This might be a ridiculous question, but how many of my fellow streamers have felt burned out from streaming?

I’ve streamed for countless years now & built a community that I’m proud of. I’m always receiving love & support, and I’m able to take a break from the real world every night as I click the “go live” button

But I can’t shake the exhaustion that’s seemed to dawn upon my body

Before I click the “go live” button, my mind wanders to a different world where I’m wrapping up my day by laying on the couch, reading a book, watching a film, or sleeping before the clock hits midnight. A world where I end my days by winding down, not hurriedly recharging my battery to get out one last effort for the night. But that’s not my reality

Every night, I stream into the early hours of the morning, going until my body starts shutting down. With the love and adoration I receive (much more than I could ever ask for), comes the sense that I can’t let my community down. To fight this feeling, I feel that I fight too hard to please as many people as I can, to ultimately no avail

I’ve allowed others to ridicule me, almost like a class clown in high school. When it’s my chat making fun of me, I typically play it off as jokes and play into the bit. But then the same mannerisms spill onto my friends when we play games together, then it feels like a mob of mockery consistently hoping to set me off or upset me enough to get a reaction. I feel almost paranoid, sensing that people are having conversations behind my back and shielding their true feelings about me. Do they think I’m selfish for prioritizing my stream? Do they secretly hold disdain? Only shielding it from me for the sake of our mutual friendships?

Many nights, I end stream with a smile on my face as I go to bed. Other nights, I simply feel tension in my shoulders, the bags under my eyes dropping lower, and worries that my friends/viewers may be harboring true feelings from me

To anybody who has felt even an ounce of what I feel, how did/do you navigate such feelings?

I was just wondering what most streamers like bits or subs?

Hi guys! I wanted to try asking here along with sending a report ticket to Twitch. Ever since my Twitch app updated on the 23rd, there's been issues loading the streams. They're either frozen on a single frame or the screen is black. The chat works though!

I have made sure my Android Samsung A13 is up to date, and my Xfinity internet works. I even called them and they said there were no issues. The app actually works fine on someone else's hotspot at my job and Twitch works in browser. The app just isn't working on my internet for some reason. It did work briefly when I tried turning on my limited data and then turning my wifi back on, but this doesn't seem to last too long before it finds a way to freeze again. And of course, I uninstalled and reinstalled the app, cleared the cache, data, and restarted my phone a ton of times.

I'm guessing it must be a bug, I just hope I'm not alone. If you know anything, please let me know! Thank you.

I usually stream twice a week and I wanted to update my schedule today, which is what I always do. However, when I click on "add stream" and fill it out, it won't save the new schedule. The page isn't frozen or anything but all I can do is either refresh the page or click out of it.

I've tried this a few times now. Any advice?

I’m sure this has been asked before but I used to stream a lot so I’m pretty comfortable with the format of just starting a steam and talking into my mic

I really want to get a face cam to capture my reaction to gta 6 coming out.

I have no face cam just a headset mic and controller. I’m not sure what to get

I also have a hardly used Mac book air pro 2022 if that would be of any use

Please let me know!!

Gamers we are just 24 days away!!

I just wanted to ask this because I couldn't find the answer to this question anywhere. Logically I would assume it does count cause I am "subbing" to the same streamer for another month in effect by paying to extend it but I just wanted to make sure before I actually spend money.

I've just noticed in social media usually trend hopping generates a growth buff, and as a small creator that wants to do whatever I want to do how often should I do what I don't want to do and just trend hop to try to catch the wave?

I was watching a streamer do reacts when their channel suddenly got erased out of nowhere. I don’t if they violated twitch guidelines or not but the last thing I saw was when they were watching a segment of that anime show solo leveling on YouTube

I was zoning out one day while watching Family Guy and Twitch and thought about how funny it would be to have a streamer have cutaway gags in his streams. Like he would say something barely relevant to what he’s doing and it will trigger a 10 sec to a 1 minute cutaway skit.

Idk but like for instance you have a streamer says "this is like when mayors try to appeal to the youth for votes" and you cut to a skit about for instance a mayor trying to rename street signs as memes or brainrot (I just came up with this but like with funny jokes).

Do you think it could work and be a good idea ?

Hi all! Hope this is ok to ask here. So first, I have pretty severe social anxiety, have for all my life and have always struggled to talk to people. So I have decided to start streaming, I don’t have plans to “make it big” or anything I just want to try and get more used to talking. Even if it’s just to myself. Anyway there’s question I have is what is the preferred method of visuals on twitch? I have a friend and she has agreed to draw me a little character to put in my screen(no movement) but was wondering if it would be better to just have the content alone instead of the character ? I would be streaming story and shooter games. I don’t know what would be better to watch and thought I’d ask here. Thank you so much!!💛

I tried looking up answers and was given a bunch of suggestions but nothing works so far

I have a PS5 and i use to have a psvr camera but lost it in a house fire, some of my friends are asking me to stream a game that I’ve been playing but i don’t have any way to show my face and the game is a rage game so they want to see my reactions, i don’t have a pc or laptop is there any way i could use my phone as a camera?

I don't think I'm ugly or that I put people off, haha. I've always felt comfortable in front of the camera, and I think that came across in the streams. So I don't think I created an uncomfortable feeling with the camera, quite the opposite. Nevertheless, I find it interesting because, firstly, I didn't expect it, and secondly, it makes my work so much easier. Still, I'd be interested in your opinions on why this might be the case, since it's usually the exact opposite of what you hear from people, that they're more likely to tune in to streams that have a webcam.

Hello, dac7* was under review two days ago. Now it gets on retake status. I tried to do it again without any luck.

Any advice?

So recently my province decided to nix the whole daylight savings time switch and we now use one time zone year round (MDT) and even have our own official time zone recognition "(UTC-6) Mountain Time (Alberta)" in Microsoft's system. This is the time zone I have my system set to but twitch seems to not recognize it. As a result the streams I scheduled far in advance have the incorrect times and it won't let me add any new streams, it just loads/pends forever when I hit the save button. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I have tried changing the time zone on my computer to a recognized one but twitch just seems very averse to using anything UTC-6 for some reason. I also cleared the browser cache, signed in incognito hoping it would force the change, and I used a different browser. Nothing so far has worked. Any help or insight would be appreciated!

Hello, im not sure if it's because im aussie and our net is just ass, but i have tried a few different browsers and twitch is just always so laggy it's practically unwatchable, i just wanna be able to watch my cs tournaments. If you have any recommendations or settings I should try for like opra gx because it has so much or whatever please let me know

Hi everyone, maybe someone has experienced something similar and can share their experience. Yesterday I received a permanent account restriction due to an account being used by an automatic bot. I have no idea what that means, but there were no bots, spam, or hacks. I filed an appeal, and I was immediately unblocked via email, but my account is still unavailable after 30 hours. Has anyone else encountered this?

(edit: the irony is that for a living I take video calls with clients around the world, all day everyday, but these are 1-1 calls, and I see Twitch as being a huge open door for anyone to get access to, so it’s the feeling of not being in control of who sees me)

I (29F) really want to start streaming, as it’s something I enjoy viewing and I also enjoy gaming and other activities that I could stream.

I am just very scared to put myself out there! I’ve been bullied before, and I have a bit of a complex I guess. I have self confidence issues, I think poorly of myself sometimes (something I am working on).

I fear that if I start streaming, someone will make fun of me, make me question myself etc. I also don’t want to see my face on camera, but I realise that’s a big part of it.

Is there anyone who has gotten past feelings like this, and just started streaming and everything worked out? How did you overcome your anxiety? What was it like?

I hope this is okay to post :)

I've been seeing people on Reddit looking for cameramen for IRL streams, and i'm tryna figure out how most streamers handle this. Some seem to just have a friend behind the camera, while others actually pay someone to come out and film. however, for those who have done it before, did you find someone through friends, Reddit, Discord, etc.? Did you end up keeping the same person for future streams, or do you have to find someone new every time?

Posted this on r/rivals but it might get removed, so I thought I’d ask here that’s why it’s a sc I cbb re-writing it

This has been my only barrier from streaming. I am afraid either people from work and class will see my streams or clips. I would appreciate it if anyone gave advice, or how you were able to get over it.

I've been streaming for about a year now, with an upload speed of 20mbps and my streams have been running perfectly fine at 1080p and 60fps, but randomly about a month ago my frames started tanking, my internet is the exact same as it's been for this past year, so I just can't figure out the issue.
I've gone through countless tutorials and I've lowered my setting to way below what I should be able to run, but my frames still drop a bunch.

Hello!

Recently with chat, we had a nice talk about we see VIPs as a creator and as a viewer, and that got me somewhat curious about other people's perspectives.

Some example questions, tho I am not limiting it to that:

• What is your criteria for giving someone VIP? (a chat points reward, presence, engagement, subscriptions/bits)
• What does "VIP" mean to you in Twitch?
• What is your first thought when you join a new stream and you notice most chatters are VIPs?

I will add my own answers in a comment.

Thank you!