Valkyrae reveals where YouTube falls short against Twitch YouTube: Valkyrae100 Thieves star Rachel \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter has explained what she misses most about Twitch now that she\u2019s streaming on YouTube while also revealing that changes are coming to YouTube\u2019s streams. Twitch has always been the premier location for streamers, even though other platforms have tried \u2013 and failed \u2013 to usurp them as the top dogs. In the last few years, YouTube has been gaining ground on Twitch \u2013 signing some top streamers \u2013 but they are still quite the ways behind the Amazon-owned platform. Even though they\u2019ve added some of Twitch\u2019s most popular features like emotes, clips, subscriber-only chats, and drops, YouTube still has some changes to implement that will make streamers feel like they\u2019re on familiar ground. During her March 11 appearance on the Scuffed Podcast, Valkyrae revealed that she misses a few things that make Twitch as good as it is, even though YouTube is making changes in the future. Read More: 100 Thieves sign Love or Host\u2019s AustinShow – \u201cThe culture. We have no emote culutre, we have no hosting, we hardly have a directory on YouTube. I don\u2019t even know who streams on YouTube because I can\u2019t find people!\u201d Rae said when asked about the biggest differences between the two platforms. \u201cThey\u2019re working on everything. It\u2019s just so far behind like culture-wise like you can use my emotes only in my chat and there\u2019s no BTTV. That\u2019s like something I really miss about Twitch is the emote culture, the chat culture,\u201d she added. \u201cChat carries the streamer, I really believe that.\u201d As Rae notes, even if YouTube makes changes and adds Twitch-like features, it\u2019s hard to replicate that chat culture that Twitch has built up over the years. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re watching a big esports event or a small streamer with 50 viewers, there\u2019s always chat spam going down on Twitch. It might take the arrival of more former Twitch streamers to make it happen, but who knows if moves will be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valkyrae reveals where YouTube falls short against Twitch YouTube: Valkyrae100 Thieves star Rachel \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter has explained what she misses most about Twitch now that she\u2019s streaming on YouTube while also revealing that changes are coming to YouTube\u2019s streams. Twitch has always been the premier location for streamers, even though other platforms have tried \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}