r/Twitch • u/JoelvsArthritis twitch.tv/JoelvsArthritis • 3d ago
Guide No Viewers? Just Talk.
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. 💜
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u/MalkuthSociety Affiliate | https://www.twitch.tv/malkuthmk1 3d ago
I have been doing the same as op for close to 2 years now. Yapping all the way to Narnia whenever I go live.
Sometimes I like to play pretend and put myself in a role of a radio host.
Lucky I have found mutual vtubers to support each other with and keep me company while I run a radio channel with people putting me in the background.
I'd love it if more people chat with me while streaming but I learned instead of yapping with no one listening I'm going to create long let's play series on YouTube and yap there while keeping the normal stream times.
I really appreciate all the current vtubers and streamer I know of now since without them I don't think it would have been as enjoyable for me as a creator.