One-on-one With a Stranger on Twitch; Streams Without Audience
A website was created that filters Twitch streams, which take place without any audience participation. It enables us to become the only viewer and establish an unusual relationship with the person conducting the stream.
When browsing Reddit, we tend to stop at threads appreciated by the community. The same is true pretty much everywhere on the internet, including Twitch - the more people watching a stream, the potentially higher the chance that it's interesting.
One Jack Kingsman, a musician and programmer with a lifelong love of theater, took the opposite view. In November 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the man spent a lot of time alone at home. He felt lonely, isolated from his friends. He needed close, intimate relationships with other people. This was the inspiration and motivation for creating the website called Nobody.live.
The premise of the project was relatively simple - write an algorithm to filter out from the ocean of Twitch broadcasts the ones that nobody watches. Internet user stated that it was not difficult, because "Twitch has a very well designed API and fantastic documentation" (via PCGamer.com).
"I wrote a little script that says, 'Hey, give me a list of all your streams,' and then it flips through those until we hit some with zero viewers. There's never a short supply, proving that we underestimate the sheer number of novice creators putting themselves out there for anyone to find.
I thought it was a beautiful idea to take someone who was essentially performing to an empty theater from no viewers, to one viewer. [...]
It's awkward, strange, and uncomfortable at times. There are times when I hop on a stream and start talking to someone and I realize that it's surprisingly more social interaction than I was expecting. It's high-contact and voyeuristic."
Among the streams from Dark Souls speedrun, Halo dethmatches or standard playthroughs on Nobody.live you can come across streams, during which someone reads a book - out loud, although no one is listening. Who knows, maybe it's worth starting? It's possible that the creation of this type of website will prevent a repeat of John Hopstad, whobroadcasted first Dark Souls gameplay for about five years to basically no one.
