The 5 best hot tub streamers on Twitch
Twitch has had an undeniable impact on video games throughout its tenure thus far, from the early days of Justin.TV to the Amazon buyout, and there is no sign of it stopping. Yet, Twitch has seen fit to stretch its creator army from video games to IRL streamers, and from IRL to a new streamer archetype noted as ‘hot tub streamers.’
Found within the Twitch category ‘Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches,’ this new wave of streamers focus more on personal aesthetics. The primary draw of a hot tub streamer is their body, and they draw attention to it in a myriad of ways — scrawling the names of subscribers on themselves, provocative postures, and a litany of various swimsuits to keep the viewers’ attention.
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For this piece, streams were ranked based on the following specific criteria to ensure accurate sorting:
Active timeMany streamers will walk away from the camera for hours at a time, either forgetting they were online or simply intending to bait subs and follows during this time. Streamers that failed to average a minimum active time of 90% across three streams were heavily penalized in the final scoring.Viewer interaction/distractibilitySome viewed streamers had difficulty putting down their phone, meaning viewers were watching the top of their heads while they were texting with besties and tweeting up a storm. Still, reality happens no matter how a streamer presents themselves, so this category was softly weighted against overall follow-count that determined how often a streamer was distracted by something off-camera, and how long the distraction lasted.VarietyVariety is the spice of life, and even for the hot tub streamers, a pinch of something new is necessary to keep content Read more on gamepur.com
