streamers

Sending one's audience to another stream at the end of one's own — a raid — as Twitch's kindest mechanic, in which the word for an attack became a gift. The record's entry for the raid, and for the small streamer who received one and cried.

An emote of a streamer with an enlarged forehead, spammed for a clever play — and, ironically, for a stupid one. The record's entry for the Twitch word for 'genius', which is used sincerely about a third of the time.

Finding the impostor on a spaceship, two years after release and during a lockdown. Left the language a single word, sus, which is doing better than the game.

Charisma measured in points, gained and lost in public. Minus 1,000 aura for explaining it, which this entry has just done.

Telling the person playing what to do, from the couch since the 1980s and from Twitch chat since about 2012, where a streamer stuck on a puzzle can receive the answer five hundred times a minute from people who looked it up. The record's entry for help that nobody asked for, and the reason 'no backseating' is in most channel rules.

A thousand contestants, a five-million-dollar prize, and a television show made by the biggest YouTuber in the world, which arrived with lawsuits about the conditions and stayed for the spectacle. The record's entry for the moment YouTube became television and brought its problems with it.

A win — 'big W', 'Ws in the chat' — as the internet's way of congratulating anything, from a sports result to a friend's dentist appointment. The record's entry for the letter as applause.

Twitch's tipping currency, bought with real money and given in chat with an animated cheer — bits — as the record's entry for the coin that is not a coin, and for the sound a hundred of them make, which every streamer's audience knows.