The most successful clip in the history of Twitch was “The Awakening” for 5 years, featuring an unsuccessful streamer who had fallen asleep and then woke up as a successful man. However, the clip has since been surpassed as the most viewed clip on Twitch. This doesn’t seem to be quite right.
This is the story of the most viewed clips on Twitch: Viewers can cut out a particularly funny or memorable moment from their favorite streamer on Twitch and upload it separately as a video-on-demand.
The charming thing about this clip was for years that it was not the big stars who made the top clips, but rather virtually unknown streamers who were simply seen in delightfully funny situations:
The rise of Twitch began around 2017 with the hype surrounding Fortnite. That year, the first such viral clip emerged with 3 million views: A streamer, JurassicJunkie, was intensely playing the horror game Outlast 2 when he was startled to death by his little daughter. The clip has 3 million views (via meinmmo).
In 2019, the clip was succeeded by “The Awakening”: In this clip, the small streamer JesseDStreams fell asleep while still being live on Twitch. This was discovered by Twitch viewers, and the sleeper was quite surprised to see he had so many viewers when he woke up. The clip was the most viewed on Twitch for over 5 years.
Clips reach over 10 million views, no one understands why
What happened next: Starting in 2024, the category of Twitch clips has been absurd. Because from now on, it’s no longer possible to explain from the clip itself why the most viewed clips have so many views.
So the Fortnite streamer StableRonaldo, known for some escapades and PR stunts, has a clip with 17.6 million views that shows him in a situation while playing Valorant. In it, he experiences a so-called “voice crack,” his voice breaks, which visibly embarrasses him.
Why is the clip so popular? Apparently, it has nothing to do with the clip itself, but has a longer backstory: StableRonaldo was involved in a discussion about view botting, and in that context, the streamer Jynxzi noticed him and felt attacked, accusing him of view botting.
Jynxzi mocked how StableRonaldo pronounces his “r.” In this context, this clip of StableRonaldo apparently received a lot of attention.
However, it seems inexplicable that the clip has such a high number of views. In some reports, the clip is listed with just over 4 million views – that would be “realistic” and about on par with previous top clips. The number of 17 million views seems already exaggerated.
This is the latest strange phenomenon: Even more puzzling is the phenomenon of the “latest supposedly viral clip on Twitch”: The Turkish streamer 4l411 averages only 7 viewers on Twitch when he streams. However, his clip from DOTA 2 has over 11.7 million views. There is nothing in it that could even remotely be considered spectacular.
The site Go-core states plainly: The streamer is playing Legion Commander and tries to kill Rubick. Rubick lifts Legion Commander over telekinesis, and she uses a skill to ignore the terrain and get a kill. This is all completely normal and corresponds to the usual sequences.
It is simply inexplicable why this clip from a streamer averaging 7 viewers has such high views. He apparently plays no role in the DOTA 2 scene.
It seems that the two “most viewed clips on Twitch” with 17 million and 11 million views are in some way strange and not in the sense of “worth watching strange,” but in the sense of “strange things happen on Twitch”: The banning policy of Twitch is becoming more ridiculous
