Twitch / Money

I have a mate who streams. He's basically a mate I found whilst playing games. He is an absolute beast. Easily in the top 1% in the world.

Death, taxes and Psycho Sonny mentioning his top 1% professional gaming mates in each post.

One of the key points I always see as advice being given to new streamers is don't start streaming on Twitch with the only goal of trying to make money. Just start playing games you want to play, enjoy what you are doing and have fun with it. This way you will come off more natural and your stream/content won't feel forced, which inherently will lead to a growth of your channel.

Best advice in the thread. I've come across so many small channels with single digit viewers, only to see a wishlist, glaring donation button and various other things of a similar nature. Start small, build a community and then when you grow start encouraging donations etc.
 
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It can't be worth the health risks doing a 24 hours stream. Sitting in a chair for 24 hours staring at a screen you're just asking for a pulmonary embolism, or other issues. I'm pretty sure more than one person has died doing a 24 hours stream. It doesn't seem worth it, especially when you see some people doing it with single digit viewers.
 
They weren’t sitting in it glued for those 24 hours. Any time I popped into Fatal1ty during that stream he went away for 5 - 10 minutes or so to get food or such and to walk about.
 
The guys I have seen doing it were just sat there, although i didnt watch anywhere near the full stream. I guess if you get up and walk around it isn't as bad, i still wouldn't even dream of it, it sounds like torture to me.

Even just spending half that time sitting playing games every day must be doing you harm over time. A few of the streamers I watch will often sit and play pubg for 12 hours, only getting up to use the loo a few times.
 
depends if you a small streamer or big streamer doesnt it ? small streamers will get a few follows.big streamers will make thousands.
 
I just can't understand why anyone would donate hundreds or thousands unless they're really a family member, or its part of some money laundering scheme.
 
I'd consider it if I had heaps of money to burn and it was for charity, otherwise it'd be mad to throw that much money at a stranger.
You don't tip an actor at the theatre or a comedian hundreds for putting on a good show, so it doesn't make sense to give that much to a streamer.
 
They weren’t sitting in it glued for those 24 hours. Any time I popped into Fatal1ty during that stream he went away for 5 - 10 minutes or so to get food or such and to walk about.

a lot of them do eat whilst streaming. not proper meals. drdisrespect even gets fed whilst he's playing by his wife. they are pretty much glued to the chair and screen for 8-12 hours a day.
 
The guys I have seen doing it were just sat there, although i didnt watch anywhere near the full stream. I guess if you get up and walk around it isn't as bad, i still wouldn't even dream of it, it sounds like torture to me.

Even just spending half that time sitting playing games every day must be doing you harm over time. A few of the streamers I watch will often sit and play pubg for 12 hours, only getting up to use the loo a few times.

I’ve never watched a full stream either. I jump in and out of streams or sometimes come back and they’re still on. I’ve seen streamers behaviour change over time. Some becoming twitchy, hyper and lack of patience and tolerance. As well as downing these energy drinks.
Even seen some small streamers burn out after doing multiple 12 - 24 hour stunts and they disappear for 2 - 4 days and longer.

These are all the things I’ve been observing and thinking... I certainly couldn’t do it. It’s bad enough casually gaming for a few hours in your own free time or you don’t want to game for 2 - 5 days. I like to do my stuff without the thought of a camera on me all the time for people waiting to clip you or what you may have said. Even some gamers started getting drunk while streaming.

Twitch can be a strange place I’ve noticed. Some streamers only talk to subscribers, or play games with subscribers, subscriber only discords as well as follower only modes. Though I can see it from the other side. There has been lots of trolls and very weird stuff happening in the streamer’s chats. As well as sexual and racist text to speech spam stuff when they invited viewers to play with them.

However, twitch on the creative side is an interesting place from photography, digital art, to canvas painting, to miniature painting, sculpting then painting and whatnot.

I honestly never started watching twitch until last summer. It’s a very strange yet interesting place. I still don’t understand the twitch emotes. Poggers, respect the paco and whatever crap it is they post. It’s endless spam of it.
 
As well as gaming streams, I noticed Twitch has an 'IRL' section, where people have started streaming their lives every single day. Seems rather strange to me but some are making a fortune. Plus a few are genuinely hilarious.

One such person is 'Asian Andy' on YouTube (he was banned from Twitch). He goes about his life with something called 'Text to speech' turned on, so every time he gets a donation above a certain amount, it'll read the donator's message out loud. You can imagine the sort of stuff that gets read out in certain locations...

He also recently made over 3 grand in one night by streaming himself sleeping. People were donating with media links attached simply to keep waking him up and annoying him.
 
i watch a fair amount of Iracing twitch people and it can be really entertaining. I couldn't do it as I'm not good enough and these guys go from race to race to race all evening which I would find annoying. Still i think these days I watch more Twitch and youtube then real telly
 
you need that sort of 'tv personality' vloggers/streamers/youtubers have who basically are capable of talking to a camera and interacting with any potential viewers with enough content to interest them.

i have had a youtube channel since most of last year, i have 2, though my first account wasnt really to publish anything. i started off with doing some mediocre pc game testings from various graphic cards i had. but wasnt entertaining enough, so i resorted to xbox one game recordings, horizon 3 being most of my videos i tried to make themes which got the odd view, then it was first trying out a new game or doing a 'noob at work' type theme, got couple subs anf the odd few views, but not making a penny lol, i have made so many recordings i dont always publish or the thought of theme has gone out my head, ive got the odd videos from playing sea of thieves, but still on xbox, i dont talk in my videos unless i feel the need to give 'my thoughts'. my main issue is my lack of ability in editing to make interesting, i use the editing app on xbox as its quick and simple, i used to use wondershare on pc, but i cant afford the good stuff and lack the ability to make comedy with the 'trolls head' and funny sound effects you see on those videos.

i suppose you can stream without the need to speak or show yourself on screen cant you? never used or looked at twitch site.
 
As well as gaming streams, I noticed Twitch has an 'IRL' section, where people have started streaming their lives every single day. Seems rather strange to me but some are making a fortune. Plus a few are genuinely hilarious.

I’m also seeing political/news channels creep in on the platform. :/
 
i suppose you can stream without the need to speak or show yourself on screen cant you? never used or looked at twitch site.

You can, but a large proportion of viewers will only click on a stream if the streamer has a cam. There are people that don't use a cam and do well, like Soviet Womble, but he had a big youtube following before starting his Twitch channel, so a lot of his viewers come over from the Youtube content.

If you don't speak either, then I can't see many people just watching someone silently playing a game. Especially when there are so many streamers to choose from for any given game and they are ranked on the front page by viewer numbers.
 
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