Nathan Grayson

I'm doing well.

I'm doing well.

Yeah, I very much did. Also, I like that you have two of them for like symmetry. Yeah.

Yeah, I very much did. Also, I like that you have two of them for like symmetry. Yeah.

Yeah, so currently I write for a site called Aftermath. It's reader-supported and worker-owned. Me and a few other people founded it. But before that, I've been all over the place. I was at Kotaku for a long time. And then after that, I was at the Washington Post.

Yeah, so currently I write for a site called Aftermath. It's reader-supported and worker-owned. Me and a few other people founded it. But before that, I've been all over the place. I was at Kotaku for a long time. And then after that, I was at the Washington Post.

And as for why I write about video games, I grew up playing them and knew that I loved them and always wanted to get into doing something with them. And then when I was in middle school and high school, I just read video game magazines all the time. That's all I did between classes and when I finished my homework and stuff. And so eventually I was just like, how do I do this?

And as for why I write about video games, I grew up playing them and knew that I loved them and always wanted to get into doing something with them. And then when I was in middle school and high school, I just read video game magazines all the time. That's all I did between classes and when I finished my homework and stuff. And so eventually I was just like, how do I do this?

Um, and then one thing led to another and I, I did it.

Um, and then one thing led to another and I, I did it.

Yeah, so the way that I describe it is it's kind of the story of Twitch as viewed through the lens of nine different streamers. Some of them are really big names that you might have heard of, like Ahsan Piker, Amaranth, Dream... And then some of them are much smaller.

Yeah, so the way that I describe it is it's kind of the story of Twitch as viewed through the lens of nine different streamers. Some of them are really big names that you might have heard of, like Ahsan Piker, Amaranth, Dream... And then some of them are much smaller.

And I definitely wanted to have both ends of that spectrum because I think that content creation and streaming are very different experiences depending on how big you are. And so, yeah, I didn't want to just tell the story of the platform itself because I think that a lot of people do that. There are books about YouTube and TikTok and things like that.

And I definitely wanted to have both ends of that spectrum because I think that content creation and streaming are very different experiences depending on how big you are. And so, yeah, I didn't want to just tell the story of the platform itself because I think that a lot of people do that. There are books about YouTube and TikTok and things like that.

And they tend to focus on the companies and the people who brought the platform itself to life. But while there's an audience for that and while like some people definitely want to know the business side of things, I think that especially if we're talking about Twitch, people care more about the creators and the community because that's what has always made Twitch, I think, special and different.

And they tend to focus on the companies and the people who brought the platform itself to life. But while there's an audience for that and while like some people definitely want to know the business side of things, I think that especially if we're talking about Twitch, people care more about the creators and the community because that's what has always made Twitch, I think, special and different.

And so I wanted to focus mostly on that.

And so I wanted to focus mostly on that.

yeah um twitch i i chose to cover it in part or i chose to write a book about it in part because i'd already been covering it for a while um and i started covering it like gosh i don't know in like 2015 2016 um in part because there just wasn't really there weren't really that many people covering it seriously like if you talk about

yeah um twitch i i chose to cover it in part or i chose to write a book about it in part because i'd already been covering it for a while um and i started covering it like gosh i don't know in like 2015 2016 um in part because there just wasn't really there weren't really that many people covering it seriously like if you talk about