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A live, real-time video broadcast over the internet, watched by an audience as it happens rather than as pre-recorded uploaded content.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The livestream ran for six hours straight without a single break."
LORE & ORIGIN
Became standard technical and cultural vocabulary as platforms like Justin.tv, then Twitch, YouTube Live, and others made real-time internet video broadcasting technically accessible and commercially viable in the early 2010s.
FIRST SEEN
2007
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Twitch Canon)
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang
Related To:Streamer
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+1 AURA
TREND STATUS
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CULTURE CATEGORY
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DOCUMENTED SINCE
2007
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