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If you have any questions concerning streaming - you're more than welcome to reach out to me. I've been streaming for almost 8 years and I'm more than happy to help.
And while I appreciate "teachers" being paid, paying people will never guarantee success in this industry.
And while I appreciate "teachers" being paid, paying people will never guarantee success in this industry.
Everyone should be paid for their time that they invest into, spend on things. With that being said :
- Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
- Promises of Growth
- Visualized Fame
- Guarantees in the entertainment industry
If the "teacher" applies those things to you, get out of there.
- Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
- Promises of Growth
- Visualized Fame
- Guarantees in the entertainment industry
If the "teacher" applies those things to you, get out of there.
And now I'll spam your feeds with advice for newbies. Feel free to mute this thread if you don't want it.
- Follow for follows are stupid. They don't work. Follow number means shit. Ask me about my insane follow number vs CCV.
- Hosts/ Raids are only as good as the person raiding, the audience, the reception, the moment, and the follow through after. Hosts / Raids alone mean nothing
- Hosts/ Raids are only as good as the person raiding, the audience, the reception, the moment, and the follow through after. Hosts / Raids alone mean nothing
- Going viral is mostly random. Only a certain level of creator can do this at will. The internet is crazy. It's also not necessarily a good thing to be famous on the internet where a ton of bored people can irrationality disagree with you and make your life suck.
- Your name / logo / brand can be whatever you want. People learned how to spell Pewdiepie. Just make it easy to find you (Buy a domain name!)
- Don't quit your job because you had one generous person give you a nice day. Your accidental broken arm will bankrupt you.
- Don't quit your job because you had one generous person give you a nice day. Your accidental broken arm will bankrupt you.
- Open your mind. Turn off "English Only" and right click on Chrome to enable "Translate to English". Stop being scared of the majority of the nonEnglish speaking world. 90% of my success come from language I barely know that I learned because they came to me first.
- "I want to do it myself!"
Good luck. The entertainment industry is all about cooperation and discovery. Very few people accomplish anything on their own, and it often turns those folks into egocentric messes who have zero respect for others work.
Good luck. The entertainment industry is all about cooperation and discovery. Very few people accomplish anything on their own, and it often turns those folks into egocentric messes who have zero respect for others work.
- Play games with people. Stop reaching out to huge streamers 50 times and getting mad they don't want to. Reach out to your peers / smaller streamers. They are the big streamers tomorrow. Be on the ground floor.
- Turn off numbers. Viewer number especially.
- Turn off numbers. Viewer number especially.
- Burning people in the industry by being a general shitbag, a scam artist, an abuser, or just using people to get big and dropping them is a bad idea. Everyone has a return to earth, no matter how big they are - and word gets around in this industry.
- Take a day off. I streamed nonstop my first year because I watched Twitch celebrating it for big casters.
It's dumb. Streaks are bad and dumb. You miss out on important stuff in life. Your viewers know when you're exhausted.
It's dumb. Streaks are bad and dumb. You miss out on important stuff in life. Your viewers know when you're exhausted.
- Wanna know a huge way to guarantee your success?
Find a charity and raise money for it.
The success is in the result, you just have to think about what success really looks like.
Find a charity and raise money for it.
The success is in the result, you just have to think about what success really looks like.
- Noone is going to find you if all you do is stream on Twitch. Who is going to scroll till their browser crashes in Minecraft?
Get your name out. I'm not talking "I'm live!" tweets and Discord adverts. Be an interesting person, get people to follow you and then invite them.
Get your name out. I'm not talking "I'm live!" tweets and Discord adverts. Be an interesting person, get people to follow you and then invite them.
- Not having a webcam does hurt with an audience who wants a personality to relate to. Don't want one? Vtubing has leveled the playing field. It's a cam without the cam.
However, success is still possible without a cam. Some of the coolest folks I know don't have a cam.
However, success is still possible without a cam. Some of the coolest folks I know don't have a cam.
- Breaks don't kill your stream. They absolutely can set you back but if you come back, that assumes you're willing to work harder than before. You can expect people to wait around while you figure stuff out but you can entice them to come back to something better.
- Don't get a pet to gain viewers. You look like an ass and that's a living part of your family.
- The bulk of the viewers are in popular games. But hey, why not play a game tonight you have fun with and get 10 viewers every day, and work your way up?
- The bulk of the viewers are in popular games. But hey, why not play a game tonight you have fun with and get 10 viewers every day, and work your way up?
- Getting from 0 viewer average to 10 viewer average is the hardest part. Keep working. Keep talking. Keep creating clips and YouTube videos and collaborating. Find your identity and keep moving.
- Partnership isn't the end goal. It's quite literally the beginning.
- Partnership isn't the end goal. It's quite literally the beginning.
- "I'll never make it!"
Make it where? Aren't you enjoying this? No? Your viewers can tell. That's why they aren't coming back. This isn't a workplace with a guaranteed pay check.
- Again, don't quit your job because some viral Youtuber did it. You don't know his situation.
Make it where? Aren't you enjoying this? No? Your viewers can tell. That's why they aren't coming back. This isn't a workplace with a guaranteed pay check.
- Again, don't quit your job because some viral Youtuber did it. You don't know his situation.
- You're gonna yell, scream, shout, and think you're a failure. Surround yourself with people who encourage you.
But ALSO :
- Surround yourself with people who tell you you're wrong, it's a bad idea, log off, get something to eat, go to sleep.
Those people will keep you alive
But ALSO :
- Surround yourself with people who tell you you're wrong, it's a bad idea, log off, get something to eat, go to sleep.
Those people will keep you alive
- Some of my best days were days I didn't want to stream.
- Some of my worst days were days I prepared for weeks to create.
What's the difference? Expectation. It is so incredibly hard to predict what's going to happen on earth today.
If you have that power, buy some stock.
- Some of my worst days were days I prepared for weeks to create.
What's the difference? Expectation. It is so incredibly hard to predict what's going to happen on earth today.
If you have that power, buy some stock.
- Want it? Keep going. Eat the bad days. Set a time frame.
I reassess once every 5 years. If at the end of those 5 years I feel good, I wait another 5 years (unless of course of something horrible happening).
I will not quit during that time frame, regardless of how I feel.
I reassess once every 5 years. If at the end of those 5 years I feel good, I wait another 5 years (unless of course of something horrible happening).
I will not quit during that time frame, regardless of how I feel.
- Alerts shouldn't be your whole stream. I don't need to hear the entire hook of a song every time someone follows.
- Stop with the 59 hashtags. Those SMALL STREAMERS UNITE groups don't care about you. The person who created them is just using you to promote their stream.
- Stop with the 59 hashtags. Those SMALL STREAMERS UNITE groups don't care about you. The person who created them is just using you to promote their stream.
- The greatest people I met in this industry are the ones who don't go out of their way to be insanely nice to everyone. They're real. They have bad days. They don't agree with everything. They speak their minds.
Have an identity. You will *never* make everyone happy.
Have an identity. You will *never* make everyone happy.
I have a million of these. I'm sure I'll add more later and some of the comments to existing tweets and quote tweets are awesome and you should read them.
I'm one dude in the industry with limited experiences. Definitely consult others, too.
Never stop taking to people.
I'm one dude in the industry with limited experiences. Definitely consult others, too.
Never stop taking to people.
