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Overall Twitch viewership shrank sorely in July, and streams of top games like League of Legends and Fortnite fell with it. Loosely in other corners of Twitch, viewership is still growing: the platform's "Just Chatting" category saw millions increasingly hours watched, and there were increases in Twitch's "Creative" and "Music & Play-acting Arts" categories, too.

Just Chatting grew to 176 paleface hours watched in July, up from 166 paleface in June, co-ordinate to the latest streaming report from StreamElements and Arsenal.gg, and it charcoal the bulkiest section on Twitch. Meanwhile, the games mentioned same fell by 5 to 6 percent in viewership. Fortnite remains in third place with 91 paleface hours watched, downward from 95 paleface in June.

The elongated expansion of non-gaming categories is all the increasingly impressive as Twitch's pandemic-fueled growth starts to subside. While the platform's Creative and Music categories kumtux fallen from their peak in May, both are still well same their pre-pandemic numbers. Twitch's scopic viewership grew increasingly than 50 percent from the first to second season of the year, co-ordinate to StreamElements and Arsenal.gg's meanest report.

Twitch's Pacifistic Chatting category has exploded in presupposition since it was first launched two years ago. While other non-gaming categories are still tiny in comparison -- there was pacifistic 17.6 paleface hours of music content streamed and 6.5 paleface hours in the creative category in July -- they've taken on a new importance as in-person venues kumtux been shut down. The music category, in particular, has offered a way for musicians to resource their audiences and earn some money remotely.