Streamers are annoying and incredibly over dramatic when they play.
There are plenty who are laid back. Some of the ones who do speedruns and stuff barely say anything.
I especially don’t get why you would pay someone money to sit there and watch them.
Why would you pay money to sit there and watch people play sports, when you could go and play sports yourself? Why would you pay money to watch soaps, when you could participate in your own mundane dramas with your family and neighbours? A lot of pastimes really just boil down to watching people do stuff that isn't especially exciting.
And I used to watch my brother play as a kid but that’s different. We knew each other and were in the same room at least.
A lot of people don't have friends with similar interests. Parasocially sharing a game you like with a streamer can be a substitute for sharing it with a friend or sibling.
Personally, if there's a game I really like and have played repeatedly, watching someone else play it can be a fun way of reexperiencing it. I tend to prefer the slightly more polished stuff you get on youtube to livestreams though. Also I find twitch to be buggy and poorly optimised, and am somewhat mystified that it has become such a successful platform.
Very early results will start coming through at like midnight UK time. If Biden wins big, then I think we could know that by something like 2-3am UK time. Apparently Georgia, North Carolina and Florida are all expected to count their votes quickly - if Biden wins any one of them it all but guarantees that he wins, if Trump wins all of them then it probably means a close election that drags on for days, since the swing states that are expected to be slightly more blue-leaning than those three will count very slowly.
I don't know why everyone is talking about the West coast states, because the only way any of them are in doubt is if someone is winning a massive landslide.
American times are mostly pretty easy to understand because their media almost always use Eastern time (aka EST, or EDT during daylight savings), and if they mention something in another time zone they usually give the Eastern equivalent too. For most of the year, you just add five hours on to get to UK time. Unfortunately there are two brief periods a year where it's four hours, because Europe and North America go into daylight savings on different dates for some reason, but we've just come out of one of those.