Twitch recaps are back to provide a rundown of the biggest trends on the Amazon-owned live-streaming service.
The annual list offers both general and individual insights on the top categories, emotes, and insane amount of hours spent on the platform, where users mainly group together to watch others play video games.
What is Twitch Recap?
’Tis the season of year-end lists, and this is Twitch’s way to get in on the action by giving you a digestible summary of your activity on the platform.
There are three types of recaps available: Community, Streamer, and Creator. While Community can be viewed by anyone, you need to have watched at least 10 hours of Twitch streams between January and November 2022 to access your own Recap, and you need to have streamed at least 10 hours to get Streamer insights.
When is the 2022 Twitch Recap release date?
Twitch’s Recap 2022 is available from now until mid-January 2023, on the Twitch.tv website. It is split into two tabs that cover community and individual viewer data, including hours watched, categories watched, popular emotes, and other social interactions.
How can you get your 2022 Twitch Recap?
Just head to the link above, log in if you need to, and click the viewer tab at the top of the page.
Now you can view your general insights, including how many hours and days you spent watching Twitch, along with chat messages you sent and channel points you earned for supporting creators.
Scroll further down to see more in-depth stats for each of your favorite streamers. These are the creators you watched the most during the year. For each streamer, you’ll also see how many messages sent, emotes sent, bits cheered, points earned, and months subscribed.
Below that you’ll see your favourite categories as tiles, including the games you watched the most.
How do you share your 2022 Twitch Recap?
If you’re not too embarassed by your results, then you may want to share them online and with your mates.
Just head to the bottom of the Recap page in the viewer section to find a shareable version of your Twitch Recap. Hit the “download to share” button below it to grab the card as an image. Now you can show others the amount of hours you watched, your fave streamers, and top categories.
What were the biggest 2022 Twitch Recap community trends?
This year, people watched an insane 21 billion hours of streams on Twitch across 223,000 categories.
Of course, social interactions are a big part of the live-streaming site, with users sending a total of 49 billion chat messages. The top five emotes included HeyGuys (used more than 1.4 billion times), LUL (1.04 billion), CorgiDerp (529 million), Kappa (388 million), and PogChamp (278 million).
Creators also kept pumping out content, streaming for 789 million hours across one million unique tags (which are identifiers used to describe a stream). Twitch says that 11 million new streamers joined in on the action this year.
This year’s biggest tags notably included “VTuber” and “LGBTQIAplus”, alongside more typical gaming lingo like “multiplayer” and “PVP” (or player vs player).
For those who don’t spend a great deal of time on Twitch, VTubers are creators that stream using a virtual avatar instead of showing themselves. Some of the biggest VTubers appear as anime characters. The phenomenon isn’t unique to Twitch, with virtual tubers also jumping on YouTube and other platforms.
The LGBTQIAplus tag, on the other hand, can be used by creators to indicate a safe and welcoming space for viewers, free from abuse and toxic behaviour, regardless of their sexual or gender identity.
