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dude, i'm just saying that there other places for noon-gaming stuff and those people are invading a site that was born for videogames. but then, i'm not using twitch for quite a while now since the homepage was taken over by IRL streams. I just opened twitch.tv (not logged in) a minute ago and in the homepage there's a dude sleeping (with the name of the stream "i'm only sleeping" wtf??), one deejay, someone cooking and a saxophonist...
that's 4 streams out of 8 in the homepage that have nothing to do with gaming.
Non gaming streams have their own categories, and they certainly add value. Everyone loved the Bob Ross stream when it started, but now there's something wrong with cooking or musicians? Some people who come for the sax player might get into games. Twitch has problems, but adding variety to their streaming platform isn't one of them.
There aren't less gamers on twitch because of non gamers. I don't even think game streams have suffered much as a whole.