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- It's a high risk high reward career.
It is quite difficult to make a decent career in it if you're not a good player. The most successful streamers are like the top 1% of the community or have some kind of unique angle to it, like a commentatory style.
So it might be difficult to set into it but if you can make the cut, it's a highly rewarding job.
Plus nobody can say it's easy as well, you need to learn extensive video editing, you need extreme gaming skills and you're spending hours a day in front of a screen. It's a taxing career but if it's your passion, you will enjoy it.0|00|0Is this still revelant? - yea if you got paid for it
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- It’s a job if the work is put in and money is being made. I say that because there are plenty of jobs out there that don’t cover the cost of living (that’s why they want to raise minimum wage). Now with that being said, I do believe you have to know when to throw in the towel. If they’ve been working hard at it for months on end and still aren’t producing an income, it MAY be time to call it a hobby.0|00|1Is this still revelant?
- I’m not sure what twitch streaming is but any honest way of earning money that benefits the world and respects yourself is a job.0|10|0Is this still revelant?
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1027- Do you mean the virtual strip club for woman and male simps? No. Men are such dogs on it. A girl with bigger boobs will get more views and be more successful than a smaller girl. Most girls go their to flaunt themselves for donations. In this generation of degenerates no male or female will care what kind of personality you have. It’s all body, looks etc. An actual job always helps. And you might say oh they’re earning way more than you’ll ever be. That’s cool idc. Id rather be getting paid way less than ever working that job anyday0|00|0
- It's not a job in the sense that you work for somebody and have a boss. It's more like a business or being self employed. There is a lot of money in streaming. Of course you have to have a niche and be good at it. You are an entertainer, and need to be able to talk continuously for hours at a time. Or in some cases record the stream and add text later instead of voice.0|00|0
- For some it is a job, for most it's just a hobby. Anyone can't just decide to become a professional streamer. You have to be talented in some way, kinda like being a musician, everyone can do it for fun but only few can turn it into a sustainable job.0|00|0
- Not at all.
Twitch happily bans users even if it's not written in their terms of agreement.
say "idiots" with just the right intonation and Twitch can perceive it as the N word and then bam, you're banned for racism. It happened before. Or even cosplaying did also get female streamers banned and one of them went mental like she's lost her job.
twitch streaming is like this odd job if you will but it's not a real job.0|00|0 - You definitely have to put the work in to get to a level where you can live off of the revenue. It's quite a difficult industry to get into and if you make a living wage and don't hate doing it I don't see much of a problem.0|00|0
- This is the 21st century. 9-5 is played out now for anyone who has real drive. People are getting rich off of just having a YouTube channel. Twitch is just 1 of many ways people make money from home, and if you think it’s not a real way to make money then you have a consumer mindset or you are just too traditional. On the flip side it’s not easy but it’s very do able if you put the work in and research. I wouldn’t do it simply because it doesn’t interest me, but I’d do it to make a point lol.0|21|0
- It's "entertainer".
It doesn't seem all that different from comedian, musician or footballer.
It's just performing for money.
I guess it things don't *feel* like a job unless you hate it.0|00|0 - Well I've heard some streamers do it as if it was a full time job so like 8 hours a day. So if you're streaming that often then yeah it kind of is like a job.
But for most people I wouldn't call it a job.0|00|0 - yes. "a job". not "a profession". because as far as i see it, there's not really a long term viable career path for streamers. what if you get old? what if your plattform dies? what if streaming becomes obsolete or falls out of favor of investors like youtubes ad-pocalypse just worse?1|00|0
i see it a bit like arts in general. like musik, painting or acting. if you're a celebrity, you're well off. but it's extremely hard to make a living, if you're less than that.
- If you’re thinking of doing it I say go for it but only do it if you love it otherwise you’re gonna hate yourself. It’s very very unlikely you’ll blow up and become the next pokimane or Sweet Anita. So don’t quit your day job while you do it.0|00|0
- Yup, it's literally being an entertainer. The people who think it isn't should by that logic also think acting, theater, music, etc are all not jobs either.0|11|0
- If you can make money from it ( subs/bits/donation/ads revenue) yes it is job.
One biggest twitch phenomenal now is TommyInnit , he is 16 years old British boy who have 30k subs (atm), so he should earned at least 100k usd @ month (bits/donation/ads revenue excluded) , he played and streamed minecraft most of times.0|01|0 - No. It's a hobby. Just gaming gone live. Ten years ago people stuck on consuls weren't lauded as job seekers they were considered dorks with no job living in their mother's basement too lazy to get a real job.. And it really hasn't changed1|00|0
You are stuck in the past Hun, they were lauded as such when there was no money to be made gaming... Now games like Fortnite offer 7/8 figure prize pools, people make millions selling ingame skins... 🥴 KSI, Ninja PewDiePie became household names but nothings changed? 😂
@r0ddy ROFL. I don't associate with losers that play video games as they've no lives.
- It can be, if you're a thottie with a low cut top and some tig ol biddies!0|00|0
- My dumbass ex did. But i see it as a hobby. Not a worthy longtime career0|20|3
@Shiver musicians have skills to play those instruments and sing. Acting isn't really a skill. Anyone can pretend to be someone
Aight, so that shows that you have no idea what you're talking about here.
If acting was that easy, do you really think it would be such a high paying job? There's a lot more that goes into it than just "pretend to be someone". That's just ignorant.
Musicians have it easier than streamers in that we don't have to juggle 5 or more tasks all at once. Most we have to do at once is play well and keep moving to stay entertaining. In between songs we only have to talk and be entertaining sometimes. What makes a musician's job hard has nothing to do with their skill at playing an instrument.
A streamer needs to be able to play the game well, interact with the audience, keep an eye on new follows, tips and subs, give entertaining commentary, make sure to not say no-no words that wouldn't be no-no words outside of Twitch and potentially more all at the same time as well as stream for hours on end consistently.
Just because you're not familiar with the skill set, doesn't mean there's no skill involved.- Show All Show Less
@Shiver you asked a question and i spoke my piece. I said what i said and i meant it too. We can agree to disagree. But its just not a what i consider a career. If you make bank from it, good for you. But im speaking off of what i saw with my exes
I'm guessing your ex wasn't good at it right?
It surely is a risky career as you have to be in the top 1% of the game or have a very unique angle to it. That being said it's a high risk high reward field like a few others, making it is very hard but if you do, it's an insanely good career path.
But very few do reach that level.@AdithyaR he was horrible at it. I was his same 7 views for like a year 😂 he pissed me off because he dropped out of college and wasted our apartment savings. He was just being dumb. I tried to support him when it was just a hobby. Bt he went too far trying to turn it into a career when he knew he wasn't ready
Totally understandable, after a while year if he still had seven views he should have seen he's not ready, especially not drop out from college for it.
He'd have to have a decent viewership of over a few hundred thousand to get a good track. Maybe he just didn't stand out.@AdithyaR he wasn't being himself in my opinion. He was quiet most of the game and other times he just would go on a cussing rant. It wasn't entertaining. He didn't know how to edit videos well and stuff. He wouldn't allow me to help him. But he’d game 6 hours
Straight and it drove me nutsYeah that wouldn't work at all. I know he would have felt though, not wanting to accept that a certain field isn't for you. I had to go through something similar.
My experience was the exact opposite, tried to get myself into a science field and go into astrophysics but eventually had to accept I wasn't cut out for it and chose to study English instead and I way more happy now.
@AdithyaR im glad you found whats best for you. I regret majoring in Business. I hate finance and accounting. I wouldve preferred journalism or English so that i could do something editorial or even become a copywriter for commercial jingles
You should totally try that out. Journalism is a very interesting field. It's part of my triple major and it's s good subject.
@AdithyaR yea i was in college 2013-2017. Major waste of an assoc/bach. I have no intentions of returning to college unless its a trade school. I wanna get into carpentry
@Shiver acting, musicians, etc. generally require some talent. Twitch as long as you can speak properly and read anyone can do it. It's not a "job" and it doesn't require any real talent
@SomeBlondeChick even to be a good twitch streamer you need the skill of being exceptionally good at video games, which not everyone can do.
To play for leisure surely but not to be a popular streamer. You need to be constantly in the top 1% of the game, be up-to-date with everything that happens in the game. It's not easy.
We shouldn't be downplaying their work.Plus you can't say it's not a job as people do earn well from it. Anything you can earn from is a job.
- It very well could be. I know that youtubing is a job for many people simply because of the money it makes for them. So I could totally see twitch streaming being a job too0|01|0
- You can make a lot of money from it, so yes, but I think they should be taxed just like any other job.0|00|0
- If you get paid for it it's a job. Same like OF of IG influencers. It's their job.0|01|0
- It is if you can live on twitch alone, or enough to help you pay the bills, right?0|01|0
- Only if you're making enough to pay the bills. If not it's a hobby.1|00|0
- Can you reliably earn money doing that?0|00|0
- For those that can entertain full time yes.
Streaming content is entertainment.0|01|0 - Yes if you get paid (monetized) for it0|11|0
- No, it does not require any relevant skillset1|00|1
- Anything you do for me is a job.0|01|0
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