Twitch’s “Silent Reading” category was one of its April Fools’ Day releases, in which a dedicated section of the video-sharing platform features people streaming silently reading their books, as the name implies.
The US live streaming video platform Twitch logo application is shown on the screen of a tablet in this illustration photo taken on July 24, 2019 in Paris.
According to The Loadout, Twitch added new categories such as Just Chatting, Literally, Chores, Silent Reading, Odd Jobs, Character Creation, and Pizza Time just in time for April Fools.
Twitch teased its new April Fools categories on Twitter, saying it’s “excited” to launch five new categories for users to watch and stream to.
As previously mentioned, one of these is Twitch’s “Silent Reading” category, in which streamers live stream while reading literary works without saying anything to their viewers.
A Twitch user streamed a video under the “Silent Reading” category for an hour, according to a recent report by PC Gamer.
Merry Kish, a Twitch streamer, was seen holding a book while sitting in a plush chair in the video “Just Readin.” She was also listening to music while silently immersing herself in the hardbound copy of “Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection ” she was holding.
More than 2,000 people watched a streamer read a book for an hour on Twitch’s “Silent Reading” category. According to the same report, the “Just Readin” live stream received over 2,000 views. However, as of this writing, a one-hour video of a Twitch user reading a book has racked up over 55,000 views.
While she was reading the hardbound book in deafening silence, the chat section on the “Just Readin” stream only allowed other Twitch users to send emojis, allowing them to react to her.
Aside from that, there were other April Fools Twitch categories with a slew of new streams.
Another new Twitch category is Pizza Time, in which a user by the name of PizzaPrincessG demonstrated her skills at making pizza from scratch in her New York restaurant.
The logo of the VOD and streaming video games company Twitch is seen in a photograph taken at the Tokyo Game Show on September 21, 2018, it turns out that streams in the Odd Jobs and Errands category aren’t exactly following Twitch’s original plan, which was for users to stream mundane tasks. Instead, some people are using it to stream games.
