Twitch Early Impressions

I started streaming on Twitch and it is a rather smooth experience. I have not really streamed a video game before, so I chose something that was easy and familiar to me. It was Empires: Dawn of the Modern World which came out in 2003.

I played for about an hour and there were some hiccups in the stream. One of those issues was that the game would sometimes freeze up and then start working again after a bit of waiting. These were not that big of an issue, but it is an annoyance.

I managed to get one viewer on my first stream.

That is a big victory for a man just starting out in streaming.

However, practice makes perfect as they say. I will get better at this and Twitch will be an interesting journey to be taking. As I love writing, video streaming wasn’t exactly on my radar but now after this experience, I have to say I enjoy it.

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.