Why You'll Quit Streaming And How To Avoid It
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Published 2023-12-19
It’s called the “Spotlight Effect” and it effects every single person on the planet, it stops you doing all of things you want to do not just in content creation, but in life.
The idea of the spotlight effect is simple, it’s the feeling like you’ve been pushed out onto a stage, the spotlight has hit you, and the entire audience is sat quietly judging every action you do, you’re breathing manually, aware of your tongue resting on your teeth, and you don’t know what to do with your hands.
I learned about this effect 4 years ago when I was diagnosed with an Acute Anxiety condition, all of the things I loved to do I couldn’t out of the intense fear of being judged, but 4 years later, some therapy, and a lot of effort every single day, I am now a full-time content creator.
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How To Grow On Twitch?
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Why You'll Quit Streaming
0:55 How To Stop Hesitating And Start Growing Your Stream
2:50 How To Motivate Yourself To Work On Your Stream
4:20 How A Schedule Helps You Grow Your Stream
4:50 How An Hour Glass Helps You Grow Your Stream
5:37 How Simply Drinking The Same Drink Daily Helps you grow
6:35 Where to get amazing music for your streams and videos
7:40 How To Get Over Embarrassment And Grow
8:15 How Big Streamers Grew Their Stream
9:39 Why You Don't Matter At All And That's A Good Thing.
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
For more information visit this Bitrate graph: stream.twitch.tv/
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All Comments (21)
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Hey #earlygang! Genuinely, do you have tips to help people find confidence, motivation, and keep improving? What are your running shorts? Have a happy holidays!
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Just had my first stream with over 10 people watching I was so stoked - keep going everyone !!!! Rooting for you all
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Who here watches all these vids but streams to finish games. Streaming has helped me finish so many games that I probably would have never finished cause new shiny new games are constantly coming out
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Honestly been on the struggle bus on twitch but watching your videos helps calm my mind down and just keep pushing to greater things!
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Instructions unclear, I do not have running shorts.
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Just made Twitch affiliate earlier this week I'm super psyched at what the future holds.
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I don't have much to say except thank you for the video. It genuinely did help a lot more than you may have realised. Congratulations of your new daughter, she has amazing parents to guide her!
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I've literally put so much thought into my streams to make them meaningful (I use my channel for charity and GFMs for those in need). My issue is that I use Twitch for DJing which is already HEAVILY oversaturated. The most watchers I've ever had on a stream is 8, but I refuse to let that get me down. I feel like I'm very good at what I do so I'm just going to continue to stream to the same 1 or 2 faithful watchers and just hope for the best. Great vid as always Eljay!
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hello, I started using Q2U as per your recommendation but I want to ask you how to make the voice loud and clear ( this is not just with Q2U I've been getting this problem with many mics )... it's like whenever I try to make it louder it becomes kinda blurry and if I lower it it becomes clear but low voice so idk where is the sweet spot for it
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My problem is personal, mostly my anxiety gets the better of me, but once I overcome it I generally have a decent time streaming. Even if I'm not very entertaining to watch/listen to I still try to make the most of it because I stream so infrequently. (Will watch the video later, busy with work right now)
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Went down the rabbit hole and watched Mr. Beast's oldest stuff and was really encouranged. Highly recommend taking time to look at the oldest stuff from 'the big guys'
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Started a podcast with my friend 2 years ago and just constantly keep pumping out content and I think it's only getting better but eventually we will get recognized. Also just started streaming there thanks for the advice
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Good stuff as always Eljay! In my case I'm thinking of stopping due to people not watching me AND being stressed out about streaming (on twitch in my case) Have a good day!
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I really needed this video I am trying to grow my YouTube since twitch is shutting down in korea and I'm going through the same struggle as when I started on twitch. Thank you
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Yeah. I kinda feel like I'm burning out. I'm going to step away and take some post production classes. However, the 30 minute commitment a day is perfect and that first intro segment of other youtubers was kind of touching.
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This is the wildest video you’ve ever made, either way solid advice as always (even if I’ve heard you tell these again)
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Ive been watching these vids and while ive seen a bunch of similar material. I loved you showing big streamers/tubers being scuffed. Cause it really felt like some of the videos i made
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I mean the spotlight effect is real but I really think it’s mainly lack of engagement but you have given great ways to help get engagement! ❤ much love to you😊
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I switch over to Youtube last year and although grow is slow due to not being able to get raids from others I have found that I'm building on my own, on Twitch I felt that I was riding on the backs of others. Yes its a grind and youtube have not really updated things to help streamers but theres hope I guess.
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The "tongue resting on your teeth" thing resonated with me more than it should have
