This was not a new discovery. I am very familiar with the platform. I’ve had a Twitch account for a while now but I haven’t really been on it religiously. I just downloaded it to mainly watch live streams or even recorded streams of Sims 4. That includes the game plays or buildings. But I never really gotten into it…until recently. By recently, I mean last Monday last week.

I came across a live stream of someone playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. And if you know me well enough, then it won’t be a surprise why I gravitated towards that stream. I dabbled in this CS frenzy way back when, my teen years really, when I was still in the Philippines. So when I found that stream I was hooked a bit. I mean, nostalgia you know?

So while I was on the bus on Monday, I was on the way home, I got a notification that this guy was streaming CS. So I was enjoying that for a bit until I got home and he switched to playing Apex Legends with a couple of his friends. One of his friends, who also happened to be streaming at that time, was talking to his chat about cheese and how he doesn’t like them or at least not eating cheese on its own. So I just had to find him. WHO DOES NOT LIKE CHEESE???

Twitch Channel: milehighclutch7

I went to his stream just to troll a bit. I was really just curious on who is this person who doesn’t like cheese. But I enjoyed how he interacted with his twitch fam and I never left. Watched his stream for 6 whole hours! Sometime in the middle of that, his dog Bubba decided to bark and showed his lovely self to the camera. And he had been the catalyst – I subscribed to the channel impulsively. And since I have no self discipline, I bought some bits – and cheered. No regrets though. I have not missed a stream since. Favorite? For sure. He has a smaller channel which I like since he gets to engage with his followers or whoever is in the chat a bit more. Which is pretty hard to do when you have maybe a thousand people on the chat? It’s a bit more personal which is nice.

Twitch Channel: catziilla

Since finding out Zeph’s channel, I have been raving about Apex Legends to Chris non stop. To the point that I was telling her that I have been really considering playing again and starting with that game. She decided to check the game out. Searched for Apex Legends on Twitch and Cat so happened to be streaming. Chris was watching her live stream when I got home from work Thursday night and damn, that girl is good! We pretty much just watched the rest of her live stream. She is definitely an animated one. But when she is focused, hot damn, she is focused and I couldn’t take my eyes away. And did I mention she is freakin’ good at Apex Legends?

Twitch Channel: negaoryx

I found this streamer through Chris really. Got home one day and she was watching Neg. It was towards the end of her stream so I missed what game she was actually streaming at that time. But from what I saw, it was sort of scary. It was Dead by Daylight. I followed her but not religiously. I did watch her latest recorded stream on Wednesday night and I highly enjoyed it. Yesterday I got a notification that she was streaming and just went ahead and watched it. She was of course playing Dead by Daylight. Her channel is pretty huge, she is a full time streamer so she does have a lot of following. But that didn’t deter her from being engaged with her people for pretty much the whole stream. The draw for me was that she is pretty new in the Dead of Daylight game or a multiplayer game and it is definitely entertaining seeing her progress and find out how to do things. Watching her play this game really made me interested in the game…Addicted even.

Since I watched Neg’s stream, I got really interested in looking into other streamers who have been playing the game for a lot longer…Hence the next two streamers:

Twitch Channel: Sattelizer

I was watching another streamer playing Dead by Daylight before I jumped on this one. And he was having a 24 hr live stream of Dead by Daylight. It was already midnight when I entered his stream. And since I am such a responsible adult, I watched the live stream till morning, when he ended the stream. So I was up the whole night. WATCHING A LIVE STREAM! What kept me up? He was playing with his subs, well actually whoever was in the chat and wanted to play. He is funny and I like his sense of humor. I liked how engaged he was with his people as well. The conversations that went on that stream were definitely adult friendly. Well, they were not scared to discuss a bit more adult topics – smut anyone? This one is also a big channel so it was really nice to experience how he interact with his chat. And since I have no self discipline, I jumped to another stream right after Satt said his byes.

Twitch Channel: Morf_UK

Of course, Morf was also playing Dead by Daylight – because I just couldn’t get enough of that game play for some reason. The main hook for me and what made me stay and watch his live stream was his reactions. They were priceless. I could still hear his scream in my head. The back ground playlist he was playing didn’t hurt either. I was lucky enough to see him play both the killer and a survivor for this particular live stream. And watching someone play the killer was definitely a good change in perspective. Totally changed the experience for me. And he was good at both. Which was definitely a breath of fresh air. Morf’s commentaries didn’t shy away from more adult content, which definitely was nice. That personally made him more relatable to me than some streamers for sure. He ended his stream about 1 pm today I think.

I think what worries me about this is the fact that I haven’t slept at all. Been awake for over 3o hours now. Chris knows this about me, and one that I absolutely don’t like about myself, is that if I find something that even slightly pique my interest, I get borderline obsessed. All my free time will be spent on that interest and I will find time to indulge on that interest. Hence not sleeping AT ALL. And I will have blinders on me, like now, nothing will keep me away from this new interest for a while. That worries me. Because my personality will not let me do otherwise.

I never thought that I would be obsessed with Twitch – well more like certain game plays. And I am still deciding if this newly discovered fascination with live game streams is a good thing. Or am I just using this as an escape because I can’t seem to pick a new novel to read for about a week now? Mood reader curse. Apparently, Twitch is what my mood wants right now. So Twitch is what it will get. I learned not to go against what my mood wants at this point. It’s detrimental to my health. So for a while, I will just watching streams. Join me?