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For the past 10 months, Bear and I have been running a little Twitch channel named Boo and Bears. I am Boo, obviously. It's been fun. We have been working almost every day to stream to our audience of a little over 800+ followers. It's sometimes a little quiet as we average 8 viewers a day.
It's not that easy to manage a Twitch channel. We've seen good streamers suddenly disappear after years of streaming. Having a stream does not mean that you will be successful even with thousands of followers. People just come and go. So, you have to be able to keep changing and evolving as time passes. Or else you'll be disappointed.
Many streamers start streaming with big dreams and big goals. Yet, if you are to see the available profits, you can expect to get USD1000 from 1,000 subscribers. That's what you get when even Twitch Partners, the biggest streamers on Twitch, only manage to get hundreds of subscribers.
Thus, we are still trying and finding ways to keep our followers coming back. Even with the 800+ followers and managing just 8 viewers on average a day, we are doing what we can to keep working on different ideas to get people to come back.
JinnyTTY has 700k+ followers with 8000 views on average. She has already achieved celebrity status as people come every time she goes live. Some of the other streamers that have achieved celebrity status are XCQow and Ninja. We look up to these people and hope that we will be as good as them in the Twitch world one day.
I think that is our wish and hope. To be able to be like them. But it's like saying that we want to be Justin Bieber. Or JK Rowling. It's a long shot. I once was hoping to be like JK Rowling.
Failing multiple times and a heartbreaking NaNoWriMo experience, I have already given up hope on that dream of mine.
Today, I try to make this Twitch dream come true. Of course, it's not easy, and it's not even possible if we are going to be what we want without breaking our backs. But we surely know that everything is always possible if we are to believe and have faith that it may come true one day. Work on the things we have control over. Keep pushing. Keep moving. Maybe. Oh maybe. We'll make it. I mean, all of us have the capacity to make it if luck and hard work were to pave the way.
I am a little worried and a little stressed. If not a lot. But we just do what we can to get to where we want to go. In time, there is a possibility that we will get there.
Please come see what we are about at .
See you there.