Streaming star Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel has weighed in on TikTok Live overtaking Twitch in viewership in 2025, pointing out a few key stats.
Over the years, there have been plenty of streaming platforms looking to challenge Twitch’s dominance. The likes of Facebook Gaming, Mixer, and Caffeine have all fallen by the wayside, while both YouTube and KICK are still trying to make up ground.
TikTok Live has become a somewhat unexpected challenger too. The short-form video platform has become a part of many streamer’s multi-stream setup and with such a vast number of creators on there, watch time is way up.
In fact, as of April 2025, TikTok Live has actually overtaken Twitch for total viewership. As per StreamsCharts’ findings, it is up 30%, rising to 8.027 billion hours watched. Twitch is only at 4.847 billion hours watched.
xQc unsure about TikTok Live overtaking Twitch
While some may point to those numbers as a key example of Twitch’s supposed downfall – and opportunity for something else to take over – xQc doesn’t believe that TikTok is the next big streaming platform.
“These guys that watch these streams, their average watch time for a streamer is like 48 seconds and they’ve watched like 38 streams,” he said. “It is what it is, it is a different type of beast.
“It is still short-form content, almost like a video. It’s not really streaming.”
The Twitch and KICK star claimed that live streams will pop up on TikTok around “every 10 scrolls” which inflates the number.
“You can add in, every person’s scrolls, a live streamer every tenth scroll, and you put that in the algorithm, which is probably what they have already, and you get this,” he said. “It’s how you transfer a little bit of muscle to something you want to push. It’s how YouTube has been doing it.”
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