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      • Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.worldOP
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        3 months ago

        I can’t even begin to understand how hard it is to make it on Twitch. I assume probably the top 1000 streamers make the real money and the rest 99,5% probably make like $50 per month…

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          3 months ago

          I streamed for like a year and a half+ and I only managed to reach the 50$ treshold to cash out 2 times, so yeah, it’s very rough.

        • moody@lemmings.world
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          3 months ago

          For most people, it’s a hobby for fun, not a job.

          Those that want to make a job out of it tend to spread out the content creation to youtube and tiktok, and often sponsorships fill in the gaps.

          The ones that actually make a decent living only from streaming are a fraction of one percent.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        They don’t. Their payouts leaked a couple years ago, of the thousands of streamers there’s a few hundred that make minimum wage or better. This pattern holds true for YouTube, only fans, etc.

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          It’s way more than a few hundred. What leaked was the twitch subscriber payout, which doesn’t count all the money spent on bits. Then there’s also sponsorships and youtube content.

          I follow several Path of Exile streamers, and when that released they said that that was not the total payout. They usually do some video guides of builds for the game that, alongside twitch generates content for them. Then there’s also sponsors for gaming rigs and other kind of stuff, sponsors to try new games… Maybe it’s PoE specifically but even streamers that oscillate between 200-800, maybe 1k viewers when there’s no other PoE streamer online earned more that minimum wage with just the twitch payout (given the country they live in ofc).

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            3 months ago

            For every streamer that makes minimum wage there are dozens that make so little they don’t even get paid.

            • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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              3 months ago

              It’s still more than a few hundred. I don’t remember how big the leaked doc was but it wasn’t in the thousands, it was bigger. Your statement can be true while the statement of the one I responded to be incorrect at the same time.

              I mean, you comment is true and refutes nothing I said.

          • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            How often are those small streamers the only one though? Having times where you do almost ok aren’t that great if you make nothing 30% of your streaming time.

            • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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              3 months ago

              Given that the leak was the annual earnings from subs your question is irrelevant since it shows that the total average amounts enough.