The Truth about being a Content Creator (Streaming, Recording)
Not enough people gets enough credit from being a gamer or content creator. It doesn’t matter if your content is good you will end up sitting with no views talking to yourself.
The truth that no one talks about is even if you make it to affiliate on twitch there is nothing behind it. You won’t get views, you barely even get chatters. Trust me I know the feels, I have been a twitch affiliate since 2018 and its not worth it.
I personally have only made $20.63 and had a 2 subs, a few cheers and ad rev and that is it.
No matter how many times I shared, joined servers branched out it doesn’t help. I even promoted my streams using Gamerized and Streamers Network (which both are no longer existing.) but just like always my streams were me talking to myself so there for I quit streaming for a little while, it did not matter anyways I barely had anyone come in, I felt like I was alone.
It sucks thinking you can make it and it doesn’t get anywhere, people that follow you just to be following you in hopes you would drop them a follow also. I even made a discord server called Creators Unite where we are more than creators but family; but then again people only used me to help them get to affiliate and it was so much on me that I had to quit and transfer ownership to a close person to me.
I felt like I was suffocating myself to help everyone else rise to the top when they weren’t helping there selves, I was the one going hours and hours throughout the day sharing their stuff from reddit to twitter and basically everywhere I could just to try to help them.
I am still somewhat making YouTube recorded videos just to be making them hoping one day it would take off but its never a promise. I also have Facebook gaming and a ko-fi in hopes something takes off but I won’t get my hopes up to high since we are like stars and have our own time to shine but don’t give up maybe one day it will be your turn.