Why I Stopped Streaming

This will be a short blog but I want to talk about why I removed the stream tag and why it's gone. I've been streaming for 7 years believe it or not. Which is a long time and at best i maxed out at like 7 people watching me at once.

I streamed games Overwatch, Street fighter, Dragonball Fighterz, and miscellaneous games. I then posted them online on twitter and instagram. Some of them got views but eventually the views went down and I just couldn't keep up. 

After years of people not engaging with my clips I sort of realized that the problem is I've been doing the same thing for years and expecting people to vibe with it. I hadn't realized that part of being a content creator is actually showing variety and doing different things to make to stand out. I realized this far too late in the game and now I don't stream. 

It's just exhausting and I don't have the energy for it my clips and my twitch still exist. However for a little while it's going to be inactive. If I was to come back I need to radically change what I did and how I did it so that I'm more entertaining to watch. Which imo will be making youtube videos or making comics on this website that way I have a following here and can parlay that into streaming later. 

There is one other reason I stopped streaming too. Viral clips tend to be embarrassing and bombastic. The streamer clips I see going viral are the ones where people are acting upset, breaking things, being rude towards others, etc. I'm not trying to say that I'm better than these people or trying to virtue signal by any means but this would make it VERY DIFFICULT for me to do any other job. 

Think of it like this let's say I go viral for playing overwatch for crashing out on a team mate and I call them a very rude word. Let's say that 50k people see that in the U.S. while that did go miniviral that didn't make me any money and most likely people have taken that clip reposted it for more views. Then imagine applying for a job someone sees that clip of me being rude and horrible and says well I don't want someone like that representing our company or working with me. 

So in a lot of ways going viral can impede your progress I'm not a spring chicken anymore. I'm in my late 30s and I have no business acting "too crazy" at my big age. I'm very fine and satisfied with my life so I'd rather build something slowly stable or nothing at all. To me fame is just not that important. I could stream again but I make no promises.