Twitch Streamer Has Wholesome Moment After Getting First Viewers

When a few viewers tuned into Nick Kelly’s first stream and began interacting with the streamer, he was overjoyed, creating a Twitch feel good story. Too often when it comes to Twitch, and streaming culture in general, there tends to be a focus on negative encounters or feuds between streamers. So when a few viewers stumbled on Nick Kelly’s small Just Chatting stream and decided to share his stream with others, it snowballed into a Twitch feel good story. Twitch is a strange place for a number of reasons. The interaction between streamer and viewer is simultaneously intimate and distant, with streamers inviting the Internet into their world. It is also a place of gross toxicity, where tribalism leads to viewers of one streamer berating another that their chosen streamer calls out. A prime example of this being when xQc’s fans lobbed death threats at Ash when the two streamers met in the Rust OfflineTV server. Despite the existence of negativity, good can happen on the platform, such is the case when a new streamer received an outpouring of support. Nick Kelly’s stream was found by a group of friends who weren’t sure if the streamer was for real. But after…
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