In my college here in Lisbon, almost all the courses that you did were in C, Programming 1 and 2, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, etc etc, except for OO classes.
They changed it to Python after i left but i am glad that i had the opportunity to learn C, although i don't use it very often in the "working world".
I reckon that Python is a nicer language to a freshman that has never seen code before, but they should of kept stuff like OS and Distributed Systems in C.
The problem i see is that Twitch already has a very strong culture in the gaming community. You see Twitch emotes being used everywhere on the internet and i started seeing people on my campus use it on everyday language.
I know its silly, but the chat and all the "underground" culture around it is a major player in Twitch's success.