The change of power in the White House of the United States has more influence on the number of spectators at Amazon’s streaming service Twitch than many new games: two men in particular benefit from the opposite edges of the political spectrum.
Who is the big winner on Twitch after the inauguration?
The former MMORPG streamer Asmongold gave up his main channel in December 2022 because the hype around himself became too much for him. Since then he has been streaming on the second channel Zackrawrr. But after 2 years he also has incognito and in exile as many spectators as before. Asmongold is the biggest streamer on Twitch next to the British Caedrel, which benefits from the hype around LOL.
In the eyes of his competitors, Asmongold is now considered the “most important political commentator in the platform” than the one with the most reach. The Texan deals with the American President Donald Trump every day and other news of the daily business.
He has an excerpts of his streams uploaded to YouTube by an editor and thus regularly reaches another millions of spectators.
In the last 14 days, the audience lessons at Asmongold have grown by 130 %. It shows a few hours of gaming, but 85 % of his content run under “Just Chatting” – with 55,000 he has a significantly higher viewer cut than when he shows games.
Who benefits in addition to Asmongold? The streamer Hasanabi has always dealt with politics. Above all, he benefited financially from the hustle and bustle in the White House. His spectator lessons have increased by 25 % in the past 14 days. With the Twitch subscriptions, he is now in 5th place in the ranking with almost 53,000 subscriptions. He apparently receives a lot of support from his followers.
Hasanabi only shows content for Just Chatting and has an average of 33,000 spectators. For the audience lessons, he is in 6th place with 3.7 million hours, just behind Blast Premier, the tournaments in Counter-Strike 2.
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It crashes between the two
Do the two have a lot to do together? Actually not. Most of the time, Hasanabi and Asmongold avoid each other. But since Trump has been in office, there is a lot of cracking between the two.
Hasanabi has accused Asmongold of creating a “safe space for Nazis” with vague statements about the Holocaust. When trying to be “edgy”, he would go out over the destination. The English term can roughly be translated as “provocative differently”.
Asamongold has been denied against the allegations and his editor has accused Hasanabi in a compilation of trivializing terrorism and terrorism organizations.
At Asmongold, Hasanabi sees above all that he is intoxicating his own meaning and relevance.
One comes from mmorpgs, the other from politics
When did that start? Hasanabi has always done what he is doing on Twitch. The streamer comes from this political direction.
The US election 2020 already played a lot into the cards and brought growth on the canal. Many younger people seem to find out more about Hasanabi in the USA and take a look at his channel or in addition to television news.
For Asmongold, Trump is something like Johny Depp 2.0
At Asmongold, the change from the gaming streamer to reaction streamer and political commentator gradually took place. Apparently, the trial for Johnny Depp and Amber Heard at Asmongold and many other streamers have awakened the hunger for so-called “drama content”. Even today, years after the process, the clips around Johnny Depp are the most popular on the Asmongold channel.
In the meantime, as Mongold, after controversial statements about the Gaza conflict, ASMONGOLD had a spell and said he used the time to think about himself. Then he also said he wanted to change.
That also plays a role in Germany? No, Twitch and politics are still clearly apart in Germany. There was only a short visit by Robert Habeck at Handofblood recently. 10 years ago Lefloid had to go to Merkel – now Habeck is sitting in front of 50,000 spectators on Twitch at the tile table from Handofblood