The PUBG streamer Dr DisRespect has indeed broken the Twitch record of the LoL streamer Tyler1. The two don’t really get along and are fighting over who is the face of Twitch. Much of it is certainly a show, but the viewers enjoy it.
The return of two bad boys has surprisingly many parallels and drives the viewer numbers up:
- Dr DisRespect is a streamer known primarily for PUBG. He took a longer voluntary break, after he had been “unfaithful” to his wife and needed some time off.
- Tyler1 is a streamer who gained popularity through League of Legends. He had to take a forced break after being banned in LoL for his toxic behavior. However, the troll streamer was pardoned by Riot Games after 613 days.
Both returned in the past months and both “return streams” broke the record for concurrent viewers on the streaming platform Twitch.
Dr DisRespect now holds the record on Twitch
As Twitch officially announced, Dr DisRespect’s return on Monday evening was indeed the absolute highlight. This was communicated to the US site Polygon.
With 388,000 peak viewers, this was the highest number of concurrent viewers ever observed for a single streamer.
Previously, Tyler1 held this record with 386,000 viewers. There were indeed screenshots that showed even higher numbers for Tyler1, but these were likely not confirmed.
One is too short, the other too old – but both want to be the face of Twitch
The two streamers can’t really stand each other on camera and enjoy taking jabs at each other – to the delight of their viewers.
So the doctor pumped himself up on stream, showed his muscles, and said: “Someone should take a screenshot of this and send it to Tyler1. This is the face of Twitch. Take a look at it.”
Additionally, Dr DisRespect made remarks about the competitor’s height.
Tyler1, on the other hand, makes fun of Dr DisRespect’s age: “If he’s even alive by the award ceremony for Streamer of the Year, then we will see who the face of Twitch really is.”
He calls him “old man” multiple times and wonders: “I don’t understand why old people think they are allowed to stream on Twitch at all.”
Dr. DisRepect is 35 years old – Tyler1 is 22 years old. FamousBirthdays.com knows this.
Last year, Dr DisRespect won the award for Streamer of the Year.
Apparently, the bad-boy drama surrounding both is driving viewer numbers and subscribers up significantly, along with the streamers’ earnings. So Dr DisRespect alone gained 14,000 new subscribers in the last stream and thus at least $30,000 – not counting incoming donations.
Behind the creative breaks that other streamers also take, there is quite a serious background. Streamers believe they need to be live every day to reach and retain viewers. This can lead to a kind of burnout:
Destiny: Popular streamer fears Twitch is eating up his life
