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Twitch Early Review

I used to be a lurker on Twitch but now I have actually made an account and started watching some content on there. I have to say that the site impresses me. Unlike YouTube, it is better run and is easier on the eyes.

Twitch Interface 2025
Dune Awakening is one of the most played games on Twitch in June 2025.

What makes Twitch different from YouTube is the community. While there are bots on the platform, it is clear that this site cares about user engagement and experiences over just raking in the ad revenue. Unlike on YouTube, the site has a reasonable number of ads and then do not take up hours. They are also not as obnoxious as they are on YouTube.

Another thing that I like about Twitch is that even after many years, the site is still for gamers and creative people. They have not sold out completely as YouTube had early on in the site’s history.

This is still a place where imagination still feels fresh and interesting. That is what makes Twitch have something that many other sites do not have; a sense of community and organic growth.

Another great thing is that there are not tons of irrelevant videos popping up in the recommendations.

This is truly a site for the creative and I hope to build a home here.

Twitch Dune Awakening Videos June 2025

When I look at all these streams on Twitch, I see an outpouring of creativity which has been sorely lacking on the internet for quite some time.

I intend to start streaming under my Twitch handle: https://www.twitch.tv/vetrdrengr.

Twitch gives me some assurance that the internet will still have some quirkiness in it.

Why is Netflix making so many Reality TV shows?

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Netflix is the king of streaming or even content now. I have seen it grow from a big company into an even bigger company that now seems to have Hollywood as a vassal state which would have been seen unthinkable in the 2000s. Netflix was profitable in the 2000s and was causing huge amounts of chaos at Blockbuster but it was still in that niche of being a rental place, not a studio making its own stories.

Fast forward to now, Netflix would be home to Douglas Fairbanks had it been a studio in the Silent Era before the release of the Jazz Singer.

Netflix rules filmed content in a similar way to the big studios from the 1920s to the 1950s. They were incredibly powerful institutions, nations within America with their own culture and hiearchies. They brought the faces of amazing actors to the screens.

What is Netflix great goal here?

Netflix is not Hollywood, at least in the sense of how we once understood it. Netflix is a fusion of both Television and Cinema. It is the true HBO in the sense of that label the old Cable TV channel uses. The Home Box Office is what Netflix truly is now. It is more of a box office than HBO was in the early 1980s.

However, can it truly live up to such a title?

Netflix is making show after show about young people in pods who date someone on the other side of that pod without even seeing them. This is the Love is Blind series. Its based on the axiom: Love is Blind. This axiom governs the show’s production. It is an interesting premise for sure, ignoring the Bachelor or Bachelorette shows, which have tons of in-person drama between the characters. Love is Blind does not have any of that here. It is about romance behind a hidden screen.

However, they are making equivalent shows for many other nations. Even Italy is getting a show now.

Netflix has been making more reality tv shows than ever before?

Why?

The simple reason: Cost.

Netflix was making alot of content in the years before the pandemic. However, in this age?

Netflix is basically becoming basic television again.