On Tuesday, Twitch streamer Fandy took a break from streaming games like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and League of Legends, to broadcast herself giving birth. The eight-hour-long stream captured the livestreamer going into labor and eventually giving birth to her child inside a small inflatable pool in a living room, as thousands of viewers tuned in, including Twitch CEO Dan Clancy.
“Hi twitter my water just broke so I think I’m going this live. Baby time :),” Fandy wrote on X before starting the livestream. The stream, which garnered more than 50,000 views so far, isn’t the first birth streamed on Twitch (or other platforms, for that matter). But it’s certainly one of the first where a content creator with hundreds and thousands of followers livestreamed the entire process and promoted