I think it's a simple low pressure way to engage with something. As a kid I used to watch my older brother play SNES, and I think this in a way kinda follows th

I think it's a simple low pressure way to engage with something. As a kid I used to watch my older brother play SNES, and I think this in a way kinda follows that. You get to tag along for the journey without the fear of failure. I do worry that the ability to just absorb others' social interactions/experiments/failures will lead to less risk-taking kids, but there's probably an element of it that we as adults can't grasp without the same amount of free time that kids have. It's interesting - I recently taught year six kids computer programming as part of an outreach program though where I work, and all of the kids wanted to know two things: if I could hack things, and most importantly, what my twitch name was and if I streamed. They all watched things together - it was a social hangout for them. Really interesting dynamic.