Over 2,000 people watched someone read a book in Twitch's 'Silent Reading' category
Over 2,400 people watched someone read a book on Twitch. This hour-long, page-turning stream came thanks to one of Twitch's new April Fools categories: Silent Reading.
Outside of alert notifications, Twitch's Merry Kish read Lovesickness, a collection of Junji Ito stories, and said nothing for an hour. The chat was in emote-only mode and scrolled by like any other popular stream, except they had nothing to react to but a woman quietly reading a book and themselves.
Twitch introduced four other joke categories today: Pizza Time, Character Creation, Chores, Odd Jobs, Errands, and Literally Just Chatting. Outside of Twitch's own stream, Literally Just Chatting seems to be the most popular joke category, but many of the streamers in it are treating it like normal Just Chatting streams where they talk with viewers. The joke they're missing is that Literally Just Chatting should be purely the chat talking amongst themselves with no comment from the streamer, like turning Twitch into an IRC chat room.
Girl_dm, who usually streams with a Vtuber avatar while she plays games, ran a Literally Just Chatting stream where she didn't say a word, but was clearly there to put on a show. She had the most watched stream in the section—before returning to her regularly scheduled Elden Ring playthrough—that actually committed to the bit. It was like a 24/7 subathon stream when the streamer is asleep and chat has full control of what happens on the screen. Her stream flipped from a 'be right back' screen with nothing but her own chat displayed on screen, to a collage of fan art with Never Gonna Give You Up playing in the background. She even did a typing speed test where only the click clack of her keyboard came through.
In the Pizza Time
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