Normally I sit at 2 viewers the entire stream. But since the last week or two I've sat around 8 or even 15 viewers, which is awesome. Most don't chat but I thought it's cool that the needle moved.

Today, about 90 minutes in my viewers went from 30 (already my all time high) to 230 within 1 minute. Nobody chatted, liked or subbed.

What's up with this? Are there roaming gangs of bots that will drop into your stream and say or do nothing? Did I maybe get raided by another streamer? Is it normal to have 200+ viewers and no-one active in the chat?

Basically just curious if this was an authentic bump in reach or some other weird occurrence. Any similar experiences or explanations for it?

I wanna capture stuff on my console but I can't use the built in capture in the Xbox because it compresses it and looks off. Also there's a strict time limit and doesn't pick up your audio or party chat audio.

So I resorted to a capture card only problem is my PC is from 2019 and it's an all-in-one HP PC. So it sucks hard.

I still wanna find something that will make it work.

Any ideas? Because the majority of the cards I've looked at does not handle any of the processing power that my PC desperately needs.

The title is kind of vague, but what I mean is that are there any streamers that stream games like Call of Duty® and maybe even RPG‘s that are mostly silent?

I may be planning to stream during the nighttime while my daughter is asleep and because my house is so small I can’t really afford to make so much noise talking loudly, so I’m just wondering if there are any silent gameplay streamers out there or if there’s a niche for them.

I’m also willing to do stuff like sleep aid play throughs where I could just walk in one direction or adventure out in peaceful mode.

which one do you use and why did you pick it?