It seems like we see one of these new surveys every week saying these
kids coming outta school want to grow up to be live streamers or
YouTubers.
Apparently it's like the number one things that kids actually want to
do. But if you actually talk to a lot of these kids, they have a lot of
misconceptions about what a live streamer actually does.
They are really only judging it based on what they see.
So today I wanna talk about what a lot of people get completely wrong
about live streaming.
Hello, my YouTube friends.
Now, I just wanna say right off the top, we've probably all thought
some of these things at some point.
I know I have, so this is not meant to call anyone stupid.
Like I said, a lot of these misconceptions I've had before as well,
although I'm sure there are a lot of people out there that would say,
I'm stupid.
So there you go.
But that's why I do these videos, to help people find the real truth
behind the curtain so they're not walking in blind and wasting a whole
heck of a lot of time like I did.
Number one, streaming is a young man's game.
A lot of people think you have to be young to find an audience as a
live streamer.
Well, if I'm not proof enough that it isn't true, Dr.
Disrespect is not a spring chicken, and he's one of the most popular
game streamers out there.
Gaining an audience has nothing to do with age, and everything to do
with being entertaining.
I mean, let's face it, every year, hundreds of 80s metal bands tour
the country and make millions from fans, young and old.
And believe me, it has everything to do with being entertaining.
Number two, it's so easy.
This is the one that gets me every time, and I used to believe it too.
Growing and entertaining a live audience is not easy.
In fact, it's downright hard.
It can take years of practice to learn how to engage an audience in a
way that's gonna make it grow.
Now, some people are gonna be naturals at it and it's gonna come a lot
quicker, but for others it could take years.
With that said, anyone can put in the work and learn how to do it.
And I mean anyone, if streaming is what you really want to do, just
realize it could take a long time to develop the skills necessary to
draw an audience.
You should also know that a lot of streaming idols out there right now
had to put in a lot of time and work at it, but you didn't see that
because nobody was watching.
Number three, streaming takes hardly any time at all.
This is another one I totally believed at one point.
This is because it's easy to believe a streamer just goes live and
streams for a couple hours and then they log off and go about their
life. Three hours of work, right?
Wrong.
Now what we don't see is the hundreds of hours put into testing the
equipment and the software so it works right.
The hours spent creating stream assets like overlays and alerts and
all that effort is just for things you see on the stream.
But all that stuff has to be tested and revised a bunch of times.
Then there's the promotional aspects of gaining an audience, like
being active on Twitter and Facebook to make people aware of your
streams.
The truth is, the three to five hours of streaming is actually the
short fun part of the job.
The rest is a lot of hard work that if you do it right, no one's ever
even gonna notice.
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Number four, live streaming is totally free.
Now, it is true that it's totally free to actually stream on any
platform. You never have to pay any platform a single dime to be able to do it.
However, if you are a streamer, you need equipment.
In the case of a game streamer, you actually need pretty high end
equipment, and in most cases that I've seen streamers use two pretty
high end machines, and that's a big investment.
And you're also gonna invest in tools to make the stream easier as
well. Cameras, microphones and things like the stream deck and a proper
green screen are not cheap.
And if you're not skilled enough to create your own stream assets like
overlays and alerts, you're gonna have to pay somebody to do those as
well. Being a streamer can take a whole lot of financial investment.
Now, the one saving grace is that you can build this sort of
investment over time.
You can start small and then do it as you grow, but it's most
definitely not free to be a streamer.
In fact, it can cost a whole heck of a lot of money.
Number five, live streamers make a whole lot of money.
This one is a wildly held belief by a lot of people, and it's what
attracts people to streaming in the first place.
Now, don't get me wrong, you can make a lot of money as a live
streamer, but the truth is, a vast majority of streamers never make a
dime. And I mean over 80% of live streamers never make a dime.
And a lot of the reasons that they don't is because of the
misconceptions that we've already talked about on this list.
If you don't know all these things, you're never gonna last long
enough to make anything.
Now, I did a full in depth video on making a living as a live
streamer.
If you wanna know more, you should really check that out.
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My name is Michael Feyrer Jr.
Thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next one.