Why Twitch streaming is so addictive – The Daily Wildcat

When I was young, the early 2010s was a time of experimenting when it came to the internet. All sorts of websites were either being invented or gaining traction. Facebook was dominating the social media industry, YouTube was becoming a household name for watching video content and then there was Twitch, which was one of the first websites to capitalize on the concept of gaming streams. Being exposed to all of this change, an impressionable 12-year-old me found herself gravitating towards the side of the internet that was filled with, what we call now, gaming content. To give a brief definition of what it is, depending on the creator, gaming content is essentially recordings of another person playing video games. I remember being so obsessed with watching those kinds of videos, made by gaming creators like PewDiePie, ChilledChaos, CaptainSparklez. And whenever my parents saw me watching these types of videos so intently on my fourth generation iPod, I was always asked this question: “How do you find watching someone else play a video game so entertaining?” In hindsight, I can understand my parent’s confusion. Video games were meant to be played. Where’s the fun that comes from watching someone else…
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