Darren Watkins Jr., far better known as IShowSpeed, has attained a kind of fame that’s hard to wrap your head around. The 20-year-old streamer, named Rolling Stone‘s most influential creator of 2025, doesn’t just have 135 million followers online. He also gets mobbed and chased by fans wherever he goes, …
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T he first thing you notice about IShowSpeed isn’t his face. It’s the wave of chaos that follows him. Practically, it makes sense — you don’t build a streaming empire with 43 million subscribers by the ripe old age of 20 unless you’ve got the infrastructure to back it up. …
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P laqueboymax might be one of the most sought-after names in the music business right now. At 22 years old, the popular Twitch streamer is tapped into the next generation of listeners, who engage with new music via nonstop feeds of clips and snippets. He’s among the Top 15 streamers …
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Rachel “Valkyrae” Hofstetter, Brittany “Cinna” Watts, and Emily “Emiru” Schunk are popular Twitch streamers with millions of social media followers. Over the years, they’ve each cultivated a massive community that tunes in to watch them play video games, participate in boot camps, compete in cook-offs, and sometimes, get together to …
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Nia D. is the streamer behind StarWarsTheory, a channel dedicated to the George Lucas science fiction universe, with over 3.3 million subscribers on YouTube alone. Most of his content revolves around dissecting Star Wars internet theories, debating casting choices, and discussing new announcements and releases. But it also draws viewers …
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Anyone older than Gen Z may be confused by the celebrity of Kai Cenat, a 21-year-old Twitch and YouTube star who has captured a massive audience with his gaming, pranks, and high-energy persona. But to teenagers who spend hours watching Cenat mix it up with buddies and guests on livestreams, …
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Last December, Adin Ross traveled to Dubai to meet his new mentor, Andrew Tate. The 22-year-old streamer already had an audience rivaling the 36-year-old alpha male lifestyle guru — 7.2 million Twitch subscribers, plus 3.5 million on YouTube — but Tate offered something more than clout: advice. A month before, …
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As one of the top female streamers on Twitch, Kaitlyn Siragusa has built a streaming empire on ASMR, cosplay, and adult entertainment content — and it doesn’t hurt that she’s very attractive. Known on Twitch as Amouranth, Siragusa told Rolling Stone’s Twitch channel in May that her experience with unwanted …
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