When you look at the biggest German streamers on Twitch, you see 19 entertainers like MontanaBlack, Papaplatte, or Trymacs and one e-sports player. Who is the lonely gamer among the biggest German streamers?
Who are the top 20 German Twitch streamers? When you sort the German streamers on Twitch by followers, you see 17 streamers and with Honeypuu and Reved two female streamers, who broadly belong to the category of “entertainers”:
Streamers like MontanaBlack (1), Trymacs (2), or Papaplatte (3) appear repeatedly in the “Hungry Hugo” videos. They are entertainers who primarily entertain their viewers – people like Knossi (4) even have a TV career behind them.
Other streamers like Rewinside (6), Gronkh (10), or Unge (12) have been around for many years.
Among the top 20 are many talented gamers. BastiGHG (8) is considered an expert in Minecraft, EliasN97 (5) is known for his play in FIFA, but one stands out from the crowd of entertainers due to his gaming qualities.
MontanaBlack is by far the largest German Twitch streamer with 5.3 million followers:
A professional e-sports player is among the top 20 and he plays Fortnite
This is probably the best gamer: In 7th place with 1.83 million followers is 19-year-old Kevin “Letshe” Fedjuschkin:
Letshe has earned 181,254 euros in prize money with Fortnite, is an active e-sports player for the European top team G2, and even participated in the Fortnite World Cup in 2019, where he achieved 32nd place in singles and won 50,000 US dollars, to this day his largest prize money.
When the hype around Fortnite was over, Letshe came
How did he become so successful? Letshe’s career is unusual for a Fortnite streamer because the Fortnite hype was actually at its peak in 2018 and 2019. At that time, the now 19-year-old played hardly any role on Twitch:
- In 2018, he had an average of seven viewers on Twitch
- In 2019, it was nearly 900
He was apparently too young to really take off – this phenomenon can also be seen in the USA. While young Fortnite players can certainly be successful in the game, they only become truly relevant on Twitch when they are a bit older.
Letshe had his breakthrough in the late phase of Fortnite in 2020. At that time, he averaged 5,000 viewers and gathered a million followers. By then, the most successful German Fortnite streamers like Trymacs or MontanaBlack had largely left the game.
But after this peak year, in which he fully rode the hype, interest in Fortnite gradually waned, and the channel of Letshe shrank over the years, although the followers continued to grow slowly but steadily.
The best gamer among the top 20 also has the fewest viewers
In 2024, this leads to the strange situation that Letshe, with 1.8 million followers, has a larger channel than, for example, BastiGhG, Amar, or Gronkh on Twitch, but reaches only a fraction of their viewers.
While BastiGHG averages 6,470 viewers with Minecraft and EliasN97 even 23,120, Letshe only gets around 570.
Fortnite at a high level is not child’s play:
What’s behind it: Taking the example of e-sports professional Letshe, you can see two things:
- Twitch is dominated by entertainers
- E-sport players are extremely dependent on the relevance of their game
By the way, on Twitter, Letshe is doing like most Fortnite professionals in recent years: they constantly complain about the game and that it just isn’t fun anymore, but they still continue to play it. The option to switch games is extremely difficult for players who are so closely connected to one game: What happened to the 15-year-old whose mom took him out of school so he could spend more time on Fortnite?
