Reaction streams to Grand Theft Auto 6's first gameplay presentation peaked at 3,970,738 viewers across livestreaming platforms, making it the biggest gaming stream of 2026 so far.
That's according to new data from Streams Charts, which claims 9,038 streamers covered Rockstar Games' Netflix reveal, racking up 5,227,798 hours watched.
That puts GTA 6's reveal ahead of Summer Game Fest 2026's 3.81 million peak viewers, as well as June's Nintendo Direct and State of Play broadcasts. Twitch carried the largest share of the audience, accounting for around 44 percent of total hours watched, ahead of YouTube (34.8% percent) and Kick (20.2 percent).
Spanish streamer Juan Alberto "IlloJuan" García led the way with 233,520 peak viewers, a new record for his own channel, ahead of Rubius (191,056) and IShowSpeed (177,887).
The reveal went out at 8pm UK time, but heavy demand caused technical issues on both Netflix and Twitch, with some viewers reportedly locked out for 40-50 minutes. That didn't deter internet hype, though; Streams Charts also tracked more than 100,000 chat messages about the game across the three-hour window it analysed.
While the bulk of tracked messages about the reveal – 65-72 percent – were neutral, positive messages made up 11-15 percent of the total, while negative messages sat at around 17-20 percent, much of it aimed at the Twitch and Netflix outages rather than the game itself.
Around a fifth of all messages also compared the reveal to Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, generally with a negative tone, with one viewer complaining: "GTA V DLC FOR 80$ LMAO".
Cloudflare, which handles more than a fifth of global internet traffic, has since shared its own numbers on the reveal's ripple effects. Netflix's global traffic rose 16 percent compared to previous weeks as the Extended Look aired, with the spike even sharper in the UK at 45 percent.
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