Eighties Twitch

Sometimes I fall asleep to Twitch. Someone’s playing a game I don’t understand, talking in a voice that just works as sleep medicine—Ragequit, Tara Babcock, Kelly Jean. I’m a fan. I’ve actually given these people money.

None of that would exist if Twitch had shown up in the eighties instead of 2011. Everything would’ve been pixelated, uncool, impossible to care about. The streamer’s appeal would’ve been shot. The games too. Would eighty-by-eighty-pixel girls have done the trick? No. Even Minecraft’s graphics aren’t that far from that era, and I can barely stay conscious through Minecraft.

Someone made a video about what Twitch would’ve looked like in 1985. Would it have worked? Doubtful. Would it have been good? Maybe. Would I have watched? No. So the answer’s simple: thank god this website exists now instead of then.