After a quick rise to fame in the streaming world in 2020, popular streamerValkyraeis now the world’s most watched female streamer by a significant margin. Although she originally began her career on Twitch, Valkyrae made the switch to YouTube last year and her monthly live view count skyrocketed from 330,000 to 11 million, making herthe fastest-growing streamer in the worldat the time. Valkyrae’s popularity is due in part to her good timing, as she began streaming the popular social deduction gameAmong Usaround the time it began to explode onto the gaming scene.
But Valkyrae hasn’t solely relied on herAmong Ussuccess to keep her audience growing. She’s also collaborated with other big streamers like Pokimane, Jacksepticeye, and Sykkuno in other games. She joined theRustOfflineTV server in December 2020 and played for bit untilthe OfflineTV server split upand most of its members quit due to controversy in and out of the game. But since then her viewership has continued to climb. According to a recent report from streaming information database Stream Hatchet, she hit over 12 million hours watched in the first quarter of 2021.
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The Stream Hatchet report also shows that Valkyrae’s hours watched totals are nearly double that of her closest competitors. Pokimane is next on the list with 6.8 million hours watched. Though Pokimane primarily streams on Twitch, she also spends a lot of time uploading Q&A andFortnitevideos to her YouTube channel and runs an entirely separate ASMR channel as well.Valkyrae beat Pokimane to become the most-watched female streamerlate last year, and she’s apparently still surging ahead.
Although Valkyrae has achieved success on YouTube, she still has issues with streaming on the platform. She explained in a recent TrainwrecksTV podcast that she believesYouTube is “far behind” Twitch when it comes to streaminglargely due to its lack of streamer culture. Twitch’s streaming community has only grown since its beginning in 2011, and Valkyrae feels the platform has a stronger emote culture and more options for finding other streamers with an established directory and hosting. She’s also not satisfied with YouTube’s chat system, which is generally more restrictive than Twitch’s.
Still, Valkyrae’s brand continues to push forward. As the first female content creator to join the gaming organization 100 Thieves, she has her own apparel with the company and helps to promote them with her content. She also continues to streamAmong Usand was recently given the opportunity toplayAmong Uswith Jimmy Fallon, other popular streamers, and cast members from the hit TV showStranger Things. It’s hard tell how long Valkyrae will be able to hold such a large lead other streamers, but for now she is one of YouTube’s biggest draws for gamers.
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