Twitch viewership down by hundreds of thousands amid Black and queer streamers’ strike

On the day of the event, concurrent Twitch viewership peaked at 3.4 million, around 400,000 less than the same day the previous week. From a pure viewership standpoint, it was Twitch’s second-worst day in a month. The overall number of streamers was also measurably lower, peaking at around 119,000 after four weeks of the platform averaging around 136,000. For Twitch, this is by no means a crippling blow — on Sept. 2, the platform was back to business as usual — but it demonstrated the sheer scale of Twitch’s problem.