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I’m sure this question has been asked hundreds of times and I’m gonna make this hundreds and one. The path to affiliate “3 average viewers on 4 different days.” I’ve been trying to get it for a while, my dad got affiliate a while ago and he had to stream for three hours or more, but my one tick I streamed for 1 hour and 46 minutes and it counted with four average viewers.

Saying this, I streamed for only an hour because I had plans that interrupted my stream, had 3 average viewers but the stream was only an hour and two minutes, doesn’t count.

Am I missing something? Is there a minimum time that I’m missing too? Does it take a long time to update? Need a bit of help for this, it’s one of the last things I need besides 25 followers. !help

mic will be on the table, in front of my keyboard

please help me to decide, any other option will be appreciated too

Hey everyone, I need an outside perspective because I'm at my breaking point when it comes to my friend who keeps crossing boundaries. I'd just like to know if I'm overreacting for wanting to cut ties here. Here are a few of the things that just completely threw me off.

I've had issues with an old Discord server so I figured I'd make a complete new server as I had just given my stream an entire overhaul. It took me days to set this server up (I'm not the most tech-savy person) and I invited my friend to help me test out some backend settings. A few hours later she has completely cloned my entire server including the typos I had made. She had never bothered with her discord prior to this.

When we play together on VC she completely dominates the audio (fair). She yaps and yaps so loudly that I sometimes can't even think straight, it also makes it incredibly hard for me to focus on my game and chat. At another stream it became so distracting that I reached out after the stream that it might be for the best if we aren't in call while streaming so we can both focus on our respective chats. She then tried to make up an incredibly controlling rule: "If one of us is live, the other has to stay offline." yeah, no. That same stream I've had some raiders coming in and she demanded that I raid her channel at the end of the night. I told her I wasn't planning to raid her as I already had someone else in mind. I got met with a 'playful' "fuck you bitch".

She also has a habbit of self-promoting her stream AND discord to my viewers. I also have confronted her about this and asked her to stop crossing that boundary. She said she understood but keeps doing it anyway. A few weeks ago I got some new emotes and was excited to share this with my chat, she didn't say a word, just immediately spammed her own emotes in my chat. Which personally felt kind of rude as I was genuinely excited to share the emotes without having my own friend try to overshadow me. She also makes it a habit to tag herself in my stream title constantly, even on days when she isn't streaming.

And what bothered me the most is what happened a few days ago, we were playing some games offline and something had happened ingame. I do record most of my gameplay and she asked if I could show her my POV. I didn't think anything of it and just shared that clip with her. Two hours later she posted it on TikTok without even bothering to ask if I were cool with that.

It just has become incredibly tiring to be her friend this way, she keeps crossing my boundaries even when I confront her about it, am I overreacting? I also apologize for any spelling errors as english isn't my native language.  

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this.

Have you ever been in a Twitch stream where the moderators seemed to be on a complete power trip? I'm not talking about enforcing obvious rules or dealing with trolls—I mean mods who are overly aggressive, rude, or hand out timeouts/bans for seemingly no reason.

I recently had an experience that left me scratching my head, and it made me wonder how common this actually is. It feels like some moderators forget they're there to help foster a welcoming community rather than police every little thing.

For those of you who've experienced something similar:

• What happened?
• Did the streamer know about it, or was it just the moderators acting on their own?
• Did it change whether you watched that streamer afterward?

I'm genuinely interested in hearing other people's experiences and perspectives. I know there are plenty of amazing Twitch moderators out there, so this isn't meant to bash all mods—just wondering if anyone else has encountered the opposite.

There seems to be a built in option for closed captions in the twitch player but the majority of streamers have it disabled.

Is there any tool that automatically transcribes so I can watch while eating etc. ?

im trying to make some points thing where you redeem and something funny happens, well it wont allow me to add a custom sound i assume other assets because

"You need to acknowledge our terms of service and community guidelines to upload custom assets."

and i cant find these terms and service and community guideliens anywhere to accept and twitch support is taking their sweet ass time

Something I've been thinking about lately after hopping between a few different streams. When I watch someone with a slower chat, I actually type things out, ask questions, respond to what the streamer says. It feels more like a conversation. But the moment I'm in a channel where chat is moving at like 500 messages per minute, I go completely silent and just watch. Not because I don't want to engage, I just know my message will be gone before the streamer even has a chance to see it.

Curious if other viewers have noticed the same pattern in themselves. And for people who stream, does chat size actually change how you interact back? I imagine it gets harder to acknowledge individual messages past a certain point, which probably creates a feedback loop where viewers stop bothering.

I wonder if this is part of why smaller streamers sometimes build tighter communities even without the numbers. The engagement is just structurally easier on both sides. The streamer can respond, the viewer feels seen, and that loop keeps people coming back.

Has anyone found a sweet spot where a channel was big enough to feel active but small enough that chatting still felt worth it? Would be curious to hear what that looked like.

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Hey boddies does anyone knows how i can set up the same mask, i mean not exactly the same mask, but in same style>? which program is that? how to set up it for my stream? just wanna try it.

found Animaze on steam, but its not really the same, I mean, i need my eyes and mouth should be the same how on this picture, i mean - mine, and the rest of my face or even body the same how on the picture

Hello! I’ve been streaming quite a lot lately. I was lucky to have part of a community from another streamer so I’ve had a small but pretty active following since I started. That being said, I’m looking to grow a bit.

I’ve heard that a lot of people grow by putting clips and such in other places, which makes sense, but what about the potential for longer term content? I’m talking full length videos, maybe some reaching upwards of an hour or longer (for example, one of the games I play is Cities Skylines, which tends to have longer videos on YouTube).

I know some people upload their VODs. Is this beneficial for your Twitch channel? Do you trim down more than the start/brb/ending streams? What do you do about chat messages/conversations that aren’t necessarily related to the game? What about deadspace that didn’t feel so empty while on stream but feels a little empty as a video? I’ve seen people say they keep VODs for an archive but I haven’t seen many people talk about the growth it brings.

Finally, is it worth trying to convert a Twitch stream into smaller, digestible videos, considering the fact that you’re having conversations with people in chat that might not be relevant to the game at all? I feel like it could be distracting to someone that wasn’t involved in the conversation, but as someone who personally only occasionally watches VODs for people they already watch, I’m not sure about the target demographic here. It feels like it makes more sense to make videos for YouTube that then promote your Twitch.

I realise these are a lot of questions in this post so maybe it would be best to take it as a discussion of opinions and experiences. Just trying to grow my channel a bit and figure out what the next step is!

I honestly think Twitch has completely lost touch with its community.

Dont get me wrong guys its my opinion

I’m getting really frustrated with the direction Twitch is taking.

Instead of fixing problems that have existed for years, we’re getting features like Dual Format Streaming. I genuinely don’t understand who asked for this. If I want to stream vertically, I’ll use TikTok. That’s literally what it’s built for.

Meanwhile, Twitch still has some of the same issues creators have been complaining about forever.
Discovery is still terrible.
Growing as a small streamer is still incredibly difficult because we dont have any Kind of algorithm, we have static sorting (many viewers = higher in reccomendation, few viewer or no viewer = not beeing reccommended).
The platform still feels outdated in so many areas.
Bugs and missing quality-of-life features stay around for years.

And then there’s UserVoice.
What is even the point of asking the community what they want if it feels like nobody is listening? There are countless ideas with thousands of votes, yet I honestly can’t remember the last time Twitch implemented a feature that the community had been asking for for years.
It honestly feels like Twitch has become stuck. Instead of improving the core platform, they keep adding features that don’t solve the biggest problems creators actually face every day.

As someone who genuinely loves streaming on Twitch, this makes me sad. I want Twitch to succeed. I want it to become the best live-streaming platform again. But right now it feels like they’re building the platform they want instead of the platform their community has been asking for.

Am I the only one who feels like Twitch has completely lost its direction?

I’m new to streaming, and I want to use a anime profile picture for starters, am I allowed to do that or not? Since I don’t want any trouble, this might seem a bit crazy. I’m just nervous and anxious about it, thank you for any help!

Basically that. I’ve always wanted to have a internet radio show, because I love finding artists that are new, independent, and niche, and I always want a way to suggest people listen to them. I’m an inactive musician who just loves finding new sounds all the time.

How would something like that work on Twitch? Can it work?

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If it is a scam could someone explain it? It was pretty overwhelming to deal with on stream. I'm a small/new streamer so i was hesitant to call them out cause their chats were pretty normal at first, and i try to be very welcoming to new chatters but with time they got pretty agressive. There were two other accounts as well who this one claimed were their friends, but their chats were not as bad, just a little weird and spammy. Why would they want to see my specs?

I collab and associate myself with a streamer that has a pretty parasocial audience. Since collabing, a lot of my TikTok content comments are filled with stickers, inside jokes, and memes all about the big streamer. I post my VODS on YouTube and sometimes the comments are filled with inside jokes about the streamer that I don’t get because I’m not at their streams. While I love collabing and they are a friend, their audience has turned my content into a place to talk about their favorite streamer. This leaves me feeling honestly bad and unimportant in my own community. I’m funny and my content has a lot to offer… but I feel like my own identity is getting lost. What do I do?

signs point to this pipeline:

1. use obs virtual camera to pass game visuals to some program that can read a webcam

2. do the stream visuals in that program. add controls, maybe shaders, make them work, etc

3. have obs actually record/stream that program

obviously hooking the game up to the virtual camera is the easy part and while i certainly know how to program i don't know which kind of app exactly to do all the visuals in? or if there's a better way?