How Twitchcon connects fans with their favorite streamers
Aw, the sight and sounds of a Twitchcon event. Gotta love it. The San Diego Convention Center was buzzing last weekend with the crazy Twitchcon event on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. All of the well-known streamers on Twitch arrived in person to greet their adoring fans on Twitch. Amouranth, Valkyrae, JustaMinx, Taylor Jeavaux and Staryukki to name a few.
I was not able to make the trip to Twitchcon San Diego this year. It is an event that I can hopefully make in person in 2023. I did not miss out seeing the Twitchcon San Diego event live on stream with my favorite streamers Amouranth and Melipastel. Twitchcon has a vibe that allows fans to interact in person with their favorite streamer and take pictures with them.
Twitch clearly has an advantage over YouTube in the fan interaction. I am not sure why YouTube has not created an event for people to meet their favorite YouTube streamers in person. The world may never know. Twitch clearly knew that online fans would want to hang out with their favorite streamers and be included in a community of other fans at a cool live event for three days with games, live panels and musical performances all in one show. Sounds fun, right?
Who stole the show at Twitchcon San Diego in 2022?
Amouranth stole the show with the most eyeballs watching her streams at Twitchcon San Diego with an astounding 436,000 hours of live streaming according to an article by Dexerto. She took the #1 spot from HasanAbi who came in at 277,600 hours in second place. If you want to check out the full scoop on the other top streamers, click on this link to the article written by Brianna Reeves: https://www.dexerto.com/twitch/twitchcon-2022-amouranth-top-streamer-hours-watched-1956793/.
Pokimane was missing from the Twitchcon San Diego event due to catching a cold. It was a different Twitchcon without Pokimane. The event had its share of controversies with people getting hurt in the foam pit exhibit. Adriana Chechik is a well-known Twitch streamer that broke her back after jumping off the platform into the “foam pit.” Apparently, the foam pit was not padded very well to protect people from hurting themselves. It had bare concrete under the foam pit. A couple other Twitch fans also sustained serious injuries too. The head of Twitch did not comment on the
“foam pit” catastrophe and turned a blind eye. That is unacceptable.
Will the Foam Pit incident hurt Twitchcon in 2023?
The foam pit incident will definitely affect Twitch if they do not respond to Adriana Chechik and the two other Twitch fans that were hurt from participating in the pit. It can get very messy with lawyers and lawsuits in the courtroom if Twitch does not take swift action soon.
This type of publicity can hurt the Twitch brand along with the partnerships with the other well-known and smaller Twitch gaming, music and hot-tub streamers in the future. Twitch must own up to their mistake and take responsibility for their actions. I wonder if Twitchcon in Europe and the United States will come back in 2023. We will have to see.
