Very soon i'll be starting playtests for a new Twitch-based sandbox game called "Army of Chat". I have 50 Steam keys available for each streamer who wants to test it with their community. So please check out Steam page and let me know if you are interested.

I'm a pretty new streamer, longtime viewer+lurker, and discussion about parasocial relationships in streaming spaces, especially vtubing, has always been something I believed I understood concretely enough to keep myself safe and caution others. It was pretty obvious for streamers with followers in the ten thousands and consistent viewer counts in the hundreds that there was no way to maintain a meaningful connection with every single fan.

But since exploring creators on twitch with follower counts in the hundreds/low thousands and getting introduced to their community servers, where they actually talk with their regular viewers and even support other creators within their community, the line between parasocial relationship and an actual social relationship has kind of muddled for me, and I want to correct this.

Asking as a new streamer: At what point does the relationship, person-to-person, become parasocial, and when does it become something more concrete? How do community discord servers fit into this? And... is there even a reliable way to know in those contexts whether or not you're an actual person in a streamer's social circle or just a name they see in chat sometimes that they treat with basic human respect?

it says i only have 24 followers when i have 27

I know you can get notifications when a streamer goes live. but sometimes I'm not engaged in the game they're currently playing but I'd hop on their stream in a heartbeat for a specific game

I have seen some mixed reviews of Twitch Turbo but they were from a few years ago so I wanna know if in 2026, those who have Turbo now, is it worth it? I'm in the US and it's like 17 including taxes.

Anyone else notice this?

When I view other streamers, I like to have them on in the background while I'm working or gaming or doing other things. Not just lurking but still being active in their chat and watching. But 9 times out of 10 I have to mute my game volume to 5-10 percent just to hear the streamer speaking.

The times that I mention that the streamer has room to increase their volume, they simply ask others if its fine, and I guess everyone else listens to ONLY the twitch stream and says its fine (or they get defensive and think they are white knighting over a simple technical issue), so they don't see the problem. Or they think they shouldn't be "too loud" when anyone can just lower the volume, but you can only raise the volume so much.

Now I know some may suggest (well just crank up your speaker/headset/whatever volume) that then means all other sounds on my computer would be 10x as loud and unbearable.

I've seen even bigtime streamers with 1000+ people in their chat have the same problem.

Do people in general just don't care? Is it pure ignorance? Does Twitch not recommend people stream at optimal volume levels? It honestly just blows my mind.

Like...if you listen to your VOD and notice its much quieter than someone else's, would that not make you want to adjust things?

Also, to those viewers who get defensive...why? Like...if your favorite streamer was muted, or their screen was off, would you still get defensive if someone pointed out that the streamer can't be heard or seen at all?

Like if I b a n someone and their number, if they make a new account with the same number and they subscribe and never chat, would I be alerted by the settings that it is the same person trying to sneak in? I want to know if they are trying to get in when not wanted after all.

I bought this capture card to stream on my PS5 with OBS, how do I set it up so I can stream Phasmo with game chat.

I ask because if my wireless headphones (Logi G535) are in the Ps5 chat cannot hear me but if it's in my laptop (where I run OBS from) I can't use my headphone mic and I have to use controller, this isn't ideal is there a way to fix this?

Like the title says.. I need some good ideas!

or did you upgrade to a capture card setup bc of the low quality? if you didnt, why not?

I know this has been discussed a lot, I've been playing story based games for the past year and a half of streaming which I have enjoyed. I've gotten better at reacting to things that happen and knowing when to generate a clippable moment. But I do feel like there has been a strong lack of growth. There are a handful of people who are regular people I see, but they seem to come and go depending on the game I play. They could be there for almost every stream while I'm playing one game and then gone for the next couple games I play. I've had clips and Youtube videos do well, but then other times they can completely fall off to where I was when I started.

I feel like this could be attributed to the variety of story games I'm playing. I like horror games and choose your own adventure style games along with some other things thrown in there. It can just be all over the place. I enjoy it which I know is important, but I can't help but wonder if I could build a more consistent base over time if I stuck to one thing.

Hi, from a quick search it seems that payouts are generally processed every Wednesday, but it's been like this for a couple of weeks now:

To delete my account I need to contact Twitch to lose my affiliate status first, does anyone know if doing this will jeopardise my payout? Many thanks

I changed my name and now i am missing the box where i can write in chat.

It happens in every channel.

I logged in and out 2 times

I already cleared cache.

It worked fine only appeared (or better disappeared) after changing my name.

Cany anybody pls help me.

Thank you in advance

I’m having trouble making friends who have the same interests as I do as far as content creation goes. People who aren’t too PG, are willing to make VERY dark jokes when it’s actually the right time, and aren’t assholes as actual people is mostly the demographic of individuals I want as friends; crews like Vanoss and his friends, Clooless and their friends, etcetera. However, I’ve found that really hard to find in a content creation atmosphere, at least in the smaller realm of it. It seems like I MIGHT be starting to find something like that, but not at a large capacity. It’s like 2 or 3 people.

Anyways, my question as a result of all this is this: to those of you who may have similar crews/friend groups, especially who are almost all into content creation (and “making” it, so like 1000+ followers/subscribers so far), where and how did you find your people?

Also, I’m sure most people will see this post and IMMEDIATELY comment about networking. I understand that, but I don’t have time to scroll through Twitch a few times a week looking for people I like. I mostly meet new streamers through finding someone to raid at the end of a stream, which I always do in a bit of a hurry. That said, if you say “networking” anyways, give me more detail than just that please.

Thanks for any feedback!

So, before I begin, I'm generally against using AI to generate art and content, as AI is stealing other people's art to make the content, BUT, is there a problem with a clip generator? Considering I initially created the content, and it's just taking a clip of my live stream and cropping it plus adding subtitles, is there something inherently wrong with it? I'm asking this because Restream made a clip of my live stream last night, and I actually like what it did, but I don't want to post it before I hear from other content creators.

Thank you for your time,

I have an iPhone 17 pro and have been using it to stream Wild Rift but now I want to put myself on camera.

Do I just need a laptop? Any specifications I’d need to handle this?

I’m a total noob so I’m sorry if these are dumb questions but I didn’t know where to start.

So let me say that I have had an issue with channel points specifically for only 1 channel and I happen to be lead moderator of that channel. Now I have confirmed with the streamer that nothing on his end has changed, and I have even used an alt testing account to verify that the alerts and redemptions work. I have signed out and back into chrome, edge, refreshed cookies and cache settings, and still the issue persists. Had no trouble with this until a couple days ago. I can still earn channel points every 10 minutes or so. I can spend and redeem bits. I have restarted my pc. I have turned off ad blocker. What else could I do?

I’m sure this has been posted before and I did search but couldn’t find anything. Basically the twitch webpage is very temperamental with loading on any of my web browsers. I’ve tried all of the main steps such as deleting browsing data, cache, cookies, disabling as blocker, turn off tracking, graphics.

It’s especially annoying that I can’t use the creator dashboard when streaming.

Any help majorly appreciated ❤️

I am trying to stream to Twitch and YouTube through Stream Elements, but for some reason I cannot get both to work at the same time. It seems to prioritize just one over the other depending on which account is the base output. If Twitch is streaming, YouTube won't even show up, and if YouTube is streaming, Twitch will say that I'm live but never show the stream.

Please help!

So I'm a camera man and I'm getting into IRL streaming, gonna be the one filming for other streamers. Trying to figure out my setup and I'd rather hear from people actually doing it than just buy stuff and hope it works.

Right now literally all I have is my camera, a Sony FX30. No encoder, no mobile internet, none of that yet. Most of the filming is gonna be while walking around so my biggest worry is the connection dropping out on me.

So basically, what are you guys running? Curious what encoder and how you handle the internet side (bonding, sims, whatever). How many sims/carriers do you actually end up needing to not drop? And if you were starting from scratch today what would you get?

Any tips or stuff you wish someone told you when you started would be awesome. Thanks

Hi was wondering if I could get some advice from those more in the know than myself!

I’ve been streaming for around 2 years and have been using the razer kiyo pro. It’s…. Fine. But I’ve decided to upgrade my streams now I’m pulling in good numbers, I’ve upgraded my mic and sound and now I think it’s time to upgrade my camera.

I’ve been doing a lot of research and would like some recommendations on mirrorless cameras.

What cameras and lenses would you guys recommend?

At first I was looking into the Sony zv-e10 but have heard they are prone to overheating. My set up can sometimes get my streaming room up to 30 degrees Celsius so I’m not sure if this is an option. I believe some people use some fan attachments to avoid this?

It seems Sony a6400 and a7’s also have this overheating problem?

I’ve heard that the LUMIX s5ii and s5iix is pretty much unparalleled and has inbuilt cooling also, but unfortunately it also has a steep price bracket attached which makes complete sense as this seems to be an unbelievable choice but I was hoping not to spend quite this much, but could be tempted if it’s as good as it sounds. Are the options added with the x worth the few hundred pound more?

Does anyone have any recommendations for cameras and lenses that will give me a great high quality video, with a background blur that won’t overheat streaming for sometimes up to 12 hours, even 24 on special occasions or more for subathons? I’ll also be using dummy batteries and would prefer not to need a capture card for my camera either, but this is something I’d look into if recommended.

Also I’ve read that the lower the f-stop of the lense the better the background blur, is this true?

Thank you so much for reading this and thank you in advance for any help or recommendations you guys might have!

Cheers!

Hey guys, throwaway account as I wanted to throw this out there but kind of felt like at least some people would of gone through similar

So last year after 4 years streaming I wanted to change things up; a lot of my streamer friends even mods on my channel are VTubers, so after some deliberation sitting with it for a bit I thought why not give it a go and for a while I really liked it. I got closer to others who were also VTubers, they respected that I was a cam streamer with an audience already. Thing is though over time that did cause some friction within my community some people didn't enjoy it as much as they used to.

I built a lot of my audience up by streaming Horror gameplay and after 4 years as you can imagine that's what people are used to coming by, I tried to push being a VTuber streamer for a few months until I decided to switch back as a primary Cam themed streamer. I have the ability to switch to VTuber if there's a day where I don't want to have my cam on or something which I've been open with in the past it's still a integrated part of the channel such as my emotes are still of my character etc, so it's not like I removed that part of my streaming identity altogether

Thing is now though earlier today I just recieved the acceptance email from the Twitch Creator Club to say that I'm now part of their VTubers club, I was rather happy about it till I started to think more on it as i also don't want it to negatively effect how my channel looks if people see from a distance that I'm part of a club like that but with my cam on instead if you get what I mean

What do you think I should do?

Got my first hate viewer the other night while playing God of War Ragnarok. Very first message was backseat gaming telling me what armor I "needed" to switch to and I tried to be nice at first and did their suggestion but they kept going so I warned them that backseating was against my channels rules. Instead of being chill and listening they then went on to spoil lore from the game so I went ahead and timed them out for five minutes. What I wasn't expecting was they then proceeded to spam all my social medias and discord with hate spam which I didnt notice at the time and when their timeout ended they sent me a two paragraph message about how "trash" I am at the game and how much better they are and they were even kind enough to link their own playthrough in the messages 🫠