streaming is a dream job without a doubt! You get to wake up at whatever time you want go
live to an audience who loves you play games make jokes do music art or just have a chat
all while getting paid to do it some streamers go on to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a
month and a small percentage will go on to earn millions even but the vast majority of content
creators will actually never even reach the 100 minimum payout threshold to receive a cent and
those that do reach you consistently often go on to stop enjoying streaming altogether
one of the best parts about being a content creator is the flexibility to work for yourself
and not be stuck in a nine-to-five office job that you hate but what a lot of people don't
understand is that to be a full-time streamer it requires a huge amount of time and energy which
you're probably thinking every job requires time and energy lj and you are totally right about that
but in terms of being a content creator in terms of earning a living by posting content
online working from home streaming is one of the most time intensive and worst ways to create a
sustainable career where you'll be able to do this long term so yes this video is all about
how unstable streaming is but of course i will give you actionable advice to make sure that you
don't limit yourself to make sure you can do this full time safely and of course most importantly
to make sure that in six months time three months time or a few years time you don't hate streaming
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streaming streaming you have to go live almost every single day with a consistent schedule that
doesn't change with consistent content that your audience will enjoy content that you can't edit
down or add anything really to so you have to make sure you're putting as much energy and engagement
into it as possible to keep your audience watching which also doesn't matter because your audience is
busy they can't always make it to live content because they have work school chores friends or
just life in general speaking of life in general you don't get to have one really because you can't
get ahead of your work streaming is live you can't prep four or five full live streams ahead of time
and release them so you can take a few days off to go on vacation because most importantly the moment
you stop streaming the moment you hit that end stream button that is the moment those 100 average
viewers you're so proud of disappear and you suddenly have zero average viewers and not much
to really show for it after all streams are live and the vods of those streams get deleted within a
few weeks unless you post them somewhere else this means that every time you don't go live every day
that you don't hit the go live button you lose viewers you lose growth momentum and you stop
earning money based on everything i've just said you can probably understand and agree that
streaming is no longer flexible streaming is a career that traps you in unless you become a giant
streamer or do the tip at the end of this video and if your goal is to become a giant streamer
well it's really important to remember that the vast majority of people who try start streaming
never go on to reach the 100 payout in fact most people who go on to even reach the 100 payout
often don't go on to earn a livable wage from it at all and if you don't believe me well look
at this community we asked you small streamers and 68 in just 19 hours said they've never even
reached their payout let's add a bright side to that though and say anyone who has earned money
from streaming if you've earned enough to buy a pizza or a beer you've smashed it more than
75 percent of people out there but let's not just look at the giant majority of small streamers and
then the tiny percentage of giant streamers let's also look at the middle of the pack the majority
of twitch partners like myself earn a okay wage and a livable wage on twitch but whenever i speak
to those people they often say that the moment their hobby goes from being just that to a career
is the same moment they stop enjoying streaming and start finding it incredibly stressful
because suddenly not only do they have to worry about making good engaging quality content but
they also need to balance earning subs donations and generally revenue so they can actually pay
rent and keep the lights on this is why creators add sub goals and donation goals to their stream
to encourage or essentially ask their viewers to support them viewers who likely don't actually
have the spare income to be able to support your dream of streaming full-time but that's okay right
because streaming is a dream job you don't want to take time off to go on a vacation or do anything
else you are happy to just stream but what you and almost every streamer who wants to do this full
time doesn't realize is actually how incredibly unstable streaming is and how little of it is in
your control if you get sick you will start losing money and losing viewers you might never get back
if your pc breaks and you can't go live you will start losing money and you will start
losing viewers that you may never get back or if you're like me and your government builds a
terrible internet infrastructure so bad that when it breaks and over 450 houses in your neighborhood
lose the ability to upload consistently and then they say it'll take three to four months before
they even consider fixing it so you can't go live consistently then you will lose money and
potentially lose viewers that you may never get back and that isn't a hypothetical that
is literally what has happened to me over the last three to four months with absolutely zero
control over what's going on other than literal government intervention i have not been able to
stream consistently without my internet dying or shutting off halfway through a stream if almost
any other streamer of my size who isn't me had this happen to them they would likely have to
quit they would have to go and get part-time or full-time work in order to support themselves
while they waited to come back and when they come back the audience likely wouldn't be there they
would have a huge drop in average viewers which means they still wouldn't be able to
support themselves and they'd have to build it all back up but i will explain in a second
why despite all of this i've still been able to stay full-time as a content creator so stay tuned
it's not just sickness things breaking or stuff that's out of your control it's actually any real
time off if you want to go away for a week or two to the beach for a vacation or on a honeymoon even
well every single day you don't go live you don't earn money every single day you don't go live
your viewers go and find other content to enjoy every single day that you aren't live you lose
momentum that's why streamers who do this full time literally go live on christmas eve christmas
new year's eve and so many other times where you'd rather be spending it with friends and family
because if they don't they have to make up those subs later and there's no guarantee that they
can do that and then they can't pay rent and they can't keep the lights on if you're a streamer who
has ever dealt with this pressure then please let me know in the comments because i actually think
this is a really important discussion that needs to be had and not many people are talking about it
if you want to do this full time it's really important to be aware of the downfalls and issues
that can occur so why is it despite the fact that i can't guarantee that i can go live i've still
been able to do this full-time well i will tell you in a second but first let me just throw it out
there if you find this video interesting if you want to learn how to grow be sustainable diversify
then please consider subscribing and checking out the other content on the channel we've got videos
about everything the reason i can stay full time but more importantly the reason that i actually
enjoy streaming still after two and a half years and i'm not pressured to monetize is because of
just one thing stream scheme if you have watched this channel at all then you have heard me say
a thousand different ways in a thousand different times to diversify don't put all your eggs in one
basket in case something goes wrong and you can no longer support yourself from streaming but i
don't think you take it seriously because every time i give that advice i get comments saying
i hate youtube i don't want to be a youtuber i want to be a streamer because i love
streaming but if you loved streaming then you'd be willing to do youtube because if you don't
well then you won't be able to love streaming let alone stream at all hopefully this time it clicks
though because this is no longer theoretical advice this is literal advice i am learning
from experience i am telling you if i didn't have youtube and sponsors and everything else
then i would have to go back to my nine to five i'd probably be back at my old job
where my boss was an absolute [ __ ] to me but luckily i'm not because every day i can still
earn a hundred to two hundred dollars on this youtube channel and more importantly it comes from
ads and not your wallet which makes it far more sustainable i want every single person watching
this to imagine for a second that you have done it you've achieved your dream job you're streaming to
hundreds of viewers every single day you get paid to do it it's full time and you're living the life
but something goes wrong and you can't go live tomorrow or the next day maybe not for weeks
or months or even a full year would you have diversified enough that you could keep going
can you continue to support yourself as a content creator can you continue your dream job for me
i can say yes to those questions and feel pretty damn confident about that but i think the majority
of streamers can't say yes to those questions in fact even if it's not something breaking and just
me going on vacation well i can prep those videos in advance and get them ready to go out while
taking some time off but also my income is only capped how many videos i can release if i needed
to double my income because something happened then i can just start releasing two videos a week
rather than just one video a week it's not just youtube you can prep content for and it's not just
youtube you can diversify to either that's just the most consistent you can also do it on tiktok
instagram patreon fan house coffee and of course discord now has memberships built into it that you
can also use to monetize and create a community literally think about that almost any other form
of online content creation and monetization you can actually prep a lot of content to go out
in advance you can't do that with streaming and let's say that you have such a bad situation that
you can't even prepare and make more content you you can't upload another youtube video
well unlike vods that disappear unlike streams that need to be live you've still got your
giant back catalog of youtube videos sitting there earning you subs earning you views and earning you
ad revenue while you sort out and fix the thing that is stopping you from making more content i'm
saying specific platform names when i'm talking about this but i want to be very clear this
isn't a twitch issue this is a streaming overall issue this is something that will never change
about streaming but let's ignore a lot of those issues and bring it down to its simplest form
the fact that i can go live and i don't need to think to myself i need 25 subs today and i need a
hundred dollars in donations or else i can't make rent means that there are some streams where i can
just go live and play minecraft or hang out with my community and not worry about that little sub
number and how much money i'm earning this entire video comes down to just one single actionable tip
you need to listen to streaming is not and will never be a full-time sustainable career for you
or the majority of streamers out there the sooner you accept that and the sooner you diversify means
the sooner you will actually start growing the sooner you'll actually start earning a livable
wage and the sooner you will actually go back to enjoying streaming without all the extra pressure
of growing and earning from it treat streaming as a secondary engagement tool to have fun
and interact with your audience not as a full-time career i'm sorry if this video was harsh i got
really passionate in the middle of recording this and now i'm worried it was too intense but hey if
you want to learn how to diversify and make a more sustainable career then i have plenty of youtube
growth videos right here that you can click on and i hope it was helpful i'll see you guys next week