Alex has been streaming for an average of six viewers for nearly three years. Alex, who goes by cobaltgear on Twitch, has been streaming mostly pre-2010 games from his California home since 2017.
Feeling very seen as a small time (and hobbyist) streamer who hits between 1 and 5 viewers per stream, it can be a little demoralising but it’s very chill when you have a couple of active and regular viewers.
To me it’s not a huge deal because it’s something I do for fun in between other hobbies of art, gaming and hobby gamedev, but I can imagine people who want to make it big as Streamers not growing their audience and giving up as a result.
Streaming, like art or any creative outing can be tough to reach out with, the biggest streamers out there in some way probably stumbled into a huge audience because they latched into a game that suddenly blew up (like fortnite).
Anyway big ups to these folks for keeping at it, it’s cool to have a small and dedicated audience!
To me this is the reason I find the idea of streaming on Discord more appealing. If you have a decently sized server of people with common interests it’s easier to start streaming and have people join in to watch who will interact with you.
I think some of my favorite streams have just been hopping in and watching people work in Blender and while there’s only 6 or so people who join it’s just people trading tips back and forth while someone worked on some model.
