Do you see Twitch Streaming as a Job?

[LemiaOfTheCodes]

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[AdithyaR]

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.

[newfreshstart]

yea if you got paid for it

are you thinking about doing it?

[Jayceeleigh]

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.

[jennifer_bloom]

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.

[Nades]

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 anyday

[WindAtMyBack]

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.

[Soremain]

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.

[Unit1]

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.

[Naxwi]

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.

[R3DthatDude]

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.

[AllThatSweetJazz]

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.

[hellacray]

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.

[genericname85]

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?

[Still-alive]

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.

[Shiver]

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.

[Noodle_fan]

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.

[SomeBlondeChick]

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 changed

[DCooper]

It can be, if you're a thottie with a low cut top and some tig ol biddies!

[DizzyDesii]

My dumbass ex did. But i see it as a hobby. Not a worthy longtime career

[Jjpayne]

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 too

[Shihab-91]

so presenting news ( lies, and bad news ) is a job?

[Emperorxxxemilio]

You can make a lot of money from it, so yes, but I think they should be taxed just like any other job.

[sheikalana]

If you get paid for it it's a job. Same like OF of IG influencers. It's their job.

[JosyJosy]

It is if you can live on twitch alone, or enough to help you pay the bills, right?