Irish content creators and streamers have been around since the early days of streaming and video websites. Providing honest personalities and specifically Irish humour and wit, a handful of Irish content creators are well-known by almost everyone in the Internet content cultural sphere. Throughout this article, the cultural power of Irish content creators and the currently most-followed streamers will be surveyed.
Similar to British dry wit, Irish humour and entertainment are steeped in sarcasm, irony, and simply poking fun and everyone, everything, and whatever comes to mind. Although only a small island country, Ireland has produced some of the largest and most successful content creators in the industry. Everyone knows the classic top of the morning to ya’ YouTube intro, even if you don’t watch jacksepticeye.
Irish content creators do stand out from most of the rest of European streamers in one regard: language. Many content creators in Europe are faced with a dilemma — do you speak English and reach a wider audience or speak your native language and appeal to a more local fanbase? Of course, a larger and more diverse viewership is desirable for any streamer, however, a local more targeted demographic could be the right choice for a specific content creator.
Streams Charts recently took a look at the most-followed Italian content creators, and it's clear to see that many of them have made the decision to produce Italian content for Italian fans. While speaking Italian is a crucial aspect, it's not the whole story. When an Italian content creator chooses to speak Italian and produce Italian-language content, they know their target demographic has now massively shrunk to include largely only Italian people. This assists content creators in mindfully creating videos and streams to best connect with and engage their audience.
In contrast, Irish content creators’ native language will be English. This leaves Irish content creators with a unique attribute, mainly contained to streamers from the United States or the United Kingdom; they can more easily attract a wider global audience whilst also appealing to a localised national audience with their distinct cultural identity. Whereas other international streamers may Americanise their accent, personality, and content — consciously or not, Irish streamers have the opportunity to represent an Irish cultural identity and fluently express this in English.
For these reasons, Irish content creators occupy a unique niche in the streaming world. The pure fact of their Irishness alone allows them to offer a unique viewing experience that streamers of other nationalities will never be able to replicate. Now that we understand Irish streamers bring an irreplaceable style of entertainment to streaming, how do they leverage this advantage, and who has been the most successful?
From variety streamers to Internet personalities, esports professionals, and YouTube creators turned streamers, the Irish side of Twitch is eclectic and multi-faceted. Come find out which of these Twitch streamers are the most popular and how they do it.
Most followed Twitch streamers from Ireland
#10 heinzbaines_ (122.8K)
Heinz Baines and KSI
Heinz Baines is Irish TikTok star famous for his gaming content. He collaborated with Sky Bri on a video that received over 1 million views. He's grown popular for his FIFA 2023 videos.
Heinz Baines is a big football fan, and most of his content focuses on the sport. He plays EA Sports FC25 a lot, opening player packs, looking at game updates, and reviewing team setups. In real life, he also follows football closely, making videos with star players and sharing the latest news. Fans joke that football is almost Heinz’s second name — and they’re not far off!
#9 Tactical_Potato_ (133.4K)
Tactical Potato banner on YouTube
Tactical Potato, also known as John, is a popular YouTuber known for his Warframe content. His channel offers a mix of informative and fun videos that help players improve their skills and knowledge of the game. Tactical Potato covers topics like weapon reviews, build guides, and updates, making him a trusted source for Warframe fans. With his engaging personality and dedication to the game, he has built a large following and become a well-known figure in the Warframe community.
Tactical Potato also streams on Twitch. Recently, he’s started playing more games, including Diablo IV, Avowed, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Sniper Elite, and others. However, Warframe is still his main game.
#8 easywithaces (134.1K)
Easywithaces competing at a poker event
Easywithaces isn’t your typical Twitch videogame fanatic streamer, but a poker player and content creator. Easywithaces AKA Fintan Hand (a fitting name) first started playing poker at age 5 and claims to have played every day since. He worked as a poker dealer while at college and started his Twitch channel in 2015.
Although poker was still very new to Twitch in 2015, Fintan fell in love with streaming and began building up a sizeable audience. Eventually, Fintan was approached by PokerStars, the largest real-money online poker site in the world, and became an official Irish PokerStars ambassador. Despite the new title, content creation remains Fintan’s passion and he has started producing content on TikTok alongside his stream on Twitch.
Fintan has less and less time to stream on the easywithaces channel nowadays, as he continues to develop his career and branch out into new businesses, but he remains one of the strongest content creators not only in Ireland but in the poker content creation sphere.
#7 Lythero (181.3K)
Lythero
Lee "Lythero" Geary is an Irish Fighting Games player, commentator and content creator. Lythero used to compete in Marvel vs. Capcom tournaments while also streaming on Twitch and post videos on YouTube. He has his own VTuber character called Lee-Tuber. Most of his more recent art is drawn by his wife.
Most of Lythero content features him and his friends, known as the Shenanigoons, playing various games. Though he built up a following with his videos of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Mario Kart, his audience grew even more with his Dragon Ball FighterZ content.
#6 saevid (392.8K)
Saevid is another esports pro turned streamer
Saevid is an FPS player and content creator, focusing mainly on Fortnite and Valorant. Originally a professional Fortnite competitor, saevid played for many different organisations in Fortnite, achieving moderate success. He used his Fortnite reputation and some clever timing with the “Lockdown Boom” to catapult his streaming career into the atmosphere.
Saevid transitioned from esports player to Twitch streamer in 2020, quickly becoming Ireland’s most popular Fortnite streamer. He had built up a sizeable channel in no time at all, quickly setting a personal best of 16.2K Peak Viewers in his first dedicated year on Twitch. He still competes in Fortnite events and streams his POV of them, allowing Fortnite esports fans a peek behind the curtain on how players perform at such high levels.
He also started a YouTube channel, where he posts highlights of his stream and videos of competitive events. His most popular videos are highlight videos of him playing and finishing strongly in Fortnite events.
#5 CallMeKevin (526.2K)
CallMeKevin may only be 4th but he has the most Irish picture of all
CallMeKevin, naturally named Kevin O’Reilly, is a YouTube creator and personality with 3.2M subscribers on the platform. After building up his following on YouTube, Kevin made the jump to streaming in 2020 and gained tens of thousands of subscribers every month, April 2020 was his strongest month for Followers Gained, reaching 43K new audience members in only 30 days. Of course, Kevin’s hyperfast growth on Twitch was fueled by funnelling viewers from his YouTube videos.
Although only starting streaming in 2020, Kevin has a rich history as a content creator. He started his first YouTube channel, zXNoRegretzzXz, back in late 2009. He started off making videos having fun in Call of Duty. His most popular videos include his Minecraft last play and GTA IV content. The channel peaked at over 400,000 subscribers but eventually started to lose momentum. Kevin decided to make all videos on the channel Private and create a new one: CallMeKevin.
With a fresh channel and newly motivated to create content, Kevin began uploading modern content and built up a huge fanbase in a mere couple of years. He now focuses on Twitch on variety content and uses the account for special events.
#4 Terroriser (649.4K)
Terroriser himself
Brian Michael Hanby, also known as Terroriser (formerly "TheGamingTerroriser") is video game streamer and commentator. He is known for his many voice impressions, such as Bane from Batman and Arnold Schwarzenegger being his most famous.
Terroriser streams a lot of different games, but his roleplay sessions are where he really excels, fully getting into character. He doesn't stream too often, but he posts videos regularly on YouTube. His channel is close to hitting 4 million subscribers.
He’s a big fan of Manchester United and David Beckham. Brian used to work at Subway before leaving college to focus on YouTube and streaming full-time. He also often streams with other popular Irish creators, like RTGame.
#3 RTGame (1.18M)
RTGame's typical streaming set-up
RTGame is another YouTuber turned Twitch streamer, with 2.7M subscribers over on YouTube. Similar to #4 CallMeKevin, RTGame focuses on showing off his personality regardless of what game he’s playing. He’s a variety streamer who enjoys playing big releases like Dark Souls and Pokémon, but also smaller lesser-known titles.
In the last 30 days RTGame reached a Peak Viewers of 7.5K, he averaged 3.6K viewers also. Just over two years ago RTGame achieved 1M Followers on Twitch, 6 years after the creation of his channel. Before Twitch really kicked off for RTGame, he was uploading to YouTube. RTGame was originally a channel focused on TF2-related content, but in 2018 RTGame shifted his content to be more diverse and similar to other popular variety streamers. It clearly worked well for him and now he’s one of the most popular content creators.
#2 Justaminx (1.86M)
Justaminx breaks out of Ireland
Justaminx is a streamer known mostly for her variety and Just Chatting content. Originally from Dublin, Minx moved over to the US and settled in Los Angeles, where she has the opportunity to collaborate with American streamers. Minx exploded in popularity in early 2020, as she appeared in other streamers' content. She quickly progressed from an average of under a hundred viewers to thousands of average viewers within just a few months.
Back in 2020, Minx started a podcast along with Kaceytron and QTCinderella called the Egirls Rejects Podcast. In early 2021 Minx reached her Peak Viewers of all time with 53K concurrent viewers watching her complete a 24-hour live stream. Since then Minx remains popular with her IRL content and streams games like Valorant, Dead By Daylight, and Overwatch 2.
#1 jacksepticeye (2.82M)
The original Irish content creator
Seán William McLoughlin, otherwise known as jacksepticeye, is the most popular Irish content creator by a wide margin. Seán originally started making content for YouTube in 2012. By 2013 his gameplay videos were noticed by Pewdiepie, who shouted out the jacksepticeye channel and gave him a big initial boost in viewership. By late next year, jacksepticeye had reached 1M subscribers on YouTube. His growth continued to increase exponentially and nowadays he has 30M subscribers on the video-sharing platform.
Jacksepticeye began to focus more heavily on Twitch content in 2020, quickly receiving attention on the platform due to his following already established on the internet. In early 2021, jacksepticeye reached his highest Peak Viewers with 92K viewers tuning in for his Rust streams. Seán played Rust on the OTV server, alongside other content creators such as Shroud, Ludwig, Pokimane, and Lilypichu. Seán’s Rust streams were extremely popular, receiving 0.5M Hours Watched for only one stream. Since May 2021 all’s been quiet on Seán’s streams, with the content creator only rarely booting up the livestream. However, he has continued to upload YouTube videos, receiving millions of views per upload.
Most popular Twitch streamers from Ireland
| #
|
Streamer
|
Followers
|
|---|---|---|
| 1
|
jacksepticeye
|
2.82M
|
| 2
|
JustaMinx
|
1.86M
|
| 3
|
RTGame
|
1.18M
|
| 4
|
Terroriser
|
649K
|
| 5
|
CallMeKevin
|
526K
|
| 6
|
saevid
|
392K
|
| 7
|
Lythero
|
181K
|
| 8
|
easywithaces
|
134K
|
| 9
|
Tactical_Potato_
|
133K
|
| 10
|
heinzbaines_
|
122K
|
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