Twitch
Live gaming platform
Twitch is a live-streaming platform, primarily for video games but expanding to music, talk shows, and other content.
Viewers watch streamers play games, chat in real time, and subscribe to channels: He makes a living streaming on Twitch.
The platform has spawned its own culture of emotes, raids, and donation systems. (Lowercase twitch is a sudden involuntary movement.)
Steady continuous flow
- chatInformal verbal exchange
- emoteExpress with theatricality
- viewerOne who observes visually
- subscriberOne who enrolls regularly
donation · raid · highlight · clip · platform · emotes · subscribers · donations
Professional video game competitions
- speedrunOptimized rapid game completion
- multiplayerInvolving multiple participants
- controllerDevice directing a system
- consoleComfort in distress
stream
Steady continuous flow
subscriber · donation · raid · highlight · clip · platform · emotes · subscribers · donations · bits
esports
Professional video game competitions
- speedrunOptimized rapid game completion
- multiplayerInvolving multiple participants
- controllerDevice directing a system
console · gameplay · tournament · playthrough
- Media platformsTV, radio, cable, satellite, streaming
- online gamingonline gaming, online multiplayer, co-op, multiplayer games, clans
- online spaceswebsite, websites, webpage, web pages, web page
- Gaming Cultureesports, streamers, tournaments, Discord, gamertags
- internet culturememes, meme, trolling, influencers, content creators
- Digital Entertainmentstreaming services, video streaming, music streaming, live streaming, Netflix
Twitchstillness
Complete lack of motion
glide · steady · graceful movement · relaxation · fluid motion
Twitchstillness
Complete lack of motion
motionlessness · immobility · calm · steadiness · paralysis
TwitchNetflix
Subscription streaming service
Hulu · Amazon Prime Video · video on demand · VOD · YouTube
- eye twitchInvoluntary eyelid movement
- eye twitchingInvoluntary eyelid muscle contractions
- muscle twitchingInvoluntary fiber contractions
- nervous twitch
- muscle twitchInvoluntary muscular contraction
- twitchy nose