[PurpleRamen]

> And now that Youtube is robust enough to allow streaming (also with the features that streaming has) it's catching up to them.

Do you have some up-to-date numbers for this? Because YouTube has streaming since 2016, and they never caught up to twitch. Not in the pandemia, when Twitch was growing like crazy. And also not when they bought some big Streamers from Twitch. IIRC, at some point they were even worse than Facebook Gaming for some while. Though, I haven't seen the numbers for 2023 yet.

> Another shock was this new Kick platform which is managed by a creator itself, and apparently is doing quite well on the surface

Kick seems to be 99% bots. I wouldn't call that doing well.