It's just kids hanging out with friends to play games and joke around, but they don't want to leave the house, so they do it via videostreaming and so consume lots of bandwidth.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > I was born without the gaming gene, so can someone explain Twitch to me? > > > > I have a customer spending a lot of money (now that harvest is over) for a > speed tier with 5 Mbps of upstream so he can broadcast. Which I see he > does for 12 hours straight. > > > > What is the appeal? Fun? Fame? Or profit? Does this bring in > advertising money? Enough to make it worthwhile? > > > > And how does someone stream their game play for 12 hours straight? > Astronaut diapers? Lots of Mountain Dew and Doritos? Or do they get > breaks? >
