Favorite Twitch Channels
Apr 05 2021
Last September's Twitch promotion was 6-month subscriptions at a discount. Now all those subscriptions have run out and it's time to decide what I want to subscribe to. My current favorite Twitch channels, sort of in order:
1. BotezLive - I started watching Twitch with WFM Alexandra Botez and now the channel is her and her younger sister Andrea doing chess and variety. They're zany and have a great chemistry. Chat has way too many people so that's no longer a draw of this channel.
2. akaNemsko - WGM Nemo started out in BotezLive and soon branched off to her own channel. I kind of hung around at first then got made a moderator and had to pay more attention and came to really like this channel. She's very good at chess (Woman Grandmaster) and does League of Legends and Poker. She's pretty honest about her experiences including trying to commit suicide, dropping out of University of Toronto (both have same reasons: trying for a double major for her parents not for herself), and the constant sexual harassment she gets as an online personality. An interesting person to follow.
After the above two it gets a bit rough. Nemo streams every day for 6 to 10 hours which means I don't have much bandwidth for other channels. Still, I do enjoy the following when I can catch them:
3. Neeko - An LoL and beginner chess streamer when she blew up due to her Ok Boomer tiktok video. She's now more variety and just chatting with a weekly cooking stream and sometimes chess for fun. I like Neeko because she's from California and is also fairly honest about her life and she has more of a fight-back-takes-no-shit Mexican girl attitude. She has a busy chat and allows speech I don't particularly care for so her chat is not a draw for this channel.
4. HashtagChess - South African friends WIM Jessie and Rebecca share this channel, mostly streaming separately because they live in different cities and one is more of a morning person and the other more of a night person. Jessie is more humorous and Rebecca tends to do a Marbles segment near the end of her streams (and I love Marbles on Stream).
5. AnnaCramling - Swedish WFM Anna Cramling is one of the peppiest persons on Twitch and her enthusiasm is infectious. She does mostly chess with some other games.
Ironically, because they're European time zone streamers I probably watch Hashtag and Anna Cramling more than US-based streamers because they stream when I'm not busy with BotezLive or Nemo. Neeko tends to stream later and I make more effort to watch her streams because she only streams about three times per week.
1. BotezLive - I started watching Twitch with WFM Alexandra Botez and now the channel is her and her younger sister Andrea doing chess and variety. They're zany and have a great chemistry. Chat has way too many people so that's no longer a draw of this channel.
2. akaNemsko - WGM Nemo started out in BotezLive and soon branched off to her own channel. I kind of hung around at first then got made a moderator and had to pay more attention and came to really like this channel. She's very good at chess (Woman Grandmaster) and does League of Legends and Poker. She's pretty honest about her experiences including trying to commit suicide, dropping out of University of Toronto (both have same reasons: trying for a double major for her parents not for herself), and the constant sexual harassment she gets as an online personality. An interesting person to follow.
After the above two it gets a bit rough. Nemo streams every day for 6 to 10 hours which means I don't have much bandwidth for other channels. Still, I do enjoy the following when I can catch them:
3. Neeko - An LoL and beginner chess streamer when she blew up due to her Ok Boomer tiktok video. She's now more variety and just chatting with a weekly cooking stream and sometimes chess for fun. I like Neeko because she's from California and is also fairly honest about her life and she has more of a fight-back-takes-no-shit Mexican girl attitude. She has a busy chat and allows speech I don't particularly care for so her chat is not a draw for this channel.
4. HashtagChess - South African friends WIM Jessie and Rebecca share this channel, mostly streaming separately because they live in different cities and one is more of a morning person and the other more of a night person. Jessie is more humorous and Rebecca tends to do a Marbles segment near the end of her streams (and I love Marbles on Stream).
5. AnnaCramling - Swedish WFM Anna Cramling is one of the peppiest persons on Twitch and her enthusiasm is infectious. She does mostly chess with some other games.
Ironically, because they're European time zone streamers I probably watch Hashtag and Anna Cramling more than US-based streamers because they stream when I'm not busy with BotezLive or Nemo. Neeko tends to stream later and I make more effort to watch her streams because she only streams about three times per week.