I streamed to basically nobody for about 8 months, with one viewer, sometimes two, and half the time the one was a bot or someone who tabbed in and forgot. I kept telling myself numbers do not matter and its about the passion, all that stuff people say. But if I am honest, staring at a 1 in the corner for four hours does something to you. You start wondering if youre just talking to yourself in an empty room.

There was one night I almost did not go live. Tired from work, no motivation, pretty sure nobody would show. Went live anyway out of habit more than anything, and this one guy who had lurked a few times before actually started talking. We ended up chatting for like two hours about the game, his job, random stuff. At the end he subbed. One sub. I know that sounds like nothing but I sat there afterward kind of stunned that something I almost skipped turned into an actual conversation with a real person.

That night is the reason I kept going. Not the sub itself, just realizing somebody out there was actually spending their evening with me even when the counter said I was basically alone.

If you are in that phase right now the most useful thing I can tell you is make it dumb easy to go live, because the bad nights are exactly when you talk yourself out of it. I got kind of obsessive about cutting friction. I sit down, lights on a smart plug, mic already sitting on the arm, my emeet pixy camera clipped to my monitor that just tracks me, and I go live with a few taps in under a minute. It sounds like a small thing but when your motivation is at zero, a fiddly setup is the exact excuse your brain reaches for to not bother. I figured if i removed the excuse i would show up more, and in the early days showing up is basically the whole thing.

I still think about that guy sometimes. I have more viewers now, not loads, but more, and pretty much all of them started as a 1 in the corner I almost gave up on before they ever said a word.

So if the counter says 1 and you feel invisible, someone is probably there. That was enough to keep me going anyway.

I watched my last vod and I could barely hear myself but I heard every stomp of my game characters boots. I'm using a standalone mic and don't want to put the gain in the red, that would give me the opposite issue. What I'm wondering is, would it be better if I add extra gain by filter in OBS or should I set my mixer louder?

Wasn't sure if this one warranted the question or discussion flair, but I am asking a question so hopefully this is the right one? Let me know if I need to fix it.

But yeah, basically, I've had my first parasocial experience recently involving a long-time viewer, and I'm not sure what to do about it.

For context, I'm a small streamer, and since I don't have a proper server yet (working on it), I've been accepting fanart through Discord DMs (huge mistake I know, I'm currently making the server so this hopefully doesn't repeat). The problem is that while most people have been very chill and "I'm a fan, here's a thing for you" about it, one of them recently has taken that to mean we're friends. Close friends, even, their words.

We've never spoken outside of streams before that.

I try to be nice and open-minded about things, but it makes me uncomfortable to know that some people genuinely consider my streaming persona a friend. At the same time, I can tell this means a lot to them, so this will end in a disaster either way (and will most likely affect my ACTUAL friends, which gives me great anxiety).

So TLDR; how do you deal with parasocial relationships? How do you prevent them, and how do you do damage control if you fail to prevent them?

I have seen that streamers play a looping animation when they start and end stream. How to make an animation like that? I don’t want any AI slop animation.

Has anyone started getting ads in foreign languages recently? I'm not using a VPN, watching from the UK and the streamers are English language. But for the past few weeks I've been getting ads in various other languages.

Hiya!

I have 15 GBP on my emails GPay account, which I tried to use to gift a sub on Twitch mobile. I've done this before with no issues, but now when I click to gift a sub, it comes up with the wrong email. How do I change it back to my email?
My Twitch account is under the email with the GPay balance.

question above but like will quality still be fine as long as i have a good capture card or does the PC need to be better

Disclosure first, I build plugins for an LED ticker product. I made a Twitch integration that puts channel activity on a physical display. Follows, subs, chat velocity, that kind of thing, sitting on your desk instead of buried in a dashboard.

Streamers, is that useful or a gimmick? What would you actually want at a glance mid stream? Building this in the open, the answers here change what ships.

I am pretty sure this is a system-wide style design issue from Twitch, but is anyone else facing this when you have a large amount of channel points, plus there is a sub drop/drop icon (this one is those and slow chat) where it pushes the chat up?

Used to be a BTTV issue, but that was fixed by them, then last week when Twitch changed more things for no reason and its occurring anyways.

I also talked to the BTTV lads who said its occurring with them in channels where they are Moderators too

Created a Twitch UserVoice for this too: https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/934332-customer-experience/suggestions/51537671-fix-website-style-issue-below-chat-box

What is the best option for someone who can’t afford fancy gadgets to help keep cell reception strong during an IRL stream?

EDIT: I already have an iPhone with a data plan, a gimbal, and a GoPro. I know I could stream in populated areas with strong cell service. I’m just curious if there are budget-friendly options for boosting signal if I go somewhere more remote?

I’ve had about 20 of these people asking me if they could show me their work and each and every one show me the same😂

I'll often click the category someone is streaming to see what other people are as well (for example Red Dead Redemption II). I want to see them sorted by Viewers (High To Low). But for some reason even though I set that, if I close it and try the same thing in a different window, it's back to 'Recommended For You', and it's really annoying.

I swear it didn't use to do that and remembered what you set. What's going on?

I have heard lots of streamers play music in their streams but then the rules say about DMCA. What do I do and can I play music on stream?

What types of games do you play, and when did you notice your following really start to grow? How late do you stream?

It says "Sorry, Something seems to have gone wrong. Please try again later."

I tried switching the browser, clearing the cache, etc. Didn't work.

Any help/info?

Ok so I added Application Audio Capture to OBS and it does pick up the VC through OBS but since I'm also using my own mic on OBS too for the stream, it's like looping my voice.

Do I need to mute my end on the VC? plz help

Im fairly new to streaming. I just stream from my ps5 to twitch, ive heard your supposed to stream stuff with big veiwers but little streamers.

Does outlast trials count for this?

My view count is 1-3 this week

Is that a good start for my streams as a Competive Gamer / Video Game commentator

Since I started this month with my view count going from. 1 - 4 = 1-2 sometimes get 1-5 daily on a regular day.. though one day might be 1 viewer all day long.. on a good day is 3 viewers all day long..

So far I'm getting compliments on my gameplay

And there was this one person who was fond on me gaming he wanted to join my game and match on Battlefield 6

I enabled Twitch Drops for my stream for Battlefield 6 don't tell me how I did it but I did..

Somehow I got into on the EA Content Creator Program or I might be teased though idk yet but I got drops and I hosted drops for my 1 viewer...

Someone tell me if im doing any good and if I should continue my progress

I really like the look of that overlay and ive been looking for hours and trying different websites and stuff and I cant replicate the exact look. I found another streamer with the same thing and he wouldnt tell me so hopefully someone here knows how to get this specifically. I tried streamelements and it wasnt the same I just need help

I tried streaming about 4 years ago and I must say, I hated it.

I thought people would discuss the game, but no, they just think a stream is a place to vent their issues. I just wanted to have a good time and game, not play Walmart therapist for online strangers.

I never grew big and it was far from full-time, but I realised early on that I had most fun when I was just narrating and talking to myself on stream. I enjoy playing games solo to decompress I guess, other people just ruin the experience for me.

Has anyone else realised they hate streaming? Also curious about your reasons.

Good evening everyone,
I use a dual-PC setup for streaming; my gaming PC has a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti and a 7700X.

The signal is sent via a Ugreen 2K capture card to a dedicated streaming PC equipped with a GTX 1080 and an i7-7700K; I have a 2.5 Gbps connection.

During streams, an annoying pixelation issue occurs—especially during sudden movements and, most notably, with the webcam feed.

I should mention that I use SE Live for multistreaming to TikTok and Twitch.

I’ve tried every setting imaginable, but I just can't figure out how to fix it.

So I've been struggling with my channel intro, if it's one thing I've said "I'll do it this week" a lot that's the phrase. I'd say the channel is doing well, I have a huge amount of ideas but I never sat down in davinci and made an actual video. And here are the veterans and creative people. To you, what does a good channel intro do and what should it contain?

In case I'm using the wrong phrase, the video the plays on your channel when you are offline

Just curious, I'm a Japanese and watch lots of Overwatch streamers recently, both ENG and JP.

One thing I noticed is Japanese women OW streamers often have ''You can join T2/3 exclusive discord channel (that's right, threre's another room beyond T1 sub) and play the game with me outside the stream'' thing.

I really don't understand this culture and wonder how foreigners think about this because from my experience most foreign streamers (even women) don't do this and they don't treat T2/3 sub that special in the first place.

What do you guys think? a T3 sub costs 3000 yen by the way coz yen is much weaker.