On YouTube, the first episode of Season 2 of the YouTube documentary has been released. In 4 episodes, different topics from YouTube Germany are highlighted and YouTubers and Twitch streamers are interviewed. The first episode focuses on Twitch and the associated competition with YouTube.
What is this documentary about? Filmmaker Paul Sydow is back with a second season of his YouTube documentary. Viewers can look forward to a total of four new episodes in this season. Central figures in this documentary series will be the German content creators Jasmin Gnu, Inscope21, Rezo, and MrsBella.
The four episodes will be released on the four different channels of the YouTubers. Each episode highlights an aspect of the YouTube era, focusing on the respective content creator. Passages from the past will be illuminated with current interviews from various YouTubers and Twitch streamers.
The first episode dealt with Twitch as a competitor to YouTube and how the live streaming platform gained more popularity.
Twitch replaces YouTube in terms of Let’s Plays
How has Twitch overtaken YouTube? “Who still watches Let’s Plays today?” is the question with which YouTuber RobBubble sets the tone relatively early in the first episode (Source: YouTube from minute 05:00).
Let’s Plays were for a very long time, especially at the beginning of YouTube, one of the formats that dominated the platform. However, in the late 2010s, Twitch increasingly emerged and gradually overtook YouTube in terms of Let’s Plays.
On Twitch, it is possible to stream live and therefore as a streamer to experience the game “together” with the viewers. Thus, Let’s Plays finally found a sort of new home.
Twitch streamer StarletNova describes Twitch as the “middle ground between Let’s Plays or YouTube and television” (Source: YouTube from minute 03:47).
Twitch generally offers viewers a new way to get to know their favorite content creators in a different way. Content creators seem more accessible, and the interaction between viewers and streamers feels more personal due to the live aspect. After all, one is virtually “together” in front of the PC.
Many content creators now handle Let’s Plays in such a way that they record their gameplay in their Twitch stream to upload a cut version later on YouTube. This way, viewers who couldn’t tune into the Twitch stream can “catch up” on the gameplay on YouTube.
The next episode is expected to be released on February 15, 2026, on Inscope21’s YouTube channel, InscopeLifestyle, and will focus on him as a YouTuber.
What do you think of the first part of Season 2 of the YouTube documentary? Do you watch more YouTube or Twitch? Let us know in the comments! The ARD also produced a documentary about the early days of YouTube and its German video creators. You can read more about it here on MeinMMO: A new documentary shows the rise and fall of YouTube Germany’s first dream couple
