The list of the 10 most watched Twitch streamers in 2022 streaming from the USA has been published on Twitter. Our author Schuhmann says: The list shows that gaming in 2022 was not in good shape.
What is this list? The list of stream charts shows the “most watched Twitch channels” from the USA with their watched hours and also shows how long the respective streamers were on the air themselves.
The 3 winners on the list are:
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Why does this show how badly gaming did on Twitch in 2022? The number one, HasanAbi, only has secondary things to do with gaming.
Although the 31-year-old Hasan Piker also played a little Valorant, CoD and Elden Ring, he spent most of the time on one channel in “Just Chatting”: He is a political streamer, a kind of CNN for the generation “Twitch” – he also takes every Twitch drama he can find.
Number 3 on the list, Trainwreck more or less sold its soul and channel to online casino Stake in 2022 and has almost always been in the slots category, gambling huge sums of money on online slots.
Trainwreck actually comes from gaming and is a gaming streamer, but has only shown a few typical games in 2022.
Asmongold only shows a few MMORPGs, lots of Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard
What about Asmongold, he’s a WoW nerd? At Asmongold, the statistics are deceptive.
Because Asmongold has an enormously high number of watched hours, for the fact that he only streams half as often as the others, but only showed relatively few games on his channel in 2022: Although he played significantly more than the other two top streamers, most notably the MMORPGs Lost Ark and WoW, but the majority of his views also come from Just Chatting.
Because Asmongold used the process of Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard for his success like no other this year. Most of the WoW streams he did were on his second channel, which is not included in the statistics.
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Numbers 6 and 8 on the list are not typical gaming streamers either:
Are gaming streamers even on the list? Yes of course. Away from the top 3 things are looking better. There are the typical “just a game” and “what’s hot” streamers:
Where are xQc and shroud? They stream from Canada and have their own list: xQc has almost 3 times the hours of viewership as HasanAbi, so he would dominate the US list.
The extremely strong Spanish-speaking streamers are also missing from the list.
What are the streamers saying about the list? HasanAbi is obviously proud of first place. YouTuber Ludwig points out that if you added his secondary channel numbers to the main channel, Asmongold would sweep him away, to which the hot-blooded commentator says, “How ’bout you fuck off?”
Trainwreck congratulates everyone else, but – as is his way – separately points out how great it is that he comes in 3rd place despite not having streamed for 3 months. He also thanks his fans for their support despite “all the bullshit”: With “bullshit” he apparently means criticism of him for seducing young people to gamble and getting paid handsomely for it. Even Twitch has now banned Stake.
Asmongold acts like he doesn’t belong on the list. Says he has no idea how he got on the list. It’s like making Elon Musk “Streamer of the Year” because people published bitcoin scams about him. Asmongold apparently forgot that he mercilessly milked the “Johnny Depp” process and achieved record values on Twitch here.
DrDisrespect, permanently banned from Twitch, is back from exile once again and comments: “Sweet numbers” – which also resonates: If he were still on Twitch, he would of course pocket them all.
2022 in gaming: Many flops, even more delays
Was the year 2022 so bad for gaming? If you follow Twitch, yes. The only two new games in the list of the top 15 games were Lost Ark (13th place) and Elden Ring (15th place), which was only relevant for a short time.
Otherwise, old games (Valorant, Apex Legends, Fortnite) and really old games (LoL, GTA 5, CS:GO, Minecraft, DOTA 2) dominate the list of top games over the year.
Few new, big games came out in 2022 – games like Battlefield 2042 were disappointing, New World was not the long-awaited hit, many others were postponed to 2023.
There wasn’t a game that triggered a real hype. Therefore, many viewers and the top streamers apparently turn to other topics.
Maybe there will be more strong games on Twitch in 2023:
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