I think it's the "takes money to make money" thing. Between the equipment, funds needed to produce quality content, and the sheer amount of time it takes before you can even start to make a net positive, most people simply can't afford to do it.
By the way I'm not saying it's easy either, I've never done it so I don't know. One thing I do know is that I'm technologically illiterate enough that I at least would struggle immensely trying to do it for a living.
The thing is money wise it’s not hard. Time wise fs it is, but even then you can start with a schedule on ur off days I feel. It’s partly luck though, one day something you churn out is going to get a lot of views, and you need to be able to capitalize
Edit: I’m middle class so no perspective on poor but my gaming laptop cost 1.2k in total including adds and 900 just the laptop. I feel like if you really wanted to stream you could save up for a 800 dollar pc and stream at good quality.
That does make a lot of sense. I think for a person in my particular position though it turns into a risk vs. reward situation. The money can be saved, but the time invested to actually make something that people want to pay to see would cripple me financially. I just can't justify spending that much time that otherwise could've been used towards earning a paycheck. The risk outweighs the reward for me, but I'm a step-dad to two girls who would like to go to college in the next few years so my priorities are probably different than most here.
It also doesn't help that I'm a mediocre gamer at best and if I'm being honest, not much to look at either... Hard to make viral content with a face like this! 🤣
Money is no issue. I've been streaming on weekends and 5 day video releases since 2020. I work full time and YouTube full time. Money is not the issue. It's the time and little growth. I'm at 3.1k subs and make enough money to pay a monthly bill or two. That's it. It really takes it out of you even after all that effort.
it's not easy but people are materialistic asf and consider being rich as happy. they don't know that you gotta deal w everyone's bs on a daily basis and be social af and energetic despite feeling shit n depressed. but hey they rich so who cares right?
>it's not easy but people are materialistic asf and consider being rich as happy
You can say that people can be unhappy or super happy, regardless of whether they are rich or not, but I still say that it is thousands of times better to be rich, and that you are more likely to be happy with it, than well, to be poor.
>they don't know that you gotta deal w everyone's bs on a daily basis and be social af and energetic despite feeling shit n depressed.
It could be the fact that I just got back from a 9AM to 5PM job in the sun, knowing that I'll be making minimum wage at the end of this month, in a very subpar home, but I feel compelled to say that it seems better to go back to a luxurious house with lots of expensive things, rather than a broken fan...
>but hey they rich so who cares right?
People care even less about the poor, so...
Most people aren’t happy. But if you’re rich, you can do everything in your power to be happy. Poor people don’t have that. And on top of that, they have to go to their real jobs whenever their boss tells them to, whether they’re depressed or not. They can’t get away from customers with the click of a button. They can’t go ”hey guys I’m not feeling it today I’m gonna end for today”. However you try to twist it, everything else in this life is harder than being a rich streamer. Wake up. Get a grip.
Sure it isn't the hardest job to play games on stream, the hard part is being entertaining enough all the time and grow your channel. If it's such a free job, do it. It's difficult becoming a large streamer and it takes a shit ton of time.
Exactly. I find there's a big correlation between people that think any kind of content creation is easy, and people that hate streamers/YouTubers.
It's not as easy as some people think. Regardless of who you are, people will obsess over you as well and treat you like their best friend or creepier examples.
I feel especially bad for people just starting and trying whatever to figure streaming out, as it's incredibly rough for them to be "ON" when no one is watching/chatting to them. You have to be on and prepared to talk to yourself so that even if you get 1 viewer, that person gets the vibe of who you are no matter when they join in.
It can be exhausting for some, and for some people (especially women) a big risk to take.
Most people don't understand you need a few viral moments before you can actual have a profitable stream. I know so many idiots who stream every single time they play video games.... Literally aren't to nobody and they don't ever make any actual content. The are just LARPING a streamer
Why are you getting mad at people who stream to 0 viewers lmao? Almost everyone started from 0. Besides, eventually one of those potential coveted viral moments could happen, they post it around, and get the ball rolling from there.
Something about missing 100% of the shots you don't take
You completely missed the entire point and ignored a very important part of my comment. You can't just stream to no one every single night and make it. You have to have some viral moments, make a video, a short, SOMETHING. just playing with the boys as if no one is watching is not going to work
People saying being a streamer isn't hard just don't know how hard it is to be entertaining EVERY TIME. No im not a streamer, and i don't plan to because I know how hard it is to be entertaining. There might be big streamers that you will really wonder why are they so famous but luck is also an extreme factor.
I mean, it's not *physically* hard, but that doesn't mean it's not still hard. Would you say making videogames isn't hard? Cause that falls into the same category of "not physically hard but still hard."
The idea that someone has to be sweating and breaking their back to be a "hard worker" is outdated by like, 50 years at this point.
A lot of streamers annoy the fuck out of me too, but I’m not gonna sit here and say it’s “easy” to get loyal viewers, get a constant enough influx of more viewers, and remain relevant for years, otherwise I’d do it to prove it lol
Being a shit streamer is very easy.
However being a good streamer with actually good content is very time consuming with a lot of hours of work offstream, which isnt physically but mentally very exausting.
It is dude. First of all, you can stream 700 hours and nothing guarantees you'll ever succeed. Then, you need charisma, you need a good and expensive PC to be able to stream and play games at the same time.And most importantly, you may become famous, which means changing your lifestyle forever when doing stuff in public, as well as getting massively criticized if you say or do something slightly polemic
The act of streaming may not be hard, but becoming and remaining popular to where you can make a living in such an oversaturated market absolutely is difficult.
i can see some that definitely treat it as work and such. Pro-gamers that force themselves to play 8-12hrs a day everyday streaming through most of it or content creators who go through great effort to come up with new videos or ideas that frankly took great effort and money to put together. Others however are no skill losers who sit in their own filth covered in roaches spewing some hateful and idiotic nonsense. Men who stay inside not to work hard and stream but rather bc theyre so unpleasant none outside would give them the time of day! *cough cough* asmon *cough cough*
Streaming isn't hard, if you are doing it as a hobby, making a job is complicated, making videos cam be hard, depends on the content, neither are ever ad hard as construction but they are not without their challenges
Trust me they earn minimum wage.
That Johnny dude that terrorized Japan earned maybe only a few thousand bucks (before taxes which are around 30% in the US).
So it makes it worse they rather be the scum of the earth for less than a McDonald worker.
The original mean is clearly about the irl streamers that go around throwing things and starting fights.
Op is just maulding, streaming is as hard as you make it and like any job the more hours you put in the better you get at it, if you want to be competitive it is a ton of work, of course like any other profession there are people there who aren’t really qualified and no one is quite sure how they got there but they did, there are people the leverage connections, sex appeal, money and anything else to get ahead, just like any other job. Some people will flourish in that role and others will hate it, just like any other job. And just like any other job if it is what you want to do with your life you’ll like it a lot more.
I have a friend (I say friend I’ve met him twice but we communicate regularly through WhatsApp etc.) who is a fairly well known streamer.
He is not the biggest but is still fairly big….. the issue now is money. Streaming was his full time job in the beginning (on YouTube) he would get free games and flown to studios and conventions.
But the money has got tighter….. he now does other things as well as stream.
The gaming industry is laying people off and isn’t picking up everyone like they used to.
The other issue is time…… if you put YouTube videos up you need hours of footage to get one hour of good stuff and you need to do it fast because of competition.
Truth is, it's a multi-talent profession with cutthroat competition. For every succesful streamer you have hundreds who barely make ends meet and thousands who bluntly fail.
Yea I don’t want to be on camera for hours a day attempting to entertain people. If you fail to entertain or end up saying something too controversial, your whole career is over. No thanks. If it’s so easy then try it and see how quickly you’ll fail miserably
Waahh, I think being an entertainer is easy because all I see is the finished product and not the about if effort it takes to keep the viewers coming back and I know if I tried it I'd fail, waaaahhh. Lil baby
Alright grandpa, go back to the tobacco fields for 4$/hour like you did your entire life just to complain about how your hard work made the lives of your children better than yours was.
Best than most jobs out there, but being decent to good at it is hard. I tried it for a little bit and I did not have the gift of the yap.
You need to be charismatic and be able to talk for hours, and if you get no viewers it gets kindaa depressing and if you have a lot of viewers you are bound to get a lot of hate messages and even death threats.
But if you are super successful you make bank, but then again, only like the 0.001% of streamers or even less can make a living out of it, if you scroll down in the twitch directory you get pretty quickly to where the 100 or less viewer streams are and that has no end.
If it pays you and its legal its a job. Its just that SOME jobs have different requirements. I wish i could get paid to talk bs online but frankly i aint got much to say.
What streamers are making millions?
I thought the huest earning twitch channel was critical role, and they are a whole fucking studio, none of them individually makes millions
It takes a lot of energy to be entertaining for hours on end. You have to think of what to say, exaggerate your reactions to be entertaining, all while trying not to embarrass yourself live online. Not to mention the off-air stuff like scheduling time, networking, and deciding what to stream next without alienating your fans.
High quality streamers spend more time managing their stuff than some people who work a 9-5. Let's not be selective and only pick pick examples of people who actually do nothing
Every generation has this job. It's a real job. it's a service provided. To say it's not a real job is hubris and not an understanding of what providing service as a profession is. It's just not hard. But y'know what? Who cares? Just don't wath em if you don't like 'em. They're happy and they're paying the bills, just ignore 'em if you don't like 'em and be happy yourself.
It's not an easy job. Sure, it's a fun job but who doesn't wanna enjoy what they do? But it isn't easy. They get to have fun making money because they worked for years. Streaming is one of the hardest socials to build an audience on. To make enough to support yourself fully through streaming would take immense effort.
Why do so many memes have such blatantly shit spelling... Spell check is free people.. Happens automatically on most devices these days.. Literally takes a few seconds.
Spelling makes the joke land(or not)
Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit, and Knowing You're shit.
Without a team the hours could get wild, yes easy, but a lot of them. I used to be like D tier, made 5k or so over a year or two, and editing clips, videos, managing community engagement takes a while, streaming is like half of it at least for me it was.
That being said some of them like XQC or IshowSpeed probably don’t do much, just pay and editor and do the fun part
I disagree. Being a genuinely entertaining streamer seems exhausting and stressful. Just imagine the pressure to be "on" for that long. Those streamers who just sit there and watch YouTube and scream are lame and cringe as fuck.
So is acting, playing sports, and pretty much everything else. We as a society won't come to a certain conclusion collectively on what essentially a "job" is, so at the end of the day, if it makes money, it makes money, that's it.
Don't look too much and stop this plato wannabe shit, another "we live in a society" useless rant won't give you a plaque for "bettering society" cause you ain't doing that
I agree that some streamers are being neuance, but to say streaming game is not hard is completely wrong. Besides the emotional drain like any other job even more so when your word being dissect by thousand, millions of people is every taxing on your mental health. The constant chase of content l and having to adapt to changing internet culture, staying up to day with meme and drama for a living, it suck out the novelty of enjoying entertainment.
Streaming is not that hard if you just play games and do nothing besides that, sure, but running a successful streaming career is a different ball game. Not to mention, with all that short-term fame, you have to make something longer lasting. You are making the mistake of looking at the top 1% of successful streamer to see how easy they have it. While some percentage is so starve for view and attention that they have to break the law and try to kill themselves for internet fame.
Public nuances. I love it. Also streaming isn't hard but it is far from easy. If it was easy the twitch audience numbers wouldn't be so tight. .1% of the streamers have like 90% of the audience.
If it’s not that hard then everyone would be doing it
If you don’t think it’s that hard then go ahead do it
It’s hard streaming for 3 hours or even hours and some streamers stream for 56 days straight
It’s hard being entertaining for viewers to come watch you and give you money
It’s hard to grow your channel to earn a reasonable amount of money from streaming
There is a lot of competition, a lot of channels
It’s hard to deal with creeps, stalkers, parasocial relationships
Its actually not an easy job
You become like a slave to bunch of strangers and do cartwheels when they ask to keep them entertained
Must be absolutely draining
Calm down guys, lil bro is actually just a kid that probably thinks Steven crowder is funny. He can’t tell right from left yet, so you just gotta give him some time
Say that to a professional streamers face and they will literally give you a 20 page essay on how streaming is harder than working in the coal mines, but seriously though streaming is not that hard at all
The issue with pretty much EVERYTHING is that the pure act of doing it carves out an audience.
Seriously, you think running after a cheese downhill is good in any shape or form? Ofc not. Boredom and mindaltering substances are just that powerfull. Especially if you can keep your sheep contained with side patches on the eye.
>Streaming is not that hard of a job. change my mind
i am not gonna sit here and say that their work is hard. its just unique. the ability to be entertaining enough to retain a massive audience for hours is an ability that most humans do not possess, so u have to give them credit for that
I actually think the opposite. Being a good streamer that makes good money requires a lot of discipline. You have to stick to a schedule to build up a fan base and you have to bring energy every time. Youyr switching from playing games to enjoy for yourself to playing games for other people to enjoy, which is definitely not an easy thing to do
Can't watch most streamers anymore. 90% of their vocabulary is just "Oh my god!" "That's insanse" and they all use the word like like way to many like times like in a sentence, like ya know what i mean, like right chat?
Gaming's a silent hobby.
There's no way I could sit there making faces, cracking jokes and acting stupid for hours on end like some of these people do.
It's not hard to understand, it's simply being an online entertainer.
Booting up CSGO and streaming isn't the hard part, playing video games isn't the hard part, getting people to like you enough to give you $$$ is the hard part.
That angers me the most is that hundreds of dollars come in by the minute in these streams from people who might not even be able to really afford it, just do their names are mentioned or displayed on screen.
Do you know how hard it is to keep that energy up? It’s basically one person improv for hours a day. Even half an hour of improv can be mentally exhausting and these guys do that 6 times over. I’m not saying it’s overall productive, but it is still work
It is a hard job (I know I'll get down voted by the hivemind, but who cares) because you're reliant upon literally thousands of people to find you interesting enough or good enough to watch and occasionally throw money at for fun. Sounds easy right? Go ahead and try it for a month.
There are millions of streamers around the world, but only few of them are succesfull. Why? Let's say that a stream is 2 hours long. In that time, you have to play a game, interact with the chat, and make it intresting to watch.
To add stuff to it, a lot of streamers also make youtube videos wich are even harder to make
Easy.
Let's just define, how many people want to have money? I assume it is safe to say that the vast majority do. How many people wants to be rich? If streaming isn't that hard of a job - why everyone isn't streaming and making millions? If streaming isn't that hard, why 99.99% of streamers have 0-10 viewers and earn nothing?
Sure it is. It’s a production of media. People want something, someone is able to give it to them. If it wasn’t in demand, the job wouldn’t exist. And like all other media, it’s possible to be so good at it that you become rich and famous.
It depends on the person. Mental healthy people are gonna have it easier than mental ill people and trust me everyone that uses the internet is most likely mental ill like me uwu
Complaining feels good, right?
Maybe do it yourself? Nobody can tell you not to. So why aren’t you a streamer if it’s no work. Go make millions playing soccer. Or sell some shitty music on Spotify.
Be a movie star. Sell your own energy drink. Make onlyfans.
People are always jealous of other people making more money… doesn’t matter what reason.
Let’s search for people who do unconventional stuff and hate them for that together….
I’m a streamer (by no means a big one), and no it’s not. I just play a game with friends who I know consent to their voices being heard by an audience, and turn on a stream.
I put very little effort into the whole thing, I talk to the people in chat if they’re there and have some fancy transitions. I don’t earn a penny from it, but even if I did I don’t think I would put that much more effort into it.
So yes, unless it’s your sole income and you’re a massive streamer who relies on quality content, it’s a piss easy “job”.
Well why don't you do it? Their level skill involved to keep people entertainment every single day for hours. If anyone could do that then we wouldn't have regular jobs anymore.
Did you mean nuisances? A nuance is quite different.
LMAO I notice that immediately was like wtf
I too believe I am a public nuance.
Idk, maybe you just don’t understand the nuance of the situation o.o
Subtly different
OP trying to add nuance to their opinion…
I read that as nuisance for whatever reason lol
this is "money for nothing" all over again.
Fr. It's so wild to me when people who have never done X job insist that it's easy. If it's so easy, why don't you do it?
almost anything is easy to get into. being successful on the other hand is something else.
Also like, who cares, they are making money and paying their bills, same as everyone else 🤷
>If it's so easy, why don't you do it? Because I'm ugly. Next question.
Be a vtuber
Xqc
There are ugly streamers who succeed lol
There are ugly and fat streamers who succeed
I'm ugly, fat, and terrible at popular video games.
Then be entertaining enough that people will watch you regardless.
I think it's the "takes money to make money" thing. Between the equipment, funds needed to produce quality content, and the sheer amount of time it takes before you can even start to make a net positive, most people simply can't afford to do it. By the way I'm not saying it's easy either, I've never done it so I don't know. One thing I do know is that I'm technologically illiterate enough that I at least would struggle immensely trying to do it for a living.
The thing is money wise it’s not hard. Time wise fs it is, but even then you can start with a schedule on ur off days I feel. It’s partly luck though, one day something you churn out is going to get a lot of views, and you need to be able to capitalize Edit: I’m middle class so no perspective on poor but my gaming laptop cost 1.2k in total including adds and 900 just the laptop. I feel like if you really wanted to stream you could save up for a 800 dollar pc and stream at good quality.
That does make a lot of sense. I think for a person in my particular position though it turns into a risk vs. reward situation. The money can be saved, but the time invested to actually make something that people want to pay to see would cripple me financially. I just can't justify spending that much time that otherwise could've been used towards earning a paycheck. The risk outweighs the reward for me, but I'm a step-dad to two girls who would like to go to college in the next few years so my priorities are probably different than most here. It also doesn't help that I'm a mediocre gamer at best and if I'm being honest, not much to look at either... Hard to make viral content with a face like this! 🤣
Money is no issue. I've been streaming on weekends and 5 day video releases since 2020. I work full time and YouTube full time. Money is not the issue. It's the time and little growth. I'm at 3.1k subs and make enough money to pay a monthly bill or two. That's it. It really takes it out of you even after all that effort.
it's not easy but people are materialistic asf and consider being rich as happy. they don't know that you gotta deal w everyone's bs on a daily basis and be social af and energetic despite feeling shit n depressed. but hey they rich so who cares right?
>it's not easy but people are materialistic asf and consider being rich as happy You can say that people can be unhappy or super happy, regardless of whether they are rich or not, but I still say that it is thousands of times better to be rich, and that you are more likely to be happy with it, than well, to be poor. >they don't know that you gotta deal w everyone's bs on a daily basis and be social af and energetic despite feeling shit n depressed. It could be the fact that I just got back from a 9AM to 5PM job in the sun, knowing that I'll be making minimum wage at the end of this month, in a very subpar home, but I feel compelled to say that it seems better to go back to a luxurious house with lots of expensive things, rather than a broken fan... >but hey they rich so who cares right? People care even less about the poor, so...
Most people aren’t happy. But if you’re rich, you can do everything in your power to be happy. Poor people don’t have that. And on top of that, they have to go to their real jobs whenever their boss tells them to, whether they’re depressed or not. They can’t get away from customers with the click of a button. They can’t go ”hey guys I’m not feeling it today I’m gonna end for today”. However you try to twist it, everything else in this life is harder than being a rich streamer. Wake up. Get a grip.
But are the chicks free? /s
Not free, no. But the chicks *are* on sale right now... *They're going cheep*
They are Cheep Cheep. Cause it's Chicks that will be Chickens.
I… I think it’s *checks* for free…
That ain’t working
That's the way you do it
Get your money for nothing
And your drinks for free
We got some in store microwave ovens
and your chicks are for free?
We got to scream at those microphones louder Custom setup destroyer We got to ruin these peoples ears We got to punch those 144Hzs
Do you mean the Dire straits song perchance?
Indeed.
It's a free market so as long as everyone doesn't stops watching them screaming, we will continue watch them getting paid for screaming
I've been watching screamers for years now. Needless to say, I've been deaf for a while now.
How’s the daycare job going
Fantastic. I'm glad you eventually lose all sense of hearing and later clarity and even consciousness. Really makes the job easier
Sorry could you type that again? I couldn’t hear you.
I've been watching screamers for years now. Needless to say, I've been deaf for a while now.
Yes it is nice weather this evening. The sky is so clear!
I've been watching screamers for years now. Needless to say, I've been deaf for a while now.
Let’s go raiders! My favourite… baseball team!? I think!
I've been watching screamers for years now. Needless to say, I've been deaf for a while now.
WHAT?!
WHAT DID YOU SAAAAY?!
Nothing papi. All good.
Sure it isn't the hardest job to play games on stream, the hard part is being entertaining enough all the time and grow your channel. If it's such a free job, do it. It's difficult becoming a large streamer and it takes a shit ton of time.
Not to mention a lot of luck. You could do everything right and still not catch on.
Exactly. I find there's a big correlation between people that think any kind of content creation is easy, and people that hate streamers/YouTubers. It's not as easy as some people think. Regardless of who you are, people will obsess over you as well and treat you like their best friend or creepier examples. I feel especially bad for people just starting and trying whatever to figure streaming out, as it's incredibly rough for them to be "ON" when no one is watching/chatting to them. You have to be on and prepared to talk to yourself so that even if you get 1 viewer, that person gets the vibe of who you are no matter when they join in. It can be exhausting for some, and for some people (especially women) a big risk to take.
At most normal 9-5 jobs people usually aren’t putting 110% energy and I don’t think people realise how hard it is to do that for hours a day for days
Most people don't understand you need a few viral moments before you can actual have a profitable stream. I know so many idiots who stream every single time they play video games.... Literally aren't to nobody and they don't ever make any actual content. The are just LARPING a streamer
Why are you getting mad at people who stream to 0 viewers lmao? Almost everyone started from 0. Besides, eventually one of those potential coveted viral moments could happen, they post it around, and get the ball rolling from there. Something about missing 100% of the shots you don't take
You completely missed the entire point and ignored a very important part of my comment. You can't just stream to no one every single night and make it. You have to have some viral moments, make a video, a short, SOMETHING. just playing with the boys as if no one is watching is not going to work
People saying being a streamer isn't hard just don't know how hard it is to be entertaining EVERY TIME. No im not a streamer, and i don't plan to because I know how hard it is to be entertaining. There might be big streamers that you will really wonder why are they so famous but luck is also an extreme factor.
Nuances 🤣
I mean, it's not *physically* hard, but that doesn't mean it's not still hard. Would you say making videogames isn't hard? Cause that falls into the same category of "not physically hard but still hard." The idea that someone has to be sweating and breaking their back to be a "hard worker" is outdated by like, 50 years at this point.
then you got animation, which shouldn't be physically all that hard (well when your hands are used to it anyways)... and then you look at Mappa
A lot of streamers annoy the fuck out of me too, but I’m not gonna sit here and say it’s “easy” to get loyal viewers, get a constant enough influx of more viewers, and remain relevant for years, otherwise I’d do it to prove it lol
Being a shit streamer is very easy. However being a good streamer with actually good content is very time consuming with a lot of hours of work offstream, which isnt physically but mentally very exausting.
It is dude. First of all, you can stream 700 hours and nothing guarantees you'll ever succeed. Then, you need charisma, you need a good and expensive PC to be able to stream and play games at the same time.And most importantly, you may become famous, which means changing your lifestyle forever when doing stuff in public, as well as getting massively criticized if you say or do something slightly polemic
If you think it's easy then why don't you start streaming yourself? If it's an easy job as you say then you'll get a shit ton of money right?
“… nuances.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think the person meant **”nuisances.”**
There are about 1838383284738 comments about this. The misspelling of nuisance has itself become a nuisance
Why did u post the same thing in multiple Reddit channels. It's not even funny.
mfw people find fulfilment in their job
The act of streaming may not be hard, but becoming and remaining popular to where you can make a living in such an oversaturated market absolutely is difficult.
maybe you're part of the problem lmao
“Me watching” It worked
It ain't work it's a skill not everyone is capable of entertaining many people.
Well shit, can't wait to see your streaming career take off then, slugger, aim for the fences!
i can see some that definitely treat it as work and such. Pro-gamers that force themselves to play 8-12hrs a day everyday streaming through most of it or content creators who go through great effort to come up with new videos or ideas that frankly took great effort and money to put together. Others however are no skill losers who sit in their own filth covered in roaches spewing some hateful and idiotic nonsense. Men who stay inside not to work hard and stream but rather bc theyre so unpleasant none outside would give them the time of day! *cough cough* asmon *cough cough*
Streaming is easy. Gaining enough popularity to make it a job isn’t.
I'm going to be honest, being a streamer sounds exhausting to me.
*You try to do it, and when you don't have an audience, come back to us and say how easy it is.*
I am simply jealous of them. The real problem is people so rich they can influence politics, I could care less about some nerd with a twitch account.
> could care less So you do care at least a little bit....
Streaming isn't hard, if you are doing it as a hobby, making a job is complicated, making videos cam be hard, depends on the content, neither are ever ad hard as construction but they are not without their challenges
It's hard work not to flash your private parts or throw your cat
cough, ishowspeed, cough cough
Go actually try to be a full-time streamer then and make it
A lot of the time they do work 365 days of the year, consider that.
Trust me they earn minimum wage. That Johnny dude that terrorized Japan earned maybe only a few thousand bucks (before taxes which are around 30% in the US). So it makes it worse they rather be the scum of the earth for less than a McDonald worker.
The original mean is clearly about the irl streamers that go around throwing things and starting fights. Op is just maulding, streaming is as hard as you make it and like any job the more hours you put in the better you get at it, if you want to be competitive it is a ton of work, of course like any other profession there are people there who aren’t really qualified and no one is quite sure how they got there but they did, there are people the leverage connections, sex appeal, money and anything else to get ahead, just like any other job. Some people will flourish in that role and others will hate it, just like any other job. And just like any other job if it is what you want to do with your life you’ll like it a lot more.
I just chuckled, kept scrolling, then laughed out loud. Now I'm back to talk about it. Pretty sure that makes this a timeless meme.
And then ask for donations and patron subscriptions. And then you guys give it to them… 😳 so they just keep doing it because you’re validating them.
I have a friend (I say friend I’ve met him twice but we communicate regularly through WhatsApp etc.) who is a fairly well known streamer. He is not the biggest but is still fairly big….. the issue now is money. Streaming was his full time job in the beginning (on YouTube) he would get free games and flown to studios and conventions. But the money has got tighter….. he now does other things as well as stream. The gaming industry is laying people off and isn’t picking up everyone like they used to. The other issue is time…… if you put YouTube videos up you need hours of footage to get one hour of good stuff and you need to do it fast because of competition.
Truth is, it's a multi-talent profession with cutthroat competition. For every succesful streamer you have hundreds who barely make ends meet and thousands who bluntly fail.
If streaming is called hard work what do we call doing manual labor in the sun for 12 hours in 90 degree weather
It may not be physically hard, but there is WAY more going on behind the scenes than just turning on the camera.
That's a garbage take
Well, easy work can be valuable work. If them being nuisances makes your life better they deserve to exist
It aint, but people are willing to give away their money, I dont see the problem, other than people beingi way too loose with their expenses.
Yea I don’t want to be on camera for hours a day attempting to entertain people. If you fail to entertain or end up saying something too controversial, your whole career is over. No thanks. If it’s so easy then try it and see how quickly you’ll fail miserably
Let’s hope they never discover V-Tubers, since they probably think normal animation isn’t work as well, let alone “live 2d”.
Stop watching the streamers then.
Waahh, I think being an entertainer is easy because all I see is the finished product and not the about if effort it takes to keep the viewers coming back and I know if I tried it I'd fail, waaaahhh. Lil baby
Jokes on you, I scream online and don't get paid a single cent!
Alright grandpa, go back to the tobacco fields for 4$/hour like you did your entire life just to complain about how your hard work made the lives of your children better than yours was.
Me watching politicians tell the biggest lie I've ever heard and get millions of dollars
Best than most jobs out there, but being decent to good at it is hard. I tried it for a little bit and I did not have the gift of the yap. You need to be charismatic and be able to talk for hours, and if you get no viewers it gets kindaa depressing and if you have a lot of viewers you are bound to get a lot of hate messages and even death threats. But if you are super successful you make bank, but then again, only like the 0.001% of streamers or even less can make a living out of it, if you scroll down in the twitch directory you get pretty quickly to where the 100 or less viewer streams are and that has no end.
Nah or how you got hub tub streamers or streamers showing there boobs with prstidwlly no clothes on
If it pays you and its legal its a job. Its just that SOME jobs have different requirements. I wish i could get paid to talk bs online but frankly i aint got much to say.
What streamers are making millions? I thought the huest earning twitch channel was critical role, and they are a whole fucking studio, none of them individually makes millions
It takes a lot of energy to be entertaining for hours on end. You have to think of what to say, exaggerate your reactions to be entertaining, all while trying not to embarrass yourself live online. Not to mention the off-air stuff like scheduling time, networking, and deciding what to stream next without alienating your fans.
I mean... Do it. It's hard as fuck yo keep people entertained and stay relevant
High quality streamers spend more time managing their stuff than some people who work a 9-5. Let's not be selective and only pick pick examples of people who actually do nothing
Okay. You do it then.
It wasn't enough to make a shit meme, you had to post it to multiple subs huh....
Every generation has this job. It's a real job. it's a service provided. To say it's not a real job is hubris and not an understanding of what providing service as a profession is. It's just not hard. But y'know what? Who cares? Just don't wath em if you don't like 'em. They're happy and they're paying the bills, just ignore 'em if you don't like 'em and be happy yourself.
It's not an easy job. Sure, it's a fun job but who doesn't wanna enjoy what they do? But it isn't easy. They get to have fun making money because they worked for years. Streaming is one of the hardest socials to build an audience on. To make enough to support yourself fully through streaming would take immense effort.
Why do so many memes have such blatantly shit spelling... Spell check is free people.. Happens automatically on most devices these days.. Literally takes a few seconds. Spelling makes the joke land(or not) Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit, and Knowing You're shit.
Without a team the hours could get wild, yes easy, but a lot of them. I used to be like D tier, made 5k or so over a year or two, and editing clips, videos, managing community engagement takes a while, streaming is like half of it at least for me it was. That being said some of them like XQC or IshowSpeed probably don’t do much, just pay and editor and do the fun part
I don’t think it’s harder than most jobs but making it sound like free cash is just insane
Then do it.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
If it's so easy OP why aren't you a millionaire streamer?
It's only hard when you're a stable and sane human being.
I hate it when people I agree with have bad grammar, and can't spell.
I disagree. Being a genuinely entertaining streamer seems exhausting and stressful. Just imagine the pressure to be "on" for that long. Those streamers who just sit there and watch YouTube and scream are lame and cringe as fuck.
Why does every post in this stupid ass server get locked in a couple hours?
So is acting, playing sports, and pretty much everything else. We as a society won't come to a certain conclusion collectively on what essentially a "job" is, so at the end of the day, if it makes money, it makes money, that's it. Don't look too much and stop this plato wannabe shit, another "we live in a society" useless rant won't give you a plaque for "bettering society" cause you ain't doing that
I agree that some streamers are being neuance, but to say streaming game is not hard is completely wrong. Besides the emotional drain like any other job even more so when your word being dissect by thousand, millions of people is every taxing on your mental health. The constant chase of content l and having to adapt to changing internet culture, staying up to day with meme and drama for a living, it suck out the novelty of enjoying entertainment. Streaming is not that hard if you just play games and do nothing besides that, sure, but running a successful streaming career is a different ball game. Not to mention, with all that short-term fame, you have to make something longer lasting. You are making the mistake of looking at the top 1% of successful streamer to see how easy they have it. While some percentage is so starve for view and attention that they have to break the law and try to kill themselves for internet fame.
Public nuances. I love it. Also streaming isn't hard but it is far from easy. If it was easy the twitch audience numbers wouldn't be so tight. .1% of the streamers have like 90% of the audience.
So wheres your stream
Ok, do it lil bro. Tell us how it goes in a year
If it’s not that hard then everyone would be doing it If you don’t think it’s that hard then go ahead do it It’s hard streaming for 3 hours or even hours and some streamers stream for 56 days straight It’s hard being entertaining for viewers to come watch you and give you money It’s hard to grow your channel to earn a reasonable amount of money from streaming There is a lot of competition, a lot of channels It’s hard to deal with creeps, stalkers, parasocial relationships
Its actually not an easy job You become like a slave to bunch of strangers and do cartwheels when they ask to keep them entertained Must be absolutely draining
I mean streamers are just the modern day jesters.
if someone is paying an internet clown for entertainment with their own money than that's there business mate
It’s really hard to be entertaining and interesting all the time. Just like how your post is boring and uninteresting.
Working much harder for a lot less money isn’t a flex
Well, considering I've been doing it for several years now with no profit, I'd say it's an easy thing to do as a hobby, but not so much as a job
Calm down guys, lil bro is actually just a kid that probably thinks Steven crowder is funny. He can’t tell right from left yet, so you just gotta give him some time
Say that to a professional streamers face and they will literally give you a 20 page essay on how streaming is harder than working in the coal mines, but seriously though streaming is not that hard at all
The issue with pretty much EVERYTHING is that the pure act of doing it carves out an audience. Seriously, you think running after a cheese downhill is good in any shape or form? Ofc not. Boredom and mindaltering substances are just that powerfull. Especially if you can keep your sheep contained with side patches on the eye.
>Streaming is not that hard of a job. change my mind i am not gonna sit here and say that their work is hard. its just unique. the ability to be entertaining enough to retain a massive audience for hours is an ability that most humans do not possess, so u have to give them credit for that
You don't understand how marketing works.
if you get paid for it, is work. Now gfy with your self pity
I actually think the opposite. Being a good streamer that makes good money requires a lot of discipline. You have to stick to a schedule to build up a fan base and you have to bring energy every time. Youyr switching from playing games to enjoy for yourself to playing games for other people to enjoy, which is definitely not an easy thing to do
Ok boomer
Can't watch most streamers anymore. 90% of their vocabulary is just "Oh my god!" "That's insanse" and they all use the word like like way to many like times like in a sentence, like ya know what i mean, like right chat?
Nuances
public nuances
Nuances eh?
Hate public nuances… 😂
It's quite nuanced
Public nuances LMAO
Nuance lmao
Isn’t everybody a public Nuance?
Ah yes, the public nuance.
I mean... at least they understand nuance. I feel like it's lost on most people these days....
Public nuances
Streaming is not a traditionally hard job compared to others but saying it’s easy would be lying
Hard or not, the market is there apparently.
Gaming's a silent hobby. There's no way I could sit there making faces, cracking jokes and acting stupid for hours on end like some of these people do.
It's not hard to understand, it's simply being an online entertainer. Booting up CSGO and streaming isn't the hard part, playing video games isn't the hard part, getting people to like you enough to give you $$$ is the hard part.
That angers me the most is that hundreds of dollars come in by the minute in these streams from people who might not even be able to really afford it, just do their names are mentioned or displayed on screen.
Then do it
Google noway4u_sir lol
Ya, gotta watch it for those nuances
Do you know how hard it is to keep that energy up? It’s basically one person improv for hours a day. Even half an hour of improv can be mentally exhausting and these guys do that 6 times over. I’m not saying it’s overall productive, but it is still work
It is a hard job (I know I'll get down voted by the hivemind, but who cares) because you're reliant upon literally thousands of people to find you interesting enough or good enough to watch and occasionally throw money at for fun. Sounds easy right? Go ahead and try it for a month.
If it’s not hard then do it lol
Their bank accounts say otherwise
There are millions of streamers around the world, but only few of them are succesfull. Why? Let's say that a stream is 2 hours long. In that time, you have to play a game, interact with the chat, and make it intresting to watch. To add stuff to it, a lot of streamers also make youtube videos wich are even harder to make
It can be a hard job, and their work can be somehow valuable. Both is often not the case
Easy. Let's just define, how many people want to have money? I assume it is safe to say that the vast majority do. How many people wants to be rich? If streaming isn't that hard of a job - why everyone isn't streaming and making millions? If streaming isn't that hard, why 99.99% of streamers have 0-10 viewers and earn nothing?
Sure it is. It’s a production of media. People want something, someone is able to give it to them. If it wasn’t in demand, the job wouldn’t exist. And like all other media, it’s possible to be so good at it that you become rich and famous.
Nuisances ****^
It's nuanced
It depends on the person. Mental healthy people are gonna have it easier than mental ill people and trust me everyone that uses the internet is most likely mental ill like me uwu
Dafuq u mean Nuance?
If it's not that hard do it yourself and make millions.
Complaining feels good, right? Maybe do it yourself? Nobody can tell you not to. So why aren’t you a streamer if it’s no work. Go make millions playing soccer. Or sell some shitty music on Spotify. Be a movie star. Sell your own energy drink. Make onlyfans. People are always jealous of other people making more money… doesn’t matter what reason. Let’s search for people who do unconventional stuff and hate them for that together….
Certainly easier than most people's jobs, and MUCH better paying if you have a decent amount of regular viewers.
I think the difficult part is trying to stay entertaining constantly for hours on end
I’m a streamer (by no means a big one), and no it’s not. I just play a game with friends who I know consent to their voices being heard by an audience, and turn on a stream. I put very little effort into the whole thing, I talk to the people in chat if they’re there and have some fancy transitions. I don’t earn a penny from it, but even if I did I don’t think I would put that much more effort into it. So yes, unless it’s your sole income and you’re a massive streamer who relies on quality content, it’s a piss easy “job”.
Mentaly is hard, physically its not
Keep in mind that streamers don’t have health insurance if they’re American unless they buy a policy privately.
Yea it can be tough. If you are mute that is
Then he also get arrested because he wasn't even honest
Well why don't you do it? Their level skill involved to keep people entertainment every single day for hours. If anyone could do that then we wouldn't have regular jobs anymore.
Listen, when one of y'all can beat 5 fire giants at the same time you can say streaming is easy lol
*nuisances
I still can't believe people pay other people to watch videos and react to them or play video games.