The German streamer Kevin “Papaplatte” Teller (27) has become almost the most-watched streamer in the world on Twitch in the last 7 days. He tours Europe with his podcast partner Renzmann and streams for 12 hours every day. Only one major global event in League of Legends costs Papaplatte his place in the sun.
How strong is Papaplatte on Twitch right now? In the last 7 days, from September 29th to October 5th, Papaplatte increased his viewing hours, the most important statistic on Twitch, by 220%. With 4.27 million viewing hours, it is extremely strong and is in second place worldwide.
He streamed 85 hours in 7 days and had an average of 50,319 viewers – at its peak there were 77,408 simultaneous viewers. Papaplatte is on air for around 12 hours every day.
According to the Twitch Tracker, he is at the top of the German Twitch when it comes to financially lucrative subs and has 40,170 (equivalent to around €85,000), more than the German streamers EliasN97 and Zarbex. Internationally, Papaplatte is far from the top places – IronMouse is virtually ahead here with almost 300,000 subs.
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Papaplatte and Renzmann in the motorhome dominate Twitch
How does Papaplatte win Twitch? Papaplatte has been touring Europe in a motorhome with his podcast partner Dominik “Reez” Reezman for a week. They call it “Edeltour 3.0” after their podcast “Edeltalk”, where Papaplatte once experienced a legendary defeat.
The tour started on September 28th and in this version is supposed to lead primarily to southeastern Europe; destinations are the Czech Republic, Romania and Albania.
Papaplatte was also seen with Renzmann in the last season of 7 vs. Wild.
Papaplatte often broadcasts from the cockpit or shows situations from the trip.
Co-streaming in LoL is even stronger than papaplatte
Who can’t he pass? The League of Legends World Championship is currently underway. The main round has just begun.
The American Caedrel, an expert in Lague of Legends, broadcasts and comments on every match via Riot Games’ “co-streaming” program. He uses Riot’s official stream, but puts his voice over the matches.
This triggers a huge stream of viewers. Papaplatte doesn’t think about that either. Caedrel has an average of 74,000 viewers and even reached 226,000 at its peak – especially when top players like Faker are on the road, hundreds of thousands tune in.
The combination of a huge e-sports event and an influencer who comes in person to provide expert analysis is popular with LoL. More people watch the individual streamer than the professional teams that otherwise cover e-sports. This was also a phenomenon in Germany surrounding the streamer Tolkin. In Spain people watch Ibai.
The German Twitch can be found
This is what lies behind it: These IRL and event streams in which Twitch works like a TV format are a German phenomenon. The head of Twitch has now noticed this too.
Something like this rarely exists in this form in the USA. Every now and then Mizkif does something like a boot camp where influencers get fit. But Mizkif is also someone who consciously looks to Europe and streamers like Papaplatte to find new ideas. Otherwise, the anemic “reaction meta” largely dominates in the USA.
There are also big events like a boxing event, for example in Spain, but these are events for one evening. Such longer projects over several days are a German thing.
In Germany, Knossi in particular has been pushing this form of Twitch since 2021 with events that are reminiscent of RTL2 formats such as “das Angel-Camp” or Promi BigBrother. The streamer Skyline-TV, which is also the cameraman for Knossi and MontanaBlack, has established high-quality IRL streams.
In the last few months, an IRL meta has established itself, in which streamers travel with content creator friends and film their adventures. But major gaming events from the USA are even bigger:
Special gaming events in LoL, WoW and Counter-Strike dominated Twitch last week