>>94296258It's a different streaming model. People don't go to Youtube to watch streams, they go to watch videos. Because of that you want your streams to be at a more manageable length. 2-4 hours are good, and plenty of people do streams less than 1 hour. You have your VODs out there for people to find and see you and having your vids be digestible in a single sitting is good. Though worth mentioning that last point matters most to people who haven't made it big yet, while an already-big streamer can go that long and still find success thanks to already having it.
On the flipside people go to Twitch to watch streams. 99% of people looking for something to watch are doing so with the intention of finding someone who's live, so with that in mind you only "exist" to people looking to find you when you're actually live. Stream long hours, be live a long time, and you're more likely to overlap with viewers looking for what you're offering. It's also why 4 hours tends to be the absolute minimum people will go for on Twitch because anything lower outside of events and it's like why even bother.
tl;dr, Platform differences mean Twitch viewers are used to lengthy streams that remain a novelty to Youtube viewers, and most of the Youtube streamers that go for super long hours have a Twitch background so they're used to it.
