How much Twitch Streamers Make (and the insanity)

[AiiR]

I used to watch Dr disrespect a while ago but only 10-15mins because that's all I can bear to watch of someone else playing video games.

I feel like the whole ethot business is nothing more than softcore pornography. In some cases the lines between Twitch and cam show websites are very very slim, and this is a website with a much younger demographic.

 

[Grandmaster Fap!]

Only streamer i watch is EpicNameBro as i love Dark Souls, seems a genuine nice guy and not some 'omg im screaming at you guiesssss!!'. DrDisrespect is entertaining in highlight clips on youtube, i dont think i could stomach him for an entire stream though.

 

[V F]

Only streamer i watch is EpicNameBro as i love Dark Souls, seems a genuine nice guy and not some 'omg im screaming at you guiesssss!!'. DrDisrespect is entertaining in highlight clips on youtube, i dont think i could stomach him for an entire stream though.

Considering he was once banned on twitch for illegal activity in California.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I've not used Twitch but I have seen "Twitch fails compilations" etc on YouTube. What I need to ask is: why do people stream themselves going shopping or having their hair cut or being on a bus/train? Yes I get why they stream online gaming and online gambling and Pokémon trading cards etc but I don't understand why they stream their day-to-day life like shopping and hair cuts? Thought I'd ask here in this existing thread than making a new thread out of it.

 

[Angilion]

I've not used Twitch but I have seen "Twitch fails compilations" etc on YouTube. What I need to ask is: why do people stream themselves going shopping or having their hair cut or being on a bus/train? Yes I get why they stream online gaming and online gambling and Pokémon trading cards etc but I don't understand why they stream their day-to-day life like shopping and hair cuts? Thought I'd ask here in this existing thread than making a new thread out of it.

Celebrity. It's a different medium, but it's not really a different thing. It's like those celebrity magazines about who's wearing what and where they've been and whatever other trivia is in them. People being famous for being famous is not a new thing and neither is people wanting to know about celebrities doing unremarkable things. All that streaming has done is enabled access to even more trivial things. In the past, you'd need a photographer and a reporter to make a story about <insert celebrity here> going shopping or whatever. Now they can stream the whole lot themselves, audio and video.

It's nonsense, but it's not really a new thing. The success rate probably isn't much different either. Most streamers go nowhere, just like most musicians, actors, writers, footballers, etc. Also, appealing to the lowest common denominator has always been a path to success. Nothing new there, either.

There are some new aspects to it, such as "gamer girl" porn performers having more scope to manipulate their marks directly and extract more money from them because of that and to target younger people (because they're more easily manipulated), but streaming isn't fundamentally different to earlier forms of celebrity. There are some who have some talent in something and others (probably more successful) whose talent is self-promotion. If you want to be a celebrity, the best talent to have is that of being a celebrity. Not being good at anything else, not being a good teacher, not anything other than being a celebrity - that's the goal and the means to the goal.

It's all a bit daft, but that's humanity for you. A bit daft.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Thanks Angilion, you explained it and nailed it really well so I kinda understand now. So it's about status and that spread of status but in a new age. Glad we both agree that it comes across as a bit daft for anyone who don't read gossip magazines

 

[FoxEye]

The jealousy and genuine lack of understanding in this thread is hilarious.

Writing it all off as jealously is lazy.

I think many of us just don't understand our fellow man.

"More money than sense" is what I keep coming back to.

At least the job I do adds value to this world. I can't understand the vast amounts of money being spent and being made on things that are so... absurdly transient. There is really nothing being produced.

In my mind this really encapsulates the "YOLO" movement. They spend money on just being in the moment.

Maybe it's a generation that has no identity beyond living in the moment with other people who also have nothing better to do, online.

Perhaps I could have a go at being a Twitch streamer myself - but I have absolutely no interest in doing so. I'd rather earn **** and do something worthwhile. Something I can have a modicum of pride in at the end of the day.

*looks for old man shouting at clouds pic*

Not every new trend and fad is progress.

Some clouds deserve it.

 

[spoffle]

lol?

They aren't millionaires, most actually don't earn what the youtube videos claim either. Sure they get a fair chunk of money but nothing amazing, especially once taxes etc. are taken into account they get a fairly average wage and could earn more doing a more traditional/normal job.

The jealousy and genuine lack of understanding in this thread is hilarious.

The top ones are absolutely multi millionaires.

Oh, and: eVeRy OnE iS jUsT jEaLoUs.

 

[dowie]

It is crazy though - one of my childhood friends is doing the whole "e-thot" type thing and raking it in at the moment - seriously eye-watering amounts - though what the long term is like I dunno.

I dated a girl who had quite a few Instagram followers (I also had a girl on holiday who I'd lied to threaten to out me to her Instagram followers) - neither of them had actually gotten to the point where they could properly make money from instagram and I suspect that neither of them have even heard of twitch nor are particularly interested in video games... (though I suspect they'd feign an interest pretty quickly if they thought they could make money/get fans/followers through it).

 

[Rroff]

I dated a girl who had quite a few Instagram followers (I also had a girl on holiday who I'd lied to threaten to out me to her Instagram followers) - neither of them had actually gotten to the point where they could properly make money from instagram and I suspect that neither of them have even heard of twitch nor are particularly interested in video games... (though I suspect they'd feign an interest pretty quickly if they thought they could make money/get fans/followers through it).

Instagram is just a side thing (over 20K followers though) - she does some streaming but her main presence is on sites like onlyfans (into the 10s of thousands of subscribers paying $9.99/m).

 

[FoxEye]

Instagram is just a side thing (over 20K followers though) - she does some streaming but her main presence is on sites like onlyfans (into the 10s of thousands of subscribers paying $9.99/m).

Meh, I don't get it. Porn is free, and at least you aren't lying to yourself that you have any kind of relationship with the girls/boys/other in question.

I mean, unless nothing else but girls wearing Hovis will work for you. In which case yeah I guess you need a more customised service

 

[Rroff]

Meh, I don't get it. Porn is free, and at least you aren't lying to yourself that you have any kind of relationship with the girls/boys/other in question.

I mean, unless nothing else but girls wearing Hovis will work for you. In which case yeah I guess you need a more customised service

Yeah I don't get it either - there are people who throw silly money at these girls (and men) just to do moderately lurid "private" acts as well.

 

[Mark A]

Greekgodx is always bringing up that he makes more than doctors and lawyers for just sitting in a chair and 'reacting' to youtube videos for 6 hours a day. It really puts it into perspective.

 

[esoteric]

Paige VanZant said she makes more money posting on instagram than fighting in the UFC.

 

[Nitefly]

Greekgodx is always bringing up that he makes more than doctors and lawyers for just sitting in a chair and 'reacting' to youtube videos for 6 hours a day. It really puts it into perspective.

Meanwhile, I worked most of the weekend doing complicated **** just to be shouted at today (inevitably). Hoorah.

Just gotta keep achieving and working. Worth it for that prestige. Only the weak need to relax. Having the ability to sacrifice yourself for your job makes live worth living.

Greekgodx doesn’t know what a wild life he’s missing.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

How much SOME twitch streamers make. For most streamers you can not do this full time or if you do you have to live on the edge of poverty.

Like all entertainment fields the majority are earning nothing or a small side income whilst in ft work.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

lol?

They aren't millionaires, most actually don't earn what the youtube videos claim either. Sure they get a fair chunk of money but nothing amazing, especially once taxes etc. are taken into account they get a fairly average wage and could earn more doing a more traditional/normal job.

The jealousy and genuine lack of understanding in this thread is hilarious.

Your joking right.

Destiny alone last night was joking about just casually paying off a monthly 9K credit card like it was nothing.

Trainwrecks the other week said he had spent over 60k on food orders last year.

Hasanabi cliams to be poor but it's been proven many times that he is a top 1% earner.

All of the top twitch streams are six figures yearly. It has been discussed to death by them and others throughout the years. Bounties alone for the top streamers can net between 5 and 10k for a few hours game time.

 

[adolf hamster]

is this really any stupider than the old school "celebrity" culture just because their audience are paying them directly?

 

[byeo]

Fair play to anyone who streams on Twitch and can make a living off it. I follow someone who streams Flight Simulator & P3D, he used to be a commentator for COD and another 1st person shooter (which I forget) he get's around 2/300 people watching per stream which isn't high really and streams 5/6 times per week but he makes enough to have quit his job and gone full time on it.

The thing I find crazy is the amount of people who subscribe and re-sub for additional months, what do they get when they subscribe? I just don't get why people subscribe and or send money to them, I'm happy to follow them and watch the odd advert which support them but sending money? Nah.

 

[StriderX]

Because it's a community and quite literally you're supporting someone you wish to continue to watch, it couldn't be any simpler. It's a lot more direct than say buying a video game to support a developer or a piece of music to support an artist (though to be fair there are avenues to support them now that are more direct). It's kinda like a constant crowd fund that never ends.

What i don't get personally, are the whales that throw thousands of dollars at streamers.