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Ultra low latency absolutely improves the streaming experience for community streams like on Twitch. When everyone is +-20 seconds of each other the chat doesn't line up well.


Implying there's value to Twitch chat?


Yeah. Like millions if not billions of dollars.


As a former Twitch employee, I lol’d at this.


By that, do you mean there's billions of $$ in Twitch chat, or is the concept too absurd (and hilarious as a result)?


Why? I am genuinely curious


Might be hard for physcab to reply from their yacht, I guess we'll find out eventually though.


Probably because twitch chat is the absolute darkest place on the internet, at least of you are a mod.


There’s always YouTube comments.


How so?


Feelsbadman

Twitch chat is fun.




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