Leo froze. He looked at his own preview window. There, in the grainy 640x480 resolution of the portable webcam, was the faint outline of a second figure sitting on the edge of his bed. It had no face. Just the shape of a kid, maybe twelve, wearing a hoodie that seemed to absorb the light.

Like many early pioneers, Junior eventually stepped back as streaming became a corporate, multi-billion dollar industry. While the specific archives of