Why you shouldn't follow trends
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7:25 "I can."
* picks up can *
* puts can down *
Bars 🔥
Barrs Cream Soda no less...
This guy cans
"Yes, you can!"
"but, I-I... don..."
"PICK UP THAT CAN!"
7:40 So humble. :)
Don't follow trends because your life will devolve into a rabbit-chasing game that never ends.
More stress than most are willing to handle. I know I wouldn't in this life time.
"You don't succeed by chasing success."
-Red Vox, "Settle for Less"
If you chase trends you'll just become Dark Syde Phil
@@sinjin8576 As a gamer (and not as a content creator) you can follow trends and decide to be part of them or not based on your personal preferences.
Following trends doesn't mean that you'll do them as well. It simply means that you're aware of them being aware that they have some appeal to attract people.
After figuring out what the reason is, you can decide if it suits your taste or not.
I assume you won't refuse playing The Elder Scrolls VI (or any particular video game that you like) just because it will be trending when it comes out.
@@sentrysapper45 That sounds to be about the opposite of true
Honestly... everyone who streams on Twitch everyday and expects to be found by anyone absolutely didnt do basic research about how the platforms actually work. Twitch has no discoverability whatsoever and the only way to make your stream stand out is solely the title, because you cant use thumbnails either. People wont find you - even less if you are small.
Thats why there are so many that are botting their viewer-numbers, so they at least appear much more likely somewhere in the five top rows of the register.
But besides that the rule still stands: If you want to be discovered on Twitch, make content on other platforms. As sad as this sounds, it is the truth. (And kinda shows how lackluster Twitch as a functioning platform is)
I agree twitch should make updates and changes to discovery (It would benefit the customer as much as some streamers)
BUT look at any other industry, a carpenter cant sit in his workshop and expect to be "discovered" he has to go out and advertise his business.
Are you a princess stranded waiting in a tower to be saved, or are you a creator spreading their art through the world.
Its not twitches job to make you famous, they just give a platform.
Exactly,I went on Twitch yesterday and most of the main page was girls with boobs with nothing distinguishable between them.
@@asluckdespairs Bad comparison, but its of course true that you have to "advertise" yourself in some shape or form.
Doesnt change the fact that it is even unhealthy for Twitch to be so top-heavy as they are.
Not to mention how unhealthy it is, if advertisers ever find out how many viewers on Twitch are actually not real but just bots. Might cause an "adpocalypse" at some point and im not just talking about embeds here.
Yeah i think people don't understand how expensive it is already just for twitch to run the streams. like that thor guy made a video about how expensive it was to run his stream for one long day stream is 4k usd on aws. Twitch is never going to make money and is just navigating its sinking.@@asluckdespairs
There was a weird trend a few years ago where twitch streamers were comparing TH-cam streaming and twitch streaming and a lot of them would say "TH-cam has no discoverability compared to twitch" which was a bizarre statement. That only makes sense if you're already a huge twitch streamer and you just automatically get views by virtue of almost always being at the top of the page, whereas TH-cam your live stream has to be put up by the algorithm
"So chat is always responsible for your deaths... got it"
Got to love chat. They know how to keep things from being too dull.
Who is the main character? Chat or the chair?
Stream for you. Stream for your friends. If new people find you? Cool. New friends. That's my experience as a max 13 viewer streamer
Definitely. And choose a game you like. Streaming something you don't like will not go well. I personally have no expectations on my own streaming. I do it for fun. Average 10 views would be nice though. :P
Good luck dude! remember, make sure to have fun.
That's the way. I have a friend who tried to stream as a job and ended up burned. But he made enough friends there so when he always go back there's always someone watching and they have fun together.
Depends on what your goal with streaming is but generally speaking I agree. Especially starting out people can get really hyped up to grow a community and following and when things don't pick up as fast as they'd like they get severely demotivated. I feel like a lot of growing yourself as a content creator is about managing expectations and just making sure you are in it because you love making content, you love entertaining people, you love playing games or w/e content you're making etc. I've seen far too many streamers that are in it just for the money and don't actually have passion for the very real grind that is growing a following and sustaining it and they just act very bitter or snarky to people in their chats from time to time about "not enough subs" or "no one's donating today" and it's like if you want to repulse people from your channel as quickly as possible I couldn't think of a better way to do it.
Josh, you may be only close to 30, but you are as wise as a 31 year old. I admire you
Close to 30? The dude wasn't in his 30s yet?
@@ammagon4519 what the hell
I do art for a living, and stream from time to time. It's genuinely difficult to go back and forth, deal with the streaming software, deal with the stream delay, and on top of it all, deal with having music/keeping up commentary. My most popular option on streaming is a little party trick I call "The $15/15" where watchers get a character bust in 15 minutes for 15 bucks. People love it, because it's interactive, fun, and they get to watch their art being made in real time from beginning to end. It's a blast, but after a few hours of it, I'm drop dead exhausted from the sheer concentration of it all. I'm jussst adhd enough to mind a lot of the elements, but it certainly isn't a thing I could do all the time, or as a main living.
What do you mean by just adhd enough? I have sever adhd and gaming has felt flavorless for a while. In your experience how positive or negitively does your adhd affect being a streamer?
"I want to wake up, play my silly games, make my silly videos, paint my little plastic boys and go back to bed. That's what I want to do".
Honestly? Same 😂😭
I have been trying to paint my little guys for years, still only have like 2 squads battle-ready 😭
But I feel like that's why SO MANY people want to be influencers. Because idea of "universal basic income" is too radical, but "getting paid for doing what you love WHILE entertaining the public" is "pull up by the bootstraps" enough 😬
Thanks you Josh for not spamming youtube recommendations with your own videos. Truly humble guy.
I think Josh as an Actor knows or has learned in his career what a person needs to do to market themselves.
Also getting lucky is a pretty big factor
@@darkbrother339one of the biggest. Once you get past the luck phase it becomes a skill thing. But luck is the way to start these things.
@@darkbrother339 Luck is always a factor in entertainment but so are social networking skills, charisma and knowing what you got, that you can bring that makes you different. With every success it becomes more and more difficult to catch that luck so you got to be willing to try that much more than the person next to you, behind you or in front of you because nobody is gonna do it for you, and there will be those who beat you at something that could have been yours.
So luck is important but you make it for yourself.
@@darkbrother339 Being attractive and having a great voice also helps. Man is magnificent. Looks aside, unfortunately my voice does me no favors. High quality microphones could help but... Well, they do be expensive.
@@uxie6177 Well, I'm the opposite. A voice made for radio, unfortunately coupled with a face made for radio.
meanwhile fighting gfame streamers who are able to divide their attention between playing and interacting with chat
They are insane, but that probably owes to their muscle memory from having labbed inputs and combos for years. It's different from, say, being able to do well at an action game that one has only come into contact with for a week or two.
I have been playing Morrowind for the past few months and it's a beautiful expirience.
I saw that subtle smile while saying he can holding a can. Must've been hard to resist not making it more obvious so people would get it.
I feel the best approach to streaming or making TH-cam videos is to find a subject matter that you are passionate about, and try to create something using that is unique or, more specifically, hasn’t been already done by someone else.
A really good example of this, in my opinion, is Settled. For those that don’t know, he’s an Old School RuneScape TH-camr that has risen to prominence in the past couple of years for his long-running challenge series. The two most popular ones have been Swampletics and McTile, each of which spanned multiple years of real world time and took thousands of hours of playtime to complete.
Challenge run videos of games are nothing new, obviously, but I think the nature of Settled’s series taking so long to complete and it requiring so much work for him to accomplish the goals he sets for himself in them is what makes his stand out. These are not simple challenges that take a few hours or a couple of days to finish, and they’re also not “memey” either. It feels like a _journey_ that you are taking with him, and one of the things that he’s credited is the storytelling aspect. There are often major, unexpected setbacks that occur during the series, and you’re there to experience the same emotions that he’s feeling in those moments.
His videos are massively popular: millions of views on each episode. He’s uploaded compilations - labeled as “[Series Name]: Full Series” - and the 12-hour long Swampletics movie has over 4 million views after a couple years’ time on the website. Four million views is _enormous_ within the context of RuneScape; I’ve never seen another RS video reach that level of attention - not unless it was something very old from 10-15 years ago, perhaps.
What’s more: I’ve begun to notice the influence of the McTile series spread to other realms of gaming. People have actually started creating Tileman Mode mods for other games, including Project Zomboid and Stardew Valley. Games that have nothing to do with OSRS whatsoever, but nonetheless have seen an impact because of Settled. And this is also without mentioning the fact that Jagex _themselves_ put a monument into the official game to honor one of the final, most significant moments of Swampletics. A fan made TH-cam series is now immortalized in the game with which it was created.
That’s the kind of thing that I think people should be striving for when they say they want to be a content creator. Make something that is emotionally captivating to people and convinces them to stick with you for years of time.
Yeah, it's obviously a combination of things that made swampletics popular.
1. Quality. Self explanatory
2. Difficulty. People tend to look at "masters" rather than yellow belt for something like karate, yeah? This is hard, they might not be able to do it, but they can watch it.
3. Novelty. That gets you the initial click, doing something people haven't heard of doing before.
4. Doing it in something massive, like RuneScape. A lot of people know RuneScape, so his content will algorithm over to... A lot of people.
So the formula is: make a video about something massive. Give it a gimmick that's hard to do, and make sure the video is of highly edited quality.
Another good example is the no coin challenge in mario games. I've watched SOOO many video game challenge runs just because they are novel and passionate
I like hovering over the play bar and seeing the most replayed part of the video is the part where "I read that dialogue but I didn't make content out of it."
"Prepare to he whelmed."
I like that.
The thing he said about liking to watch football and wanting to become a footballer hit home to me. Interesting as well that he said it while playing Morrowind. Let me explain:
I am a big fan of the Elder Scrolls series, but I was disappointed by Skyrim when it came out for several reasons. So, I was having ideas how to improve it, but I had no programming experience. Still, I wanted to do it. One thing lead to another, and about 5 years later, I was writing a Pen-and-Paper codex, gathering my friends, and we were having a blast playing a half-homebrewed story in Morrowind in my system, with me as DM.
I have been doing this for 8 years now. I have played through Morrowind, the "Crown of the Ayleids"-quest from Oblivion, the Main story of Oblivion and about half a dozen homebrewed stories set in Skyrim, Elsweyr, Cyrodiil, Morrowind and Blackmarsh. My system has found success, and all in all, eleven other people now play with my system. I have constantly updated it for the past 8 years, and it is nearing Version 5.1 now, which will hopefully be the last version I will have to write.
But: I have not played an Elder Scrolls game normally for the past 10 years, at least not for long. I only started it a couple times to visit the locations the group was going next, to gather some inspiration. I have read more on UESP about the game than actually playing it. If one of my players wouldn't have offered to DM by herself, I wouldn't even have a chance to see my own system from the side of a player.
And somehow, when he said this, it hit really hard.
Are you talking about writing role-playing scenarios, or writing actual mods?
Wow dnd in es nice idea. Should make the adventures into mods.
I tried streaming, relatively small category (about 1-2 k viewers and only maybe 5 or 6 channels), did it for months, didn't get a single viewer. Like my twitch analytics was a flatline nobody even popped in. Changed up my tags, changed up my titles, changed game a few times... nothing made a difference, still flatline. I think some people are just not meant for streaming.
This boils down to: everybody wants to be famous, nobody wants to put in the effort.
3:45 This is the exact point when my weird af inner voice started doing a cover of the whaler song from Futurama titled “We’re Seydas on the Neen” in the voice of Patrick from SpongeBob Squarepants - most of which is mumbled half-words - and now it’s stuck on loop as an annoying earworm at bedtime. 😅
I streamed on Twitch for a bit just simply as that "last push" to get me into the game I'd been thinking of getting into, but hadn't yet. It was either Project Zomboid or Kenshi; I can't remember, but both were games I streamed a good bit, and this was back before either game blew up. Because those games were still relatively small, not that many people were streaming it so, whenever somebody would wander into my stream, 1) They were going out of their way to watch somebody play this niche game they probably had the same kind of interest in as me and 2) I wasn't a big streamer so there was a better chance of them engaging in chat.
This made for a dynamic where there would be a few regulars that would come in after a while and, because I wasn't a big streamer, chat wasn't clogged and I could actually engage with them. One time a Polish guy came in and I explained to him what a "redneck" was and another time I "had the whole squad laughing" when I went on a tangent about a yes-man from my college that interrupted me to agree with me one time.
Love how Josh was just casually like "Alr, lemme teach you how to have fun and stay having fun with your job" and straight up trash every streamer and content creator on Twitch and TH-cam. Never change, man
6:10 cheeky wee cream soda. A drink that's gone flat 10 minutes after you open it!
Barr no less, the king of drinks
He must've agreed because he set it right down 😂
Remember "Simulator" craze of the mid 2010's?
Pepper-ridge farms remembers the "Simulator" craze.
Developers have been exploiting streamer to hock trash for years now and they have learned to be more subtle about it.
Instead of making something vapid and joke filled, they make something conceptually attractive but leave it completely empty.
This is Palworld, conceptually attractive but completely empty.
It streams well, but fails at being an in-depth game worthy of the attention it is getting.
Yeah, I started planning a backlog digthrough before I went on hiatus. Now that I've returned, it's a big thing. No interest in following trends, but trying to frame it as an old school variety show to offer my own something different.
I'm a small starcraft 2 streamer & content creator, I really enjoy doing it, but I also had to realise that I'm not a high level player, so people will not come and watch me for the high level gameplay, but for my personality. I also had to accept the fact that if I'm going to read the chat in the first few moments of the game, during talking and reading chat, or whenever I can do that, I am not focusing on the game, on executing my plan, so in that regard I'm gonna be worse than my actual skill level.
This video just confirms all my thoughts around this topic, and I'm extremely grateful that you addressed this. I also relate a lot to one of your tweets about WHAT PEOPLE TOLD YOU TO DO to find success vs WHAT YOU DID and still found success with.
Love your personality, Josh, your content is pure gold, it's always fun to listen to your thoughts, despite not playing close to any of the games that you play!
Please, keep on doing what you do to inspire those who are in it for the long run!
Funnily enough I started trying to become a gaming youtuber after I fell out of love with gaming for years and it's kind of working. I care much more about the editing and entertainment side which works well with the videos I make. For every 1 hour of gaming footage I record, I edit for 10 without even including research, analytics, and creating thumbnails/ titles
"Is there a skilled way to be entertaining while bad at games?" Glances over at AquaFPS.
So glad I saw this in my recommended, I am a few months away of streaming for 2 years, and the advice you give in this video, is golden.
I had never heard of palworld at all until one day a news article came up ranting about "pokemon with guns". Sure enough, the thumbnail was legally distinct Electabuzz with a generic gatling gun. I scrolled past, and was prepared to never give the game another thought. Ya know how normally you have to click on an article for the algorithm to determine you have an interest in a subject before it shows you more of it? Well, the next day literally half my news feed was Palworld this, Palworld that, Palworld in a silly looking hat, Palworld porn, Palworld lawsuits, Palworld and Palworld accessories... Good god, man, I didn't even click the article! Why am I being force fed this garbage?
Can't wait until next week when every gaming news outlet decides to stop overreporting on this shitpost of a game that proudly stands by not having a single original idea.
Garbage? The game is probably better than the shit that you usually play, bud.
Same (Not talking to Siter here). I heard about "Pokemon with guns" and I was like "Ehh... whatever"
Although right now I haven't been given a Palworld overload on YT. But after watching this video that might change. :D
@@Siter You can't know that... At the end of the year, not a single person is gonna remember that game. But Morrowind? Well... It will still be the same old Morrowind.
These are some very good points, has someone who streams quite often when he can play a video game, it is definitely hard to enjoy a game and stream at the same time. Sometimes I might get 35 viewers or I might just get one viewer who watches for a long time. Other times I might just get a bot, but I almost always dream a game that I'm currently enjoying that I want to play. I don't often play multiplayer games and I normally play only a few modern games that actually intrigue me. So realistically I often have times where I'm streaming for long periods of time and no one watches, either because the game I'm streaming isn't popular or because I'm streaming the game that other people are streaming and doing a better job at. I've been playing a lot of Doom eternal and I love playing that game but I'm not that great at it, I would be intermediate at best. So I've had people join my stream and complain that my gameplay isn't up to par like the other streamers, Who , by the way , have been playing it since launch while this is my first time completing it. And I don't often talk too much during my streams because I play video games as a hobby and don't have as long to sit down and play so I prefer to get invested in the game and just enjoy myself, but the times I do put a microphone in and chat the people who do watch just tend to ask questions about games that I have no interest in so I can't answer them realistically.
This is a really good topic that not a lot of people talk about, I don't hear a lot of people just say play what you want when a lot of people are trying to make an income from this type of thing. There's a lot of TH-camrs I watch that do play what they want to play but at the end of the day you have to please the audience so sometimes they often follow Trends as well but put their own spin on it. It's always more fun if you play something you like then if you do something that everyone wants you to do. Bad comparison but I used to play Ark quite a bit with a friend because I liked it, but because they wanted to treat it like a second job in an online persistent world it became hard for me to enjoy it because I was being forced to take it so seriously. It got to the point where I completely stopped playing online and enjoy the game solo and single player. Because I did what everyone else was doing and not something I actually enjoyed doing it calls me to get burnt out of the game and I didn't play it for years afterwards.
But then if tonnes of people don't follow trends, that in itself becomes a trend & we find ourselves in a paradox
Fun thing about people being 'bad' while streaming... talking.
Psychology fun - Your speaking center is, on most right handers, on the left hand side of your brain. Your right hand, which operates the mouse usually, is also connected to the right hand side of the brain. So, when you are talking while doing an activity that is novel with your right hand, your do it worse. The classic experiment is you time balancing a piece of wood on each finger while reciting some words and not reciting words on another test. If you are right handed, your right hand should not do so well when you are talking but your left hand should stay the same. This is because your brain resources in that region are being overused.
This is why when my kid is doing bad while playing a game I say, "Oi... Stop talking to your mates for once." His skill improves. But... he has ADHD so this lasts less than 2 minutes.
(Or you can just look up someone else doing that experiment)
I love it when Josh lets us know he's not like the other girls.
Missed one big factor streaming a popular game…. If you are friendly with any of those viewed streamers, or you get lucky - you might get a raid, hosted and your entire streamer career just went next level.
you are such an intelligent person, i love listening to you talk and explain things haha keep doing your thing man
7:05 That's literally people asking me for art commissions lol. Yeah sure I can paint something like the Mona Lisa in 10 minutes ($100/ hour) no problem, I just just choose to take hours on all my other art pieces...
I like that you assume that I'm capable of 100% focusing on ANY game.
Sir, if I did that... I couldn't have you up on the Second Monitor now could I?
I love how Josh is casually explaining things and jump in morrowind to buff acrobatics at the same time
It's all a crapshoot at the end of the day. If you start out playing a popular game like Apex, the category is already saturated with dozens of talented players with under 10 viewers at any given time. Achieving even the abysmally low US federal minimum wage streaming requires over 400 subscribers, which already puts you comfortably into the top 1% of streamers. The question of finance versus fun is a relevant question if you're already an established streamer with thousands of subscribers with a fanbase that might not follow you from your main game, but streaming a game you don't enjoy for an icecube's chance in hell of making it is always the incorrect choice.
this reminds me of the one time i tried to stream need for speed underground 2 ( tried because I could not load into races for some reason) and someone came into chat and followed cause he was looking for that specific game that day.
This is my first time seeing you and man I'm glad I did. I miss just simple videos like this. Just chatting hanging out. Keep it up.
*Provide value to the audience*
"Take this ring from the hand of god"
This man looks like Leopold from Kate and Leopold.
【Shades Finnish Pirates】You actually were right about the gameplay about Raid: Shadow Legends, i feel quite ashamed for defending it and i made a video why i quit the game. I am happy i did not use money for the game, only 14e for a skin and i did not fall into the rabbit hole of spending money to the addicting mobile game. I still hold onto my word that you big gamer's should say out loud how bad the game & company is, but i saw how other big gamer review tubers also trash Raid with small side marks on videos and without making a big deal out of it so it was out of line for me to call you out for not reviewing that game as bad as it is. So maybe we are not so far from out game tastes as i tought, i still do not paint and i actually re-subbed to your videos even if i started to watch em no to be bored while playing Raid
Passion above all. I stop watching when streamers start giving up. Top 10, or bottom 100 in ranks. Don't care. Just be passionate enough to keep going. By that I mean they never stop trying to improve. Thats what pulls me in.
Morrowind, a true gem. A game with so much depth.
I tried getting in to streaming and everything he says is 100% correct.
i think as long as you do provide value you can stream about anything and people that think youre providing value to your day then they will continue to watch
People base their entire opinions on trends now. Does this game suck? Well what is the trendy opinion? Well it must suck because it isn't as popular or because the trendy opinion is against it.
This "trend" of people not have individual opinions anymore is one of the worse aspects of social media.
If only you could read books out loud on twitch. Such a great voice.
4:35 The more appropriate comparison would be "I like films, I want to be a film reviewer or a reaction channel" if we are comparing it to being a streamer/youtuber for videogames. I would say being an actor would be more similar to being a developer, not a player.
I may have found the most realistic gaming youtuber ever. Congratulations on the video. ;)
Morrowind is my all time favorite game. I'm happy to see it accompanied by some Josh Strife Wisdom.
People don't understand how much work streaming actually is. It's the rock star dream of our generation. Not a lot of people can make a living out of it and those people who do put in more time and effort than pretty much any 9-5 job. Even if you're potentially the best to ever do it you might not make it anyways, no matter how hard you try. There's always an element of chance involved. As someone who used to stream almost every day for several years but quit I have a lot of thoughts about the subject, but I'll leave it at that.
i've tried trend chasing with warhammer content and honestly if it involves actual miniatures it isn't worth it unless you are an influencer who gets stuff sent through early to promote. by the time regular folks get the products in hand and have formulated a clear plan on what t o do with them usually the hype has died down
awesome you are playing the Old World, which faction ?
Its more engaging for others to watch. When you adjust movement speed, and focus the camera at points of interest on the move.
Even if you're "bad" at games. If you're entertaining it's still fun
I'd say it's often even better to be bad at the game. Way more fun and relatable. But maybe that's because I'm terrible at games.
Joshs target audience: We have Henry Cavil at home.
I've found that when I stream, I put the audiance first. Because I can and probably will go back and play a game off camera because I enjoy it. I can't entertain my audience when I'm not there. If if they aren't entertained, they wont come back.
I am old fashion I look up on TH-cam
I search by typing Lets play (Game name ) than I found the Lets play I check if he completed the Game
He has a nature documentary voice
I could never imagine streaming as a job.
I understand someone doing it for the social aspect, wanting to find and talk to people who like the video game you like. But as a PRIMARY WAY of making money is insane to me.
The only time that "splitting attention" argument falls flat is when you're talking about pvp games. Cause in those cases you don't really have to pay much attention to the audience because they're there to see high level of skill and not be entertained by the personality. An example of this would be competitive FPS games and fighting games, I don't care about the person really I only care about the gameplay. The personality is just a plus.
Being successful (make money) streaming video games has about the same odds as buying lottery tickets.
Human always must find some way to entertain the mind. Once the mind is entertained they move on. Sometimes something just catch on and creates a trend, everyone wants a piece of that. BUT when they had all been entertained, they move on. It’s like watching a movie that would become your all time favorite for the first time, that moment is awesome, like a path in your brain had just been built outta nowhere and you love it. After that, you move on. You can take that trend and do it a bit differently, and yeah people will still like it to but they are exploring the what-if, what they couldn’t have done in the first trend. And after they all got a piece of that what-if, *they move on*
I am completely whelmed.
There’s the clickbait looking thumbnail I knew I’d see from Josh one day
Why you shouldn't listen to youtubers and just do what you enjoy.
That's exactly what he said..how'd you miss that?
Reinforcing what he said, sweaty@@lawlessx9
This is why I don't like streams. They are so distracted by the chat that they constantly miss things in the game. I watch for story reactions and such, which don't work when the person is constantly staring at chat trying to make jokes, instead of actually looking at the game to notice what is happening.
Not following trends. Just chasing my ARK high.
I have no real proof, but I am convinced that at least ProJared (and probably more besides) drives engagement with a form of performance art where he intentionally fumbles a few times here and there before getting it right in a way that makes players feel frustrated and want to yell at him "no no no don't do that do this!" or the like lol
Even if there isn't an audience, just talk like you have a sea of people. It'll make you look like a lunatic but It'll be interesting nonetheless.
But if you tell people not to follow trends and enough people follow that advice, thus creating a new trend, then what are people supposed to actually do?
5:07 lol I thought of this metaphor b4 u said it haha touchdown
Yeah, I know a lot of game devs that barely ever play games 😅
I loved playing games so I decided to become a game developer
I went from playing 6-8 hours (all day
) to 1-2 hours (just before bed)
Was it a good decision?... I don't know yet
Josh being a spear chad is fitting.
Bro got the quintessential narrator voice
I just do what I enjoy nowadays. If I don't enjoy, I stop and forget about it. Not enough happiness in this world. As long as you're enjoying the things you do in life then that's fine. You don't need to leave some bullshit legacy and follow what others like and want.
Palworld is successful because it has Pokemon in it and is available on PC for a reasonable price without you having to own a dedicated Nintendo handheld that will eventually die along with its online store and play functions. Nintendo has been deliberately ignoring a massive amount of potential sales on PC to keep their walled garden approach aka console exclusivity and it very much pays off seeing as how rabid some of their fans are. But once people realized this game wasnt really the Pokemon PC experience they thought it might be lots of them just stopped playing. Sure theres still a sizeable playerbase and many will probably return once new content is added but at the end of the day its just ARK with Pokemon and thats not really going to keep the Pokemon fans on board unless they really like survival crafting openworld games.
i never play morrowind, ESIV was my first ES games, but you sir getting my subscribe
Josh, I'm late here but Barr cream soda is absolutely fantastic, excellent choice.
"Prepare to be whelmed"
The same kind of requests you got mostly in software development. People just see results and have no idea about the effort. I mean Amazon exists 30 years and it took them that time to get their online shop to the current level and still working on that, but yeah every newcomer could do that in 1 year.
Trends are generally temporary. ‘A general direction in which something is developing or changing.’ If you choose trendy games you will be changing your content accordingly. Or you can chose the games you love knowing not all of them will get as much viewer attention. Or you can do both. 😁 Because we can’t all be Josh. 😂
Doesn't matter what you play on twitch, really. Discoverability on twitch is extremely low because viewers don't usually stick around on twitch after a bigger streamer ends for the night. If the bigger streamer suddenly doesn't make it to timeslots for whatever reason, then you may have a chance to leech some of those viewers. Otherwise, this is live content. Their choice is made, like tuning into their favorite television show.
The best way to be discovered is the same way for this as it is finding people to play with in an MMO. Become one of the first at it's launch, be it a streaming site, or a new game.
Barring new, just go to a smaller site. Less competition and looking for content is higher.
If something is accessible and optimal to do then there will be other people doing it, so make peace with the idea that you will have to compete with other people.
Smart man says smart things, this is why I like this channel
barr cola my beloved...
despite how things like streaming and YT have grown, the money you can make, all the things, despite how i love playing video games, i have absolutely no desire to stream (i also never watch streams) it doesnt sound fun to me.
Been playing the hell outta Morrowind again funnily enough. It’s a truly great game.
a human mind was made impossible to multitask so i agree with at the point 2:10
And by the way, no I don’t want help with whatever I’m doing
As someone who actually really enjoys playing pslworld I can't stand watching people play Palworld. And that's pretty much how it's been for most trends that have gone on in the gaming scene. When it's big and popular it annoys the shit out of me To watch even if I enjoy playing It. And it's because these people meme the shit out of everything. So if I'm watching people doing a gaming vet or a stream while I myself am playing one of the popular games I generally choose someone who's in the middle of a game that I played as a child or is a lot less popularthe eye myself don't want to buy for whatever reason.
I just started streaming bc I wanted to save the content some where without taking up space on my comp and ive had up to 3 viewers! just start and be consistent and good things will happen!
8:03 Story of my Life
American Cream Soda!
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