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On the Media

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Twitch is a video streaming platform where tens of thousands people broadcast their lives in real-time. Like unedited, raw, reality TV.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:03.9	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:05.3	This week, a deep dive into the weird and wild world of the globe's biggest live streaming platform called Twitch.
0:13.9	Twitch connects people in such an unprecedented way that we're still trying to understand it.
0:18.1	In April, this professional streamer had more social media interactions than LeBron James,
0:23.8	Cristiano Ronaldo, and Shaquille O'Neal, making him the most popular athlete in the world.
0:30.0	Hooked might be an understatement.
0:31.7	This is one of those viral games that is literally sucking productivity out of schools, out of workplaces.
0:37.1	Probably most of them only tune in when there's a level of drama,
0:40.5	like when my life's had a really unstable point.
0:42.8	I apologize to you guys, my sponsors and Twitch.
0:45.6	I've been unfaithful.
0:46.8	It's not what I represent.
0:48.3	Because you were watching someone think.
0:51.0	It's almost as intimate as sex.
0:53.9	It's all coming up.
0:55.3	After this.
1:00.2	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
1:04.6	I'm Bob Garfield.
1:05.8	And I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:07.2	We start this hour with a meme and end it with a glimpse at a cultural revolution.
1:13.4	The meme was on global display in the 38th minute of this summer's World Cup final, when
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