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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel you, on Twitch is 50$.

[–] ABCDE 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How do people make money there?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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.

[–] Road_Warrior_10 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I streamed for 2 years and I got 5 viewers at once that one time my friend raided me. I'm not fit for human consumption.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

My average was between 2 and 3 viewers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do they just, make the money disappear if you don't reach the 50 or do they add up till you reach 50?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

subscribers and something called bits of which i dont know the purpose.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Bits are basically donations.