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react Andy

noun

Etymology

From react + Andy (“slang for a Twitch streamer”), originating from live streaming service Twitch in late 2018.

Definitions

  1. A streamer who publishes videos in which they react to other people's content.

    • He pulls in 30k viewers to watch him be a react andy, they are there for him not the game.
    • Usually, streamers who reacts to others content might be called a React Andy, or the more refined React Anderson. You might also hear of someone being an 8K Andy or another number meaning the number of viewers they average.
    • XQc was browsing TikToks and reacting to them, as he often does during his "React Andy" segments of his streams, when he suddenly found himself being posed a very interesting and quite personal question from a new video.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA