The wiki for streaming.
An open, interlinked knowledge base covering every streamer, platform, concept, org and event that shapes live streaming — written for humans and understood natively by machines.
This week in streaming
- streamer Adin Ross American streamer who moved to Kick after his 2023 indefinite Twitch ban, known for celebrity-guest streams and provocative Just Chatting content.
- streamer Agent 00 American creator and AMP co-founder, historically NBA 2K-focused.
- streamer Alanzoka One of the most-followed Portuguese-language streamers on Twitch and a formative figure in the Brazilian streaming scene.
- streamer Amouranth American streamer whose extensive cross-platform content portfolio and investment activity have made her a recurring example in platform-meta and creator-economics coverage.
- streamer Asmongold 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.
- streamer AuronPlay One of the most-followed Spanish-language creators on Twitch and a founding figure of modern Spanish streaming culture.
- streamer Behzinga Founding Sidemen member whose solo channel blends fitness/marathon content with variety and gaming.
- streamer BotezLive Sister duo Alexandra and Andrea Botez, co-hosts of the BotezLive Twitch and YouTube channels, formative figures in bringing chess to mainstream streaming audiences.
Featured streamers
See all →IShowSpeed
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.
KSI
British YouTube creator, Sidemen co-founder, professional boxer, and co-founder of the Prime Hydration beverage with Logan Paul.
Logan Paul
American YouTube creator, podcaster (Impaulsive), professional wrestler with WWE, and Prime Hydration co-founder.
Ninja
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.
Ibai
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.
Kai Cenat
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.
W2S
Youngest founding member of the Sidemen and one of YouTube's most-subscribed British channels, historically best known for FIFA content.
AuronPlay
One of the most-followed Spanish-language creators on Twitch and a founding figure of modern Spanish streaming culture.
Platforms
See all →Kick
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.
Rumble
A Canadian video platform positioned as a free-speech alternative to YouTube, with a secondary live-streaming product. Known for hosting political commentary creators.
TikTok Live
The live-streaming feature of TikTok — mobile-first, gift-driven, and responsible for several viral meta trends like NPC streaming.
Twitch
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.
YouTube Live
Google's live-streaming product, integrated directly into YouTube. Strongest for long-form VOD monetization and a rising
Concepts & culture
See all →Bits
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.
Copypasta
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.
DMCA
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act — US copyright law whose takedown-notice provisions routinely impact streamers, especially for unlicensed background music.
Emote
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.
Gifts (TikTok)
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.
GTA RP
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.
Notable events
See all →Mafiathon 3 announcement
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.
Sidemen Charity Match 2025
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.
La Velada del Año V
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.
Plaqueboymax Kick signing
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.
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