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20230823 Not My Normal
2 years ago
This is not my normal journal. It is a vent I posted about Twitch and how those striving to become Partners have to overcome the travails of meeting their numbers, keeping their subscribers entertained, and dealing with the in-fighting with the members of the teams they join.
I am inspired to share this on my FA as another VTuber I know is now retiring and that makes two. It looks this might become a geometric progression.
For me, Twitch was something that wasn't another zombie movie or formulaic sci-fi. Watching people game and and share videos, while chatting with them live was a bit of a unique experience and helped keep me connected to humanity. Now that the world has moved past the pandemic (hopefully forever -- but portends are not good) the thing that really got me enthusiastic about the fandom -- Twitch Streaming -- may be on the wane. This is especially true for those who want to remain VTubers and Partners and be on Teams and retain the Laurels of such Achievements. Memento Mori.
Twitch Teams and Drama
I'm wondering if the Post Pandemic world is a factor in furry media declining – partnerships failing and Teams dissolving?
I now have limited time to listen to streams during my working hours and it has been so busy most times I cannot listen to streams at all.
I had to curate and curtail a lot of my listening -- even if it was just a lurk, especially when I'm away from a hotspot (like in my office); as a result, I cut back on subs I was not getting any benefit from.
I know the viewing numbers for partner is high on Twitch, so that is the first bar for a team to clear.
While it's nice to have a united front for a charity and other events, monies can still be encouraged to be sent. One could ask that the donors give their monies to a determined cause name for recognition of their combined efforts.
The rest (building viewership and working towards being a professional streamer) sounds like network marketing – something I experienced in the real world – it is a pressure cooker of a numbers game to play and win.
And it takes a certain Stoic front to be able to contend with the pressures of such activities: Marcus Aurelius wrote about this almost two thousand years ago in Meditations; ““When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. ….”
Drama, unfortunately is part of the world of a social being. Many people identify with their egos and their preferences and become defensive and sometimes offensive if their needs aren't met.
Playing well with others seems to be a skill fewer people are cultivating these days. There seems to be little middle ground -- more like a No Man's Land in-between two positions.
If the bar for and making servers and such are too high, it may require an outside of the box solution.
In conclusion, it may just be an over saturated niche – one where you have to be “on” all the time and find ways crazier and crazier ways (hot sauce challenge, meh) to keep the viewers interested. Like the old song went: 57 Channels and Nothing On.
I am inspired to share this on my FA as another VTuber I know is now retiring and that makes two. It looks this might become a geometric progression.
For me, Twitch was something that wasn't another zombie movie or formulaic sci-fi. Watching people game and and share videos, while chatting with them live was a bit of a unique experience and helped keep me connected to humanity. Now that the world has moved past the pandemic (hopefully forever -- but portends are not good) the thing that really got me enthusiastic about the fandom -- Twitch Streaming -- may be on the wane. This is especially true for those who want to remain VTubers and Partners and be on Teams and retain the Laurels of such Achievements. Memento Mori.
Twitch Teams and Drama
I'm wondering if the Post Pandemic world is a factor in furry media declining – partnerships failing and Teams dissolving?
I now have limited time to listen to streams during my working hours and it has been so busy most times I cannot listen to streams at all.
I had to curate and curtail a lot of my listening -- even if it was just a lurk, especially when I'm away from a hotspot (like in my office); as a result, I cut back on subs I was not getting any benefit from.
I know the viewing numbers for partner is high on Twitch, so that is the first bar for a team to clear.
While it's nice to have a united front for a charity and other events, monies can still be encouraged to be sent. One could ask that the donors give their monies to a determined cause name for recognition of their combined efforts.
The rest (building viewership and working towards being a professional streamer) sounds like network marketing – something I experienced in the real world – it is a pressure cooker of a numbers game to play and win.
And it takes a certain Stoic front to be able to contend with the pressures of such activities: Marcus Aurelius wrote about this almost two thousand years ago in Meditations; ““When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. ….”
Drama, unfortunately is part of the world of a social being. Many people identify with their egos and their preferences and become defensive and sometimes offensive if their needs aren't met.
Playing well with others seems to be a skill fewer people are cultivating these days. There seems to be little middle ground -- more like a No Man's Land in-between two positions.
If the bar for and making servers and such are too high, it may require an outside of the box solution.
In conclusion, it may just be an over saturated niche – one where you have to be “on” all the time and find ways crazier and crazier ways (hot sauce challenge, meh) to keep the viewers interested. Like the old song went: 57 Channels and Nothing On.
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