On Twitch, you can currently watch a small four-legged friend exploring the world: A dog owner attached a camera to his Lancashire Heeler Willy, making him the cutest streamer on the platform.
Note: The title image is a symbolic image.
What kind of action is this? Dan is a Twitch streamer from Norway, primarily active in the “Travel & Outdoors” category. He is often accompanied by his small black-brown dog Willy. Now the streamer has come up with something special.
He attached an action cam to the dog’s harness and let the viewers experience the world from Willy’s perspective. In his channel bio, Dan writes that he wants to share their adventures and perhaps entertain a few people along the way (via Twitch).
You can see what it looks like in this clip:
Small Dog, Big Presence
What can you see there? During the stream on May 22, it was probably a kind of test run, thus the camera hangs a bit crooked. You can see Willy zipping across a meadow, sniffing through a forest, and splashing around – always in view: the black ears.
How is it being received? Since Dan is a rather small Twitch streamer, he couldn’t benefit from an existing reach. During the original stream, there were only up to 9 people watching.
However, a clip landed in the streaming subreddit LivestreamFail, where it already received more than 1,800 upvotes. This also brought numerous viewers to the streamer’s channel: Nearly 108,000 people have already watched the clip.
If Dan works on his technique a bit more, Reddit users already predict a bright future for Willy as an IRL streamer.
Willy is certainly not the first dog to win the hearts of Twitch viewers. Yoshi, the four-legged companion of Twitch streamer MissMikkaa, briefly filled in for her in Elden Ring when she took a break.
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