- I have never known anyone to become Twitch famous
in a month.
- Right, okay, that's never been done, yet.
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Hi, my name is Kelsey and I am a BuzzFeed producer.
For the past couple months,
I've been really, really interested in Twitch
and seeing a lot of influencers
that I really admire using Twitch,
so it's inspired me to start my own Twitch channel
and, I mean, I wouldn't be a BuzzFeed producer
if I didn't want to make it extreme, so
for the next 30 days, I'm gonna try to become Twitch famous.
- Alright, I mean, good luck.
- A month?
- In a month.
- A month.
- From like zero to a million in a month.
- I don't know, Kelsey, you're great.
- I feel like people spend a lot of time
building up Twitch followings.
It may be hard to short circuit that whole process.
- What did Oprah say?
"It's preparation plus luck", right?
Like you prepare, but you also get a little bit lucky.
Just having a very clear idea of what you want,
what type of games you wanna play,
and what type of gamer you are.
- Big personality, entertaining, engaging.
- I feel like the people I see
who have like a huge following,
have very strict schedules that they post on their page
and it's like eight hours a day.
- So I'm essentially gonna like sign up for a second job.
- Yeah.
- Cool.
- Totally doable. - Totally doable.
- You're not gonna burn out.
- It's a lot.
- You're not gonna go crazy.
- It is I, Kelsey, the--
(mumbles)
- You need like a game plan.
- Yeah I need a game plan,
so I'm gonna talk to Pokimane
and she's gonna set up my game plan for me.
- Oh nice, well then maybe you do have a chance.
- Maybe, we'll find out if she knows any secrets.
Thank you so much for having me over.
- No, I'm happy that you invited me
and that you trust me to give you Twitch tips.
- I wanna know how I can become Twitch famous,
which I know sounds kinda crazy.
- Since you already know it sounds kinda crazy,
I think the first step is a positive mindset.
And make sure, before you even think about becoming famous
or making money or whatever it is,
that you enjoy streaming.
And then we can move into the actual stuff
so growing your brand on Twitch.
It helps to first identify your brand.
What do you want people to know you as.
Post on all of your social media, every time you go live.
A lot of people just kinda like stream and stream and stream
and expect people to show up,
but it helps a lot if you give people an entrance.
No, but I can tell you're also upbeat and energetic
and people love watching that.
They want to see someone who's having fun,
who's enjoying themselves, who's happy.
That's why I know you're gonna do good.
- Thank you so much.
After we mapped out our challenges for the month,
Poki let me watch her stream to see a little bit
of what goes on behind the camera.
- We have some BuzzFeed friends here with us today.
Do you guys wanna introduce yourselves?
- Oh, sure.
- She's gonna be Twitch famous.
Feel free to shout yourself out.
People actually come check you out.
- Hi, I'm Kelsey, I'm a BuzzFeed producer
and I'm also a Twitch streamer.
- Dangerous at any speed, is that right?
- Yeah.
- Twitch.tv/dangerousatanyspeed.
You hit 3000 followers Kelsey, congratulations.
- What? Thank you so much.
- They're just asking for your Twitch, dude.
- Oh my God.
I didn't mean to take over your--
- No, I don't mind, I'm like always happy
to feature new people on my Twitch,
like let's go.
Next stop, 4K.
- I'm thinking about what I want my brand to be.
On my other social media I'm very friendly, positive, upbeat
and I'm very nerdy, so I think
that I'm gonna be fairly consistent.
So I'll probably play a lot of Overwatch.
It's violent, but like not overly so.
For an audience I really want to attract people
that are positive, really love gaming,
aren't judgemental and just like wanna have a fun time
and be themselves and be excited,
cause that's me.
So I've got to take a selfie
and post it onto all of my social media,
to let them all know
that I'm going to be streaming today.
Hopefully some people show up.
Oh hi, Holly Sage, thank you so much
for showing up from Poki's stream,
it was so cool to hang out with her today.
My first week was a pretty big learning curve
and I was still getting comfortable on camera.
This is kinda the set up that I'm starting with.
I've got a ring light here, webcam,
PC that I'm borrowing from work,
I don't even have a PC,
I don't have a monitor, I just have a television.
And then I put my Mac, which is over there,
at the side here for notifications and chat.
It's not ideal but it's been working for me.
You gotta start somewhere I guess.
- Chat interaction is so important.
Try to say hi to everyone that comes in your channel,
especially when you're just starting out.
Also try to say thank you to everyone
that follows your channel.
People just appreciate, you know, being recognized.
- thesimplepie, thanks for following,
welcome to the stream.
Hi, first time here, you're from Malaysia,
that's so cool.
Astralking999, thanks so much for joining us,
welcome to our stream.
- The best thing about streaming is
that it doesn't have to be one sided.
Really try to have a good time with the people
that are there for you,
instead of just feeling like you're putting on a show
for others.
- Yeah, who's everyone's favorite character?
That's such a good question Velcrose.
Mine is probably Han.
The chat was pretty awesome to begin with,
because, you know, if you're sitting for several hours,
you're gonna run out of things to say.
So instead it was just like having a conversation,
which was actually very easy to do.
Oh my gosh, I just finished my stream
and I saw that I made Partner.
I honestly didn't expect for that to happen so quickly.
I think the big thing that happened
was that I talked to Pokimane.
I really do think that making more streamer friends
is definitely a great way to grow.
- Networking on Twitch is so important,
but also it's important to do it genuinely,
like find other streamers whose content you actually enjoy.
That's your homework.
Okay, find--
- Found one.
- Aw, thank you.
And just show them that you support them
that can really help in building communities,
because once you join someone else's community,
you start to know people there.
Maybe they find out that you stream,
they join your stream.
Networking in general is great.
- I have like a little bit of anxiety.
I found a lot of streamers that I like.
It's just that next step of trying to jump into their chat
and participate in their community
and try to befriend them.
I don't know why this is so difficult.
It's just like trying to make friends.
You'd think it would be the easiest thing in the world.
Like children do this, children make friends.
Gotta push yourself to grow, right?
I reached out to a pro Overwatch League player,
Surefour, and he graciously agreed
to come on my stream,
so I'm really excited, I'm really nervous.
Ready to become a pro?
Mayhemblitz, honestly,
I've never been more ready.
No, I'm so excited to welcome Surefour
to the stream and to talk with us all,
you guys can ask him questions
and I can look like an idiot and I can't wait,
because my whole life has been building up to me
looking like a total fool on the internet.
It's like my job.
- What's going on?
- It's going well, thanks for being here.
- Thanks for having me.
- Thank you so much for the 100 cheers.
The real question is, Lane, best kind of spaghetti?
- Spaghetti carbonara.
I usually ask that question as a troll question
cause if I asked you what your favorite type of spaghetti is
what would you say?
- I like arrabbiatta.
- See that passes.
See what a lot of people do
is when you ask them their favorite type of spaghetti is,
they'll say a different kind of pasta.
- What do you enjoy most about streaming on Twitch?
- When I first started doing it,
it was so people could see how good at the game I was.
It's more so for showing off my skill.
- He's super cool,
definitely a different perspective on Twitch.
Twitch can be kind of whatever you want it to be,
which is kinda cool.
I'm really glad that I reached out to Overwatch League,
reached out to Surefour.
It was a lot of fun.
The reason why I got into video games
is cause my brother played them
and a lot of times I would sit
and watch my brother play games and talk with him.
Once he went to college,
I kind of had to play games by myself
and I'd never really done that before.
Being on Twitch reminds me so much
of gaming with my brother and getting to hang out
and share games in a community,
I think that that's something that I've been missing
for a long time
and actually my brother has watched some of my streams too
and chatted with me.
I think it's really not about the numbers,
it is just about the people.
- How many times a week should I be streaming?
- Minimum three.
The more the merrier.
- The more the merrier.
- Try to stream at the same time every day.
That way, the same people will tune in regularly
and they'll become regular viewers of yours.
- Trying to keep things against the schedule
is gonna be one of the toughest things for me, personally
and I think probably a tough thing for anyone
that's trying to do Twitch as more of a hobby.
At the end of the day, trying to stream
and I'm on the West Coast, so then
when I stream everyone's asleep.
Can't stream any earlier because I am at work.
I just got off my computer
and I'm so tired.
I don't know why I had such a fun time,
but I think it's being on there
for like two and a half hours
of gameplay while you're trying to read the chat
and you're trying to interact.
I am in New York, I tried to stream the other night,
an irl stream.
Oh, there's a lunch party.
It's on July 11th, it's on my birthday.
The stream was super laggy
and I got just so frustrated,
but like luckily, I have a really great audience
that is forming
and so they were like super nice.
What keeps me really motivated
is seeing the same people all the time.
I've celebrated birthdays with these people.
Thank you so much, SunLenia, for the happy birthday wishes.
I have gotten to know their favorite Star Wars characters
and what houses everyone's in
because we all love Harry Potter.
It's really been eye opening,
having this group of people that show up
for a couple of hours, three days a week,
to just hang out and play video games with me,
which is very crazy and not something
that I went into this thinking would happen.
How long should each stream be?
- Regular gaming streams, I'd say at least two hours
upwards of six, eight, depending.
- What?
- No, I know, I know.
For me, like at this point, I probably stream
like four to six plus hours every stream,
but at the beginning people like to really grind,
because, you know,
you want to get as much attention as possible.
Wanna really grind those hours.
- Okay, okay.
- You're looking at me like, uh-uh.
- Alright, BuzzFeed, I'm gonna be streaming during work.
- Actually that would be hilarious.
You have to think of like,
what do people want to see
that isn't already readily available on Twitch.
And then do it, and do it good.
- It's nearing the end of the month,
and we definitely aren't Twitch famous,
so I think I'm going to try what Pokimane said,
so I'm going to ask all my coworkers
to do a live stream with me.
I'm gonna stream for eight hours
and have a bunch of special guests
and just like, do it big for the last day of the month.
We got the set all set up.
The end of it all is here,
I'm gonna go live and we're gonna see what happens.
I'm really trying to get more of my friends to get involved.
I'm excited about that.
I'm also excited about playing video games all day.
Oh my God, hi.
Alright, well, we're live,
so I wanna turn my phone off.
I got things to do.
Hey, everybody, welcome to the stream.
Welcome to Dangerous At Any Speed goes live at BuzzFeed.
We're doing a live BuzzFeed video all day today.
Today it's really been about sharing all of my learnings
about Twitch and my love of Twitch
that I've developed over the last 30 days
with all of my friends.
Oh actually we all didn't do the dance.
Get in there, Irvin.
Left Shark dance, this is the subscriber dance.
- This is so awkward.
- It's gotta be awkward.
- I'm big into gaming,
but like I didn't watch Twitch at all
and then today I was like on your stream
and I saw all of, like the comments on the chat
and I was like, oh, I wanna be involved in this, like a lot.
And then once I left the stream, being in it,
I went to my desk and I like created a Twitch account
so that I could also comment on the chat.
- You were such an active part in building the community
on a lot of other social media platforms.
You are still, but it's a little bit less direct involvement
I'm having a conversation for eight hours
with all of these people.
And some people stuck around for eight hours.
- At least for me personally, the greatest part
about streaming is just, this is gonna sound so cheesy,
I'm really sorry.
- Just bring it on.
- Finding people out there that like genuinely enjoy me
for who I am, love that.
I love gaming and I love makeup
and I love memes, and I love like homework
and school an all of this different stuff
and you feel at home at the end of the day,
when you've built a community of people
who like you for who you are.
- It's the end of my 30 day challenge.
We hit 5300.
I'm definitely gonna continue streaming.
I'm not Twitch famous,
but I'm a Twitch streamer now I guess.
- Yeah, you're a Twitch streamer.
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