the number one mistake I see streamers making I'd say it's a mistake to give up I think variety
content is just so incredibly difficult to grow with on Twitch it's so difficult I I think it's
okay to do content that's not gonna work oh can I be like can I can I be a bit like devil's advocate
here but it in saying that they're gonna get a very harsh lesson very quickly yeah you see the
slow decline over the last few years of running this channel I have shared with you guys a lot of
the mistakes I've made as a streamer and Creator and it's getting pretty embarrassing at this point
to keep having to show everything I do wrong so I figured why not spread some of that embarrassment
around by asking full-time twitch streamers twitch Partners what their biggest mistakes are and what
mistakes they see all the time and don't worry I'll share another mistake I've made just this
week at the end as well for you let's get into it I'd say it's a mistake to give up it's a mistake
to to think well I don't have anybody to talk to so I'm gonna give up it is a different question
depending on your size because say you're having trouble keeping conversation flowing
that's incredibly important when you're a small streamer but one once you're a big streamer you
know there are people who do your speed runs and stuff and they don't say a word and they
can get hundreds and or thousands of viewers so it definitely it differs depending on where
you are so communication I think is probably one of the biggest ones for smaller streamers
it's hard to figure out how to communicate to no one or you know just to yourself or just to like
one or two people keeping the conversation going is really hard biggest thing you can do is just
keeping on talking you'll probably find if you do keep doing that that you will become better
at being a streamer and being entertaining as well because you've done the hardest version
of it you know you've got you know your your xqcs and your ludwigs and they have a chat of
thousands of moderately funny people to bounce off of but you know if you're on your own you
have to be funny on your own which is way harder than anything they're doing so you know it's a
bit of a trial by fire but the mistake would be giving up but what about those days where it is
just so difficult to go live like you've been working all day you're nine to five or even at
school or college all day and you just don't have the energy you just don't feel like doing
it what do you do then do you just put on a fake smile go live and do your best you can't fake the
energy that you need to bring to this entire thing whether it be YouTube videos or streams
sure there are like you know chill streamers out there there are people that come to like
those low energy streams most of them aren't that though so you would really have to be like extra
extra lucky on this platform that's already so highly involved like around luck to make
that work you need to bring the energy but it needs to be genuine you can't fake it because
as much as like people might come to this website to turn their brain off as a human you just know
when somebody's full of [ __ ] to put it lightly like it's just so obvious if this isn't even like
slightly genuine I absolutely agree with that this is something that I have a real problem with on
Twitch is that I can kind of tell when streamers are being inauthentic when they're not excited to
be there or when they just aren't really feeling it and I think a lot of us can even subconsciously
tell that but I think it raises a really big question if you're growing in like one type of
contents that you only do stardew Valley then you get bored of it should you swap how do you swap
should you do variety what do you do when you're starting out and you're struggling with that sort
of thing don't get me wrong variety content is fantastic it has a place right variety content
is fantastic but when you're first starting out variety content will be to your detriment because
if someone comes to you for a game and then the next week that you're playing another game
they're probably not going to stick around like that's just called the hard facts and that sounds
really awful to say but it's good to build an audience surrounding something and then try and
Branch out after that I feel bad for saying that because it's not necessarily like a mistake per
se because it's just what you want to do and it's what you're passionate about and a lot of people
get really burnt out on single like doing one or two games over and over again so I definitely feel
that it's very hard to just stick to one game but genuinely to grow it's very hard to do it playing
multiple different games every different week I can agree with that I think you should be really
careful about branching out but when it does come time to Branch out what do you do should you be
really careful at the type of content you do so it doesn't fail how do you tell what is good content
for you to make so that you don't struggle or make a really bad piece of content I I think it's
okay to do content that's not gonna work because you find out that you like you find out it's not
gonna work like I honestly believe that 90 of like what makes a successful streamer is what didn't
go good for them like what where they failed is where they've succeeded down the track like it's
just like what what worked what didn't work it's like so many things did not work that's actually
a really good point yeah we have failed I failed all the time otherwise we wouldn't be able to make
even this video so I guess the follow-up is how do you guys pick yourself back up dust yourself
off and try and keep going after having a failure or making a mistake probably most streamers are
a little too hard on themselves it's it's good to think about what you're doing so that you're
you're make the best content possible but you don't want to think so hard that you've decided
that you're useless you know if you calculate everything you do then when the calculation
doesn't actually pan out for you then you think well it must be something wrong with me you know
so I think I think they can overthink it a little bit ended up being over critical of themselves
um okay so overthinking is a really bad idea I am absolutely guilty of that but can we go to
the complete opposite end of the spectrum what do you think is something that small streamers
new streamers or streamers at all should be overthinking or spend way more time thinking about
spending money they don't need to spend like going into things underprepared under planned spending
money on things that really don't add any value to the stream you know going oh I just bought a
new headset okay but how does that add value to the stream now maybe add some background lights
add you know maybe a new graphics card to make your stream look a bit better um a new camera
like stuff that actually adds value that the viewer will see I'm gonna steal a little bit of
um Ludwig's advice here which might be a little bit to move but he once said that consistency
will always Trump creativity and I think that is so important when it comes to streaming and
content creating consistency is super important being able to get a good brand going for yourself
uh getting into a niche of some kind and also networking with other creators and getting to
know people within your Niche being able to work with them and collaboratively you know create
things together I think is really important and so I hope that's that's uh definitely
things that helped me along the way so hopefully hope it helps in small streamers out there too
I want to get a little bit more personal with this now what is a mistake that you've made not
necessarily the biggest just the one that maybe impacted you the most I would say the biggest
mistake that I guess I ever pulled myself up on would have been it's probably going to sound
very strange coming from an Australian but like I noticed that when I would be more of my unfiltered
oziness you know like swearing all the time just being as chaotic as I normally would be uh it
tends to push people away more this could just be purely because I was in the Super Mario Odyssey
directory can't really say for sure it really became apparent to me that the people that like
censored themselves even just a little bit you know so that they weren't maybe swearing as much
or just like swearing really at all tended to get way better interaction across the board you
had people that would come back a lot of the time it was something that I noticed and that when I
implemented myself I did see better results come from it it was a very random introspective thing
to notice and like actually see results from but I I guess that's just like the name of the game
right you kind of just have to test things as you go and like if they do well then you're like well
cool we'll just roll with it then just keep going it's cliche but it's just the not having fun thing
that ties into like the focusing on too much on numbers focusing on the wrong things and they're
just disengages people get like they're getting angry on stream they're getting like visibly
frustrated and just like annoyed and it's like I don't think people want to watch that like I
know I personally don't want to watch somebody get really really like actual angry on stream because
that just makes me uncomfortable as a viewer so I just click off because I I certainly had
that problem early on where I was getting visibly frustrated at streaming because I wasn't growing
or whatever I'd be like why aren't people watching and I'd be like oh because I'm acting like an
immature 12 year old that's why I'm that's why no one's watching I think that's a that's a big
mistake a lot of people make it's like you do have to kind of uh have like an on-screen presence a
little bit and be like okay like put put your best foot forward always but like you've got to be in
in the in the space and now I guess it's my turn to wrap all this up and share with you a massive
mistake that I made for the last two and a half years and I'm probably still gonna make for the
rest of my life and I have to constantly catch myself when I make this and I have to be really
honest here because my biggest mistake was not being honest I'm not lying to you guys or anything
like that don't worry I know it sounds bad but what it actually is is that I know exactly what
I have to do to grow I know exactly where I spent my time I know the formats the ideas the things
that worked and I know how much time and energy I'm spending actually putting work in I know that
sometimes I don't start work until midday and I know sometimes I put in a really lazy day when
I'm supposed to be putting a lot of time in I know I could upload four videos every single month to
this stream scheme Channel but just because I know everything that I should be doing and everything
I could be doing and every step I'm supposed to take well it doesn't mean I actually do it
because at the end of the day I just sometimes don't have the work ethic that I should and I
lie to myself about my work ethics sometimes when the reality is I should be doing a hell of a lot
more if I wanted to grow and I think if a lot of streamers were a bit more honest with themselves
about the amount of work they're putting in and whether or not they're putting in effective work
you know not just going live five six hours a day but actually spending those five six hours making
something that will allow them to achieve their goals and their dreams well then they'd probably
be growing a lot better and I think I'd be growing a lot better if I was a little more honest with
myself as well but I think that's my biggest mistake and I think on that topic of hours spent
streaming versus where we should spend our time and everything we need to do I really think it's
important that everyone who watches video should go check out this one right here it's all about
why streaming in 2023 is one of the worst ways to grow your stream and some massive changes that
happened in the industry that are going to hurt every small Creator I'll see you guys next week