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Forty-eight hours ago, millions of people watched a Pokémon Presents broadcast and collectively lost their minds over whatever Nintendo and Game Freak had been quietly cooking. The 30th anniversary of...
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Kick's servers fell over on February 19th, and honestly, the timing could not have been worse for a platform that's been quietly positioning itself as the serious alternative to Twitch.
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Twitch had 140 million monthly active users at the start of 2026. YouTube Live is growing. Kick crossed 50 million signups. The live streaming space has never been more crowded, and the gap between st...
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A survey last year found that streamers spend an average of 10 hours per week on content work outside of actually being live. Editing VODs, managing social media, responding to messages, configuring b...
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A viewer typed "what's the discord link?" in my chat last week. My traditional bot sat there in silence because the command is !discord, not a full English sentence. My AI bot answered them. That inte...
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I once spent an entire stream manually timing out a viewer who was spamming the letter "E" in chat. My mods were asleep (3am, fair enough) and my bot was, for reasons I still don't fully understand, i...
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Kick passed 50 million registered users in 2025. The platform is growing fast, the revenue split is better than Twitch's, and the content restrictions are looser. It's also still figuring itself out,...
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My phone buzzed with a donation alert while I was trying not to fall off a unicycle in Brighton. I couldn't check it. My eyes were fixed on the pavement ahead, my balance was questionable at best, and...
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Kick's bot ecosystem is about three years behind Twitch's. That's not a criticism - it's just what happens when a platform grows faster than the tooling around it can keep up. On Twitch, you've got a...
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Text-to-speech on Twitch is one of those features that's either the best part of a stream or the single most annoying thing you've ever heard. There's very little middle ground. A robotic voice readin...
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Running a VTuber stream is simultaneously playing a character, playing a game, tracking your face movements, and reading chat messages that scroll faster than you can process them. Something has to gi...
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Nightbot has been in my chat since 2019. It's never missed a shift, never complained about the hours, and never once understood what anyone was actually saying to it. That last part used to not matter...
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