There are 8+ MILLION people watching one Twitch channel right now

I'm literally in Spain right now and let me tell you social media culture here is rife and weird as all fuck.

The local yoots are glued to their phones and play videos on full volume in public, on benches, parks, busses, pools. You can't escape it.
 
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Spanish streamers are no joke, they manage to sold out the Bernabeu stadium with tickets above $150 Euros
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SJRB said:
I have no idea what this is or why so many people are watching this but the site is getting hammered.
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Ibai (from Spain) is one of the biggest streamers in the world, he already broke the Twitch record several times.

This is the 5th yearly edition of La Velada, a boxing event where some of the most popular male and female streamers and youtubers from Spain and Latin America fight after an almost half a year long preparation with pro boxing teams (sometimes including world or olympic champions), but in almost all cases they start from zero.

None of them are boxers, they're normal streamers/youtubers who are almost 24/7 in their cave streaming, playing or something, a handful of them make fitness content, a girl is an amateur basket player, another one makes content about cooking, etc.

Many of them make a huge transformation because have to lose 20Kg, never did sport before or had good eating habits before, etc. Some of the fights are between streamers who previously had -often friendly- rivalries or some beef. As an example in girls there's a fight between a woke feminist and a sort of tradwife who makes cooking videos or as 'heavyweight' there's maybe the biggest and largest fitness influencer from Spain vs the equivalent from Latin America.

Many of them (and their friends who don't fight but collaborate in the event or in the preparation/promotion videos) are some of the biggest streamers or youtubers in the world. So when they combine all their fanbases achieve insane numbers.

Between the matches there are mini concerts of artists from Spain and Latin America who are specially popular among the young people from these regions.

In the 2024 edition they quickly sold out in the Real Madrid stadium (so 80K-90K people). This year edition reached until now a peak a 10.8M concurrent devices viewing it (so more viewers). In previous editions they literally broke Twitch.

I collect VHS tapes said:
Around 1.453 billion people speak English, including those who use it as a second language whereas around 595 million people speak Spanish, including those who use it as a second language. According to ChatGPT.

You don't see similar numbers for English streams though
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According to Grog this is the ranking of languages with the biggest amount of native speakers:
  1. Chinese: aprox. 1.3B people *
  2. Spanish: aprox. 486M people
  3. English: aprox. 380M people
  4. Arab: aprox. 362M people
  5. Hindi: aprox. 345M people
This is the ranking of speakers without considering if they're native speakers or not:
  1. English: Around 1.53 billion speakers
  2. Mandarin Chinese: Around 1.2 billion speakers *
  3. Hindi: Around 609.1 million speakers
  4. Spanish: Around 558.5 million speakers
  5. Arabic: Around 334.8 million speakers
Please notice that there's a ton of people in all languages that only speak a single language, and that there are another ones who, despite being able to speak multiple languages, prefer to watch streamers in their own native language.

* I assume the first ranking includes both Mandarin and Cantonese as "Chinese" while the other one may count them separatedly.

And well, regarding these yearly boxing events, consider that there are like a dozen top influencers fighting, plus like another dozen casting, making comments or appearances, plus some very popular (for their audience) artists singing.

Tunned said:
I've lived in Spain almost all my life and I have no idea who this dude is... So no, non of you are ignorant, we just don't give a fuck.
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If you live in Spain, unless you're some kind of antisocial autist is very difficult to don't know who Ibai is. Even a lot of old people who isn't in streaming platfomrs or social media know who he is.

Quixz said:
Wrestling?! :messenger_confused:
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Nah, it's all boxing. But there was some wrestling-like 'joke fight' from a streamer that is some kind of comedian.

clarky said:
So its one of those fake boxing events were streamers with no skill windmill each other for 3 2 minute rounds?
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Well, at least in this event instead of being fake it's people who never had a fight before and there are some interesting fights, even if they aren't even amateur.

They start from almost zero but have a good training for almost half a year.
 
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clarky said:
Yeah fakes the wrong word(not far off though).

Its more rigged than regular boxing though. More on a par with something like WWE.

Not my thing but if people enjoy it and folks make bank the who am I to judge.
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WWE used to be really fucking good when i was a kid tbh. Triple H, undertaker, stone cold, the rock, ric flair, hulk hogan, etc. Just massive dudes 'steroids' with legit athletic talent that looked like monsters in the ring. Nowadays there's too many dudes who look like they don't even go to the gym in the WWE. Sorry had to vent lmao.


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I collect VHS tapes said:
Your point was to make fun of Americans for not knowing what this is when in reality, everyone should've been making fun of you for watching this garbage

People from Spain in this thread haven't even heard of it

You just have shit taste and your dumb post backfired
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I literally said in this same thread that I don't even like it, lmao.
 
nial said:
I literally said in this same thread that I don't even like it, lmao.
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yes we all know you started back peddling once the majority of the thread started pointing out that you're a retard

Your immediate response was to attack people who haven't heard of it

I mean, Europeans are calling you out too. This isn't just Americans
 
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nial said:
Big boxing event featuring streamers, celebs, etc. organized by top Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos. As simple as that.
Nothing personal, just funny seeing Anglos go ""HUHHHHH WHO????°???=" for everything that's huge on every single other place of the world. All the time.
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It's almost as if we don't give a fuck.
 
Ibai is the fat-ass from this meme:

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And yeah I'd say he's very famous. I don't care about streamer culture at all and I know who he is, so imagine.
 
And yet I have never heard of this guy. 8 million is a lot of people, but the billions who don't watch/know this is even more.
 
He sold out La cartuja stadium in Sevilla with this event, a little bit more than 80k tickets sold and a significant part of the 8m. or so streamers watched the live event.

What about the US population?

They have the mighty GigaBowser to get entertained.
 
Seeing something like this makes me feel kinda old. I mean, I do watch some of Asmon videos but aside from that the whole streamer culture is a bit puzzling to me.

Well, I guess it's better kids watch them than todays people in sports and media...
 
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