Being a streamer with low views is torture. It sucks and every view you have to fight for because the only people clicking on your shit are retarded children who make everything about themselves. Every time I try to play a game I like they say it's boring and ask me to play the games they like. Then they want you to play for 6+ hours every day. You don't even make money like at all. I've made 16 dollars in two months of over 400 hours of streams. That's 4 cents an hour. I made 17 dollars an hour my last job. It is hell. Nobody is smart. Entertaining? Only slightly. It feels like dying talking to these people for hours on end playing with them. Most of them don't bother even putting me on in the background. I can't stop either. I keep thinking tomorrow someone big will raid me and I'll get double digit viewership. If I don't stream even more people will turn away to find someone else they like. At my peak I had a 7 viewership average per day. Now it's down to 3. It's hell. Streamers can make tens of thousands per month, or less than 10 dollars per month. Streamers who have ~150 average viewers can live off their subscriber and ad money. i wanted so badly to be a streamer but it sucks so much ass I hate it I hate it I make no money and get bullied by children and I can't even tell them to fuck off I can't I can't I need the views too much and I can't make my life any better because all I do is stream eat watch YouTube and sleep. I'm getting fat as shit again because guess what streaming for 4-8 hours makes your ass fat.

>>81836170 (OP)
Streaming has been romanticized way too much because people only see the streamers that are wildly successful. The fact is that way too many people are trying to be streamers and are putting zero effort into it thinking it's just "play video games" which it is not.
Streamers are entertainers first and foremost. If you can't carve out a niche for yourself, you have to be like everyone else, which means chasing fads and trends and catering to the most brain dead audience. Anyone that thinks they can jump right into streaming playing whatever they want is massively naive. You are competing with so many other people in the streaming space. Even if you are an entertaining personality, the odds of you getting noticed are slim to none.
Seriously, give it up. You are not going to magically be successful doing what you are doing. You are wasting your time thinking streamers can make it just by putting time into it. You need connections, you need luck, you need to be a sexy woman. You are not going to make it as a streamer. Get a real job.

>>81836170 (OP)
streaming is competitive and you probably have to sell out, like you said with catering to the kids, or already have made a name for yourself somehow. doesn't help that the most successful streamers have been doing it for like the entire life of twitch anyway.
i'd say don't give up but it's alos a young man's game so the older you get the more outta luck you are

>>81836241
He probably has the personality of a wet noodle. It really doesn't matter how old you are because way too many people are trying to be a streamer. Even if you check all the boxes, put in the effort, and be a copy paste replica of the successful streamers, odds are you will never be noticed purely due to the oversaturation of the market. Modern day streaming is the equivalent of people that used to try to make it in hollywood. If you abandon your life to try and chase this dream, 99.99% of the time you will not make it. You do not decide to have a career in streaming.

>>81836170 (OP)
Not telling you how to do it but maybe you should nichemaxx and Youtube probably is better for discoverability.

>bullied by children
Incidentally, the teacher to vtuber pipeline is real and exists for this reason. You need to clownmaxx harder. Seriously. Like
>>81836222
Says, streamers are entertainers first. You can't just expect millions of people to want to watch you play video games.
Let's say you did get raided by a big channel. What would you be doing in front of their viewers when that happened?
You say you want to become at least a 2view. Would you be able to keep the attention of 30 ADHD-driven children? Because that's basically Twitch's audience.
Do you have fun emotes? Do you sing? Are you funny? Do you have fun visuals? What about the fishing and pokemon chat minigames? Are you doing everything you can to keep people in chat?
You say you hope forlornly to be raided by a bigger streamer. How? Are you griftmaxxing?

>>81836275
>He probably has the personality of a wet noodle.
so does Asmongold, I don't think that matters as long as you're good at games. anyway OP already mentioned kids will tell him to play different games so he's not a total wash. but you should at least have feats n shit... like a WR or top rank, etc.

>>81836393
You're exactly right. Streaming is mostly attention whoring with maybe some video games. That's why people wrongly tell themselves "hey they get paid to play video games, I can do that easy!" So they basically sit and play a game in front of a camera, maybe mumble some words occasionally and try to react to things, and then wonder why they have no audience.

>>81836404
You're more right than most realize. Most big streamers are only there because their chat and editors do the heavy lifting for them. They simply have to agree or disagree with whatever is said in chat.

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>>81836275
>>81836222 (trips)
I understand your concerns but it is an uphill battle. Making emotes and alerts is only for pacifying the ADHD children who spam such things. Which doesn't happen in most chats that have 100+ viewers.

I dunno. The point is I get really depressed then it goes away. So I vented here and now I feel better. I might even stream tomorrow. Thanks for coming to the thread.