Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I-M-I, or in case you missed it,

Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And joining us for today's episode is Slate staff writer Luke Winky.

Luke, welcome.

Good to be here, Kate.

Thanks for having me.

And I have a very important question for you to kick things off today, which is, do you

watch any streamers?

Are you a Twitch person?

You know, I think in my early 20s and late

late, late, my college years, I watched a good amount of like video game streams, but I've

kind of fallen off since then, except for one streamer in particular I do tend to tune into

here and there. Yes, I have a feeling he will come up momentarily.

But yes, so Twitch in general is, if there's many live streaming platforms, but Twitch, which is owned by Amazon, is probably kind of the best known one.

It has some really interesting demographics, and I think what stands out the most is that the largest percentage of its users, which is 41%, are between the ages of 16 and 24. So it makes sense then that that was also

your experience with it. It kind of reminds me of Snapchat where it's like, Snapchat hasn't died,

but you just have to, it's the same age group coming to it and then graduating from it over and over again.

I would say that's what's happening here, but for Gen Alpha in particular, YouTube and streaming, because you can stream on YouTube as well, and often people stream simultaneously.

It kind of reminds me of how when you're in a Lyft or an Uber, you see that they have like a different phone for each app.

I think that's what's happening here.

But the next biggest percentage of the Twitch's users are between 25 and 34.

So basically two-thirds of its users are young people, which I think makes sense.

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