I'm definitely not Twitch's key demographic, but a large part of it is that YouTube feels like a negative place, whereas Twitch is largely positive in my book.
YouTube comments/chat are notoriously awful, probably worst than /b/ at times. Then you look at the events surrounding YouTube as a whole: Jake Paul, the ad-pocalypse, Pewdiepie being labeled a Nazi, racist and sexist hiring practices.
By comparison, the last time Twitch made the news was because Amazon bought them. Chat moderation is in a pretty decent place: each channel has enough freedom to dictate what the community around it is like. From the gaming end, Twitch is very well integrated with your gaming profiles to the point where you can get in-game rewards for watching. Relevant content is incredibly easy to find thanks to how things are structured, whereas in Youtube I have to "search" for things.
Are their recruiters being told to purge applicants from their hiring funnel based on race or sex? Are they getting on social media and explicitly telling people to subscribe to people based on their race?
Twitch at the moment has a better community and better spam detection. YouTube, on the other hand has an awful spam problem in live chats, plus the community interaction seems to be lacking a bit. I greatly prefer to watch live streams on Twitch over YouTube, even though YouTube has transcoding for every stream and easier DVR capability. Twitch provides much better interaction, plus their bits and subscription plans are nice.
YouTube comments/chat are notoriously awful, probably worst than /b/ at times. Then you look at the events surrounding YouTube as a whole: Jake Paul, the ad-pocalypse, Pewdiepie being labeled a Nazi, racist and sexist hiring practices.
By comparison, the last time Twitch made the news was because Amazon bought them. Chat moderation is in a pretty decent place: each channel has enough freedom to dictate what the community around it is like. From the gaming end, Twitch is very well integrated with your gaming profiles to the point where you can get in-game rewards for watching. Relevant content is incredibly easy to find thanks to how things are structured, whereas in Youtube I have to "search" for things.