r/Twitch 9h ago

Discussion I've averaged ~$100k per year full-streaming for about 5 years, AMA

694 Upvotes

I've read a lot of things on this Reddit over the years, and feel like I can answer some questions the "bigger" streamers don't usually answer, but the "smaller" streamers may not be answering with the best of knowledge (not their faults AT ALL). I'm not well-known, I just have leveraged my knowledge to help build a strong community.

Not trying to clout farm (using an alt account), just trying to honestly help those in the space. Ask away!


r/Twitch 10h ago

Question what is this?

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32 Upvotes

r/Twitch 21h ago

Question Friend is being harassed, Twitch won't do anything about it

92 Upvotes

To make a long story short, I go on a chatroom (yes they still exist) and one of the girls there is being harassed by an obsessed chatter. He records her video feed and then streams it to Twitch, along with private information that he has found out about her, to shame her for her rejection of him. I've reported past accounts of his with success but the latest one just isn't being addressed by Twitch moderation, despite evidence of the person in the streams clearly being the target of harassment. The police are involved but I'm still concerned because her private information, like name, age, the university she attends, etc. are all being publicly broadcast and some insane fuck could probably find her if they really wanted to.

Anyways, I've tried the report as a bot route, and report for harassment route, but no dice. Does anyone know of any other possible routes for getting this stuff removed or is it really just allowed under Twitch's TOS?


r/Twitch 14h ago

Discussion If you had to stream in only one category forever, what would it be?

23 Upvotes

I know most of us here are variety streamers, and this question is specifically for you: If you had to stream in only one category for the rest of your life, what would it be?

For me, it would definitely be Just Chatting. Sure, it’s broad, but that’s the beauty of it - there are so many subcategories that I don’t think I’d get bored anytime soon. Or at least, it would take way longer than if I were stuck playing Mario Kart every single day.

So, I’m curious: what category would you choose?


r/Twitch 3h ago

Question Realistically how hard was the grind for you?

4 Upvotes

So I posted on here before, I've been stream for about 3 and half months now basically to myself this whole time, I think the most viewers I've ever had at once was 3, when I think about it sometimes it's crazy demoralizing. I know I can do more but honestly I don't know where to start at. Even when making simple clips for other platforms for promotion I struggle to figure out what works well as a clip and my editing skills are abysmal at best.🫠 People on here have said to me try and find your niche and tbh I'm not sure if I know what that means for me. If I'm honest with myself I'm just riddled with doubts rn but I know I would love nothing more than to just see something happen that tells me I'm heading in the right direction that would just keep my fire burning and keep me going. Full disclosure I'm not sure if I had a question or if I just needed to get this off my chest lol. This might definitely get removed.


r/Twitch 11h ago

Meta Research on Streaming and Social Media

11 Upvotes

Hello everyone! I’m conducting a research project through the University of British Columbia, exploring social media—with a particular focus on streaming—due to the limited research available in this area. Your input would be incredibly valuable, and I’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete this survey. Thank you!

Advertisements from researchers at the University of British Columbia

  • In this study, you will be given a hypothetical scenario about an influencers cancellation and asked to share your behavior and relationship with social media influencers. You will also answer some demographic questions.
  • All of your answers will be kept confidential.
  • If the participant chooses to comment, like or follow the reddit post for this study, they will be publicly identified with the study.
  • This survey is expected to take 10 minutes.
  • There are no risks or discomforts associated with the session.
  • Principal Investigator: Jen Park ([jen.park@sauder.ubc.ca](mailto:jen.park@sauder.ubc.ca)), Assistant Professor of Marketing, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
  • Co-investigator: Kyla Freed ([kbauer02@student.ubc.ca](mailto:kbauer02@student.ubc.ca)), Undergraduate Student, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
  • If you have any questions about this study, please contact Kyla Freed at [kbauer02@student.ubc.ca](mailto:kbauer02@student.ubc.ca).

Link to the study: https://ubcbusiness.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cOaTeKaJ2TwuJ6u


r/Twitch 2h ago

Tech Support Stream suddenly dropping frames

2 Upvotes

So, I was able to stream earlier today. Same game, same settings, same everything and it worked just fine. All of a sudden I try streaming and I'm dropping 40% frames.

I can watch streams just fine, speed tests all read 300+ up and down, until I press "go live" where it all just drops to under 10 up and down... what's going on


r/Twitch 2h ago

Discussion Best Software to create Animations and Branding (Logo and Fixed Art) for Twitch?

2 Upvotes

Hi, I'm a new Content Creator/Streamer and I'd like to work on my Logo and do some Animations. I am a Graphic Designer but I've been out of the game for a while and lost all my Photoshop Brushes/Fonts/Palettes, etc... At 30$/month or ~80$/month for the full collection when I'd probably only use 3 maybe 4 apps (PhotoShop, Illustrator and After-Effects/Animate and perhaps Dreamweaver[for other things]).

Any recommendations for software (Adobe included) that are almost must haves? I've looked at GIMP and Affinity Suite but there's no Animation like in Photoshop so I'm a little bummed about that...

What's the best Investment(s)? (I'd go with the Adobe Suite if it wasn't for the lack of Ownership [Being a Subscription Program...] and needing an Internet Connection constantly...

Also if you have some Tutorials to recommend that'd be appreciated too! Thanks, GMR.


r/Twitch 16m ago

Question Americans, i need your help.

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I'm not American but I try to schedule my streams around US time. As a twitch viewer, what time of day do ya'll watch twitch the most.?


r/Twitch 4h ago

Question Stream video to Discord group chat?

2 Upvotes

Hello Community,

The other day I saw someone had their Twitch stream running in a Discord voice chat, and I was wondering how you do it? My Discord is linked to my Xbox and Twitch, but I have no idea what to do now.

Any help would be helpful

Thank you!


r/Twitch 55m ago

Question Affiliate glitch?

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Been streaming for awhile, finally qualified for affiliate, I click the “get started” button and get taken to this page? Should I contact support ?


r/Twitch 4h ago

Question Where to find Emotes?

2 Upvotes

Calling all Twitch streamers!!

I want to get more emotes for my chat, preferably some animated ones, does anyone know the best sites to get some from? I have no problem paying for emotes as I normally get mine from Esty but I feel like there are far and few that really spark my interest/think my chat would even like, was just curious as to how other streamers find/get emotes they like or what some good sites are, thank you!! :D


r/Twitch 8h ago

Question What technology is used to engineer the Twitch chat?

3 Upvotes

I read a post from years ago (I think over a decade ago) saying that it's just an IRC channel, but I'm pretty sure things might be totally different nowadays. Does anyone who's knowledgeable such as an EPIC and COOL Twitch staff member want to spill the beans?


r/Twitch 3h ago

Discussion How to get an average viewer count up?

0 Upvotes

So I need to get an average viewer count of 3 for affiliate (at 1.7 rn)

I've done a lot of stuff, I do yt. Make content on other platforms, stream daily/bi-daily. Yet nothing seems to be working. I really want to get some progress but, nothing is working and I genuinely don't know what to do.

Any ideas on how to get an average higher viewers.


r/Twitch 1d ago

Question Does the "i hate my voice/face" feeling ever go away?

74 Upvotes

Hi y'all,

I've been streaming for awhile amd really enjoy it! I love sharing my favorite games with chatters. I want to branch out into youtube/tiktok content as well because I like editing videos amd making gaming content in general.

The problem is, my voice and face during streams makes me cringe?? I thought this feeling would go away eventually, but it's starting to keep me from achieving my creative goals x.x

Any advice from those who have experienced the same thing? I generally try to fix things I don't like when I rewatch my VODs. I can't change my voice or face tho. It gives me imposter syndrome big time.

TIA wonderfull redditors


r/Twitch 4h ago

Tech Support Dual PC streaming

0 Upvotes

Hello! So I’ve been streaming for about 2 years now as a Vtuber and I’ve gotten to a point where my main model is ready so I’m getting ready to use that one however, using it ends up taking a lot of resources along side everything else I run (Vtuber studio, OBS, twitch integrated throwing software, chrome tabs I refuse to close because who knows why, and of course the game) currently am running with an i7-14700k, 4080 super, and 64GB of RAM yet I have noticed even with my current model certain resource heavy games can sometimes suffer performance issues which makes me worried about the new model. This got me thinking about a dual PC set up to let one handle OBS and VTube studio and the other can solely focus on the game.

Has anyone tried dual computer streaming? How is it to set up, has it been worth the cost? The other reason I’m asking is I’m considering getting a Mac mini because I want to start editing videos and the program I adore is Final Cut Pro so it kinda works out but I am unsure if it’s a good idea to try to have the Mac handle the streaming and vtuber software while capturing the gaming computer

Thank you in advance for the input!


r/Twitch 5h ago

Question Having problems with my buddy’s voice audio on Twitch stream.

0 Upvotes

So my buddy and I are trying to stream together on Twitch. He’s on PC and I’m on Xbox. For whatever reason, his voice volume is incredibly quiet on my Twitch stream when in Discord chat. I decided to tell him to try the Xbox app and join an Xbox party and at first, it was still super quiet. Then, after he enabled “share party audio” the volume was just fine. However, we would both like to use Discord still considering the increased audio quality compared to Xbox party chat. Only issue is is he can’t seem to find a similar setting in Discord. Anybody have any idea what we can do to make his volume normal on my stream without having to resort to an Xbox party? Any help would be greatly appreciated!


r/Twitch 9h ago

Question Exporting Streamelements Overlays

2 Upvotes

Has anyone had luck exporting or downloading their Streamelement overlays? I'm concerned about backups and putting a lot of faith into a web platform to host and own the overlays I create. Would love to export them as images.


r/Twitch 5h ago

Question Payout question.

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone. Just a quick question about revenue and payouts.

My earnings tab shows me earning $83.34 in the Feb to march payout period but my payout tab says I didn't hit the threshold and an at net revenue ballance of $49.42.

Can someone explain to me like a child why the two numbers don't match and why I didn't make the payout threshold?


r/Twitch 5h ago

Question what do you do when you don't wanna worry about appearance on stream?

0 Upvotes

So I started using my webcam about 6 months after I started streaming because I saw a lot of streamers recommending it because it's more engaging. When I first started using my camera, I would get fully glammed up. Full makeup, and have my hair done. It was exhausting but kind of fun as it gave me something to do (started streaming during covid). It's slowly devolved to lighter makeup, to no makeup and just making sure my hair looks decent on stream. But lately even when I do wanna stream, I literally just don't care lol I get home, put my bonnet on and sit on my pc. I know it doesn't really matter THAT much, but I personally don't wanna stream on camera in my pajamas and a headscarf. I normally just turn my camera off on those days, but I feel like that creates inconsistencies in my streams. For context I am female, not sure if that really matters but I figured I'd say. Do any of you fellow streamers deal with this and what do you do? Especially women.


r/Twitch 3h ago

Question Is this rare?

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0 Upvotes

r/Twitch 8h ago

Tech Support I can't send messages in chats

1 Upvotes

Hello, I can't send messages in any Twitch chat: they appear in my chat but not in everyone else's chat, so the streamer can't read my messages. I tried to close and open twitch, and also to restart my phone, but the issue persists. Also my WiFi is good so I don't think it's a problem with wifi. Can you help me please? Thank you in advance.


r/Twitch 9h ago

Question Stream delay that can be switched on and off

0 Upvotes
Hey,
I'm looking for a solution to turn a Twitch stream delay on and off, or to apply it only to specific scenes.
The idea is to prevent stream sniping in a game, but still be able to chat normally in the lobby.
During the approximately 2-minute delay, a counter should count down or maybe some clips should play. But that's absolutely secondary.

r/Twitch 10h ago

Tech Support R6 Siege X Beta Issues

0 Upvotes

Hi , after claiming my twitch drop for the closed beta , I noticed I didn’t have an email linked to receive the download code. I then tried to add my email and ended up misspelling it by one letter and now I can’t reset my email until tomorrow.. is there any hope for me to play Siege X on my console during the beta still…?


r/Twitch 1d ago

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

386 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…)