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Buster. Buster, come here. Come here. Too much excitement.

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[Computer powering up]

[Music]

[Music]

Hello guys, we are back. Oh my goodness. Maxy, thank you so

much for the $30. That's so kind of you and thank you so much for

the kind words. I'm so glad you are enjoying stream.

When the mom dies to the shark, that's pretty bad, right?

He's like, "my mom died." Is like, "suck it up, bitch. You

got to get back out there." That would destroy some kids today I

feel like. All right, we've got to find some frogs.

Wait, it's still on irl, really? This sounds really sad,

I feel like I am talking to myself now. I guess that's what

streaming is. My stomach is growling, I'm really hungry.

Oh shit, that's a [explicit] twelve-month badge . Calling it,

maybe not. Oh, we're a defense team, boys. Let's go.

Well, poki merch is literally in like a day or two, we are

just getting the Europe side of it ready. Thank you so much for

subbing. Aerial force, welcome to the poki club. Thank you for

the nine months general, welcome back.

You use right-click? I use space.

You have to get this res, let's go.

I mean, I'm sorry, I said it. I'm sorry, I don't care if the

cameras are rolling.

It says error updating vodcast.

Pokilove, your insta was hacked? How?

[Streamers talking at once]

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Appreciate that, thank you.

My name is Ellie, I go by mopgarden online. I am a

professional streamer. I have been streaming for just over

three years in July.

Okay guys, we are doing the sub-a-thon again tomorrow, okay?

Oh my god, that junkrat is annoying. You can't win if you

die, heroes never die, gooded. Hype boys, thank you so much,

maxy.

I was working full time at Starbucks and I basically was

making more in today's of streaming a week than I was for

a whole paycheck at Starbucks. I thought to myself, "why am I

doing this?" I ended up quitting my job full-time and my manager

was like, "you are making an awful decision." I was like,

we'll see.

Sometimes it doesn't quite sink in. I get to travel

wherever I want, I get to make my own schedule.

This is the worst, when a fan donates and then they are like,

"oh, this is all I can offer until my next paycheck." I'm

like, stop giving me money. I don't want your money, save it.

That makes me feel horrible.

I was getting swarmed with emails, I was getting hundreds

of emails a day. People that wanted to have a meeting with me

for all terrier motives, you know? It's a mess.

I've had someone ask me to sign their baby on the forehead

and I didn't know how I felt about that.

She started crying and she was like, "it's been my dream to

meet you, I've been watching you for three years." That

experience alone is super surreal.

So for us it's just a number in the corner but when you try

to visualize it in the physical sense, that's a stadium of

people. Sometimes you take it for granted but when you stop

and think, it's like, wow. People tune in to watch me play

video games.

[Crowd cheering]

Hey Google, play highway to hell.

Google voice: Highway to hell by ac/dc, sure, playing on spotify.

[Highway to hell playing]

Streaming is basically just a guy or girl playing video games

in his home and broadcasting it to the world.

The idea that people can take their favorite game and they can

have that audience watch as they play it.

You are watching me stream video games and I am in the

corner in the camera and you are also watch me as I interact with

the chat so if you are familiar with YouTube, it's like YouTube

but live.

It's a lot like a live broadcast of a TV show,

something like Saturday night live. People are watching it as

it happens, there is plenty of room for mistakes.

God damn, this game is buggy as [explicit].

[Laughter]

Video games are inherently kind of glitchy sometimes.

I'm going out, oh, that was a bad idea.

[Screaming]

No, my neck!

The unpredictability of what is going on. It is this thing of

sharing the moment.

[Ominous music]

[Screaming]

You okay?

There are so many forms of great entertainment, novels, TV,

movies. But the cool part about video games is that you are

interacting directly with the medium.

He's right in front of me, shoot him with another rocket, I

will try to jump on it, quick, quick, quick. Oh, got it!

I think that's what makes them so exciting to people. It

dates way back to the earliest experience in arcades.

You are at the arcade, you put your quarter down, you're

watching. You're not just going to stand there and wait, you are

interested in who this person is and you are going to play. Your

friend or your little brother or your older sister watching over

your shoulder telling you, "do this, you should do that

instead!" watching videogames is and a lot of ways as fun as

playing them.

The people who see it as a trend, they are probably people

who don't get gaming to begin with. Everybody plays games,

whether it's Tetris on your phone or what have you. Gaming

has been so far removed from geek culture since the 80s so

anybody who doesn't acknowledge its as much a part of our

entertainment industry as Hollywood is is really out of

touch.

Another study that came out that showed that people 18-29

now watch the sports more than they watch anything pretty much

except for movies I think. More than sports, more than TV and

that's an entire decade of people that have grown up and

decided, "you know what? This is my entertainment of choice." So

I think it has been habituated, it's part of our culture already

so I do think that the idea of watching people play games

online is going to continue to grow.

I don't get that. To me, watching another person play

video games is like going to a restaurant and having someone

eat your food for you. If you like them, play them but I guess

I'm getting old.

[Laughter]

What a play. That would be so good.

I had no interest in doing it because I was like, "I don't

understand why anybody would watch people stream. Why would

you not just want to play the game yourself?" Then I went on

and I watched a big streamer play counterstrike for an hour

and a half and I was like, "wow, that was very fast. I don't

understand how that happened."

I don't know, why do people watch soccer? Why do people

watch basketball? Because they enjoy it. I mean, I think it's

as simple as that. It's exciting watching other people do well in

a game you know well yourself.

Obviously there's a vicarious enjoyment in seeing something

done well, even if it might be more fun for you to do it

yourself since you can't do it and since you can't perform at

that level just as with traditional sports, we enjoy

watching people who are the best at doing something.

[Crowd celebrating intensely]

There isn't a paid component

in terms of barrier to entry so it is free to watch. You pick a

game. I'm interested in league of legends, there will be a

really famous pro player currently streaming, a guy no

one knows is streaming with very few viewers.

The means that people used to watch live streaming video games

is twitch.Tv.

Twitch is a live social video community for gamers and

creative's. But we tried to do is build a live video site that

allows creators to build communities of like-minded

individuals around their passions. I think YouTube really

kicked it off with what they did which was really empower anybody

to broadcast themselves as their original motto stated. We took

that in a different direction and made it live, made it

actually interactive and a little more social. You feel

like you are in the room there with the creator, maybe even

playing games with them and they respond to you.

Can you tell me what kind of items there is because I haven't

seen. Morello's changed. Wait, is it new items are they

changing old items?

On twitch, you have twitch chat which is a little box right

next to the screen where you are viewing the broadcast itself.

People can basically just say whatever they wanted to it. It

is this stream of people talking, this mass of words

flowing down the screen that you can interact with it, respond to

it so streamers talk to their viewers and it becomes this sort

of relationship.

Twitch TV is not just a streaming platform, it's also a

social network. People can interact, can also share their

feelings, their opinions.

It becomes this big gathering and in the case of some of those

streamers, they are very good at sort of creating that at least

illusion of them being your pal so it's almost like sitting on

the couch and watching a friend play video games.

Oh my god, is that actually you? Dr. Disrespect, is that

you?

I prefer world champion.

It's sort of this depth of relationship with a content

creator that you don't see in many other places. For the

gamer, for the player, for the streamer, it feels like a little

bit more social.

Oh my god, it's [explicit] you. Wait, can you go over by

the fence so I can take a screenshot? Please, dad?

Even if you don't build a big audience and build a career on

it, it's a little bit more fun than playing by yourself.

People just create a sort of new culture and at the same time

in the industry and also entertainment as a whole is

factored as well.

[Crowd cheering]

Twitch came from a company called Justin TV.

My name is Justin and I am the star of Justin.Tv.

Justin kan, one of our cofounders, decided that

streaming his life 24/7 would be a really fantastic idea.

Justin TV was founded by Justin kan, Emmett sheer who

went on to be the founder and ceo of twitch, Kyle voit and

Michael siebel.

Turns out it worked in the sense that a lot of people were

so curious. "Who is this dude that thinks he can walk around

San Francisco and stream his life?"

I'm just the one with a camera.

His entire life, while he is sleeping, while he is walking

around, while he is working. It's a very boring, very raw

reality show.

I'm in the bathroom, going to tilt the camera up a little bit.

I'm trying to make this a pg-13 rated show.

Six of clubs, eight of clubs. It launched this idea of

sharing your life. In 2008, we opened up the platform for

anyone to use and then 2009, we started thinking about gaming.

Gaming vod content, on-demand content on YouTube was growing

very quickly at that time so we thought, "huh, why don't people

do this live? It just makes sense." As we continued to

noodle on it, we said, "hey, we really need to convince a board

to let us just do games." They said, "look, if you hit the

numbers you say you can hit in six months, we'll fund it." We

had those numbers in two months, launched twitch as a brand in

2011 and then kept growing from there. I think we were really

lucky actually to land on twitch.

It was actually really difficult to find a good noun or

verb that wasn't already taken for a site.

Are you aware of the myth of xarth?

With an x, x-a-r-t-h. That was sort of the working title.

"Oh, you can be xarth linked, people can be xarth linked, it's

perfect." it was not the right name, definitely.

Which was acquired by Amazon in August 2014 for roughly $970

million.

It was great meeting the Amazon execs because they were

like, "hey, we don't really know what you guys do but it's cool

and our kids watch it all the time."

I think that was definitely a signal that this was no longer

this niche thing, it was mainstream at that point and now

sure enough here we are a few years later and traditional

television is not doing so great, twitch business is

booming.

Twitch has over 2 million people that stream every month,

we have about 10 million people that watch every single day from

around the world, most of our audience is north America,

Europe, east Asia, Latin America. On average, they are

watching over 100 minutes a day so not quite two hours but a lot

of content. I think people do that because it's so engaging,

it is a very different type of video experience.

I know there are a lot of critics and a lot of doubts

about twitch TV because it seems like a sort of mirror of the act

of playing that is natural. The whole point is that twitchers

are able to add more meaning to a game.

Many of them are very charismatic people so they are

fun to watch play a game in a different way than other people

would.

Awkward encounter, I am mortified. No, please don't kill

me, sir. Oh my god, I am seriously dying of

embarrassment.

It is absolutely not the game. You can stream final

fantasy vii, you can stream overwatch, you can stream

everything. It is not what, it is how. In my studies, I found

three main orientations of streaming. The first one is the

professional. The professional usually is a pro gamer who

depends on his or her game skills. Also to provide your

viewers tips, insights, strategies. The reason

professionals are streaming is because they are good, really

good at playing.

Falls asleep due to the ultimate coming it that he got

four with the pulse bomb.

My name is Alfred Lucas, I am from Sweden.

That's how you win a fight, mendo just kills everybody.

My gamer name or nickname is mendokusaii or mendo which is a

Japanese word. I just watch way too much anime.

I've been a pro gamer for a little over a year and a half

now. As soon as the overwatch release trailer was hyped on

blizzcon, I was like, "all right, that's it."

The game is a team-based action shooter that features

epic over-the-top battles in six vs. Six competitive matches.

I just decided I am going to go pro, going to have a

successful stream and I'm not quitting before I have that.

Originally I told my dad I want to take a year of school and

just tried to go pro in overwatch. Then he decided that

he's not taking a year off, he's dropping out of high school

because I don't want him to focus on making it within one

year, I want him to have all the time in the world to focus on

going pro because he believes he can do it and I believe in him,

too. The only reason I'm actually here is because of the

support from my father.

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I stream generally 12-15 hours every day. I don't follow

a set schedule. I am the kind of streamer that if I'm awake, I'm

probably streaming. I make sure I pushed myself every day so I

get used to, "I'm so exhausted, I can play one more game and so

my fan base is American, Korean and European so I want to be

able to hit all regions with my stream. Also, I prefer nighttime

a lot more, I don't like the sun as you can see from the garbage

taped all over my window.

It gets bright and I sleep during the days so it's hard

sleeping. Yeah, I covered my windows with that. I went

outside to get breakfast that I ordered yesterday I guess but

the last time I was outside in the sun, I can't remember. It's

been a while.

Got to go, mendo though, has got the attack visors, got the

nano boost ready to go and that is going to mean afreeca blue I

think is going to be stopped right here, right now.

Your first instinct is like, "how can any human being track

that well with a gun and follow me wherever I am.

Most people watching me, they can't play my level. I dedicated

my entire life to improving and getting better and practicing

and since this is a first-person shooter, my aim is much, much

better than the average player. It is something they can't

really ever experience without putting years of their life into

practice and see like, "wow, I never thought you could do this

with this character, I never thought this was possible."

It's as if you can watch Michael Jordan practice and

actually interact with him live. That's the unique aspect of

twitch that no other platform really has mastered yet.

How easy is it for football players to communicate to their

fans? I can start my stream, play the game and have all these

people, hundreds and thousands of questions in chat and I can

answer them as much as I want to. I still do the same thing I

do my entire life, I sit in my room and practice and now I'm

streaming myself doing it and I'm getting almost worshiped for

it. I have a lot of very supportive followers, they give

me very nice life to live but I tell me straight up every day

that right now there is no pro play for me so of course I am

focusing on streaming but it still until I get on a pro team

so I can focus on that again.

Probably the most compelling part of the overwatch league is

that we are going to have regionally-based teams. The pro

players will have a guaranteed minimum salary and guaranteed

benefits so we are trying to be very protective of up-and-coming

pro players that they can see this as a real career with a

real future.

Hell yeah, definitely want to be a part of it. Unfortunately

it's not that simple. I haven't been in tournament play for a

while so it's hard to get noticed. I am kind of streaming

and making sure I practice the best that I can but my end goal

is definitely being a part of overwatch league and winning

overwatch league, season one, season two and season three

onwards.

[Music]

The second orientation is the hedonist who relies on his or

her performance skills. So the name is not so much important

but what is really important is the ability of the streamer to

harness it for his own purposes. For instance, using grand theft

auto or mind craft really to experiment, in some way to

highlight the subjective and personal dimension of the

streamer.

The only two things I've been pretty much good at my entire

life is making people laugh and playing video games and I

thought, "hey, that's literally what that platform is all

about."

That shit happens, man. You know, bad engine, man. You know,

the [explicit] oil got into the [Explicit] engine and [explicit]

Sparked on fire and the car blowup, man. You know, so? Oh,

shit!

Grand Theft Auto role-play is interesting. The idea is people

watch people play this open world of crime and role play

characters. You can play as a police officer if you wanted to,

you could be a criminal, a postal truck driver, or you

could run a food truck. People have taken to using it to act

like their own crime dramas, police procedurals. It's

basically a really elaborate improv.

My character is this petty, impulsive, emotional criminal.

He believes he is capable of taking over and running the

entire city. He's never going to acquire that, though because

he's really not the smartest guy around.

Can you drive with one hand? Of course I can drive with

one hand, what do you think?

[Explosion]

[Laughter]

The gta server we play on is robbing banks, selling drugs and

stealing cars. Then after that it's whatever you can imagine.

You can essentially do.

[Group singing karaoke]

If you do get caught, you are obviously arrested by the police

officer and he brings you down to whatever police station is

nearest.

You might want to get rid of my shit on me, you know, before

I do something crazy.

It gets really intense, when you are running from the cops

and hiding in the car and they cop drives by, your heart is

literally pumping because the minute they see you, they are on

the radio and everybody is coming to your location and you

have to do your best to get away. It's the most fun I've

ever had in a game.

Why does he come for me?

[Grunting, stunned by taser] Going to have some subjects

outstanding as well.

Why does he come for me first all the time?

So sheriff Eli is probably the most popular gta role player

and he is somebody who role-plays a really hard-nosed

by the books cop.

If you surf, do not start addressing me with respect, I'm

going to put my foot so far up your ass that the water on my

knee will clench your [explicit] thirst. The last thing you will

ever think about is Mr. Dank weed because the first and last

thing on your mind will be my foot. That's how far up your ass

it will be. Do you get me, sir? Are you picking up what I'm

putting down?

I'm picking up what you're putting down, sir trooper.

The guy who does it is a former policeman himself. He

basically uses actual police procedures in this videogame.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and

will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right

to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be

appointed to you at no cost by the state.

When he comes on the game, he clocks in as his actual shift.

Sometimes it's almost hard to tell if he's role-playing or not

because it's that authentic, he gets so into it.

43, 44. Mr. Buddha, you [Explicit] idiot, get out of

here now! Leave this [explicit] scene!

He runs it like a jackrabbit, I'll say too. There is no quit

in that boy, not at all, none.

When he pulls you over and you hear his voice, the chill

runs down your spine if you are doing something wrong because it

you are about to get [explicit] by the law, man. It's pretty

insane.

[Car destroyed]

We are so so [explicit].

Motor vehicle fire, request additional. Move away from the

car, move away from the car, move, move, move! Stop there,

stop right there.

We are so so [explicit], dude.

Mr. Buddha, what the [Explicit] are you doing, sir?

He actually came to prominence on other people's

streams and he didn't even have good enough hardware to do it

himself.

My old PC when I first started playing Grand Theft Auto

was held together with bailing twine and tobacco spit.

The community raised money for him because they wanted him

to have a stream of his own so badly.

They raised almost $30,000 to buy equipment. It was mind

blowing.

People love this guy. He is this grumpy police officer man

who goes around yelling at people in a videogame.

Sir, we can't risk you turning into a [explicit]

Missile every single time the backstreet boys come on, sir.

You understand?

Yeah, yeah, man. Maybe I won't listen to the music while

I am driving, you know?

So I work full-time at lone star downtown. I am the cook

there, make steaks for a living. I hate it so much but I got to

pay bills, right? The way twitch works, it's the perfect dream

job and that is basically my goal is to do is do that

full-time.

Show music

finally, there is the companion. Here, the social

dimension is highlighted. Here the game is really just a

premise. Sometimes they just post the game and go into chat

to share with them opinions, ideas, memories. There are great

discussions, great debates.

I didn't even realize that they're gone. Guys, they're

gone, they're out of here. Oh, no they're back. I didn't

realize, I looked around and nobody is here and then they

just poked around the corner and scared the shit out of me.

I love video games and I love people. It all kind of comes

together with streaming.

"How do I find a girlfriend? I'm lonely." Well, Neo-fusion,

you don't do it watching my stream. What happened to the

music, man? Hold on, let's see. Let's pick another album. What

do you guys want to listen to?

A variety streamer basically streams obviously a variety of

games. All these different genres of games we just kind of

hop between them and get to know the communities. Whatever is

popular and people want to see and whatever I'm interested in I

kind of try to find a nice, little balance there.

All right, I've got to get back to battling, guys. I don't

want to purchase this. They always try to get me to buy

things, man. It's almost like it's a mobile game.

I have a mature stream. I'm very vulgar, I talk about

everything.

My favorite porn? Why do you guys got to ask that today? I'm

not doing it, guys. You [Explicit] trolls, man.

Because I kind of have an older audience and we are kind

of a little bit, very vulnerable, candid with each

other. I think that leaves people to feel they can be who

they are and I think that makes people comfortable.

I don't think I have the nicest boobs ever but I think

that they could probably compete with some celebrities out there.

Maybe Jonah hill.

Hoping that the people get something out of it and inspires

them or helps them or makes them laugh or any type of good vibes

or feelings.

My community especially I think because of the age, we

have a certain level of life experience where we are able to

help each other, understand each other, be empathetic. My

grandma, I lived with her for about a year, year and a half

while I was streaming so they got to know her, too.

I think you for taking care of my boy.

My grandma to me is like a second mom.

It's great to have you guys out there to support him and

Cora.

After we moved out, I think it was a year, year and a half

that my grandma ended up passing away.

It's okay, it's all right. It's all right, it's all right.

It's weird because I want to broadcast because it's kind of

my therapy and it's what I love to do but I didn't want to do

that because I didn't want to bring people into my psyche at

that point.

I've got to go, guys. I'm sorry. I tried to bring my

personal life into this but I got to go.

After kind of talking about it on Twitter with my audience,

they were like, "please, please. We don't care, just come

broadcast, chill, take it easy. We all understand." And they

did. We had 8000 people playing star wars battlefront and I was

halfway laughing as I was killing people with light sabers

and then the next moment crying because I lost my grandmother

and it was a roller coaster of emotions. That was the moment I

was able to grieve in front of thousands of people and then

accept that. That is a very, very emotional and very powerful

accept that. That is a very, very emotional and very powerful

thing to feel when you have that much support from that many

people.

Aj, thank you for the 31 months. Happy birthday, it's not

my birthday.

I like the fact that I get to interact with people, I like the

fact that I get to play video games and I like the fact that

it's helping me explore games in whole new ways that I never

thought possible before and at the same time I am able to

support myself and my family. It's everything that I love

about life basically, video games and people, family,

friends, stuff like that. It's a no-brainer.

What's the documentary about? I don't know, I don't know. I'm

not even sure they are doing a documentary, guys. That's what

they told me.

The companion, the hedonist, the professional. I think that

all of them are effective, especially because twitch TV is

a really complex jungle.

Yeah, there it is. Oh, that's a hanzo again. I hate him so

much. Yeah, there's me, told you.

I think that the main reason to watch a performance on twitch

TV is the interaction.

There are some people who, for them, this is their main

source of community. Watching a streamer play video games and

interacting with that community that forms around that person.

For something like my stream, it's really community-based so

people want to come back because they like the people there. They

just want a place where they feel safe and feel excepted.

They want to engage, they want to have fun, they want to

meet people that are just like them.

The community is there, it's not a comment. It's a chat.

People can just ask questions in chat and I can give the

response right away. Yeah, I think that connection on twitch

is a very unique.

I think what individuals have been looking for is the next

level of entertainment, one that is more personalized, one that

is more engaging. We see a lot of individuals working so hard

to get our attention and as consumers we like to feel like

we are appreciated. Our twitch streamer wants to interact with

us, we feel like we are much more validated. It's something

different that the film, music, any other real entertainment

industry has given us before.

Twitch TV I think triggered a turning point because it

requires different skills. Skills that are more difficult

to develop in comparison with YouTube. YouTube is good right

now but in 10 years, in five years, people will want more. I

don't want you to do a video, edit it and upload it on

YouTube. I want you there, I want you to be honest, I want

you to be with me.

[Laughter]

[Music]

Hey, urban, that is fantastic. Thank you so much for

the two-month resub, welcome back. Really appreciate it. Do

the dance.

My family has been very supportive, my close family. I

think my extended family maybe don't understand as much. My

aunt said to me, "what skills will you have gained from this

once nobody cares about twitch anymore?" I just kind of went,

"whoa". I don't think they realize how much you do, they

just see it as, I play games for a living. Being lazy and you

don't want to get a real job. They don't see the whole

business and moneymaking side of everything. It is a real job.

So the farther away that you go from that archetypal

white-collar job, the less likely you are perceived as

having a real job or a real career. What makes streaming

video games so different is that it is considered odd. People are

using so much of their time playing video games when they

could be a productive member of society.

It actually happened.

You are sitting around playing video games all day,

that can't be too hard, right? But no, it is definitely a job.

It is in many ways a grueling job.

Twitch is running your own TV network. You have to do

everything. You have to understand the streaming

technology software. You have to understand Internet protocols

and lighting. All the basics of photography, green screen. If

the school of hard knocks. You are going to spend a lot of

money.

Microphones or cameras or even just the cpu to make the

game run faster. For me, what makes twitch a real job is the

amount of investment that these individuals are putting in to

make the twitch experience the best it can be, not just for

themselves but mostly for their consumers. Also, we only just

see them playing the video games. What a lot of people

don't see is the 60-70 hours of work behind the scenes.

The grind never stops really. Even when I am off stream.

Let's say I stream for six hours one day, I would spend

another six hours easily working with my sponsor's trying to

figure out if I am doing okay, making sure my own social media

stuff was good. Worrying about my website.

Especially working from home, you are always in your office so

you are always trying to work.

Most of them have full-time jobs outside of their streaming

of twitch and working two jobs with the amount of work and

investment that they do.

I think the first year of making Internet content, my mom

once a week would bring up the fact that, "oh hey, remember

that job? Is it still on the table? That company, I think

they still want you to go back to them." When I showed her the

check, I got $1000 this month. "Well, you could be getting

$6000 a month." Eventually the number on that check overtook

what I was making and that's when my family was like alright,

it's bringing in the money, do whatever you want.

It used to be that parents are saying get off the couch and

get a job. Now they are saying to their kids, stay on the couch

and get a job.

The way that people make money on twitch is through

advertising so twitch sells the advertising and the creators get

a cut.

We can play ads, up to three minutes of ads every eight

minutes so we get paid based on impressions and how long people

watch those ads.

If you are an affiliate or a partner on twitch, you can get

subscriptions so people can sub to you for a monthly amount.

People pay five dollars, $10 or $25 a month.

They get special perks, special badges, special emojis

they can use in chat.

Sometimes you get to play with the streamer once a month

because you are a sub.

There is a constant drive to try to bring in new viewers, you

have to, have to, have to. It's a grind.

You might drop 20 subscribers in a day just because people

don't watch you anymore, they can't watch your timeslot

anymore.

Your numbers start dropping, if your numbers start dropping,

you stop making money and if you stop making money, what's the

point?

It's really common for streamers to get approached by

gaming companies to try to get some marketing and attention on

an upcoming game.

So sometimes we have long-term sponsorships that will

last a year, two years. Still get into contracts. Sometimes

it's a one-shot thing. "Hey, will you stream this game today

from 2-4?"

They are called sponsored streams so you will put

#sponsored by said company and then you will play for a certain

amount of hours and they will pay you per hour that you play

the game on your stream. I have done that a few times and it's

like rent is paid for six months. It is more than what a

doctor would make in an hour, it's kind of ridiculous.

The rates I have seen for the biggest guys range from $1000 an

hour to up to $4000 an hour.

More so recently a larger portion of income is from

sponsorships as brands start to get into the gaming and

streaming space.

Sponsorships can be a bigger amount of your income, it's

usually a bigger amount, the bigger you are. For example,

currently hyperx and asus sponsor me.

I am using a 4-790k by intel, I'm using a 970 gtx by nvidia.

Here is a link to go and buy it. So I get to promote their

products, and return obviously they pay you monthly alert you

have any type of contract with them.

You guys can have the same viewers, the same notoriety but

if he is doing sponsored content and you are not, he is

quadrupling your income.

If you are full-time and been doing it a while, that's usually

where the biggest chunk of your income will come from.

Revenue, we will rounded up so it's easy. It is 40% and 60%

sponsorships. I am well on the way of making seven figures.

As of right now, I have about 1.3 million followers around

there. One might stream starts to get going in the late night,

I get around 8,000-10,000 viewers every night.

Show music

the subscriber count, I've been steady for a decent amount

of times at 10,000 subs. Sponsorships, especially if you

do six month or one year deals, that's going to be there like a

salary. I'm blessed to be in the position I am. Yeah. That's

pretty much it, yeah.

Now explain the business part of this now. There are reports

that you are making more than half $1 million a month. I

believe much of that coming from twitch and the twitch prime

subscribers. Here are getting 50% of that revenue when people

are watching you.

It's very, it's a good lifestyle.

The drop off from that tier is fairly sharp. You have people

who are drawing audiences of thousands of people and they

will maybe pull in mid five figures, maybe upper five

figures depending on how hard they hustle.

Viewers also donate small amounts of money every now and

then and you get a message across. "Hey, I've been watching

your stream for so long. Here is my appreciation for it."

Basically to say I like your content, I want you to keep

doing what you do, I want to support you.

Someone in chat was like, "let's get this man a new

computer." within 15 minutes, I think I got 126 donations and

made $4000. I'm like, why, why? That's insane, that is so much

money to give to me, man. You don't even know me but I

appreciate it.

You are into it, you are part of his or her team from a

certain point of view.

Especially for smaller streamers, especially for female

streamers. Donations will be 90% of their income.

You go through months where you will get $800 less than you

are used to and then can't make rent this month, hopefully next

month will be better. Sometimes it is, sometimes it's not.

I think part of the appeal of donating beyond supporting a

streamer that you like lies in the fact that they can't not

notice you if you do that.

You see the thing pop up and you see the sound cue that your

kind of training people. It is like a pavalovian response.

It really kind of gives that sense of when you donate, you

can have that appreciation factor given to you, it gives

you a nice, little endorphin boost.

You are no longer this face in the crowd. Obviously other

people want to get in on that and start building on itself

because you want to be the most noticeable one.

Probably the most effective metaphor is the street artist.

It is the same, it is up to you as a viewer to say yes or no.

From a traditional perspective, it doesn't make sense. Well,

wait a minute. I am giving you the content and if you like it,

you may want to give me some money. What? It works. It works

and don't trust me, see the statistics. It works.

Ask them politely to get off the boat. If they don't respond

or don't get off the boat, feel free to do one of two things.

[Music]

[Ocean sounds]

Ray?

[Scrubbing]

Holy crap.

Holy shit.

Wait, what?

Nariis donated 10 grand.

Holy shit.

No wonder he is so quiet, he's probably tripping right

now.

If somebody were to walk up to you on the street and open up

a case and say here's 10 k, it's yours, what would you do? You

would be like, what's the catch? No, you can just take it, it's

yours. There is a little bit of worry and then you are excited

but you don't want to be too excited because you don't know

the situation, is this real, am I being trolled, my god I am

going to roll around in one's on my bed. Another thing is

personal history. I lived out of my car for three months,

showering. I've got no shame, showering on beaches, I would

sneak into gyms and it was miserable. It was miserable. If

I had five or $20, that shit was a gold mine for me, you know? So

having someone drop 10k in your lap, it's like what the

[explicit]. What do you do? I think it was a week worth of

talking with him back-and-forth and try to cover your bases and

make sure this is something they really want. It's just nuts,

it's nuts, man.

They see value in what they are watching. Sort of mutual

exchange. I think it is another way to participate and moreover

it's an opportunity to endorse. I have donated across the

board on twitch in total number, $15,000, $16,000 to streamers. I

couldn't really understand why people supported streamers, I

couldn't get that, wrap my mind around it. I still remember the

day I decided, "hey, you know what? I'm going to start getting

more involved in this. This is really cool." Dr. Disrespect

would probably be one of the top streamers that I watched

consistently. I decided to throw him a big donation. It was $1000

and his reaction just, it felt good, man. I really can't

explain that thrilled because there is certainly an adrenaline

rush when it comes to donating streamers.

Whoa! 21 minutes ago, hammyjay donated $1000.

Hammyjay, Jesus! Where did that come from? Chat, how come you

didn't tell me? Chat, how come you didn't tell me?

I saw the chat, the reactions and it was a high. You know what

I mean? Believe it or not, it's very thrilling. Then after, I

felt good about it. I felt good I was giving back to someone who

gives me day to day content.

Where the hell did that come from, hammyjay? You insane,

ponytail wearing recluse video gaming machine. God, you look so

damn good, hammy. I mean, I look good, too. Look at me.

I was kind of hooked, I really was. I told myself I

wanted to support this guy more and the donations started going

in. I have given $8950 to Dr. disrespect on twitch. I am

number two I believe on the list.

The hierarchy of top donators, they will put it on

their page or even some in their stream overlay of the top

donators. Most of the people watching these streams play

video games. They like competition, they like goals. A

streamer basically can game-ify donating to them and make more

money that way because people want to compete so it becomes a

game within the stream to give money. It's not necessarily

exploitative but it can be.

[Music]

Whoa, start talking to -

[music]

Wait, hold on. Okay, all right dude. Alright dude. Which

means he moves up on the list, right under Mr. Capt. 22. Oh

yeah, you are above him now. You are now the second highest

donator on the channel, mrcaptain22 by the way, dude.

You also get that notoriety. I mean, you basically end up on

a list of top donors. You are essentially in the credits

sequence of this person's life. Or like a dick measuring

contest sometimes. I hate to use that term or playing chicken.

Some people give to the church, I give to streamers. You know

what I mean? That's how I think about it. As crazy as that

sounds. Because of donating and supporting channels, I have met

great people so I don't regret any of it, not at all.

We have kickstarters, we have indiegogo, there are a lot of I

would say articulation of this kind of turning point. I think

it is really a great example of how audiences are changing. They

are not passive, they are active and sometimes also want to

contribute to what you like. Actually it's great because it

tells us that really twitch TV is I would say more adult than

what we think.

[Music]

Right now, I live with my mom in Toronto, Canada. She has been

really supportive of this entire journey but she watches a lot of

talk shows and she hears stories where a sports celebrity or

movie celebrity has a manager that takes advantage of them and

she is a bit worried that might happen to me but I have

reassured her that knowing Chris for such a long time now.

Disguised toast is the smartest person I know by far.

He is mostly tied to just hearthstone streaming and

content.

Thank you hearthstone interaction.

Chris has invited me to stay at the off-line TV house in los

Angeles.

Being in a one bedroom apartment can get a little

depressing so I think him being out here, meeting other talent

is very beneficial for his career.

Entertainment gaming is centered around California as

most entertainment industries do. Down there, I can

collaborate, talk to team owners, game owners, game

companies. Everyone is there so it's going to be really fun.

Streamers in themselves and I don't mean this in a negative

way, they need a lot of help living. They don't learn the

basics of taking care of themselves because a lot of them

start gaming when they are very, very young. Like eight years old

or 10 years old and kind of grew into a space where they became a

pro player or content creator.

A lot of people ask me the same question about why did I

create this house, why can't you have people come in to do this

normally? The fact of the matter is everyone is too lazy. So we

struggle to get people on time for shoots in the house. I had

played professional league of legends for about four years and

at some point in my gameplay, I had a season where I did really,

really bad and decided to go streaming full time and stick to

content creation. Streaming and YouTube has been the most

profitable way to make money in this scene. I think even now if

you are a top player and go full-time into streaming, you

will make more money.

So this is our meeting room/family room where we do all

of our YouTube reviews and house meetings. This is the kitchen

where ironically no cooking gets done. This is the dinner table

where none of us actually sit and eat. This is Lily's room,

she's not home right now but Timmy is here. Hey Timmy, what's

up? Get back in the room.

I started off with league of legends but I've been trying to

branch out more so I've been doing a lot of music, art, irl,

other types of games and talking to people I guess. For me, art

and music are very, very important parts of my life and

streaming helps me real-time interactive my audience and show

them what I draw or show them what I play real-time.

[Playing piano]

[Music]

She's streaming right now.

Usually I play league, I also do some fun little things,

whether it be cosplay streams or I have done on American idol

type of thing. Really anything that is fun or entertaining for

my viewers. I come from a really, really small town so in

my high school I knew literally no other girls who played games

or enjoyed the same ones that I did so I wanted to make more

friends online. I saw what streamers were doing, how they

could interact with others, make friends with other streamers and

play with them so I came out here, decided to stay for a

couple months and see how much I liked it and totally fell in

love. I think it's been like, if anything, the most important

thing for my career.

This is mendo's room. Mendo? Oh, mendo's here. Yo, we're

doing a house tour. Oh wait, you're sleeping.

I was like, I need a place to stay for a week and a week

turned into a month of sleeping on the couch and a month and a

half of sleeping on the couch so now I moved in here and

hopefully if things work out I can stay even longer until I

find a team.

We have fedmyster's room. He is our in-house

cameraman/editor.

It's always been my dream to do something in film. I am very

passionate about gaming so when someone says you can make film

stuff with a bunch of gamers.

Then we have scarra's room. He's streaming right now, too.

These mid-game.

So for me, I don't have too much of a social life to be

honest. I traded success for work as opposed to success in

social life and I think that's okay.

When you stream and work and live in your bedroom, it can get

very depressing at times. You lack a lot of motivation and get

out of touch with things. Sometimes you need an extra push

to, "hey, let's go out to dinner, let's go out to this

event, hang out and do things." I think the social aspect is

very beneficial.

What's it like living with people here? It's kind of messy

honestly. We have a big, big problem with Amazon boxes

because no one goes out of the house to shop for things. We

probably get 4-10 Amazon deliveries a day. They buy

everything from a comb to shampoo to food online. So we

actually had to rent a 40 foot container and just stuff it with

boxes. It got the job done, we got rid of the boxes and now the

boxes are starting to accumulate again.

You are so mean. Do it.

I literally did not, what?! Oh my god.

Chris is the manager and cofounder of off-line TV. None

of us would be here without him. He doesn't feel like a boss to

me, he feels more like a brother. Did I say brother, wow,

that just came out.

He's really helpful because he is kind of like also sort of

the house manager. He handles more of the adult-y stuff.

He does everything, you know? He talks to everyone in the

house, he is the most responsible person in the house

for sure. He takes out the trash every week which I have done

once and I almost messed it up. He's my day by day manager,

he tells me everything I need to do, all my responsibilities,

handle sponsorships, produces a lot of my content and for the

most part tries to make my life easier so I don't have to focus

too much on doing anything but just being talent.

The fact I can have someone else make sure that everything

else runs smoothly really makes my life 10 times easier. That's

why I appreciate my manager so much.

We just want to grab a few minutes.

That's pretty good. We went from 0 to 100 pretty quickly.

Streamers, a lot of them are just a guy in a room by

themselves. They are suddenly so much more successful than they

have ever dreamed of being doing something they have always

wanted to do and are terrified it's going to go away. As

quickly as it came, it can go away because of something that

they do or say that they don't even understand.

I never really considered what happens, what happens when

I get so big or when I have 10,000 subscribers. Our goal is

to provide a staff that takes care of that for them so they

can focus on the broadcast.

Opg is online performance group. We're a full-service

management company for life streamers, you tubers, modern

gaming entertainment influencers.

It tickles agencies when we say it's because we talk about

our clients and they are like, "oh, you mean the streamers are

your clients." Yes, that's who we work for.

Opg has been a big help for us. They are able to sort of not

only bring us opportunities, but help us sort of argue our case.

Power rangers, wherever they go drop a really nice crowds. We

want the power rangers at the event?

I mean, it's probably cheaper to get a power ranger than angry

Joe.

Right, let me put this on as an action item.

Power rangers vs. Influencers.

[Laughter]

Helping them understand what their time is worth, what

sponsorships or promotions on their channels should be charged

at and helping them execute that whole process. The influencer

industry has picked up in a really meaningful way. Two days

ago, we announced nine new clients, this brings us to 23

and probably by the end of the year we will have at least got

to 30 or something.

They ended up selling over a quarter ton of your coffee. They

are super happy, we are talking to them about how we expand and

grow that sponsorship next year. If you have any razor inside

products nearby.

Let me just scratch my eye real quick.

[Laughter]

Cohhcarnage who is one of our first clients was playing a game

called banished. A little indie game made by one person and so I

come in, he's playing and I said, "hey cohh, what's this?"

He said you should just stop watching the stream right now

and go buy this game. I know you're going to love it from the

other games that you like, just buy it and immediately I am

loading up steam, get of the purchase page and I am about to

hit that button, the buy button and I said what the hell am I

doing? Some dude I have never met on the Internet just told me

to and I'm about to spend $20. I hit the button and I said wow,

this is something new. Companies need to define things, they need

to define their commodities and what they are working with. The

term influencer as a person who has influence has become a term

for whatever things that they have, whatever they align with

or have affinity towards. There is a tremendous amount of desire

by their followers to pick that up. When Brad Pitt holds up a

can of coke, it's like, super obvious that he is there for the

ad but when a streamer talks about their product that they

care about and what they believe in and why their game is good,

it's authentic and that authentic recommendation is

worth more than any other form of advertising that we have ever

seen.

This laptop is less than 10 pounds, really portable and am

surprised by how far processors have come in that time. You go

like this to get your shield, I go like this and I get a laser

ax. What the?

The thing about intel is that their target consumer audience

is definitely gamers. When they are targeting someone like

scarra who is an ex-pro player and now full-time streamer. They

are basically targeting the exact audience they want.

There is a lot of promotional value that comes with streaming,

especially with big streamers. It's not like when you see the

12k viewer count, it's not like that 12k is the same people the

entire time so people are constantly going in and out. You

have to realize how much people that actually is throughout a 10

hour stream. There is a lot of value.

Game companies can amplify a lot of their early marketing by

engaging with streamers. Not just the big ones, the middle

tier actually are very influential with their audience.

So a streamer that has 100 concurrents is very responsive

to their chat and if they say, "hey, this game is really

awesome." there is a very high chance that their fans will buy

the game.

At Sony, we would just see the affect when someone was

streaming our game, the sales would spike. We would get

real-time graphs and you could watch it. It was amazing.

Before they might have thought we need the brands more

than they need us but gradually that is starting to shift.

Developers are debating right now how to make your game more

spectacular from the twitch TV audiences. That's huge, not just

doing a good game, but developing a game that is

entertaining to watch.

In this day and age, you don't design a video game and

not think of the streaming experience at the same time.

There's a lot of high-level decisions that you make about

how your game is presented and how your game is going to look

on stream. We are doing things like a third person spectator

smart camera, we are doing a team uniform system, also doing

things for our broadcasters and analysts like giving them a

top-down 2-d interactive map so that they can follow the action

and relay it to us, the viewer at home. Even more exciting is

the thought of how do you get people watching overwatch or

whatever videogame who don't want to play it or don't have an

interest in playing at all? But it is such a great viewing

experience that they want to spend time watching it.

A lot of games have been much more thoughtful, creative and

engaged with streamers as they launch. So pubg is a recent

example that is probably the best example that we have.

[Guns shooting]

Battle royal genre, it's a last man standing death match.

100 players or more battle it out into an ever decreasing play

zone and that's pretty much it. It is like land, loot, survive.

Some other e sports are a little too complicated for people who

don't play games. We seemed to have kind of captured people's

imaginations. When you see 10 players left, you get excited

because you might see someone when a chicken dinner.

It is really well-suited to a casual player but also has a

high skill ceiling and I think that has created this mass

appeal. I don't want to say for a fact that this is the most

popular genre on twitch but when you go in there, twitch is

ordered by the number of concurrent viewers and they are

always at the top.

Streaming and the streaming platforms is almost like the

canary in the coal mine that lets you know what is going on

with this game, is it going to be a hit or not? I think

something that pubg did very elegantly is they allowed for

high paced moments or fast action moments to happen and

then they allowed for the action to slow down at times. For a

streamer, it also gives them that interactivity time.

Time that the content creator can interact with people in

their chat because that makes up a large part of streaming. I

think it is this new kind of level of marketing that

companies need to look into and value because it is worthwhile.

I think there is a really great, healthy partnership

between games and streaming and streamers. When one is

successful, we are all successful together.

Some of our streamers started off really small and now they

have thousands of viewers and we want to do that, we want to get

the whole community to rise with the game.

He saw a couple of really big guys like Dr. Disrespect,

summit, shroud commanding 30, 40,000 concurrent viewers and

that was pretty unprecedented and then fortnite came out and

ninja broke every single record in the book. I heard him say on

stream that he knew right away this game was going to be huge.

Ninja streams almost all day, every day and he is getting six

figures every single time he streams. He personally had over

660,000 when he co-streamed with Drake. Since then, he has become

the largest influencer in our industry.

I don't know how many of you guys have twitch prime but if

you guys don't know what that is, see if you have it click on

the subscribe button above the stream and see if you have a

twitch prime sub available. If you've never used it before and

don't know what it is and you definitely have one available,

everyone has one month of twitch prime to test, a trial if you

will. If anyone has Amazon prime, you can link your Amazon

prime to your twitch account and get a twitch prime for free.

I saw last month that he had 150 million social interactions

which puts him at the number one in terms of social interactions

across all sports. As well as e sports, number two is Cristiano

Ronaldo at somewhere around 144 million. His level of influence

is absolutely remarkable and it all started with fortnite. When

you find a game that makes it and is emerging, you can be sort

of relatively unknown streamer and be at the top of the

viewership because it is sorted by the total number of viewers

at that time and if they game blows up and you continue to sit

at the top, it can definitely make your career. There is a lot

more to it than that.

I remember when this was a pokeémon stream. This has

literally never been a pokeémon stream. Not even for one day.

I can't even imagine starting right now on twitch. Such a

saturated market. There are so many streamers. They look at

this many followers, I can do that, that's easy and they need

to learn that it is a process instead of, "I am going to play

games one day and all of a sudden I am going to be rich."

Everyone says the first three months are the worst because

that is you just playing a game and talking to yourself with no

one in your chat.

Off and their spawn or something, still.

Do not under any circumstances go to a stream,

watch a streamer, large streamer get a donation like five or

$10,000 and assume that is going to happen to you.

If you are on the side of the street selling your wares,

everyone selling the same thing. What makes you interesting? Oh,

you got wacky, inflatable balloons in front of your stand.

You got that draw.

There is only one or two streamers every six months that

breaks out and starts to do big things like Dr. Disrespect is a

great one. Kind of blew up out of nowhere and he plays a

character.

You want the eagle dreams? You want the eagle dreams?

You can really use your body language, use your in game

action, use a lot of different tactics, it doesn't matter. What

matters is that you are able to give yourself an identity.

[Music]

I'm very shy so I want to make sure that they don't see

that as much, they see kind of... so I have to force myself

to make them feel more comfortable.

The term emotional labor is a sociological term that came out

in the 1980s that refers to how you use your emotions in your

work. If you present yourself as really engaging and happy, you

are more likely to get people to follow you or subscribe to you.

But that is something that in order to be a top twitch

streamer, you have to do every day or at least on a schedule.

This somehow is a toilet. Could you hand me a wet wipe?

What are you guys doing for dinner later if you want to stop

by and maybe get a burger?

That's hard to maintain, that always on all the time. A

comedian is up on stage, does his set. How long is his set? An

hour, hour and a half? We did this 4 to 8 hours every day,

seven days a week.

You don't get personality sick days as it were, that can

cause a lot of stress for a worker because they might think

they are not doing a good job because they are not meeting the

expectations for their consumers.

I think consistency is the most important thing in the

streaming world.

Started streaming seven days a week almost immediately. As

soon as I started doing that, I started seeing to viewers, five

viewers, 20 viewers, 50 viewers, 100 viewers, 200 viewers and

that was super exciting.

I don't ever look at my viewer count, ever. I think you

should stream the same way no matter what viewer count you

have.

A lot of the large streamers, if you talk to them and say,

"hey, my numbers are falling, man." They will say something

that I consider to be one of the most ignorant statements out of

anybody who is involved with twitch. "Don't worry about the

numbers, man. Stop worrying about the numbers." They have to

worry about their numbers, they have to worry about them to some

extent. It is a constant numbers game you are playing, that is

the addiction. Trying to figure out whatever you have to do to

keep those numbers up.

The growth of your channel is directly linear to how many

hours you put in. Right? If you put in double the hours, you

have doubled the chance of the growth. When I first started

streaming, it was like I didn't go home for Thanksgiving, I

didn't do anything but stream for the first two years.

When they are trying to make it especially they forsake

friends and family and significant others for a shot at

something that may not work out. I basically ignored my whole

family for three years. I realized if I'm not there, my

viewers are going to go to somebody else.

On twitch, it's about your viewers. Whether that is in

regards to the way you are ranked on various game screens

or in regards to the sponsorships you are able to get

or how much people are donating. All of it is based on your

viewers.

This past year I have taken it upon myself to spend a lot of

time with my family and a lot of times it is hard for communities

to understand that because a lot of people look at us like

robots.

Everybody just says work all the time, stream all the time,

do whatever, that's the grind. If you just do that all the

time, it usually has a negative impact on your health.

Carpal tunnel and rsi are really, really big fears of

mine.

It got to the point where I couldn't game for more than

three or four hours without really bad pain in my wrist.

Holding my hand the entire time developed one-sided muscles

so I have to counteract that by doing wrist exercises with a

weight to build muscles here to prevent the pain. Doing these

makes my wrist exhausted which means I can't play for a good

30, 40 minutes. I can't do it during the stream and I can do

them after the stream but generally I go from streaming to

fall asleep instantly. And what pays my rent, pays my food and

also the only thing I really, really love doing in life so

losing that and losing the potential to do that is more

than one thing.

There was a time I went and checked that I didn't leave this

house for well over a month. With that comes a lot of

psychological problems like depression, anxiety and all that

stuff because lacking sunlight, not smelling fresh air. If NASA

ever wanted to hire me to be an astronaut or something, I would

probably totally do it because I hadn't left in quite a while.

[Music]

I was making the rationalization that once I

become famous, once I really worked hard at this, I would

make enough money where I can take some time off. That's crap,

that ain't going to ever happen. That carrot I was chasing on a

stick was just in front of me the whole time and I never had a

chance to get it.

[Music]

I'd say the biggest physical challenge of being a streamer is

just sitting all day. When I first became full-time and I was

used to walking to work 25 minutes and walking 25

minutes back and being on my feet all day, going from that to

sitting all day, I gained a lot of weight. I was like, I don't

feel very good about my body.

One of the things that can happen if I said the entire time

and not move is blood clots can form.

Sometimes it is even hard to make a proper dinner.

Two or three years ago, went in for my regular checkup and

they said, "hey, you are prediabetic." Well, the key word

to me was pre. So okay, I'm fine still, right? He was like,

"yeah, you just got to watch it. Get some more exercise." Okay,

whatever doc. I was totally, totally, totally in denial but I

didn't care at that point because I needed to work.

Twitch streaming can be very dangerous. If they go for too

long or go for too long consistently because there are

cases where people will do long marathons of streaming.

Marathon gaming sessions are brutal.

People love seeing them and will support you a lot for them

but of course sitting at your computer for 24 hours takes a

big toll on you.

So if you are there, you are engaged and playing a game and

really fun talking, laughing with everybody and you have to

go to the bathroom. You get up, walk away and come back you will

lose viewers.

I started in the morning but I didn't snack through the night

which was my biggest mistake and I got to I think six or seven in

the morning and I tried to have an energy drink to push through

the last few hours and I went super pale and I felt really

nauseous and I couldn't see straight, my monitor was kind of

vibrating. I was like, I really don't feel well guys. People

were like, "you have three hours left, you can do it, you can do

it."

It is this very tenuous dynamic of on one hand I don't

want to die but on the other hand I got to keep going, got to

get those views.

I called it at 21 hours and I was very happy I did because I

have never felt that awful in my whole life.

Those kind of streams would kill me. Literally the next day

I would be exhausted but I would do it again. There are some

major consequences when it comes to trying to keep a schedule

like that.

People go for days and days pushing themselves in these ways

where they stay up too long and don't rest very much and putting

a lot of substances into their body to keep themselves going

and in a couple of particular cases that has resulted in

death.

I'm not playing my play through until the 26th. We will

be doing a 24 or maybe 36 hour plus stream of dark souls three.

Take it easy everybody, love your faces, love your butts,

thank you very much for a fantastic night. Peace.

Death of dalsarius, that was the linchpin for me, the turning

point of all of it. Dalsarius used to raid me every morning. I

was like completely heartbroken that that had happened. I was

like, man, I can't believe he was so young. After that, I was

like really, okay, he streamed all the time. I should probably

get myself checked out. I went to the doctor and they did some

initial testing and they said yes, you have a 100% blockage on

the backside of your heart which is okay in a way but you have

75% blockage on what is called the widow maker. Three arteries

that sit on the top of your heart and if they get blocked

off, you have a massive heart attack and there is no coming

back from it so you are done. We need surgery now. I said I am

not ready for surgery, I don't know what you are talking about.

They take a vein from your leg, it goes from here all the way

down and that becomes the artery of your heart and it bypasses

the clogged arteries. So I got an extra pipe in my heart. It is

like a secret level in Mario.

I would say that yes, twitch does have a responsibility to at

least be aware of the fact that people don't necessarily take

the best care of themselves with regards to how they stream.

Because twitch doesn't have any safeguards on the amount of

time that you put behind the camera, there is nothing saying

you can't hurt yourself doing this.

They build a platform that basically encourages the type of

lifestyle. Even if it is not directly codified, even if it

doesn't say do this, the way it is built basically says do that.

What if they had a pop-up? Something simple as that, they

don't shut off your stream but you have been streaming for 12

hours now, have you gone and walked around lately? Or hey,

tell your viewers you are taking a 10 minute break and get up and

walk. After my surgery was over, my community really supported

me. They did a go find me and gave me a few grand to help pay

some of the bills after because I wasn't streaming at all

anymore. I wrote on Twitter saying, "hey guys, I don't know

when I am coming back if I am ever coming back but thanks for

the memories." I think it was a great decision to move away from

twitch. You start appreciating the world a lot more. At some

point, I had to go this almost killed me. The kids basically

had to put up with me being a jerk for a while while I was

streaming. Yes, I missed a lot of time with them but I am

making up for it now.

[Music]

Twitch chat in and of itself is half amazing and half

terrifying.

Chat is a really big part of the social interactions on

twitch and with chat, the Internet comes unsavory people

sometimes.

Twitch chat has become kind of notorious and synonymous with

the idea of harassment or people being shitty. Big twitch chats,

this one with thousands and thousands of people, they are

moving so quickly for one that you can barely see what is

happening so people try to get attention. You get to see

exactly what these people think of you. In many cases, it's not

entirely flattering.

We got to roll soon.

I've been thinking about killing you in real life lately.

That's not nice, homey. Jesus, all I do is play video games,

man.

It's something that we kind of let it roll off our skin.

You should see a streamer's inbox, it's actually quite

terrifying.

Being on twitch and being behind a username is very

empowering. No one knows who you are.

They feel free to attack, they feel free to command, they

feel free to make points against race, religion.

It is difficult at times to be both black and a woman on an

open platform where you can see my face.

I don't think a day goes by where I am not called a

[explicit], a [explicit], a [Explicit], a moron, an idiot.

Wow, you are quite an incredible [explicit].

Thanks man.

Sometimes you get repeat offenders that will just see who

you are following or see who you are hosting and harass that

streamer based off your channel. Twitch has built-in basically

the global emotes and there is one of a speed runner named tri

hex, it's called the trihard emote. So people just spam it

basically any time a black person appears.

Would you consider a bastion strat like the one we just saw a

right now, would you consider that a good strat or

disrespect? You let me know in the chat when you are done with

all those trihard emotes and in the meantime we will go ahead

and send it over to our 'casters, uber and Mr. X.

I don't know about you guys at home but I would call that

strat appalling.

It actually didn't start out with that connotation but, you

know, all it takes is one person to set it off, people get

creative and put that emote with the watermelon emotes, the fried

chicken and playing on really negative stereotypes about

streamers of color.

[Music]

[Music]

I actually know some friends of mine who have banned that

emote. If you are trying to type it in, it will show up as

asterisks just because of how toxic that emote got.

If most of the emotes of various people are white, then

of course it's going to be disproportionate and you will

end up in a situation where people use it that way. Again,

it is one of those things where twitch has these systems, they

end up accidentally and subtly pushing people to do things

certain ways.

There are very different reactions to female streamers.

There is either, "oh, so cool there is a girl streaming I am

going to go say hey." Or like, "she is using her body for

attention."

"I am faking my voice for attention, she is doing this for

attention." when I play games, I don't play well they will say it

like, "oh, who carried you to this level or you are just

getting boosted."

There are some really inappropriate things that guys

say and that is kind of the difference between the

harassment you get as a female streamer and the harassment you

get as a male streamer.

I've been called a [explicit] way more times than a normal

person would be.

Robotic voice: I hope you know your abc because I want to

give you the fifth letter of the alphabet.

[Laughter]

You want to give me e?

Just today I was wearing this, just a regular t-shirt and

some guy came in and said, "f you for using your sex appeal to

get ahead." I am literally just wearing a t-shirt. Just because

I'm a lady doesn't mean I am using sex appeal.

[Explicit], [explicit]. They will say things like I want to

eat your [explicit]. That sort of thing. Touch you and take

your clothes off.

Look, look at the chat. Look at the chat. Look at that. Look

at that shit. I don't deserve that, I know I don't deserve

that.

It just sucks when they say I am bad at the game, just wrong.

People will say mean stuff in part because they want to be

noticed and that is a very good way to get noticed. If you get 1

million compliments and one person says, "oh yeah, that

person is awful, I hate them." You are going to remember that

person.

I know I have had a situation where I have had to get someone

ip banned, they were just harassing me constantly and

twitch helped me out in that respect.

Just over a year ago, we started testing this tool called

automod. It is a machine learning moderation tool.

I think that is one of the best things that they have

created, it automatically kind of flags certain messages as

they may be inappropriate and hides them until one of your

moderators can say okay this message is good to show or this

message shouldn't show.

We built a number of tools early on that allows a

broadcaster to anoint community members to help them moderate

their chat so they are allowed to kick people out from chat,

drop the ban hammer, purge lines from chat.

I need people that can handle that situation without me having

to stop what I'm doing, interrupt the broadcast to take

care of this.

It's a volunteer position, they are not getting paid. "Hey,

I like your stream, I want to help you out." People being

willing to go through all that effort for you is really

humbling.

I can't imagine what it would be like without mods if I took

it off for one day.

It's great to see how these comments are completely

destroyed.

That's why they get swords.

Boys and girls, men and women, altogether in at least a

narrow effect of this kind of behavior. To be ready for any

kind of distraction.

I think we are getting swatted, what in the world.

Except from swatting of course.

Put your hands up, put your hands up!

Get on the ground, get on the ground!

Put your hands behind your back!

Don't you [explicit] move, you hear me boy?

Swatting refers to making a fake emergency call and trying

to make it as crazy or as scary as possible that it actually

forces the police to bring in the SWAT team.

Police department is kind of required at that point to treat

it as a major situation, especially with all the

shootings and everything that go on in America.

They come in with their guns out, ready to go.

So basically you as the person calling the SWAT team get

to see how the streamer reacts and see what's going down. It

was you that one who did it so now all the other viewers are

watching your game that you just played on everybody.

We got a phone call from the police saying come out slowly

one by one or something like that so when we opened the door

to our apartment, we see all these police officers with guns

and everything pointed at us. Come out slowly with your hands

behind your head and walk backwards. One at a time and we

are like are you serious?

If they were to walk into a situation where it seemed like

the person was a threat because the information that they are

going on suggests that they are and somebody did something a

little wrong, somebody could get seriously hurt.

Walk this way! Walk this way!

When they got there, 28-year-old Andrew Finch came to the door. Police say he moved

suddenly and an officer fired. Now Finch had no weapons, not

only was he unharmed, he had nothing to do with the online

gaming dispute.

A reporter that used to work for us interviewed somebody who

claimed to be a swatter. This person claimed to be 15 or 16

years old, there was this very clear disconnect between the

action they were performing and their understanding of the

consequences of those actions. Discussing on almost these

sociopathic terms but probably is not a sociopath, just a kid.

It's an instance where somebody can have a really profound

effect on somebody who they regard as famous or successful

but the potential cost of it is so high.

They don't get a proper sense of how popular they are because

they sit in a bedroom and stream for 10 hours a day and interact

with chat. Yes, you see their concurrent numbers, could be

5000, 10,000, 20,000 people watching them but that doesn't

really register.

I've done the one meet and greet recently in Shanghai. I

did it for two hours nonstop and eventually had to cut the line

off because people kept lining up for photos. I didn't know

people in China knew who I was.

Yeah, whenever we go to an event, where did all these

people come from? Who are these people? I'm like they are your

fans.

The biggest meetup I've gotten was in Toronto. I didn't

think I was going to get that many people but when I got

there, the crowd was insane and the security actually came and

told us you guys need to get out. It is a privately owned

property, you need to get out. I was like oh crap, okay. I was

like where do I go? He said, "i don't care, just cross the

street and get walking." I'm like okay. So we start walking

and there is this huge crowd of people following us and I had to

stop and turn back and yell at them, "guys, it's not you, it's

me. I messed this up but you guys have to stop following me

or I'm going to get in trouble."

I'm really sorry, I didn't think this through.

[Crowd cheering]

We have to disperse, this is not legal.

[Laughter]

For a lot of people, their favorite streamers are famous to

them. Theoretically if you gave enough money to your favorite

streamer, you can have a phone call. It would be for one of us

being able to get on the phone with our favorite movie star or

something.

There usually is very much an expectation to be rewarded or

compensated in some sort of way. One of the twitch streamers was

saying here is this individual, he has donated a lot of money

but he wants to talk to me more and I'm very uncomfortable with

what he is saying but I feel bad. Most people would say no,

you can't be creepy, just because you have donated tons of

money.

Robotic voice: Skirts go up, pants go down, body to body, skin to skin.

When it's stiff stick it in. The longer it's in, the

stronger it gets.

Stop.

Robotic voice: It goes in dry, comes out -

stop.

But in this meritocracy capitalism society that we have,

the customer is always right. That's very much enforced so

it does put twitch streamers in that precarious place in which

they want to support their biggest fans, their highest

donors because if they are going to donate that high amount of

money, they will probably do it again and show the appreciation.

This same person, look at all these donations and they are all

so rude and intrusive and obsessive. Almost $500 just to

be an asshole in my donations.

They essentially are celebrities but they don't

necessarily get any of the perks and benefits that celebrities

often get, more specifically safety and security.

I have had some sketchy situations where people have

tried to find my address. Some people listen to, "hey, I was

out at Starbucks today and they will factor in she said it takes

five minutes for her to walk to Starbucks and if there is this

Starbucks here, she can live here and they will go to where

your po box is and these are the Starbucks around that po box and

try to figure it out through there and it's insane because

after people were like, "hey, is this your address?" I was like,

"whoa, that's very uncomfortable and I feel very unsafe." So you

always have to be very careful with all, with everything you

are saying.

Streamers are usually not really private environment. Just

live their passions. You as a viewer are there with them and

there is so much intimacy.

Parasocial interaction refers to interactions that are

one-sided. When you make this interaction or people put that

interaction to you, you are actually not going to interact.

It won't become a social interaction. Twitch and a lot of

those social media applications have blurred the line even if

you are not interacting or you are just addressing the

community itself, you are still creating and maintaining and

reinforcing a relationship. A lot of people think that because

they see these individuals and feel like they are having these

interactions with them that they do have a close relationship.

Oh man, well basically what happened was I had a fan that

flew over here from Singapore, he didn't fit in, he wasn't sure

what he was going to do with his life. He had just broken up with

his girlfriend and so his idea was he wanted to get a start in

America and he was going to do that by living with me. So he

landed here and walked 20-30 miles and ended up at my house

at 4 am in the morning knocking at my door. He was crying, his

hands were shaking. He was this small kid, this desperate,

desperate kid. So when I saw that, I opened up the door, I

started talking to him. It was pretty emotional, I'm not going

to mince words, pretty [Explicit] up because of it. He

had his luggage and he was saying, "this is my last chance.

If someone was drowning, would you reach out your hand for

them? Because if this doesn't work out, I'm living on the

street." it did what I could for him, I got him an uber, I tried

to set him up in a hotel or something. He wouldn't take it,

that's not what he wanted. Last thing I saw was him walking off

down the street with his bags and you've got to understand the

context. I owe everything to my viewers and a have a viewer who

is coming to me saying, "hey, please help. I need help. I'm

going to die."

The next night, my brother went to go let his dog out and

as he walked out to our back porch, he had someone back there

go, "hello, Ben." He looked over and he's like, "oh crap, he's

back." he went and woke me up, I went out there and he had lit a

candle and had his umbrella up and some of the furniture on the

back porch was huddled together, he made a little shelter and I

walked out there and I was like oh my gosh, man. You can't do

this. He's just like, "I'm sorry, I don't know what to do."

We ended up talking and trying to figure something out and I

was so distraught. I got on Twitter and I was like, what the

hell do I do? I had an anonymous viewer reach out to me and say

how much is a ticket to send him back home? It was a $1500 ticket

which was completely covered by one of my viewers and I talked

to him and said, hey man, this is your way back home. Otherwise

you are on the street, that's the best I can do for you and

after talking a little bit, he took it.

Just by watching ellohime in the context and state of mind

that he was in and just hearing ellohime talk or reference fans

in a certain way reinforcing that relationship and the belief

that he would be able to do something for his situation. I

assume that the individual from Singapore, because he was

stressed probably was just ruminating on the idea and

really reinforced that idea in his head and what makes it

interesting is that is not a mental health thing, that is

something that a lot of us do all of the time.

It wasn't just like stick the cops on him which I will do now

though. For now, I've got this policy. I don't care what kind

of bleeding heart ends up on my front porch, I'm calling the

cops now. Before, yeah, it was a tough situation and we found an

easy way out thanks to that viewer. I am so thankful that I

had a viewer that was able to support me and get him home and

support heads and reach out and that's kind of part of what the

community is about, looking out for each other. There are all

sorts of way that people sort of support, tried to contribute.

It's not all about money. People find creative ways to help and

from there it evolves into whatever their talents are,

their strengths are. That's pretty cool.

Coming in hot, no helmet, no vest, no sights. Scatter my

stats.

[Blowing sounds]

Man down. I started gaming when I was younger, probably

five years old. I used to play games like NHL, call of duty,

halo before I got hurt. When I was 19 years old, I was at a

party with a couple of my friends and it was just a freak

accident where I got dropped on my head wrestling around.

Injured at c3, c4 vertebrae in my neck and my spinal cord got

severed. After my injury, the toughest adjustment was

basically I was a hands-on type of guy, everything I did was

physical so not being able to do things like workout, play sports

sucked.

It's a different change of pace for the whole family, he

doesn't have a lot that he can do and you want to get his

mindset to do something else.

You got to go left, right, right, right. That's good,

perfect. Right, right, right, straight, straight, keep going,

keep going, keep going. Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Good.

The quad stick is basically one joystick where you have

three holes you can sip or puff. On one of the holes, two of the

holes or all three of the holes at the same time and you can

also light sip or light blow. So you basically have 32 some odd

combinations you can use. Most people would be what the hell

did you just do and I just did 18 commands to do that though.

I noticed as I am playing I started getting harder and

harder and harder and that's when I was like, this is

amazing. Amazing of the fact that he can go back to what we

did when we were kids. Gave him something to wake up and do

every day to beat me again.

After you just practice, learn your limits on the thing

and what you can and can't do, after a while I got good at it.

Oh shit.

Incoming.

[Glass shattering]

Oh my god, I just had shot him with the m24, Draven.

The best game to use a quad stick for anyone who has never

used it is storyline games where you can take your time but those

games are, I don't know, those games are boring to me. I would

rather face another person and let them know that they got beat

by my mouth.

[Gunfire]

Oh, he's resing, he's resing. He's probably up by now.

Lay down, lay down.

Oh. I did it, holy shit.

A year ago I didn't even know twitch existed. My brother

got really into it and he was like, "I don't see anyone who

does what you do, everyone will probably be really amazed. I was

like, I don't know, I'm a really private dude.

This is a whole different category of twitch streamer.

He's not just playing the game, he is also running twitch and I

have a little twitch myself and that's difficult for me and I

have my hands.

I feel like I'm just playing video games and having fun. If I

wasn't on twitch, I would still be playing video games having

fun but I think it's cool that it helps out a lot of people,

makes them it may be inspired.

It gives them the same outlet that he gets. Maybe they have a

brother or a sister that they used to play games with and now

they have that connection again. To be honest with you, before

I got injured, I didn't really know that could happen to

myself, I didn't know that was a thing so I think when people see

me, they asked a lot of questions.

People in a wheelchair, you don't realize what they are

going through and you can tune into twitch now and you can talk

to rocky, he's bringing awareness that we are the same

as everybody else.

For disabilities, some of them can't be fixed, some of

them you got to may be ignored somewhat. There are people like

me out there and people like me have fun and can do what other

people can do, you just have to find a way around it.

He's just a regular dude and can kick our ass in a videogame

just like anybody else. It's amazing. I am super proud of him

and what he has become and what he is going to become.

I think I just like showing people that you can do whatever

you want if you try your hardest. Big daddy in the house,

hell yeah! I know I am the best in the world at quad stick. I

will challenge anyone on that.

I think the idea of being an entertainer related to video

games, that's going to stick around as long as games stick

around. This is the best form of entertainment related to game

industry so these guys are on the forefront and I can't see

their opportunities going down. I think the question isn't

whether or not this is a sustainable business model, the

question should be what is the limit.

Irl stands for in real life and essentially vlogging. It's

one person talking to many about whatever they want.

Getting a self the stick and having your phone and walking

down the street and living your life on twitch.

[Laughter]

It's been the fastest-growing category ever since.

There are people who spend more of their day streaming

their life on twitch than they do not doing that.

[Screaming]

That's what I'm talking about! Woo!

I feel like I've used gaming as a medium to share myself with

my audience. Then I was able to use fitness as a medium of

sharing myself with my audience and now we are getting to the

point where you can really just share whatever you are into.

There are people who cook on twitch, there is also social

eating where the idea is that you hang out with people while

you eat and maybe talk about the food, maybe you don't, who

knows.

Being able to share yourself and your personality with

anybody who is interested is I think at the core of what twitch

is and in terms of the possibilities for that, I don't

know, it seems endless.

[Playing recorder]

Especially if you think about the potential in terms of

education, future top performers probably will teach you how to

perform specifically with your hands, teach you how to speak

Italian, I don't know.

We want to see how other types of content that are

traditionally interactive are reacted to by the audience.

Let's see if you can make something that requires audience

participation. How can we make content formats slightly

different enough that makes it interesting for our audience.

The thought of twitch playing a video game together, I mean,

that's the ultimate sense of community.

One of the biggest milestones on twitch was a phenomenon

called twitch plays pokeémon. People in chat could type

directions like left, right, up, down and impact the gameplay.

Thousands and thousands of people are trying to control all

at once. You would think there is no way that somebody could

make progress but they end up coordinating.

Makes you a little scared for the hive mind at times.

At peak viewership, we had 122,000 people controlling one

game.

They succeeded, twitch plays pokeémon beat pokemon.

[Pokeémon theme]

That's probably the most significant, unique thing that

has ever happened on our platform.

It very quickly evolved into fan art and fan works, there is

even like a sort of jokey religion formed around one of

them. It has been other twitch plays of games of all sorts of

genres so it has become this type of massive phenomenon.

Whether that is fan art, whether that is animate, Sci-Fi.

We are going to try a bunch of new things in the near future.

Would there be huge saturation? Everybody doing the

streaming thing? Maybe. For other people coming up, I think

it might be too saturated for them to really find their niche.

I will however say that if you are talented enough, if you are

hard-working enough, there is no limit for you. Doesn't matter

how saturated the market becomes, you will make it on

hard work alone. If you are good enough at it.

Who's ready to kick off twitch con 2017?

[Crowd cheering]

[Music]

Twitch con is a really big deal because it is a place where

people can go meet and hang out with all the people that they

spend every day of their life chatting to online.

We are all just sitting in our bedrooms, recording

ourselves playing video games. Twitch con is that opportunity

to -

actually spend some real lifetime with each other.

That's why we love twitch con, 57 countries represented

here, all ages, all different industries, different passions.

This is the third year doing it, it has grown so much, the

lines are insane, the people are everywhere. You are seeing

people huddled around personalities and stuff.

The last twitch con I wasn't a partner, I feel as though

affiliates of viewers kind of hold you up to a higher standard

and kind of look up to you and ask you questions.

Talk about what we know, what we learned, work with one

another and just get advice on how to make streams grow.

From taking what I learned at last time, I used it and grew

into what I am today and have learned a lot of new stuff this

time.

He kept telling me, "mom, it's a real business." I was

really resistant to it. We have now since changed our mind and

we are fully supporting everything he does.

We were thinking, "why would anybody watch somebody play a

videogame?" right? It's crazy.

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There are opportunities to do activations and gigs.

A lot of people think that these things are like a

vacation, it's not at all. It is pretty much work the entire

time.

I was in the h1z1 tournament which was a lot of fun, big

arenas and you have the likes of mighty mouse demetrious Johnson,

ice-t was watching. You get this weird mix of celebrities that

really like gaming, you get the personalities from twitch.

Basically the whole house is here at twitch con so lilypichu,

poki, scarra, mendo. This is our last meet and greet, we decided

to do one together, the whole booth was completely packed so

the house was really happy to meet their fans.

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It's about dominating. And looking good dominating.

When they walk up, it's like, "oh, it's good to meet you." You

shake their hand, they are like, "I am so and so." I am like holy

crap, the memories of all the things start flooding back and

you embrace them, you love them. I will sign your tit. Where

is the nipple? There it is, right around.

It's a weird thing because I want to spend time with them and

get to know them but in this atmosphere, it doesn't lend

itself.

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I didn't actually get selected for twitch meet and

greets so I wanted to make sure that I still was able to have

unavailability for everybody to be able to hang out in more of a

casual setting. For me, because I consider so many of people

from my stream my actual friends, I think it is really

important to match the face to the name and meet people more on

a personal level.

This dinner tonight was my number one event for twitch con

and it wasn't even unofficial event.

You honestly feel like if something wasn't going that

great in your life, you can go into her chat or hit her up on

discord and she cares. She gives a shit.

I can honestly say some of my best friends I have met on

twitch.

Beyond the viewer and streamer dynamic, we have

created bonds that go a little bit deeper and there is a trust

there.

It's been a great support system for me. Personally.

We bleed purple, we all do, man. We do. I love it.

Sometimes it doesn't feel real because as kids growing up

playing video games, you are always thinking, "hey, wouldn't

it be great to get paid to play video games?" That's exactly

what I'm doing right now. I have never lived in Los Angeles

before, I only hear what they tell me on TV and movies so I am

really excited to see what it's actually like down there.

Where's disguised toast? That's the greatest name in

gaming history. Give it up for - [Music]

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Disguised toast, how did you come up with that name?

Oh, it's a play on words. Like this guy's toast.

Oh. I didn't get that.

I don't know what I'm doing, I'm winging it, I'm just doing

it and seeing where it goes. I actually put in my two weeks not

too long ago into work and what I made the first month when I

wasn't even partnered streaming I wouldn't make a year at my

current job so I think I am very comfortable with going

full-time. Really nervous but I think it's going to work out.

My family when I grew up, this wasn't something I knew you

could even want to want. The relationships that have been

able to form, what I have been able to do with my channel for

charity, for veterans, first responders, that kind of thing.

I can't imagine another job like it to be honest. It has

definitely been I think positive is too weak of a word to be

fair, it's been amazing. It's been amazing.

If I get picked up for a team, I intend to be with that

team for long term and I intend to be part of that team to make

that team the best team in the world. I will swallow my pride,

if I have to be on the bench, I will be on the bench and prove I

deserved to be on the starting roster.

I want to see some of these Houston players come out. Okay.

Mendo is in the house.

I didn't know he was in the house.

Two direct rockets in a fairly short span of time no

less.

It's my path so it's good for me, you know? Maybe not for

everybody, maybe it would be, who knows. But it's what is good

for me and for once in my life I feel good about what I'm doing

with my time and I like who I am and I love my family and I

couldn't always say that so I am very blessed, very blessed.

A lot of people think that twitch TV is just really a

mirror of the current digital entertainment, it's just an

appendix, a footnote from a certain point of view. But it is

not true at all actually. A lot of times twitchers don't realize

how important, how relevant is their work. They think, "I am

just playing my favorite game and that's all." It's not like

that. These streamers, they are able to change opinions, they

are able also to affect feelings, look at your chat,

look what is going on with your viewers. They are talking about

really important things, really remarkable things debating about

their own identity, their day, their work. It really surprised

me that some twitchers don't realize how they are changing

viewers' lives.

I don't know, be proud of yourself.

There are a lot of things I could do but I haven't found

that one "this is it" kind of thing. I will probably keep

streaming until I do.

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