Many previously popular streamers dropped out as quickly as they dropped in, but folks like Sodapoppin, Summit, and Lirik stuck around, turning GTA RP into their main game. It wasn’t long before GTA 5 was in league with Fortnite, surpassing it in terms of raw viewership on good days. Together, they knitted together the disparate appeals of interconnected cinematic universes, personality-driven content, and of course, trash. This was not the first time GTA 5 RP had become a hot commodity on Twitch, but this was by far its biggest growth spurt, with roughly a dozen big streamers joining the fray for at least a handful of days a piece, playing as cops, criminals, aspiring rappers, and more.
That’s the central appeal of No Pixel, a popular Grand Theft Auto V role-playing server that’s modded out the wazoo to enable interesting, trashy, and downright bizarre narratives.Įarlier this year, it leaped to the forefront of Twitch thanks to interest from big streamers like Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris, Jaryd “Summit1g” Lazar, and Saqib “Lirik” Zahid, each of whom have millions of followers. It’s another to role-play in it-to pretend to be a character of your own imagining and to remain in-character at all times, no matter what glitchy oddities might arise.
