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Twitch Streamer Fandy Live-Streams Home Birth, Drawing Hundreds of Thousands of Views

A congratulatory chat from Twitch’s CEO signaled tacit approval, prompting renewed scrutiny of the platform’s boundaries.

Overview

  • The eight-hour broadcast from Fandy’s Texas home showed a planned water birth with a midwife and a nurse present.
  • Outlets report roughly 30,000 peak concurrent viewers and total views now in the hundreds of thousands, with figures varying by source.
  • Twitch CEO Dan Clancy appeared in the live chat to congratulate Fandy, a public gesture widely noted by viewers and reporters.
  • Fandy said the pregnancy was low risk, described a hospital transfer plan, and emphasized the stream was not monetized or set up for donations.
  • Public reaction ranged from praise to criticism over privacy and suitability for the platform, and Fandy later disabled her OnlyFans to focus on streaming.