Reasons to move from YouTube to Twitch streaming

Firstly: The technical issue which spurred me to move back to YouTube streaming in June 2022 was nothing to do with Twitch. It was an issue with my streaming software which I fixed. But since I had moved to YouTube streaming and was pretty enthusiastic about creating Channel Memberships, and expecting way more viewers, up to the viewercounts I used to get in 2020 when I started streaming on YouTube, I stuck with it. Then these problems happened:

1. The work in creating a YouTube stream (making a thumbnail, full description, setting it up in advance vs the work of creating a Twitch stream (just need a background and any relevant bot commands for what I'm doing)

2. Vods: The Spudgun Archives: on YouTube I need to download my vod and upload it on the 2nd channel manually, also copying the description and thumbnail. On Twitch it is an automatic export, which is what my 2nd channel was designed for.

3. Emotes: BetterTwitchTV, YouTube has good emotes too but not BTTV

4. Subbing / Channel Membership: This is the only pro that YouTube has, because they give a better percentage of the money. But on Twitch I just have more subs, which compensates for that, because Twitch subbing is just a more known and recognised institution. Because channel memberships provide general perks which apply to my videos as well, I can still advertise and reasonably hope people become channel members despite not streaming on YouTube, but I cannot reasonably expect people to be Twitch subs when I don't stream on Twitch. (some people still did that though for some reason)

5. Twitch Prime is simply a big advantage that YouTube cannot compete with.

6. Separation of content: YouTube is for videos, Twitch is for streaming. That's the way it is in most people's minds, and separating them like that makes it simpler for me and my viewers. There is also confusion when I post a YT livestream link, that some people think it's actually a video.

7. Chat window: Twitch chat can be easily integrated on streaming software to be shown on stream, YouTube chat is extremely annoying and needs to be remade for every stream. Furthermore, my own chat window on YouTube where I read chat CONSTANTLY glitches out and freezes, as anyone will know if you've watched any of my YouTube streams.

8. On Twitch I've been raided a few times by similarly sized and smaller channels, and I can raid people back, which creates great interaction between streamers that cannot happen on YouTube.

9. Notifications: YouTube's are terrible, and their insane unknown algorithm affects whether my own subscribers even see my stream appearing or notifications. I don't even know. Twitch notifications are common and simple.

10. Algorithm: The YouTube algorithm which decides how many viewers I get is totally incomprehensible and dependent on so many different things which are hidden from YouTubers. This applies to my videos too, but I can reasonably assume that my videos will at least be recommended to my own subscribers, but not my streams. I am left constantly agonising over whether I have a low viewercount on my stream due to my own failings as a content creator, or just because the whims of the algorithm decided not to show my stream today. That stress alone warrants moving back to Twitch let alone the other reasons.

11. A huge amount of my video catalogue asks people to follow me on Twitch, which people still did throughout my time streaming on YouTube. A small amount of my video catalogue tells people I stream on YouTube instead of Twitch. I can easily go back to asking people to follow me on Twitch. Nobody unfollowed me on Twitch while I was gone anyway.

12. Clips are an iconic part of Twitch streaming which create small bitesize content out of streams, and they get posted and shared around. YouTube has a clipping thing too but literally no one has ever used it. Some of my Twitch clips are hilarious, memorable moments and I made a Twitch clip compilation video.

Probably more things.