At 3:00 AM, most of the world is asleep. But in a soundproofed spare bedroom in Austin, Texas, the party is peaking. "Ninja" (real name: Tyler Blevins) isn't actually there—he’s a digital avatar dancing on screen. But the 45,000 people watching him on Twitch? They are very real, and they are screaming.
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But for every one of those, there are 10,000 streamers living in a studio apartment, eating cold pizza, and hoping for a "host" from a bigger channel. At 3:00 AM, most of the world is asleep