A stream by Jens “Knossi” Knossalla has broken the German viewer record on Twitch. The concert of rapper Sido at the Angelcamp reached over 310,000 viewers. For German Twitch, this is a new dimension. Even English-speaking Twitch viewers are wondering what’s happening.
This is the German viewer record on Twitch:
- The record stood at 181,600 for a long time. This was set by Marcel “MontanaBlack” Eris at the peak of his gaming fame in September 2019. At that time, there was a major content drought in gaming and MontanaBlack became the second most successful streamer in the world
- On July 16, at the beginning of the Angelcamp, the German gambling streamer Knossi broke the record with 218,378 viewers
- Now, on the evening of July 18, 2020, it went up by another 92,000 viewers. The new record is now at 310,545.
This is how the record came about: To put it briefly: Sido rapped in a lively summer atmosphere and two of the biggest German Twitch streamers were there.
The longer version: Twitch streamer Knossi is currently hosting a 72-hour live event called “Angelcamp”. They are broadcasting from a swimming lake in Brandenburg an der Havel with high production quality.
At the event, there is a lively summer atmosphere, with lots of talking, joking, and fishing. The biggest star in the camp is certainly rapper Sido. There are also some other content creators or celebrities on site, who bring their own viewers with them, including musician Manny Marc from the group “Die Atzen” or YouTuber Sascha Hellinger from Unsympathisch TV. Although the moderator Klaas Heufer-Umlauf was absent, there was still a lot of celebrity presence.
In the Instagram post, someone quite rightly asked: How many subscriptions are actually in the picture?
Over the course of Saturday, the viewer count steadily increased throughout the day, until the event culminated in a concert by Sido, where he sang his hits like “Bilder im Kopf”.
In addition, the largest German-speaking streamer on Twitch, MontanaBlack, stopped by.
This, combined with a mild Saturday evening and the summer slump, provided Knossi’s stream with a viewer count that was previously unthinkable in Germany.
So many viewers as only at big gaming events
The stream is that successful: The first 2 days of Angel-Camp were a 48-hour stream on Knossi’s channel.
He had this viewer peak of 310,545:
- Such numbers are almost only achieved by gaming events, like the Ubisoft press conference or the LoL World Championship.
- It is very rare for individual streamers to achieve such numbers. With this record, Knossi is in 5th place among the last 365 days. Only major international streamers who do something special are ahead of him. For example, JokerD, who was the first to reach maximum level 60 in WoW Classic or summit1g at the peak of the hype surrounding the Valorant beta in April.
In total, the stream had nearly 3.2 million unique viewers, reports Twitch Tracker.
Knossi gained 143,844 followers during this time. He is now close to surpassing the German gaming veteran Gronkh in Twitch followers. Currently, Knossi still has the fifth-largest channel in Germany.
This is what the Americans say about the event: In the current summer slump in gaming, where no new games are released and the few that were planned have been postponed, Sido’s concert is a topic in the English-speaking community (via reddit). It is said:
- recently, German Twitch is really taking off – although they don’t understand what Sido is singing, they think he really has talent
- it’s a great concert and unusual for Twitch – usually only DJs do this
- It’s a great idea to do something like this – why don’t other festivals throw similar parties?
- it’s “weird and cool”; there’s a whole world out there of content from non-English streamers that are incredibly popular and about which nothing is known. Twitch has only scratched the surface of how big it can get
Indeed, there is a world on Twitch beyond the English-speaking streams. Twitch has 19 non-English speaking channels among the top 50 (sorted by hours watched). They broadcast in French, Spanish, Russian, German, Korean or Portuguese.
Now, German Twitch is once again making positive headlines. A few months ago, it looked very different. German satirist Jan Böhmermann initiated a debate in a podcast when he dealt with Twitch and streamer MontanaBlack and his community:
Böhmermann pushes German Twitch star to the right – he defends himself
