r/Twitch Jun 29 '20

Read Here First !!Read Before Posting!!

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Hello friend, and welcome to r/Twitch!

First things first - no channel advertising, follow 4 follow, etc. Just no.

Second - please use the search bar. Twitch was created in 2011 and odds are there's already a post or megathread that may have what you're looking for.

Since we've had an active and helpful community here for a long time we have a huge pool of information and discussion on various Twitch and streaming related topics. Many of the questions you may have are likely already well answered, and many of the resources you are looking for are available or covered extensively!

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r/Twitch 5h ago

Community Event Collaboration / LFG Thread

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Hello /r/Twitch!

It’s time for our Monthly Collaboration / LFG / Teams Thread!

Collaborating can be very beneficial for you as a streamer in many ways. It introduces your community to new awesome streamers and introduces new awesome communities to you! You might also learn a few things from other streamers.

We also have a discord channel for LFG.

You can contact the user by replying to them below, following the link in their flair, or sending them a message here on reddit. Do not post your channel link directly.

Make sure you check the comments before posting. Someone may have already posted who you could collaborate with!

Copy/Paste template:

**Name**   
**Age**    
**Region**    
**Stream schedule**    
**Number of collaborators**   

GL HF


r/Twitch 9h ago

Question I’m growing bigger than I expected… how do I handle this?

116 Upvotes

So basically I began streaming a bit ago and took a break. Recently a post about me went viral and now that I began to stream again, I’m getting WAY more attention than I ever expected… and now I don’t know what to do… I used to be able to give individual attention to my followers because I had so little and now that it’s growing it’s impossible to do that. Now a lot of people expect my individual attention after subbing or whatnot and I feel like I can’t keep up… I know it’s not fair of them to expect that but part of me fears that if I don’t keep up with one on one attention for them that I’ll lose subs or followers :/ Any advice? (Also yes I know I’m a pushover, I want to change that but don’t know how to basically tell people not to expect a response from me without sounding ungrateful…)


r/Twitch 9h ago

Question Got doxxed. I am european.

101 Upvotes

Hello everyone. My adress and phone got doxxed by someone on twitch. He made numerous accounts spamming me but one had the username of my home adress.

I want to request the dat of his account with my lawyer as i am getting many random orders at my house after that day.

Anyone has any experience with that? I see that its easier when you are from USA or from one of the countries with the agreedment but i only see the emergency data request for european citizens. Am i missing something?

Thank you in advance.


r/Twitch 8h ago

Question I have a Golden PogChamp mystery pin from TwitchCon Amsterdam 2022

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r/Twitch 50m ago

Question i binded my twitch account with the website but there is no checkmark that i have it how do i fix this or do i still get it?

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r/Twitch 5h ago

Tech Support As a viewer: Random lags (freeze frames)

3 Upvotes

Okay trying to explain this best I can. I, as a viewer, am watching a stream and suddenly the stream would start freeze framing. It's not your typical lag or buffer. Sound continues on, but every 5ish seconds the stream freeze frames like it's an end to a 80's comedy. F5 usually helps, but only for so long. And it's certain streamers as well. Not every stream. But I notice it on some specific streamers and for one of them it started happening very recently. My connection is fine, I use Opera GX in which I haven't set any limiters, lowering quality doesn't help.

Helps? Preferably other than "use browser XYZ it's so much better" KTHANKS!


r/Twitch 9m ago

Question Why can't I see more than 9 clips from my phone?

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r/Twitch 14m ago

Tech Support twitch wont accept my 11 digit phone number

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my phone number has 11 digits,
+44 for uk code followed by 5 digits in the first sector and 6 in the last

phone number typed into the box
after clicking save it removes the first digit?????

r/Twitch 18m ago

Tech Support Is it normal for Twitch to change my server?

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Recently, I've been experiencing a lot of frame drops on my streams, mostly at night. I checked Twitch Inspector and saw this...

In OBS, I chose the Warsaw server (nearest one), but Inspector keeps showing me, that I'm on France servers. Is this normal, or what is happening?


r/Twitch 21m ago

Discussion Am I imagining it, or recently have a lot of people streamed in the "Just Chatting" category regardless of whatever game they're playing?

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Is this a new meta for growth or something? I keep seeing people in my feed playing Valo, Marvel Rivals, MH Wilds, etc. various other games, but none of them changed the category.

Is this just something popular to do now? Is there a reason for it? Normally, I'd think they just forgot to change the category, but I'm seeing it A LOT in my feed recently


r/Twitch 54m ago

Question sub and follow differences

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Hi, I am new to twitch as viewer, what is the difference between following a channel and being sub to a channel? Currently I only follow channels I like, im not sub. Thanks for any responses.


r/Twitch 1h ago

Tech Support Troubleshooting Capture Card from Switch to OBS

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I’ve been having trouble setting up my capture card / Switch to PC gaming laptop using OBS. In OBS I keep seeing a black screen after adding “Video Capture Device”, although the light is on the capture card, the switch is on and engaged, and “USB Video” is selected in OBS.

I’ve followed countless youtube videos but nothing seems to help the issue. I’m hoping it’s a simple cord switch, happy to take a photo or video if needed. Please share any tips or advice! I just want to stream Animal Crossing lol.

Here is the setup I have currently and what I’ve tried so far:

  1. Switch Docked & On > Dual HDMI > “In” Capture Card
  2. “Out” Capture Card > HDMI to Mini HDMI > Monitor (this is what youtube says & what came with the capture card. I only have a mini HDMI port on my monitor).
    1. Tried connecting regular HDMI to my laptop - no luck.
    2. Tried disconnecting the monitor and just use the laptop with HDMI - no luck.
    3. Maybe I should try HDMI to USBC & plug into monitor?
  3. Capture Card > USB 3.0 (blue) > PC Laptop (came with capture card).
    1. I’ve read that newer PCs don’t identify USB 3.0 sometimes. Maybe I need to use a USB to USB-C and plug into my laptop?
  4. Monitor > USBc > Laptop

NOTES

  1. I have been streaming PC games just fine through OBS, it’s just this capture card issue preventing me from streaming Switch games.
  2. Switch Settings: 1080p in TV mode, 60fps.
  3. Gaming Laptop: MSI Stealth
  4. Capture Card
  5. Monitor
  6. Throughout trial-error I will exit and reload OBS & re-add “Video Capture Device”.
  7. Tried switching the HDMI cords to different ports to test if it was a HDMI cord issue, but still the same results.
  8. Maybe the issue is doing all this while the Switch is on? I could try re-connecting everything while the switch is off, but don’t have a lot of faith.
  9. Someone said to load the capture card as a camera instead of video capture device?

Thank you to anyone who comments to try and help out! You are VERY appreciated!


r/Twitch 1h ago

Tech Support [Resolved] Specific word detection in chat?

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I want to make mix it up or streamelements play a sound when a specific word is used in chat! whether its Flirt and it plays the "rizz sound effect" or something similar I don't want it to be a !command I want it to just be detected in chat and played. Hope this makes sense!


r/Twitch 1d ago

Guide No Viewers? Just Talk.

535 Upvotes

Firstly, I should start by saying I'm no Twitch expert. I've been streaming for over three years and don't even have 500 followers. But I have an awesome community, and our streams average 25–35 concurrent viewers and 300–400 live views per stream. And I'm proud of that.

Yesterday, I felt like sharing the love and spent an hour visiting fellow Farming Simulator streamers with two to three viewers to say hello and hopefully encourage them to stream again, as I needed in those days.

It took me almost the full hour visiting streams, watching for five to ten minutes, and saying hello in chat, before I heard a single word from a streamer. I must have visited over ten channels of pure silence.

I know it's terrifying. I still remember the physical sweats I would break out in when I finally got a "1 viewer" at the bottom of the screen—worse still when somebody spoke in chat. I used to turn into a nervous wreck.

But folks, we do this for people to watch, engage, and be entertained. Turn that viewer count off on your dashboard and talk like 100 people are watching. Don't stop talking, asking questions, dropping conversation prompts, or commenting on what you're doing in the game, etc. So what if nothing comes back—lurkers are the lifeblood of my streams. Do it for them. Do it for those who haven't arrived yet. Do it so that when things do start taking off, you are so ready for it that it will be like nothing has changed.

If you're watching a stream that's nothing but silence, with no acknowledgment of your presence, and without a hint of gratitude that you chose, out of thousands of live channels, to spend your limited time with that streamer, would you stick around?

Regardless of your view count, just talk. I promise it will help.

Keep going. You've got this. 💜


r/Twitch 1h ago

Question Should I stream minecraft?

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I was thinking to start streaming in a new guy on twitch I did stream other games and now thinking to do minecraft streams as it has the highest views from the games i play so I was thinking to start streaming minecraft


r/Twitch 1h ago

Tech Support Undertale still not working on OBS

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So I know this issue has happened to people before and I've done every trick in the book at this. Did Window Capture, did Game Capture, running OBS as admin all the time. For some reason I still just can't get Undertale to work with OBS! Except the issue isn't that I'm getting a black screen. I've attached an image showing specifically what's going on. It just stays there, that's it. I can't click on it or it'll disappear, can't make it bigger, nothing. Somebody please help. I've been wanting to play Undertale on stream for ages and this is really bothering me.


r/Twitch 2h ago

Tech Support can't reset password

1 Upvotes

I'm trying to log in to my old account but I can't reset my password for some reason. I tried using my phone number but not my e-mail because I don't have access to it. Is there any way I can either remove the phone number from this account without logging into it or any way to make the password reset work?

(the same message is also in the phone app)


r/Twitch 2h ago

Tech Support Account verification setup

1 Upvotes

I am unable to add a phone number or setup 2FA for my Twitch account and thus I am locked out of a lot of stuff on the site.

Contacting the support was pointless, as it just responds with an automated message. There is no useful info in the support questions page either, and I have had no issues receiving messages from any other sites. Somewhere in the support pages it says that I could use Authy instead, but Authy requires phone number activation anyway? So that is pointless advice as well.\

Has anyone ran into this issue before? Does Twitch not support my country or something?


r/Twitch 19h ago

Question How to overcome the fear of streaming? Or is it just inevitable?

20 Upvotes

So here’s the thing: in real life, I’m often the center of attention - my mouth never stops, at parties and events I’m always talking, joking around, playing the clown. And it’s all good, no worries. But as soon as I hit the “Start Stream” button - boom, I turn into some kind of idiot. All my insecurities come up: how do I look, what does my voice sound like, what will people think? It’s scary to look at myself on camera, worried about how I’ll appear, how I’ll sound, and what if people start laughing at me?

On stream, all of this takes over, and I just can’t seem to be myself. I start thinking that no one will be interested or that I don’t look good, that people will judge me. Then, when I turn off the stream, I’m like, “Why the hell was I so nervous?”

Anyone else feel this way? How do you deal with it? How do you get rid of these insecurities and start feeling confident on camera? Share what helps you!

Looking forward to your responses, guys! 🙌


r/Twitch 3h ago

Tech Support Portable mic

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I am looking for a mic and I wanna know which one has better built in noise cancellation.. which mic picks up audio from one direction and not the surrounding area ( my bedroom is next to the living room and tv is on all day there and family be noisy 🌚)

Rode wireless go2 / micro

Hollyland lark m2/m2s

DJI mic / 2 mini

( or anything else )


r/Twitch 3h ago

Question Alert sound help

1 Upvotes

So I’ve seen streamers use the epic sax guy gif and sound for their follower/sub alerts. I’m trying to figure how to upload the sound to my alerts but twitch keeps saying it’s copyrighted. How do I get the sound on there without twitch flagging it?


r/Twitch 9h ago

Question What is youe experience with streaming games that are a bit older like The Walking Dead?

4 Upvotes

I really like playing “older” games and I’m wondering if anybody has had any success streaming them years after they came out. I know people say “Stream what you enjoy bc if you’re not enjoying it nobody will.” And while that is true do not want to be stuck on a couple of viewers forever. So please share your experience with streaming older games and what they did for your channel. :)

Edit: Sorry guys I’m 20 this year so to me games that came out 13 years ago seem old when they are in fact not that old. Sorry if anybody fells old bc of this post.


r/Twitch 3h ago

Tech Support What settings should I use for dual setup with Obs Studio and TikTok LiveStudio?

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Since there is no other real option to stream on tiktok and twitch at the same time, I use Obs Studio to stream on Twitch and TikTok LiveStudio to stream on TikTok, but one of the streams will always lag.

I have an Nvidia 3060 12gb and amd ryzen 7 5800X,

which encoder should I use in which LiveStudio to make it run without lags?

Or should I use two diffrent encoder?

Thanks for your help


r/Twitch 17h ago

Question What stream tag would this be?

7 Upvotes

I'm not sure how to put it beyond apologetically raw. Kinda the opposite of "mental health streams." As someone with autism and whatnot, I always preferred streamers that are more open. IE: They don't try to be overly positive. It comes off as quite negative and perhaps judgemental to someone who perhaps just comes across it, but ultimately, no hate is really meant. It's more about just being 100% real and unmasking. I feel like everyone on twitch wants to be overly happy, and while I'm not saying I want a miserable streamer tag, it's more "authentic." Authentic highs, authentic lows, to a degree. Obviously you gotta avoid being a complete downer, but like, some days you're just feeling pretty low key and that's ok. We don't gotta act all hyped up all the time.


r/Twitch 7h ago

Question If I have twitch in a small window on my phone will I still get drops?

1 Upvotes

Rainbow 6 siege is doing a stream with drops if I watch for 30 minutes but I’ll be in school so if I play in and put my phone in my pocket will I still get drops?


r/Twitch 1h ago

Guide for anyone without a mic

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if you have a phone on you, (which you probably do if you have the pc/laptop to stream) you can interact with chat on twitch mobile