --- # Shylily - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/shylily/ - Tags: vtuber, english, indie - Updated: 2026-04-19 Austrian indie VTuber, one of Twitch's most-watched independent VTubers through the 2022–2024 VTuber expansion. Shylily is an Austrian English-language indie VTuber whose variety streaming and collaborative presence in the indie-VTuber scene established her as one of the platform's top independent VTuber streamers. --- # Silky - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/silky/ - Tags: kick, variety, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 American Kick streamer, one of the platform's fastest-rising Just Chatting creators of the 2024-2025 era. Silky is an American streamer whose rapid 2024–2025 growth on Kick made him one of the platform's top Just Chatting creators, representative of a new generation of streamers for whom Kick — not Twitch — was the native first platform. --- # Sodapoppin - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/sodapoppin/ - Tags: wow, variety, american, english - Updated: 2026-04-18 One of the longest-tenured Twitch streamers, a former World of Warcraft creator turned variety streamer and OTK co-founder. Chance "Sodapoppin" Morris is one of the longest-tenured top-tier streamers on Twitch, broadcasting since the Justin.tv era. He began with WoW and transitioned into a variety format including slots (prior to Twitch's 2022 gambling restrictions), MMORPGs, Slime Rancher, Rust, and Just Chatting. A co-founder of OTK, he is frequently cited as one of the formative influences on the modern variety-streamer template. --- # Stable Ronaldo - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/stable-ronaldo/ - Tags: fortnite, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 American Fortnite pro-turned-variety streamer and close Kai Cenat collaborator, frequent Mafiathon 2 guest. Stable Ronaldo is an American streamer whose Fortnite roots and variety-content pivot made him one of the more-watched mid-follower-count Twitch streamers of the 2023–2025 period. His close collaborations with Kai Cenat, including multi-week Mafiathon 2 guest residency, are characteristic of the current tightly-interconnected creator orbit around AMP and adjacent collectives. --- # Summit1g - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/summit1g/ - Tags: variety, american, english, fps - Updated: 2026-04-18 Former CS:GO professional who became one of the most-watched variety streamers on Twitch, best known for extended Sea of Thieves and GTA RP arcs. Jaryd "Summit1g" Lazar is one of Twitch's longest-tenured top streamers. A former iBUYPOWER CS:GO pro, he retired from competitive play in 2014 to focus on streaming. His content has cycled through H1Z1, CS:GO, Sea of Thieves, Escape from Tarkov and Grand Theft Auto roleplay — and at multiple points he has led the platform in total hours watched for a given month. --- # Sweet Anita - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/sweet-anita/ - Tags: british, tourette, variety, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 British Twitch streamer with Tourette syndrome whose unfiltered Just Chatting content, storytelling and advocacy have made her one of the UK's most prominent streamers. Sweet Anita is a British Twitch streamer whose combination of Just Chatting content, long-form storytelling, and openness about living with Tourette syndrome have made her one of the UK's most-watched female creators. She has been widely covered in UK mainstream press and advocates for disability representation in creator spaces. --- # Sykkuno - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/sykkuno/ - Tags: variety, wholesome, gaming - Updated: 2026-04-19 American creator whose low-key style and Among Us 2020 wave involvement made him one of the first major Twitch-to-YouTube exclusive moves. Sykkuno is an American streamer who grew through the 2020 Among Us wave alongside Valkyrae, Corpse Husband and Disguised Toast. In May 2022 he signed a YouTube-exclusive deal, joining the second wave of YouTube Live's creator acquisitions. His style — quiet, collaborative, avoids conflict — is often cited as a counterpoint to the higher-adrenaline norms of top-tier streaming. --- # Takanashi Kiara - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/takanashi-kiara/ - Tags: vtuber, hololive, english, trilingual - Updated: 2026-04-19 Hololive EN Myth member and trilingual (English/Japanese/German) VTuber known for an unusually structured content schedule and music career. Takanashi Kiara is a VTuber from Hololive EN Gen 1 "Myth" (debut September 2020). A trilingual creator (English, Japanese, German), she hosts the long-running "Holotalk" interview series with Hololive JP members. Her original music has charted on Japanese Oricon multiple times. --- # TBJZL - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/tbjzl/ - Tags: british, sidemen, football - Updated: 2026-04-19 Founding member of the Sidemen, known for football-focused content and the Sidemen Charity Match. Tobi "TBJZL" Brown is a founding Sidemen member whose content has historically centered on football — FIFA, football-culture commentary, and the annual Sidemen Charity Match, which he frequently captains. He has publicly discussed mental-health advocacy as part of his platform in the 2020s. --- # TenZ - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/tenz/ - Tags: valorant, fps, canadian, competitive - Updated: 2026-04-19 Canadian Valorant professional (Sentinels) and streamer widely considered among the most mechanically gifted players in the game's history. Tyson "TenZ" Ngo is a Canadian Valorant professional for Sentinels, winner of Valorant Masters Reykjavík 2021. He transitioned from CS:GO to Valorant at launch and quickly became the game's most recognizable pro, with a streaming audience that consistently ranks among the most-watched Valorant channels. His partner Kyedae is also a top streamer. --- # Tfue - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/tfue/ - Tags: fortnite, fps, variety - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer, former FaZe Clan Fortnite pro, and the second-most-followed Twitch channel at several points in the late 2010s. Turner "Tfue" Tenney is an American streamer and former FaZe Clan Fortnite professional. During Fortnite's 2018–2019 peak he briefly held the second-most-followed Twitch channel in the world. His 2019 lawsuit against FaZe Clan over contract terms drew industry-wide attention to esports contract fairness and was cited in subsequent state-level esports contract legislation. --- # TheGrefg - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/thegrefg/ - Tags: spanish, fortnite, variety, record - Updated: 2026-04-19 Spanish Fortnite streamer who set the Twitch concurrent-viewership record in 2021 with the reveal of his in-game Fortnite skin, briefly holding the all-time Twitch record. David "TheGrefg" Cánovas Martínez is a Spanish streamer best known for Fortnite content. On **January 11, 2021**, his stream revealing his in-game Fortnite Icon Series skin peaked at approximately **2.47 million concurrent viewers** on Twitch — then an all-time single-channel platform record, since surpassed by La Velada events. He remains one of the most-watched Spanish-language Twitch streamers and is a frequent collaborator with Ibai and AuronPlay. --- # TimTheTatman - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/timthetatman/ - Tags: warzone, variety, american - Updated: 2026-04-19 American variety streamer who moved from Twitch to YouTube Live exclusivity in September 2021, part of YouTube's early creator-signing wave. Timothy "TimTheTatman" Betar is an American variety streamer best known for Call of Duty: Warzone and Overwatch content. In **September 2021** he signed an exclusive deal with YouTube Live — one of the early marquee YouTube Live signings alongside Ludwig, CouRage and DrLupo. --- # Trainwreckstv - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/trainwreckstv/ - Tags: slots, gambling, kick - Updated: 2026-04-19 American streamer and co-founding figure of Kick, historically one of the most prominent slots-gambling streamers, now a Kick advocate and executive presence. Tyler "Trainwreckstv" Niknam is an American streamer whose Twitch career centered on slots-gambling content through 2019–2022, making him one of the most-watched — and most controversial — figures in that vertical. He is a prominent early backer of Kick and has publicly advocated for the platform's creator-first revenue split. His move from Twitch to Kick in 2022–2023 was closely linked to Twitch's 2022 unauthorized-gambling restrictions. --- # Valkyrae - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/valkyrae/ - Tags: variety, american, english, among-us - Updated: 2026-04-19 American creator who became YouTube Live's marquee streamer during the 2020 Among Us surge and was later named a co-owner of 100 Thieves. Rachell "Valkyrae" Hofstetter joined 100 Thieves in 2020 and became the face of YouTube Live's creator push during the 2020 Among Us wave, at one point holding the title of most-watched female streamer of the year on any platform. In January 2021 she was named a co-owner of 100 Thieves. --- # Vikkstar - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/vikkstar/ - Tags: british, sidemen, minecraft, warzone - Updated: 2026-04-19 Founding member of the Sidemen and long-running Minecraft/Warzone creator. Vikram "Vikkstar" Singh Barn is a founding member of the Sidemen. His solo channel is one of the longest-running Minecraft content channels on YouTube, later pivoting to Call of Duty: Warzone during its 2020–2022 peak. He also co-founded the esports organization XSET (since dissolved) in 2020. --- # Vox Akuma - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/vox-akuma/ - Tags: vtuber, nijisanji, english, asmr - Updated: 2026-04-19 Demon-themed male VTuber under Nijisanji EN's Luxiem branch, one of the defining figures of the 2021–2023 male-VTuber wave. Vox Akuma is an English-language male VTuber under Nijisanji EN, part of the Luxiem branch that debuted in December 2021. The success of Luxiem is widely credited with driving the first major wave of mainstream male-VTuber audiences in English. Vox's deep-voice ASMR content became a defining format of the wave. --- # W2S - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/w2s/ - Tags: british, sidemen, fifa - Updated: 2026-04-19 Youngest founding member of the Sidemen and one of YouTube's most-subscribed British channels, historically best known for FIFA content. Harry "W2S" Lewis is a founding Sidemen member and historically the most-subscribed individual Sidemen channel. His core content was FIFA Ultimate Team gameplay and opening videos throughout the 2010s, though his solo output decreased through the 2020s as group content took priority. --- # xQc - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/xqc/ - Tags: variety, canadian, english, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-19 French-Canadian former professional Overwatch player turned one of the most-watched variety streamers on Twitch, signed to a landmark non-exclusive Kick deal in 2023. ## Career Félix Lengyel began his streaming career as a professional Overwatch player for the Dallas Fuel in the inaugural Overwatch League (2018). A series of fines and a suspension for toxic conduct led to his release from the team in March 2018, after which he pivoted fully to Twitch streaming. Within two years, xQc had become the most-watched streamer on Twitch by hours watched — a position he held through 2020, 2021, and 2022. His variety format leans heavily on reaction content, multi-format "just chatting" segments, and marathons of newly released games. ## 2023 Kick deal In June 2023, xQc signed a two-year non-exclusive deal with Kick reported at up to $100 million. The deal's non-exclusivity was novel for a contract of that size and is widely credited with accelerating the industry shift toward simulcasting. ## Controversies - Multiple Twitch suspensions over the course of his career for stream sniping and policy violations. - 2022 criticism over react content and its impact on original YouTube creators. - 2023 coverage of personal-life disputes following the end of his relationship with fellow streamer Adept. ## Legacy xQc is often cited as the archetypal variety streamer of the Twitch era — a competitive-gamer-turned-personality whose appeal is inseparable from the reactive, marathon, multi-format character of modern Just Chatting content. --- # Zerkaa - Type: streamer - URL: https://streamers.wiki/streamer/zerkaa/ - Tags: british, sidemen, fifa - Updated: 2026-04-19 Founding member of the Sidemen, longtime FIFA and variety creator. Joshua "Zerkaa" Bradley is a founding Sidemen member. His solo channel has historically focused on FIFA and gameplay content; he is a fixture of Sidemen group productions. --- # Kick - Type: platform - URL: https://streamers.wiki/platform/kick/ - Tags: live, gaming, gambling, irl - Updated: 2026-04-18 A live-streaming platform launched in late 2022 with the most creator-favorable revenue split in the industry (95/5 on subs) and close ties to crypto casino Stake. ## Overview Kick is a live-streaming platform launched in late 2022, backed by co-founders of crypto casino Stake. It positioned itself as the creator-favorable alternative to Twitch — offering a 95/5 subscription split (vs. Twitch's 50/50 baseline) and more permissive content rules, particularly around gambling and IRL content. Kick's viewership grew ~131% year-over-year to 4.5 billion hours watched in 2025, making it the fastest-growing major platform, though it remains a distant third behind Twitch and YouTube Gaming. ## Notable deals - **xQc** — signed a non-exclusive multi-year deal reported at up to $100M in 2023. - **Adin Ross** — moved to Kick after his 2023 Twitch ban. - **Amouranth** — signed non-exclusive in 2023. - **Trainwrecks** — co-founder involvement; long-time Kick advocate. ## Criticisms Kick has faced scrutiny over: - Close financial ties to Stake and the prominence of gambling streams. - Looser moderation compared to Twitch, particularly around IRL streams. - Ownership opacity. ## Culture Kick chat culture leans heavier on gambling, IRL, and crossover personalities from Twitch. The simulcasting lift on Twitch in 2024 reshaped the competitive dynamic — creators no longer need to choose. --- # Rumble - Type: platform - URL: https://streamers.wiki/platform/rumble/ - Tags: live, vod, politics, free-speech - Updated: 2026-04-18 A Canadian video platform positioned as a free-speech alternative to YouTube, with a secondary live-streaming product. Known for hosting political commentary creators. ## Overview Rumble is a Canadian video-hosting platform founded in 2013, which grew significantly from 2020 onward by positioning itself as an alternative to YouTube with lighter content moderation, particularly around political and health-related content. Its live-streaming product is secondary to its VOD hosting but has drawn several high-profile political commentary creators. Rumble went public via SPAC in 2022. --- # TikTok Live - Type: platform - URL: https://streamers.wiki/platform/tiktok-live/ - Tags: live, mobile, gifts, short-form - Updated: 2026-04-18 The live-streaming feature of TikTok — mobile-first, gift-driven, and responsible for several viral meta trends like NPC streaming. ## Overview TikTok Live is the live-streaming feature built into TikTok. It runs on a fundamentally different economic model than Twitch or YouTube: viewers send **gifts** (virtual items purchased with TikTok Coins) rather than subscribing, and the platform takes a significant cut (often estimated at 50% or more) before passing value to creators. TikTok Live is mobile-first and discovery-driven — streams surface in the For You feed rather than requiring intentional navigation to a specific channel. ## Notable metas - **NPC streaming** (2023) — creators perform robotic, scripted reactions to incoming gifts, each gift triggering a catchphrase or action. Pinkydoll was the breakout figure. - **Sleep streams** — creators broadcast while sleeping, with gifts triggering sound effects. - **Live shopping** — TikTok Shop integration for QVC-style commerce. ## Economics Creators must be 18+ and have at least 1,000 followers to go live. Gift economy details are opaque, but industry estimates put the creator share at roughly 50% of the retail gift value. --- # Twitch - Type: platform - URL: https://streamers.wiki/platform/twitch/ - Tags: gaming, live, chat, just-chatting - Updated: 2026-04-18 The dominant live-streaming platform by watch time, launched in 2011 as a spin-off of Justin.tv and acquired by Amazon in 2014 for ~$970M. ## Overview Twitch is a live video streaming service owned by Amazon. Originally a gaming-first platform spun off from general-interest site Justin.tv in 2011, Twitch has expanded into Just Chatting, IRL, music, sports, and creative verticals, while remaining the industry leader in live-streaming watch time. As of 2026, Twitch holds roughly 60% of global live-streaming watch time, ahead of YouTube Gaming (~23%) and Kick (~5.5%), though all three compete actively for top creators. ## History - **2007** — Justin.tv launches as a 24/7 lifecasting experiment by Justin Kan. - **2011** — Twitch.tv spins off as a gaming-focused subsite. - **2014** — Amazon acquires Twitch for approximately $970 million. - **2020–2022** — Just Chatting becomes the platform's largest category. - **2023** — Twitch lays off ~35% of staff, closes operations in Korea, signals financial pressure. - **2024** — Lifts exclusivity requirement for most streamers; simulcasting to other platforms officially permitted. - **2026** — Continues competitive response to Kick and YouTube Gaming. ## Monetization Twitch creators earn via: - **Subscriptions** — Tier 1 ($5.99), Tier 2, Tier 3. Affiliates receive 50%; established Partners may negotiate up to 70%. - **Bits** — virtual tipping currency. - **Ads** — pre-roll and mid-roll revenue share. - **Brand deals** — negotiated directly with creators (off-platform). ## Culture Twitch chat, emotes (Kappa, PogChamp, LUL), raid culture, and subathons are defining elements of modern streaming culture — most of which originated on the platform and were subsequently adopted elsewhere. ## Controversies and moderation Twitch has been repeatedly criticized for inconsistent enforcement of its Terms of Service, particularly around the "hot tub meta," gambling streams, and politically charged content. The platform restricted slots/casino gambling streams in 2021 after pressure from top creators. --- # YouTube Live - Type: platform - URL: https://streamers.wiki/platform/youtube-live/ - Tags: live, vod, gaming, music - Updated: 2026-04-18 Google's live-streaming product, integrated directly into YouTube. Strongest for long-form VOD monetization and a rising ## Overview YouTube Live is Google's live-streaming feature, integrated into the main YouTube platform. Its biggest structural advantage is the post-stream VOD: a live broadcast automatically becomes a searchable, recommendable, monetizable video with the full weight of YouTube's recommendation engine behind it. In 2026, YouTube Gaming holds roughly 23% of global live-streaming watch time, up from 16% in 2023. The Kai Cenat migration (he remained on Twitch but many peers moved), Ludwig's 2021 exclusivity deal, and Dr Disrespect's post-ban move in 2020 were early signals of YouTube's growing gravitational pull. ## Monetization - **Super Chat / Super Stickers** — paid pinned chat messages; 70/30 creator split. - **Channel Memberships** — monthly subscription perks; 70/30. - **Ads** — mid-roll and pre-roll on both live and VOD. - **YouTube Premium share** — watch-time-based cut. - **Shopping / affiliate integrations** — expanding through 2025–2026. ## Strengths - VOD discoverability — arguably the single biggest moat in creator economics. - Global scale and SEO surface area. - Cross-format portability (Shorts, long-form, live, podcasts). ## Weaknesses - Live chat culture less cohesive than Twitch. - Historically weaker community tools. - Stricter advertiser-friendly content rules than Twitch in some areas. --- # Bits - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/bits/ - Tags: twitch, tipping - Updated: 2026-04-19 Twitch's native tipping currency. Viewers purchase Bits with real money and "cheer" them in chat to tip creators — 1 bit ≈ 1 US cent to the creator. **Bits** are Twitch's native in-platform tipping currency. Viewers purchase bits with real money and spend them by "cheering" in chat — a visual animation triggered at set thresholds (1, 100, 1000, 5000, 10000 bits produce larger and more elaborate on-screen animations). Streamers receive approximately **$0.01 per bit** (subject to bulk-purchase discounts). Bits preceded and partially complement tipping via direct cash-out platforms like Streamlabs. The key product difference: bits are visible to the entire chat and part of the shared event of the stream, whereas Streamlabs tips are a more traditional viewer-to-creator donation. --- # Copypasta - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/copypasta/ - Tags: chat, meme, twitch - Updated: 2026-04-19 A repeated block of text posted en masse in Twitch chat to signal reaction, reference an inside joke, or overwhelm other chat. A core unit of Twitch chat culture. A **copypasta** is a block of text — typically absurd, ironic, or referential — that users copy and paste repeatedly into Twitch chat to produce a coordinated reaction or overwhelm the flow. Copypastas are one of the core primitives of Twitch chat culture, functioning as in-group passwords, recurring bits, and real-time memes. Examples like the "Navy Seals copypasta" or the streamer-specific copypastas that emerge organically around inside jokes are among the most-quoted artifacts of the medium. --- # DMCA - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/dmca/ - Tags: copyright, music, vod - Updated: 2026-04-18 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act — US copyright law whose takedown-notice provisions routinely impact streamers, especially for unlicensed background music. ## Overview The **Digital Millennium Copyright Act** (DMCA) is US copyright law that, among other provisions, sets up a notice-and-takedown system under which rights holders can request platforms remove infringing content. For streamers, DMCA matters most in the context of: - Background music playing during a stream (the most common violation). - Movies, TV, or music video react content. - Sports broadcasts. ## The 2020 Twitch DMCA wave In mid-2020, Twitch received a sudden surge of retroactive DMCA notices targeting years-old VODs. Twitch's initial response was to mass-delete VODs with no appeal process, which triggered major creator backlash. The platform subsequently introduced automated content flagging (Soundtrack) and clearer takedown tooling. --- # Emote - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/emote/ - Tags: twitch, chat, bttv, ffz - Updated: 2026-04-19 A custom chat emoji on Twitch or similar platforms. Global emotes (Kappa, PogChamp, LUL) and subscriber emotes form the native pictographic language of streaming chat. An **emote** is a custom chat emoji on Twitch (and comparable platforms). Global emotes like **Kappa** (sarcasm/trolling), **LUL** (laughter), **PogChamp** (hype/surprise), and **KEKW** (laughter, via BTTV) form the shared pictographic vocabulary of the medium. Individual streamers unlock custom emotes as subscriber perks — these become tribal identifiers for a streamer's community and are among the primary value propositions of a subscription. Third-party extensions **BetterTTV (BTTV)** and **FrankerFaceZ (FFZ)** dramatically expand available emotes and have shaped mainstream emote culture as much as Twitch's official set. --- # Gifts (TikTok) - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/gifts/ - Tags: tiktok, mobile, tipping - Updated: 2026-04-18 Virtual items viewers send to TikTok Live creators, purchased with TikTok Coins. Range from a 1-coin Rose to a 44,999-coin Lion. Creators receive roughly half the retail value. TikTok Live's monetization is almost entirely driven by **gifts** — virtual items (Rose, Perfume, Lion, Universe) that viewers purchase with TikTok Coins and send during a live stream. Each gift produces an on-screen animation and adds Diamonds to the creator's account, which are later converted to cash at a rate yielding roughly 50% of the retail gift value. The mechanic drives the distinct rhythm of TikTok streams — creators perform reactions to incoming gifts in tight feedback loops, most memorably in the NPC streaming meta. --- # GTA RP - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/gta-rp/ - Tags: roleplay, gta, nopixel - Updated: 2026-04-19 Roleplay servers for Grand Theft Auto V — most prominently NoPixel — where streamers play in-character as fictional personas in a persistent city setting. One of the defining long-running formats of 2020s Twitch. **GTA RP** (Grand Theft Auto Roleplay) refers to GTA V servers — most famously **NoPixel** — where players inhabit fictional in-world personas across a persistent shared city. The format blends improv theater, narrative multiplayer gaming, and long-running streaming serial, with top creators maintaining individual characters for months or years. The 2021 NoPixel era produced some of Twitch's highest viewership outside of record events, with Summit1g, xQc, Buddha, Sykkuno, Valkyrae and many others contributing to ongoing storylines. Spanish-language equivalents like **Marbella Vice** (co-founded by IlloJuan) became equivalently influential in their language communities. --- # Hot tub meta - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/hot-tub-meta/ - Tags: twitch, controversy, 2021 - Updated: 2026-04-18 A 2021 Twitch phenomenon in which streamers broadcast while sitting in a hot tub or kiddie pool wearing swimwear — spawning a dedicated "Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches" category and a broader debate over Twitch's content policies. ## Overview In early 2021, a wave of (primarily female) streamers began broadcasting in hot tubs or kiddie pools wearing swimwear, typically from the Just Chatting category. The format produced large viewership numbers and provoked intense debate over whether Twitch's dress code enforcement was consistent. After advertiser pressure, Twitch created a dedicated "Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches" category in May 2021 and clarified that such content, while permitted, would be excluded from some advertising. The meta is frequently cited as a turning point in Twitch's content-moderation evolution and remains the paradigm example of "meta arbitrage" — creators exploiting ambiguities in platform policy for outsized visibility. --- # IRL streaming - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/irl/ - Tags: twitch, kick, outdoor - Updated: 2026-04-18 Live streaming from real-world locations using a mobile rig (often a backpack with a 4G/5G modem bonder), as opposed to streaming from a static setup. ## Overview **IRL** ("in real life") streaming refers to any live broadcast from a real-world location rather than a static desk setup. It typically uses a mobile camera rig — a backpack containing a battery, bonded cellular modems (for connection redundancy), and a camera feeding software like LiveU or Speedify. ## History Early IRL streaming on Justin.tv was effectively lifecasting. Twitch's introduction of the IRL category (later split into subcategories, with Just Chatting absorbing indoor conversation content) kicked off a wave of travel-streaming creators like Ice Poseidon, Paul Denino, and later Jake'n'Bake and Cyr. ## Notable IRL metas - **Travel streaming** — Jinnytty's global travel tours. - **Restaurant streaming** — Japan food tours, notably by Emiru and others. - **Danger tourism** — controversial streams from conflict zones or unsafe neighborhoods, which have repeatedly drawn platform TOS strikes. ## Risks IRL carries heightened moderation risk — bystanders entering frame, doxxing, sensitive location disclosure, and real-world safety incidents all create situations difficult to handle live. --- # Just Chatting - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/just-chatting/ - Tags: twitch, category, irl - Updated: 2026-04-18 A Twitch category launched in 2018 for non-gaming, conversational streams. Now the platform's largest category by watch time. ## Overview **Just Chatting** is a Twitch directory category introduced in late 2018 for streams that don't fit into a specific game category — conversation, reactions, reading news, reviewing tweets, podcast-style content, and more. It has grown into Twitch's largest category by watch time, overtaking traditional gaming categories. ## Why it matters Before Just Chatting, non-gaming streamers were orphaned in awkward categories like "IRL" or game-specific channels they weren't actually playing. Just Chatting legitimized the "streamer personality as the content" model and coincided with the rise of creators like xQc, Hasan Piker, Pokimane and Kai Cenat for whom the talking, not the gameplay, is the product. ## Criticism Critics argue the category enables low-effort "react content" (watching YouTube videos on stream), which has prompted copyright pushback from YouTube creators and periodic policy changes on Twitch. --- # NPC streaming - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/npc-streaming/ - Tags: tiktok, meme - Updated: 2026-04-18 A 2023 TikTok Live meta in which creators perform robotic, scripted reactions to incoming gifts — each gift type triggering a fixed catchphrase, sound, or gesture. **NPC streaming** is a TikTok Live performance style popularized in 2023, most famously by Pinkydoll. The creator plays the role of a video-game NPC, responding to each gift type with a fixed, repeated line or gesture — "ice cream so good," "yes yes yes," "gang gang" — often for hours. The meta drove significant gift revenue, prompted widespread parody and think-pieces about gamified intimacy, and briefly crossed into mainstream US news coverage. --- # Parasocial - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/parasocial/ - Tags: relationship, audience, psychology - Updated: 2026-04-19 A one-sided relationship in which a viewer experiences emotional intimacy, loyalty and identification with a creator who does not know them personally — arguably the defining audience dynamic of modern streaming. A **parasocial relationship** is a one-sided attachment in which a viewer feels a sense of personal connection with a creator who does not know them individually. The term predates streaming (coined in 1956 for TV audiences) but the always-on, chat-enabled, long-format nature of live streaming produces parasocial dynamics at an intensity without precedent in prior media. Parasocial attachment is arguably the *product* of modern streaming — more than gameplay, more than commentary, the sustained sense of "knowing" the creator is why viewers subscribe, watch daily, and return for years. Healthy communities treat this openly; unhealthy dynamics produce stalking, harassment, and parasocial collapse when a streamer's life changes (marriage, retirement, controversy). Understanding parasocial dynamics is essential to understanding why streamer drama — breakups, beefs, retirements — regularly produces audience reactions disproportionate to the objective events. --- # Prime sub - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/prime-sub/ - Tags: twitch, amazon, subscriptions - Updated: 2026-04-19 A free monthly Twitch subscription included with Amazon Prime, redeemable to any streamer and paying out to the creator at a reduced rate. A **Prime sub** is a free monthly Tier 1 Twitch subscription granted to every Amazon Prime member. Viewers can redeem one Prime sub per month to any streamer of their choice. The streamer receives payment (at a reduced per-sub rate vs. a paid Tier 1) and a sub counts toward Twitch milestones. Prime subs are often the first engagement path from casual viewer to subscriber and typically make up a meaningful share of any Partner's monthly sub count. --- # Raid - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/raid/ - Tags: twitch, community, collaboration - Updated: 2026-04-19 A Twitch feature in which a streamer ending their broadcast sends their live viewers to another streamer's channel, arriving as a sudden burst of named "raiders." A **raid** is a Twitch feature that lets a streamer direct their active viewers to another streamer's channel as the broadcast ends. Raiders arrive as a sudden spike of named chat participants, typically heralded by "raid messages" in chat. Raiding is one of Twitch's core community-building primitives — it's how smaller streamers are discovered, how friend-group networks reinforce each other's audience, and how hype moments cascade across channels. --- # React content - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/react-content/ - Tags: twitch, copyright, youtube - Updated: 2026-04-18 Streams in which a creator watches and reacts to third-party videos (typically from YouTube) on camera — legal grey area, common flashpoint with the original creators. **React content** is the practice of playing third-party video on stream and commenting on it. It became a flashpoint in 2022 when YouTube creators publicly objected to large Twitch streamers (notably xQc) reacting to their videos with little added commentary, effectively diverting viewers from the source. Twitch issued tightened guidance in 2022 requiring "transformative" engagement, though enforcement remains inconsistent. --- # Simulcasting - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/simulcast/ - Tags: multistreaming, twitch, kick - Updated: 2026-04-18 Broadcasting the same live stream to multiple platforms simultaneously. Historically blocked by Twitch's Partner exclusivity clause; officially permitted across the board from 2024. ## Overview **Simulcasting** (or "multistreaming") is the practice of broadcasting the same live feed to multiple platforms at once — typically using a relay service like Restream or a local OBS plugin. Until 2024, Twitch's Partner Agreement explicitly prohibited simulcasting to "Twitch-like" services, effectively locking Partners out of Kick and YouTube Live. ## 2024 policy change In 2024, Twitch lifted its simulcasting restriction for most creators, citing the need to keep pace with YouTube Live and Kick. The change was widely interpreted as a competitive concession and triggered a wave of creators adding secondary broadcasts. --- # Speedrunning - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/speedrunning/ - Tags: gaming, records, gdq - Updated: 2026-04-19 The competitive practice of completing a video game as quickly as possible under defined rules. One of streaming's foundational content categories and home to charity events like Games Done Quick. **Speedrunning** is the competitive practice of completing a video game as fast as possible, under community-defined rulesets and with verification via video or live broadcast. It is one of streaming's foundational content types and has produced some of the medium's most celebrated events — particularly **Games Done Quick** (GDQ), a biannual week-long charity speedrunning marathon that has raised over $50M across its history. Twitch is the historical home of speedrunning; notable creators include EazySpeezy, Karl Jobst (speedrun commentary), and thousands of per-game specialists. Major speedrunning moments (Simple Flips' any% WRs, Minecraft's "Dream incident" controversy) regularly cross into mainstream streaming coverage. --- # Stream sniping - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/stream-sniping/ - Tags: competitive, tos, twitch - Updated: 2026-04-19 The practice of using a creator's live broadcast to gain a competitive advantage against them in-game — typically by matching into their lobby or using their in-stream information. **Stream sniping** is the practice of using a streamer's live broadcast to gain a competitive in-game advantage — either by deliberately queuing into their lobby, using their in-stream information (minimap, inventory), or coordinating off-platform to interfere with their gameplay. Most competitive games include anti-stream-sniping features (stream-delay toggles, map-occlusion tools). Stream sniping has been the cited cause of multiple high-profile Twitch suspensions and one of the few cross-game community-policed "rules of engagement" between pros and streamers. --- # Subathon - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/subathon/ - Tags: twitch, subscriptions, marathon - Updated: 2026-04-18 A live stream that extends in duration as viewers subscribe — each new sub adds a fixed amount of time to a running timer, often continuing for days or weeks. ## Overview A **subathon** is a live-streaming format in which the broadcast's end time is tied to a running timer that viewers can extend by subscribing. Each subscription (or tier-2 gift, or bit donation, depending on the streamer's rules) adds a predetermined number of seconds or minutes to the clock. The stream continues until the timer reaches zero — which, for popular streamers, can take days or weeks. ## History The format predates its mainstream breakthrough, but **Ludwig Ahgren's 2021 subathon** is widely credited with popularizing it. Starting in March 2021, the stream ran for **31 days**, hit a peak of **282,191 concurrent Twitch subscriptions** (the all-time Twitch sub record at the time), and transformed Ludwig from a mid-tier creator into a top-tier one. After Ludwig, the subathon format was adopted by dozens of major streamers including Mizkif, Asmongold, Sodapoppin, and RanbooLive (a Minecraft subathon that ran for 214 days). ## Mechanics - **Time per sub** — common rates: 10 seconds per Tier 1, scaling up for Tier 2/3 and bits. - **Cap or no cap** — some subathons cap the maximum duration; others run uncapped. - **Break rules** — modern subathons typically allow sleep, bathroom, and meal breaks while the timer continues to tick. ## Cultural impact Subathons reshaped expectations around creator endurance, viewer-as-participant dynamics, and the monetization ceiling of a single stream. They also triggered health concerns as some streamers pushed dangerous sleep-deprivation arcs. --- # Subscriptions (subs) - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/subs/ - Tags: twitch, youtube, monetization - Updated: 2026-04-18 Recurring paid memberships that viewers buy to support a streamer, typically priced at $4.99–$24.99/month across tiers, granting perks like ad-free viewing and custom emotes. ## Overview A **subscription** (colloquially "sub") is a recurring monthly payment a viewer makes to a specific streamer in exchange for perks — usually custom emotes, a subscriber badge, ad-free viewing, and access to subscriber-only chat or Discord channels. ## Platform tiers and splits | Platform | Baseline split | Tiers | |---|---|---| | Twitch Affiliate | 50/50 | T1 $5.99, T2 $9.99, T3 $24.99 | | Twitch Partner | up to 70/30 | same | | YouTube Membership | 70/30 | variable | | Kick | 95/5 | $4.99 baseline | ## Gifted subs Viewers can buy subscriptions to gift to others in chat — a practice that exploded in popularity around 2018–2019 and regularly drives sub spikes during hype moments. A small number of "sub gifters" account for a disproportionate share of overall sub volume. ## Prime subs Amazon Prime members receive one free Tier 1 Twitch subscription per month ("Prime sub"), which pays the streamer at a reduced rate but costs the viewer nothing incremental. --- # Super Chat - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/super-chat/ - Tags: youtube, tipping - Updated: 2026-04-18 YouTube Live's paid-pinned-message feature. Viewers pay to highlight a chat message (and optionally trigger a timed sticker), with 70% going to the creator. **Super Chat** is YouTube's answer to Twitch's Bits: viewers pay a variable amount to pin and color-code a chat message for a set duration. Higher payments produce longer pins and more visible colors. YouTube takes 30% and passes 70% to the creator. For long-form or reaction-heavy YouTube streamers, Super Chats can exceed subscription revenue on a per-stream basis. --- # TOS strike - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/tos-strike/ - Tags: moderation, twitch, ban - Updated: 2026-04-18 A violation of a platform's Terms of Service, typically resulting in a temporary suspension, indefinite ban, or permanent channel termination. ## Overview A **TOS strike** (or simply "strike") is a suspension issued when a streamer violates a platform's Terms of Service. On Twitch, common durations are 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, 30 days, or indefinite. Repeat offenses typically escalate. Platforms rarely publish detailed strike reasons publicly, leading to speculation in chat and on social media. ## Common triggers - Nudity or sexual content - Hateful conduct / harassment - Copyrighted music (also handled via DMCA) - Gambling on unauthorized sites (since Twitch's 2022 restrictions) - Dangerous behavior / threats - IRL bystander exposure --- # VOD - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/vod/ - Tags: recording, archive - Updated: 2026-04-18 Video-on-demand — a recorded version of a live broadcast available to watch after the fact. A **VOD** (video-on-demand) is a saved recording of a live stream, available for replay after the broadcast ends. On YouTube, VODs auto-generate with full platform distribution; on Twitch, VODs expire after 14 days (60 for Partners) unless highlighted or exported. VOD monetization and searchability are YouTube's structural advantage over Twitch. --- # VTuber - Type: concept - URL: https://streamers.wiki/concept/vtuber/ - Tags: vtuber, anime, japanese, avatar - Updated: 2026-04-19 A streamer or YouTube creator who broadcasts as a motion-captured animated avatar rather than on camera — a format that originated in Japan in 2016 and expanded globally through the 2020s. ## Overview A **VTuber** ("virtual YouTuber") is a streamer or creator who performs as a motion-captured animated character instead of appearing on camera. The avatar is typically an anime-style 2D or 3D rig driven by the creator's live webcam (face tracking) and, for 3D setups, body-tracking sensors. ## Origin and expansion The format originated in Japan in 2016 with the debut of **Kizuna AI**. The ecosystem expanded through the late 2010s with the rise of corporate agencies (**Hololive**, **Nijisanji**) that operated rotating generational rosters of talents under branded avatars. **Hololive English's Gen 1 "Myth"** debut in September 2020 — led by Gawr Gura, Mori Calliope, Watson Amelia, Takanashi Kiara and Ninomae Ina'nis — is widely credited with bringing VTubing into English-language mainstream. Subsequent waves from **Nijisanji EN** (Luxiem, Noctyx, ILUNA), the US-based **VShojo**, and a rising indie scene established VTubing as a genuine category capable of competing with top non-VTuber streamers for watch-time. ## Technical stack - **2D rigging**: Live2D with face-tracking via webcam (iPhone TrueDepth or similar). - **3D rigging**: VRoid Studio, Blender, or custom rigs with full-body tracking (Vive trackers, VRChat). - **Streaming**: VTube Studio, Warudo, VSeeFace, or in-VRChat via platforms like Filian uses. ## Cultural dynamics VTuber audiences have developed distinct fan cultures — clipping subcultures (re-uploading highlights to YouTube with translated subtitles), dedicated TL (translation) communities for JP content, and strong norms around not revealing creator identities ("doxing the real person behind the avatar" is a severe community taboo). --- # Adin Ross Twitch ban - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/adin-ross-twitch-ban-2023/ - Tags: ban, twitch, kick - Updated: 2026-04-19 Adin Ross was indefinitely suspended from Twitch in February 2023 following his seventh career ban — precipitating his move to Kick, where he became one of the platform's flagship creators. ## Overview On **February 26, 2023**, Twitch issued Adin Ross an indefinite suspension — his seventh career ban on the platform. The proximate trigger was a display of sexually explicit content on-stream (Twitch's cited policy violation), though Twitch does not publish individual ban reasons. ## Move to Kick Within weeks, Adin signed with **Kick**, where he has operated as one of the platform's flagship creators since. The migration is frequently cited (alongside the Stake-funded slots migration earlier in 2023) as a key moment in Kick's early push to establish itself as a viable alternative platform for creators whose content sits uneasily within Twitch's moderation posture. ## Pattern Adin's ban history is representative of a broader pattern in which creators with high-viewership, policy-adjacent content eventually exhaust their Twitch strike budget. The pattern contributed to Kick's 2023–2024 audience gains and Twitch's 2024 simulcasting policy reversal, which reduced the cost to creators of maintaining a presence on multiple platforms. --- # The Among Us streaming wave - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/among-us-wave-2020/ - Tags: among-us, pandemic, 2020 - Updated: 2026-04-18 A four-month period in late 2020 during which the party game Among Us dominated Twitch and YouTube Live viewership — launching Valkyrae, Corpse Husband and Sykkuno into top-tier creator status and establishing YouTube Live as a viable creator platform. ## Overview Between **September and December 2020**, the party deduction game *Among Us* became the dominant category on both Twitch and YouTube Live. Multiple factors converged: the COVID-19 pandemic's home-bound audience, the game's low-friction multiplayer design, and a pivotal **October 2020 lobby hosted by US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez** that peaked at over 435K concurrent viewers on Twitch. ## Creators made The wave was particularly important for: - **Valkyrae** — became the most-watched female streamer of 2020 on YouTube Live. - **Corpse Husband** — a faceless, deep-voiced creator who went from sub-200K to tens of millions of followers in weeks. - **Sykkuno** — jumped from mid-tier Twitch streamer to consistent 100K+ viewership. - **Pokimane**, **Disguised Toast**, **Ludwig**, **HasanAbi** — all participated in the recurring Among Us lobbies. ## Legacy The Among Us wave established **YouTube Live as a creator-competitive platform** for the first time, by demonstrating that a single breakout category could support a top-tier creator stack outside of Twitch. It also pioneered the "recurring friend-group lobby" content format, which remained a staple through the Fall Guys, Phasmophobia, and Lethal Company waves that followed. --- # Atrioc deepfake incident - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/atrioc-deepfake-2023/ - Tags: deepfake, ai, policy - Updated: 2026-04-19 Twitch streamer Brandon "Atrioc" Ewing was caught with a paid non-consensual deepfake website open on stream featuring fellow female streamers — a moment that triggered global media coverage and accelerated platform and legal policy on AI-generated non-consensual imagery. ## Overview On **January 30, 2023**, a screenshot from Twitch streamer Brandon "Atrioc" Ewing's broadcast circulated showing a deepfake-pornography subscription site open in his browser tab, featuring AI-generated non-consensual imagery of fellow Twitch streamers including QTCinderella, Pokimane, and Maya Higa. Atrioc issued a tearful apology stream the following day and stepped back from streaming for a period. ## QTCinderella's response QTCinderella, one of the subjects, responded publicly on **January 30–31, 2023** in an emotional Twitch broadcast that reached mainstream news coverage within 48 hours. She announced plans to pursue legal action against the deepfake site and called for changes in how platforms handle non-consensual AI-generated imagery. ## Consequences - The originating deepfake site took down creator-impersonation content within days under public pressure. - The event is widely credited with **accelerating US state-level legislation** on non-consensual AI-generated imagery, with multiple bills in 2023–2024 citing the incident by name. - Twitch updated its TOS in 2023 to explicitly address AI-generated sexual content of other people. - QTCinderella has continued advocacy work on the issue into 2026. --- # Kiryu Coco graduation - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/coco-kiryu-graduation-2021/ - Tags: hololive, vtuber, graduation, china - Updated: 2026-04-19 Hololive JP VTuber Kiryu Coco "graduated" (retired her avatar) on July 1, 2021 after months of targeted harassment following a Taiwan-related controversy. She later re-debuted as Kson under her own brand, co-founding VShojo Japan in 2024. On **July 1, 2021**, Hololive JP VTuber **Kiryu Coco** — the agency's highest Super Chat earner at the time — "graduated" (retired her avatar and ended her Hololive contract) after months of targeted harassment campaigns originating primarily from Chinese audiences. The campaigns began after a May 2020 stream in which Coco acknowledged Taiwan in a geographic analytics display, which Hololive subsequently disciplined. The graduation is among the most-cited events in VTuber history and prompted a broader conversation about VTuber-agency response to coordinated harassment. The performer later re-debuted as **Kson** under her own independent brand and became CEO of VShojo Japan in 2024. --- # Destiny YouTube permaban - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/destiny-twitter-permaban-2023/ - Tags: ban, youtube, policy - Updated: 2026-04-19 Political streamer Destiny was permanently banned from YouTube in September 2023 for violating policy during a debate stream — one of the highest-profile political-streamer bans on the platform and the event that precipitated his move to Kick. On **September 26, 2023**, YouTube permanently terminated Destiny's main channel, citing repeat violations of the platform's hateful-conduct policy — specifically content from a debate stream on trans issues. Destiny had previously been permanently banned from Twitch (2020) and temporarily from multiple other platforms. The YouTube ban precipitated his 2024 move to Kick as his primary platform. The event is frequently cited in discussions about platform moderation of political-debate content — Destiny's defenders argued the ban was applied to debate of policy rather than hateful content; YouTube's framing characterized the content itself as violative. --- # Dr Disrespect Twitch ban - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/dr-disrespect-ban-2020/ - Tags: ban, twitch, controversy - Updated: 2026-04-18 Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm was permanently banned from Twitch on June 26, 2020 with no public explanation — one of the most consequential and opaque bans in platform history. ## Overview On June 26, 2020, Twitch permanently banned Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm hours into what was scheduled to be a normal broadcast. Neither Twitch nor Beahm publicly disclosed the reason at the time. Beahm subsequently moved to YouTube Live and continued a successful streaming career. ## 2024 disclosure In June 2024, former Twitch employees publicly alleged that the ban stemmed from inappropriate direct messages exchanged with a minor on the platform. Beahm responded in a statement acknowledging the messages while disputing the characterization, which resulted in his being dropped by multiple sponsors and his game studio Midnight Society. The incident is referenced as a case study in platform transparency, ban opacity, and the compounding costs of delayed disclosure. --- # Midnight Society parts with Dr Disrespect - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/drdisrespect-midnight-society-exit-2024/ - Tags: business, ban, fallout - Updated: 2026-04-19 Game studio Midnight Society parted ways with co-founder Dr Disrespect on June 24, 2024, following his acknowledgment of inappropriate messages referenced in the 2020 Twitch ban disclosures. On **June 24, 2024**, Midnight Society — the game studio Dr Disrespect co-founded in 2021 — announced it had parted ways with Beahm following his acknowledgment days earlier of the direct-message history that former Twitch employees had publicly alleged caused the 2020 Twitch ban. Multiple sponsors also terminated their relationships in the same 72-hour window. Beahm resumed streaming on YouTube Live within weeks; his audience has continued at reduced scale through 2025–2026. --- # Hololive EN Myth debut - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/hololive-en-myth-debut-2020/ - Tags: vtuber, hololive, english, launch - Updated: 2026-04-19 Hololive English's first-generation "Myth" debuted in mid-September 2020 — introducing Gawr Gura, Mori Calliope, Watson Amelia, Takanashi Kiara and Ninomae Ina'nis — the moment widely credited with bringing VTubing into the English-language mainstream. On **September 12–13, 2020**, Hololive Production debuted its first-generation English-language branch, **Hololive EN "Myth"** — comprising Mori Calliope, Takanashi Kiara, Ninomae Ina'nis, Gawr Gura, and Watson Amelia. The five debut streams collectively attracted hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers and within weeks each member had crossed 500K YouTube subscribers. Gawr Gura passed 1M subscribers within six weeks of debut — then the fastest single-channel YouTube subscriber growth on record. Myth's success is widely cited as the inflection point at which VTubing transitioned from a Japanese niche to a global mainstream streaming category. --- # Hololive EN Justice debut - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/hololive-justice-debut-2024/ - Tags: vtuber, hololive, english, launch - Updated: 2026-04-19 Hololive EN's fourth-generation branch "Justice" debuted in May 2024 — Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame, Gigi Murin, Cecilia Immergreen, Raora Panthera — marking Hololive EN's first new generation in over a year and setting new debut-viewership records within the EN branch. On **May 11–12, 2024**, Hololive Production debuted **Hololive EN "Justice"** — a four-member fourth-generation English-language branch comprising Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame, Gigi Murin, Cecilia Immergreen, and Raora Panthera. The generation's debut was the highest-viewership Hololive EN debut since Myth in 2020, with several members crossing 250K subscribers within 48 hours. Justice's debut followed Advent (November 2023) and marked Hololive EN's accelerated release cadence through the 2023–2026 period. --- # Kai Cenat wins fourth consecutive Streamer of the Year - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/kai-cenat-streamer-of-year-2025/ - Tags: streamer-awards, award, kai-cenat - Updated: 2026-04-19 Kai Cenat won Streamer of the Year at the 2024 Streamer Awards (held March 2025), his fourth consecutive win in the category and a record within the award's short history. At the **2024 Streamer Awards** (held March 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, covering the 2024 calendar year), Kai Cenat won **Streamer of the Year** for the fourth consecutive time — a record in the award's short history. The win cemented Kai's position as the most-recognized creator of the post-2022 Twitch era, an equivalent placement to xQc's 2020–2022 dominance and Asmongold's mid-2010s WoW-era cultural centrality, compressed into a tighter window. --- # Kai Cenat NYC Union Square incident - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/kai-cenat-union-square-2023/ - Tags: irl, arrest, nyc, creator-event - Updated: 2026-04-19 A spontaneous giveaway Kai Cenat announced live at NYC's Union Square on August 4, 2023 escalated into a crowd-control incident declared a riot by NYPD, resulting in his brief arrest on multiple charges later plea-bargained down. On **August 4, 2023**, Kai Cenat announced a PlayStation 5 giveaway at New York's Union Square to his live Twitch audience. Thousands of fans converged on the park over the following hours; NYPD declared the gathering a riot and made multiple arrests, including Kai himself. He was charged with inciting a riot and unlawful assembly. Charges were subsequently plea-bargained down, and Kai publicly addressed his responsibility in the days that followed. The incident remains one of the clearest modern examples of how live-creator announcements can generate real-world crowd-safety consequences at a scale few creators are prepared for. --- # KSI vs Logan Paul 2 - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/ksi-vs-logan-paul-2/ - Tags: boxing, dazn, influencer - Updated: 2026-04-18 The 2019 professional boxing rematch between KSI and Logan Paul at the Staples Center — widely credited as the event that legitimized creator/influencer boxing as a commercial format. On November 9, 2019, KSI defeated Logan Paul by split decision in a professional boxing match at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, broadcast on DAZN. It was the second match between the two (the first, an amateur fight in Manchester in 2018, ended in a majority draw). The professionalization of the rematch, and its commercial success, is widely credited as launching the modern creator-boxing industry, which has since produced Misfits Boxing (KSI), Paul's Most Valuable Promotions, and dozens of pay-per-view events headlined by online creators. --- # La Velada del Año IV - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/la-velada-iv-2024/ - Tags: boxing, spanish, record, stadium - Updated: 2026-04-19 The 2024 edition of Ibai's annual Spanish-language creator boxing event at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium set the all-time single-channel Twitch concurrent-viewership record at over 3.8 million viewers. ## Overview **La Velada del Año IV** was held on **July 13, 2024** at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid, produced by Ibai Llanos through his KOI esports organization. The event featured multiple boxing matches between Spanish-speaking creators, live musical performances from Quevedo, Bizarrap and others, and a produced broadcast package rivaling a professional boxing PPV. ## Record The event's Twitch broadcast peaked at **approximately 3.8–3.9 million concurrent viewers**, breaking the single-channel concurrent record set by the prior year's Velada III (~3.4M). It is the most-watched live-streaming broadcast of its kind on any platform to date, measured by single-channel peak. ## Legacy La Velada established Spanish-language streaming as a commercial force on a scale comparable to or exceeding the US English-language market in live-event terms, and helped legitimize the creator-boxing format pioneered by KSI and Logan Paul in 2018–2019. --- # La Velada del Año V - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/la-velada-v-2025/ - Tags: boxing, spanish, record, stadium - Updated: 2026-04-19 Ibai's fifth annual creator boxing event was held at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona on July 26, 2025, drawing approximately 70,000 in-venue attendees and a Twitch peak of 4.1M concurrent viewers — breaking the La Velada IV concurrent record it had set 12 months earlier. **La Velada del Año V** was staged at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona on July 26, 2025 — a larger venue than the 2024 edition's Bernabéu footprint — drawing approximately 70,000 in-venue attendees. The Twitch broadcast peaked at **approximately 4.1 million concurrent viewers**, setting a new all-time single-channel concurrent record on the platform. Musical performances included Quevedo, Bad Gyal, and Duki; the undercard featured several members of the 2024 KOI creator roster. --- # Ludwig's 2021 subathon - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/ludwig-subathon-2021/ - Tags: subathon, record, twitch - Updated: 2026-04-18 A 31-day Twitch subathon that broke the platform's concurrent-subscription record (282,191) and defined the modern subathon format. ## Overview On **March 14, 2021**, Ludwig Ahgren started a subathon with a simple rule: each new Tier 1 subscription added 10 seconds to the timer. He expected the stream to last a few days. Instead it ran for **31 days**, hit a peak of **282,191 concurrent subs** (surpassing Ninja's previous Twitch record), and culminated in a scheduled April 13 end, at which point Ludwig capped the timer and ended the stream on his terms. The subathon catapulted Ludwig from a mid-tier creator into a top-tier one, normalized the subathon format across the platform, and prefigured his January 2022 move to YouTube Live. --- # Mafiathon (Kai Cenat's first subathon) - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/mafiathon-1-2023/ - Tags: subathon, record, kai-cenat - Updated: 2026-04-18 Kai Cenat's 30-day February 2023 subathon, during which he passed Ludwig's 2021 record with a peak of approximately 306,000 concurrent Twitch subscribers. ## Overview Kai Cenat's first **Mafiathon** ran for the full month of February 2023, during which the timer was extended by every new subscription. At its peak in late February, the stream crossed **approximately 306,000 concurrent subs**, surpassing Ludwig Ahgren's March 2021 record of 282,191. The subathon is credited as the moment Kai cemented his position as the defining streamer of the early-2020s Twitch era, succeeding xQc and Asmongold in audience-leadership terms. ## Notable moments - Extensive celebrity guest list including Drake, 21 Savage, Chief Keef, and Kevin Durant. - Multiple IRL excursions filmed throughout NYC during the month-long run. - Triggered a new wave of "guest streamer" content across Twitch and Kick. ## Legacy Mafiathon 1 reset the top-of-market for subathon ambitions and directly prefigured Kai's still-larger **Mafiathon 2** in late 2024, which itself broke his own record at approximately 727,000 concurrent subs. --- # Mafiathon 2 - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/mafiathon-2-2024/ - Tags: subathon, record, kai-cenat - Updated: 2026-04-19 Kai Cenat's follow-up subathon set the all-time Twitch active-sub record at approximately 727,000 — more than doubling his own 2023 peak and cementing him as the most commercially dominant streamer in Twitch history. ## Overview Kai Cenat's second **Mafiathon** ran from late September through November 1, 2024. Promoted for months in advance with a fictional mafia-themed storyline, elaborate set design in a rented Brooklyn warehouse, and a rotating cast of celebrity and creator guests, Mafiathon 2 was engineered from the outset to break every record available. ## Record At its peak in October 2024, the stream crossed **approximately 727,000 concurrent active Twitch subscriptions** — more than 2.3× Kai's own 2023 record (306K) and surpassing Ironmouse's interim 2024 peak of ~326K. ## Production - Dedicated warehouse build with themed rooms and in-character set pieces. - Hundreds of guests including Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Druski, J. Cole, Druski, Lil Yachty, and multiple sitting sports professionals. - Real-world events (basketball games, cooking competitions, in-house wrestling tournaments) produced specifically for the stream. ## Legacy Mafiathon 2 is likely the largest creator-driven live-production event in streaming history by commercial output. It also raised industry questions about whether the subathon-as-event format has reached a ceiling, since the production and guest costs required to meaningfully exceed Mafiathon 2 are substantial. --- # Mafiathon 3 announcement - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/mafiathon-3-announcement-2026/ - Tags: subathon, kai-cenat, 2026 - Updated: 2026-04-19 Kai Cenat announced Mafiathon 3 via a Valentine's Day 2026 Twitch teaser. Reported production scope exceeds both prior events, with a purpose-built 40,000 sq ft studio complex in Queens and a guest list that his team has publicly said will include multiple A-list musicians and at least one sitting NBA All-Star. On **February 14, 2026**, Kai Cenat posted a teaser to his Twitch and social channels formally announcing **Mafiathon 3**, with production slated for late Q3 2026. Reported budget exceeds Mafiathon 2 (2024) substantially, with a 40,000 sq ft custom build in Queens, a multi-week pre-tape storyline arc, and guest commitments that his team has said include multiple A-list musicians and at least one sitting NBA All-Star. Industry observers are divided on whether the format can meaningfully exceed Mafiathon 2's ~727K concurrent-sub record — the ceiling question raised at the end of Mafiathon 2 has only grown sharper with time. --- # Mixer shutdown - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/mixer-shutdown-2020/ - Tags: mixer, microsoft, platform-closure - Updated: 2026-04-18 Microsoft shut down its Mixer streaming platform in July 2020, roughly a year after paying ~$100M for exclusivity deals with Ninja and Shroud — the cautionary tale that still shapes how top creators negotiate platform contracts. ## Overview On **June 22, 2020**, Microsoft announced it would close Mixer on **July 22, 2020**, transitioning users to Facebook Gaming. Just ten months earlier, Microsoft had paid reported sums in the range of $20–30M for Ninja and $10M for Shroud to stream exclusively on Mixer, plus similar deals for Gothalion and King Gothalion. Despite marketing investment, Mixer failed to build a competitive audience — its global watch-time share never exceeded 3%. ## Consequences - Both Ninja and Shroud were **released from their exclusivity clauses** and paid out the remainder of their contracts. - Ninja **returned to Twitch** in September 2020. - Shroud **returned to Twitch** in August 2020. - The event reset industry assumptions about platform exclusivity — subsequent deals (Ludwig/YouTube 2021, Valkyrae/YouTube ongoing, xQc/Kick 2023) were structured with more creator-protective out-clauses. - It also preceded, and arguably influenced, Twitch's 2024 decision to permit simulcasting. --- # Ninja & Drake Fortnite stream - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/ninja-drake-fortnite-2018/ - Tags: fortnite, record, celebrity - Updated: 2026-04-18 Ninja's March 2018 Fortnite duo stream with Drake (and later Travis Scott and JuJu Smith-Schuster) peaked at over 628,000 concurrent Twitch viewers — briefly setting the platform's all-time single-channel record and marking the moment streaming crossed into mainstream celebrity culture. ## Overview On the evening of **March 14, 2018**, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins streamed Fortnite duos with rapper Drake, who had been playing the game privately during his current tour. Word of the upcoming stream spread through social media over the preceding hours. At peak, the broadcast reached **approximately 628,000 concurrent viewers** — an all-time Twitch single-channel record at the time — and drew further viewers when Travis Scott and Pittsburgh Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster joined later in the session. ## Cultural impact The stream is widely cited as the moment **streaming crossed into mainstream popular culture**. Within weeks: - Ninja appeared on the cover of ESPN The Magazine. - Late-night TV hosts began referencing him by name without explanation. - Fortnite itself accelerated into a cultural juggernaut on the back of creator visibility. - Corporate advertising began treating streamers as viable A-list celebrity partnerships. It also presaged the celebrity-guest streaming format that Kai Cenat, Adin Ross, and IShowSpeed would later build careers around. --- # OTK 2024 restructure - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/otk-restructure-2024/ - Tags: otk, org, business - Updated: 2026-04-19 OTK announced a 2024 leadership and membership restructure following internal disputes about organizational direction, with several founding members transitioning to advisory roles. In **November 2024**, OTK announced a leadership and roster restructure, with several founding members transitioning to advisory-only roles and new operational leadership taking over day-to-day production responsibilities for the Streamer Awards, OTK Games Expo, and related in-house productions. The restructure was attributed publicly to business-maturity considerations; internally it followed several months of disputes about organizational direction that had been subjects of sporadic on-stream comment by multiple founding members through 2024. --- # Plaqueboymax Kick signing - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/plaqueboymax-kick-deal-2025/ - Tags: kick, contract - Updated: 2026-04-19 Plaqueboymax signed a multi-year non-exclusive deal with Kick in May 2025, continuing the platform's 2023–2025 push to sign Twitch top-20 creators without requiring exclusivity. In **May 2025**, Plaqueboymax — a top-20 Twitch streamer through much of 2024 — signed a multi-year non-exclusive deal with Kick. Financial terms were not publicly disclosed. The signing followed a pattern of non-exclusive deals Kick had used since the 2023 xQc contract, and is representative of the 2024–2026 Kick strategy: use non-exclusivity as a wedge to pull creators onto the platform without forcing a zero-sum choice against Twitch. --- # PogChamps - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/pogchamps-2020/ - Tags: chess, tournament, 2020 - Updated: 2026-04-19 Chess.com's PogChamps series (2020–2021) pitted popular streamers against each other in chess tournaments with GM commentary — widely credited with igniting the 2020–2022 chess-streaming boom. **PogChamps** was a recurring chess tournament series hosted by Chess.com from mid-2020, bringing popular Twitch and YouTube streamers into bracketed chess competition with GM-level commentary (Hikaru Nakamura, Daniel Naroditsky, Eric Hansen). The first edition in June 2020 — featuring xQc, Ludwig, Voyboy, MoistCr1tikal and others — drew peak concurrent viewership in the high six figures. PogChamps is widely credited, alongside *The Queen's Gambit* and chess's pandemic engagement spike, with igniting the 2020–2022 chess-streaming boom that elevated Hikaru, the Botez sisters, and Chess.com itself into mainstream attention. --- # Pokimane moves to YouTube Live - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/pokimane-youtube-exit-2024/ - Tags: contract, youtube, exclusivity - Updated: 2026-04-19 After a decade on Twitch, Imane "Pokimane" Anys signed an exclusive live-streaming deal with YouTube in January 2024 — a significant symbolic loss for Twitch and a continuation of YouTube's creator-acquisition strategy that began with Ludwig in 2021. ## Overview On **January 29, 2024**, Pokimane announced an exclusive live-streaming deal with YouTube, ending a ten-year tenure on Twitch during which she became one of the most-followed female creators on the platform. Financial terms were not publicly disclosed. ## Context The deal continued YouTube's ongoing creator-acquisition strategy — Ludwig (November 2021), Dr Disrespect (after his 2020 Twitch ban), Valkyrae (exclusive since 2020), TimTheTatman (2021), LazarBeam, CouRage, and others. Pokimane was notable for being among the first Twitch-native Just Chatting / lifestyle creators to move, as opposed to the gaming-first creators who preceded her. ## Reception Reception was mixed — industry observers framed the move as confirmation of YouTube Live's continuing momentum against Twitch, while some of Pokimane's long-time community expressed concern about the loss of native Twitch culture (custom emotes, sub-gifting dynamics) in the transition. --- # Sidemen Charity Match 2023 - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/sidemen-charity-match-2023/ - Tags: football, charity, creator-football, london - Updated: 2026-04-18 The 2023 edition of the Sidemen's annual charity football match at London Stadium drew over 62,000 attendees and a peak YouTube Live audience of 2.8 million — including a viral IShowSpeed goal that trended globally. ## Overview On **September 9, 2023**, the Sidemen hosted their annual **Charity Match** at London Stadium. The event filled 62,007 seats (an attendance record for a creator-produced football match) and was broadcast live on YouTube to a peak concurrent audience of approximately **2.8 million viewers**. Net proceeds of over £4.5M were distributed across multiple UK charities including Teenage Cancer Trust and Campaign Against Living Miserably. ## IShowSpeed's viral moment Among the notable moments, **IShowSpeed** — a guest on the "YouTube Allstars" side — scored a goal that became one of the most-shared football clips of 2023 across TikTok and Instagram. The clip itself, decontextualized and shared in short-form, reached an order-of-magnitude larger audience than the live broadcast itself — a pattern characteristic of how the post-2022 streaming demographic discovers moments. ## Series context The Sidemen Charity Match has run annually since 2016 and scaled from a small community event into one of the largest creator-produced live events in the world, comparable in scope to Ibai's La Velada (Spain) and Kai Cenat's Mafiathons (US). --- # Sidemen Charity Match 2025 - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/sidemen-charity-match-2025/ - Tags: football, charity, wembley - Updated: 2026-04-19 The 2025 Sidemen Charity Match moved to Wembley Stadium — the first creator-produced sporting event to fill the ~90,000-capacity venue — with a YouTube Live peak of 3.2M concurrent viewers. The 2025 edition of the **Sidemen Charity Match** was the first to be held at **Wembley Stadium**, filling the ~90,000-capacity venue — the first creator-produced sporting event to do so. YouTube Live broadcast peak was approximately **3.2 million concurrent viewers**. IShowSpeed returned as a YouTube Allstars guest; the KSI-captained Sidemen side won in the dying minutes. Net charity proceeds reportedly exceeded £5.5M across UK-focused charities. --- # IShowSpeed 2025 world tour - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/speed-2025-world-tour/ - Tags: irl, global, tour - Updated: 2026-04-19 IShowSpeed's 2025 world tour spanned over 30 cities across 6 continents between March and September 2025, reportedly producing over $40M in creator revenue across livestreams, sponsorships, merchandise and branded activations. Between **March and September 2025**, IShowSpeed's world tour spanned more than 30 cities across six continents, including extended arcs in the UK, Japan, Korea, India, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, and Australia. Each regional arc was constructed around collaborations with local creators, musicians, and athletes. Industry estimates place total tour-attributable revenue — livestream ads, brand sponsorships, merchandise, branded activations, and travel-adjacent deals — at over **$40 million**, likely the largest single-year creator-tour revenue on record. --- # IShowSpeed meets Cristiano Ronaldo - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/speed-ronaldo-meeting-2024/ - Tags: football, ronaldo, irl, global - Updated: 2026-04-19 After years of publicly declaring Cristiano Ronaldo his hero, IShowSpeed met Ronaldo in person in Saudi Arabia in June 2024 — a livestream moment that trended globally and became one of the defining images of creator/athlete convergence. ## Overview On **June 19, 2024**, during a multi-week Middle East IRL tour, IShowSpeed was invited to meet **Cristiano Ronaldo** at Al-Nassr's training facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The meeting — which Speed had publicly dreamed of for years on stream — was broadcast live on YouTube and reached peak concurrent viewership of around 1.6 million. ## Cultural moment Speed's on-camera reaction (tears, screaming, near-collapse) became one of the most-shared clips of the year on TikTok, Instagram, and X. The event is frequently cited as a high-water mark for: - **Creator–athlete crossover** — Ronaldo, the most-followed person on Instagram, hosting a livestream creator. - **Global creator reach** — Speed's audience is distributed across the US, UK, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria, and the Middle East; the stream drew meaningful viewership from each. - **Authenticity as content** — the success of the moment hinged entirely on the genuineness of Speed's reaction, consistent with the demographic's preference for unpolished emotion over produced spectacle. --- # The Streamer Awards - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/streamer-awards/ - Tags: awards, annual, otk - Updated: 2026-04-18 An annual awards show for streamers and creators, founded by QTCinderella in 2022 and produced in partnership with OTK. The **Streamer Awards** is an annual creator-community awards show founded and hosted by QTCinderella. The inaugural show ran in March 2022 in Los Angeles, streamed on Twitch, and drew a peak concurrent viewership of over 380,000 — one of the largest non-gaming Twitch events of that year. Subsequent editions have been produced in partnership with OTK and have become a tentpole event on the creator calendar. --- # TheGrefg's Fortnite skin reveal - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/thegrefg-fortnite-skin-2021/ - Tags: fortnite, record, spanish - Updated: 2026-04-19 TheGrefg's Fortnite Icon Series skin reveal stream on January 11, 2021 peaked at approximately 2.47 million concurrent Twitch viewers — then the all-time single-channel Twitch concurrent record. On **January 11, 2021**, TheGrefg's Twitch broadcast revealing his in-game Fortnite Icon Series skin peaked at approximately **2.47 million concurrent viewers**, briefly setting Twitch's all-time single-channel concurrent record. The record was later surpassed by Ibai's La Velada series in Spanish-language streaming. The event is credited as a high-water mark for Spanish Twitch's ascent and for Fortnite's continued cultural relevance into 2021. --- # Twitch DMCA wave - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/twitch-dmca-wave-2020/ - Tags: dmca, copyright, vod, music - Updated: 2026-04-18 Twitch received a sudden surge of retroactive DMCA takedown notices in mid-2020 targeting years-old VODs and clips — its response (mass auto-deletion with no appeal) triggered widespread creator backlash and forced platform-wide changes to music handling. ## Overview Starting in mid-2020 and peaking in October–November, Twitch received an **unprecedented volume of retroactive DMCA takedown notices** from major music rights holders — many targeting VODs and clips that were years old. Twitch's initial response was automated: bulk-delete flagged content with no individual appeal process and no way for affected creators to see which specific clips triggered which strikes. ## Creator backlash The response was widely criticized. Affected creators — including many Partners with years of archived highlights — lost significant portions of their back-catalogue overnight. Twitch's TOS structure also meant that accumulating strikes could permanently terminate a channel, creating an existential risk from clips the creator may not have even remembered. ## Platform response Twitch subsequently: - Released a public blog post (October 20, 2020) acknowledging the handling was flawed. - Introduced bulk deletion tools so creators could clear archives proactively. - Launched **Twitch Soundtrack** (later integrated into general audio tooling), a rights-cleared music service for streamers. - Rolled out **in-stream music muting** powered by Amazon IVS technology. ## Legacy The 2020 DMCA wave is the canonical case study of a platform having to choose between rights-holder compliance and creator experience. It also permanently reshaped how streamers approach background music — the default assumption now is to avoid copyrighted music entirely or use royalty-free libraries. --- # Twitch gambling restriction - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/twitch-gambling-ban-2022/ - Tags: policy, gambling, stake, creator-pressure - Updated: 2026-04-18 Twitch announced in September 2022 that it would prohibit streams of unauthorized gambling sites, after a coordinated creator-led pressure campaign led by Pokimane, Mizkif and others reached a tipping point. ## Overview On **September 20, 2022**, Twitch announced a policy change: effective **October 18, 2022**, it would prohibit streaming of slots, roulette, and dice games on unlicensed sites (including Stake, Rollbit, Duelbits and Roobet). The decision came after weeks of escalating pressure from high-profile Twitch creators — including a public threat from Pokimane, Mizkif, QTCinderella, Devin Nash and others to lead a coordinated Christmas-week walkout if gambling content was not restricted. ## Background Slots streaming had grown into one of Twitch's largest verticals by 2021–2022, concentrated among a handful of streamers on reported multi-million-dollar sponsorship deals from crypto casino Stake. Critics argued the content encouraged problem gambling among a heavily teenage audience and that sponsored streamers failed to disclose they were gambling with house money rather than their own. ## Consequences - Most major slot streamers moved to Kick (which launched weeks after the Twitch announcement and embraced gambling content openly), with Trainwrecks and Roshtein the most visible migrants. - The event is frequently cited as the clearest example of **creator-coalition power over platform policy** to date. - Stake-adjacent gambling content remains common on Kick; Twitch has maintained the restriction through 2026. --- # Twitch shuts down in Korea - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/twitch-korea-shutdown-2024/ - Tags: korea, shutdown, network - Updated: 2026-04-19 Twitch ceased operations in South Korea in February 2024, citing prohibitively high network-fee regulations — one of Twitch's largest regional withdrawals and a stark indicator of the platform's cost pressures. On **February 27, 2024**, Twitch officially shut down its service in South Korea after pre-announcing the exit in December 2023. The stated reason was that South Korea's **"network usage fee"** regulation — which imposes paid-peering obligations on foreign platforms — made operations in the country structurally unprofitable. Korean creators and audiences migrated to Kick, YouTube Live, and local platforms like Chzzk (Naver's streaming service launched to fill the gap) and SOOP (formerly AfreecaTV). --- # Twitch 2024 layoffs - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/twitch-layoffs-2024/ - Tags: layoffs, amazon, business - Updated: 2026-04-19 Twitch cut approximately 35% of its workforce in January 2024 (~500 employees), part of a broader restructuring that followed the 2023 staff reductions and Korea exit. On **January 10, 2024**, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced that the company would lay off approximately **35% of its workforce** — around 500 employees — in a restructuring effort. The cuts followed a 400-person layoff in March 2023 and the December 2023 announcement of Twitch's withdrawal from South Korea. The layoffs and Korea exit were widely interpreted as indicators that Twitch, despite its market-leading watch-time share, has struggled to reach profitability under Amazon ownership. --- # Twitch paid-subscription tier restructure - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/twitch-viewership-verification-2025/ - Tags: policy, monetization, subs - Updated: 2026-04-19 Twitch announced a restructured subscription and ad-revenue framework in March 2025, raising baseline sub splits for mid-tier creators and introducing a "Plus" program to retain top-tier Partners at risk of migrating to Kick or YouTube Live. In **March 2025**, Twitch announced the most significant monetization restructure of its modern era. Changes included: - Baseline **Affiliate sub split raised to 55/45** (from 50/50) after hitting defined watch-time thresholds. - A new **"Twitch Plus" Partner program** offering select top creators 70/30 splits without exclusivity requirements — widely interpreted as a direct response to Kick's 95/5 and ongoing top-creator defections. - Revised ad-revenue sharing for streams exceeding 3,000 concurrent viewers. The restructure was framed internally as a response to the combined pressure of the 2024 layoffs, the Korea exit, and continued high-profile creator migrations (Pokimane 2024 to YouTube, ongoing Kick signings). Industry reception was cautiously positive, with critics noting that Twitch's baseline creator economics remain meaningfully below Kick and the reformed YouTube Live splits. --- # Emiru TwitchCon incident - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/twitchcon-2024-emiru/ - Tags: twitchcon, safety, creator-event - Updated: 2026-04-19 Emiru publicly disclosed being assaulted by a fan at TwitchCon San Diego in July 2024, prompting an industry-wide reckoning with creator-event safety protocols. On **July 20, 2024**, at TwitchCon San Diego, OTK creator Emiru was assaulted by a fan during a meet-and-greet. She disclosed the incident publicly days later and criticized TwitchCon's event-safety protocols as inadequate for the scale of creator-fan interactions the event facilitates. Twitch issued a statement committing to review protocols. The incident prompted broader industry conversation about how creator events — which operate at mid-sized convention scale but concentrate parasocial intensity unique to streaming — should be structured for creator physical safety. --- # Valkyrae increases 100 Thieves stake - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/valkyrae-100t-stake-2024/ - Tags: business, 100-thieves - Updated: 2026-04-19 Valkyrae and 100 Thieves announced an increased ownership stake for the creator in September 2024, positioning her as a more senior partner in the organization's creative direction. On **September 10, 2024**, 100 Thieves announced that Valkyrae's ownership stake in the organization had been increased, formalizing a more senior partner role alongside founder/CEO Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag. Details of the stake change were not publicly disclosed, but the move is representative of a broader 2023–2025 trend in creator-led esports/lifestyle organizations structuring ownership to retain top talent as true partners rather than contractors. --- # xQc's Kick deal - Type: event - URL: https://streamers.wiki/event/xqc-kick-deal-2023/ - Tags: kick, contract, simulcast - Updated: 2026-04-18 Félix "xQc" Lengyel signed a non-exclusive multi-year deal with Kick reported to be worth up to $100 million, marking Kick's largest-ever creator signing and a watershed moment for simulcasting. On **June 19, 2023**, xQc announced a two-year non-exclusive deal with Kick reportedly worth up to $100 million. The deal was structured non-exclusively, allowing him to continue streaming on Twitch simultaneously — which at the time required unusual accommodation since Twitch's Partner Agreement prohibited simulcasting. Kick's willingness to fund the most-watched variety streamer of the prior three years, without demanding exclusivity, established Kick as a credible alternative platform overnight and pressured Twitch into the 2024 simulcasting policy reversal. --- # 100 Thieves - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/100-thieves/ - Tags: esports, apparel, california - Updated: 2026-04-18 A premium lifestyle brand and gaming organization founded by Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag in 2017, with competitive esports teams, a content creator roster, and an apparel line. **100 Thieves** is a gaming, esports, and lifestyle brand founded in 2017 by former Call of Duty world champion Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag. The organization operates: - Esports teams in Valorant, League of Legends, and other titles. - A content creator roster including Valkyrae (who became a co-owner in 2021), CouRage, BrookeAB, Jack "CouRage" Dunlop and others. - An apparel line with frequent drop-culture releases and collaborations (Juicy Couture, Gucci). - A Los Angeles compound and studio space. The organization raised from investors including Drake, Scooter Braun, and Dan Gilbert. --- # AMP - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/amp/ - Tags: collective, house, atlanta, amp - Updated: 2026-04-19 AMP (Any Means Possible) — a creator collective co-founded by Kai Cenat and peers in 2019, whose success paralleled and fueled Kai's rise to Twitch dominance. **AMP** ("Any Means Possible") is a creator collective co-founded by Kai Cenat, Fanum, Duke Dennis, Agent 00, ImDavisss and Chrisnxtdoor in 2019. The group's YouTube channel features challenge and sketch content; individually its members comprise a significant share of Twitch's top-tier Just Chatting streamers. AMP is one of the defining collectives of the post-2020 Twitch era alongside OTK and Offline TV. --- # FaZe Clan - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/faze-clan/ - Tags: esports, call-of-duty, lifestyle - Updated: 2026-04-18 A gaming organization founded in 2010 as a Call of Duty trickshotting clan that grew into a publicly listed esports-and-lifestyle company, later acquired by GameSquare in 2024. FaZe Clan began in 2010 as a Call of Duty trickshotting clan on YouTube and grew into one of the most recognizable esports and lifestyle brands of the 2010s. It went public via SPAC in 2022, struggled financially, and was acquired by GameSquare in 2024. FaZe has housed competitive teams across CS, Valorant, PUBG, Apex Legends and others, and a high-profile content roster including FaZe Rug, FaZe Adapt, and (previously) Nickmercs. --- # Hololive Production - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/hololive/ - Tags: vtuber, japanese, agency - Updated: 2026-04-19 The dominant VTuber agency, operating generational rosters of Japanese, English, Indonesian and Chinese talents under the Cover Corp company. **Hololive Production** is a VTuber talent agency operated by Cover Corp (東証グロース: 5253). Founded in 2016, it has grown into the dominant global VTuber agency, operating branch rosters across Japanese (Hololive JP), English (Hololive EN / Myth / Council / Advent / Justice), Indonesian (Hololive ID), and previously Chinese and Mexican markets. Cover Corp went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2023. Notable Hololive talents include Gawr Gura, Usada Pekora, Mori Calliope, Watson Amelia, Houshou Marine, and dozens of others. --- # KOI - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/koi/ - Tags: esports, spanish, ibai - Updated: 2026-04-19 Spanish esports organization co-founded by Ibai Llanos and FC Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué in 2022 — produces La Velada del Año and operates League of Legends, Valorant and Rocket League teams. **KOI** is a Spanish esports organization co-founded by Ibai Llanos and Gerard Piqué in April 2022. The org operates competitive teams across League of Legends, Valorant, and other titles, and produces Ibai's annual **La Velada del Año** stadium boxing event. In 2023, KOI merged with Rogue's LEC slot, placing it in Europe's top-tier League of Legends competition. --- # Misfits (KSI / Sidemen) - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/misfits/ - Tags: youtube, uk, football - Updated: 2026-04-18 The British YouTube creator collective better known as the Sidemen — seven creators who have collectively built one of the largest creator businesses on YouTube. The **Sidemen** are a British YouTube collective formed in 2013, consisting of KSI, Miniminter, Zerkaa, TBJZL (Tobjizzle), Vikkstar123, Behzinga, and W2S. Collectively they operate one of the most successful creator-owned businesses on the platform — including the Sidemen main channel and side channels, the Sidemen Show, Sidemen Clothing, the XIX Vodka brand (KSI), Sides restaurants, and annual live events including the Sidemen Charity Match. KSI's additional ventures (Prime with Logan Paul, Misfits Boxing) extend the Sidemen orbit further into mainstream business. --- # Misfits Gaming - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/misfits-gaming/ - Tags: esports, florida-panthers - Updated: 2026-04-18 An esports organization founded in 2016 and partially owned by the Florida Panthers NHL franchise. Operates teams and academy programs across multiple titles. **Misfits Gaming Group** is an esports organization founded in 2016 with investment from the Florida Panthers. It operates teams across League of Legends, Rocket League, and other titles, and owns Florida Mayhem of the Overwatch League. --- # Nijisanji - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/nijisanji/ - Tags: vtuber, japanese, agency - Updated: 2026-04-19 The second-largest VTuber agency globally, operated by Anycolor Inc., with Japanese and English-language (Nijisanji EN) rosters. **Nijisanji** is a VTuber talent agency operated by Anycolor Inc. (東証グロース: 5032). Founded in 2018, it is the second-largest VTuber agency globally after Hololive, and is structurally distinct in operating a larger, more flexible roster that emphasizes collaboration-heavy content. Nijisanji English's Luxiem/Noctyx/ILUNA waves are widely credited with driving the 2021–2023 expansion of male-VTuber audiences in the West. --- # Offline TV - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/offline-tv/ - Tags: collective, house, la - Updated: 2026-04-19 The pioneering creator-collective-and-house, founded in 2017 in Los Angeles by Scarra, Pokimane, Disguised Toast and LilyPichu — the model subsequent collectives (OTK, AMP) were built on. **Offline TV** (OTV) is a creator collective founded in 2017 in Los Angeles. Its founders — Scarra, Pokimane, Disguised Toast and LilyPichu — established the "content house + collaborative group channel" model that OTK (2021), AMP, and dozens of smaller collectives subsequently adapted. OTV's main YouTube channel hosts group content (game nights, vlogs, prank series); individual members stream independently. Current and former members include Michael Reeves, Sykkuno, Yvonne, Fed, QuarterJade and others. --- # OTK (One True King) - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/otk/ - Tags: twitch, austin, variety - Updated: 2026-04-18 A content-creator collective and media company founded in January 2021 by a group of prominent Twitch streamers, headquartered in Austin, Texas. **OTK** (One True King) is a streamer-owned creator collective founded in January 2021 by Mizkif, Asmongold, Esfand, Rich Campbell, Tips Out, Mitch Jones, Sodapoppin, CDawgVA, Emiru, Nmplol and Malena. OTK has grown from a content org into a full media company running event productions, management, merchandise, and the **Streamer Awards**, an annual creator-community awards show launched in 2022. The organization has been at the center of several high-profile internal disputes, most notably the 2022 controversy that led to Mizkif temporarily stepping away from the organization. --- # VShojo - Type: org - URL: https://streamers.wiki/org/vshojo/ - Tags: vtuber, american, agency - Updated: 2026-04-19 A US-based, talent-first VTuber agency built around the idea that creators retain more ownership and creative control than the Japanese agency model allows. **VShojo** is a US-based VTuber agency founded in late 2020 by a group of established Western VTubers and industry operators. Its positioning is talent-first — creators retain more IP, revenue share and creative control than under the Japanese agency standard. The agency has gone through multiple phases and restructurings; Kson's leadership of VShojo Japan in 2024–2026 marked a second era of the company.