5/24/2020 1 Comment Waiting on confirmationI was only able to stream 2 days this week because I went on vacation from Thursday and I come home next tuesday or wednesday. Even though I couldn't stream much I was able to continue playing Apex with my one of my friends and he was kind enough to host me again and I got up to 71 followers. I hope to here from twitch by the end of this coming week, but I have no idea how long it will take due to their lack of resources from Covid-19. I hope to see if I can get the Shrouded server to raid my stream this tuesday because I have enough credits to request a channel to raid. If I can get raided I might be able to get up to 100 followers which will hopefully get my application a better chance of being completed by Friday for my presentation.
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5/17/2020 0 Comments Project complete?I have finally reached my goal of 50 followers and I am going to apply for Twitch affiliate later today. I have reached all of the requirements which include Have 50 followers, have an average of 3 viewers, and to have 8 hours streamed in the last 30 days to which I have 22 hours. I am extremely excited to apply and hopefully earn my twitch affiliate. Twitch Affilate is the next step in my journey to becoming a official streamer and to be able to make money off my hard work. Twitch Affiliate allows you to run ads on your stream, and to allow viewers to subscribe with either money, or by using a free Twitch Prime sub every month. You automatically have Twitch Prime for free if you have a Amazon Prime membership.
5/10/2020 0 Comments Wow that escalated quicklyThis week was my most successful week so far! I was streaming Apex Legends when I met fellow streamer and we really hit it off. He has a more successful stream than I do and he was kind enough to plug my stream to his viewers and I was able to climb to 42 followers over the course of a week. This really boosted my motivation to stream because to be honest I hit a wall about halfway through my project and I thought I was never going to be able to reach my goal. I am closer than ever to applying for Twitch affiliate and I hope to be able to reach the requirements next week.
5/3/2020 0 Comments We're falling behindI have been streaming a little bit here and there, but I struggling to get into a solid rythm. I got a bit behind in one of my classes that has daily assignments and I have been playing catch up for a couple weeks. I plan on getting everything caught up by the end of the week with school so I don't think I will be streaming much at all this week. I made some progress towards my 50 follower goal last week with 3 new followers which was extremely exciting seeing that I haven't been making much progress towards my goal. I plan on getting back into streaming Rainbow Six Siege because I have noticed that the streams do pretty well when I stream it. The main problem is that I have really been enjoying playing some more casual games with my friend Seth, but the casual games don't usually make for good content sadly.
4/26/2020 0 Comments Research, Research, ResearchI been looking into upgrading and improving my stream a lot recently. I was able to figure a solution to my random bit rate drops while I stream which would cause frames to be lost. I had to tweak a few settings in StreamLabs OBS, but it is all better now. I have also been watching a lot of smallish streamers who have under 100 viewers to see what they are doing that I am not. I have noticed that a lot of them will play with friends who are also streamers I'm guessing to gain clout from each other. I don't have a lot of friends who stream regularly because they are all pretty busy. I am trying to get my friend Xenith to start playing more often, but he has been so busy with college that he rarely gets online.
4/20/2020 0 Comments I have hit a Standstill.I have not gained any progress towards my genius hour goal in 14 days. I haven't been streaming as much as I want to be able to because of my computer not being able to handle the load, but I am looking into different games that I can play/stream to hopefully make the experience a lot more enjoyable for both me and my viewers. I am going to look into getting some of my friends to shout me out this week as well.
4/12/2020 0 Comments What am I doing wrong?I have been streaming regularly for what 10 weeks and I have not gotten anywhere. I was hoping to have far surpassed my goal of 50 followers by now, but here I am at 30. I have been promoting my stream everywhere and telling friends to spread the word, but it hasn't helped at all. I am going to look into my analytics to see if I can hopefully see a pattern in when I get viewers and when I don't. I hope to reach 40 followers in by May 15 but I am not sure I will get there.
4/5/2020 1 Comment It's not as easy as it looks.I haven't been able to stream a lot recently because of school work (math), but I did switch to a new software program called StreamLabs OBS. I have been talking to other streamers a lot about how to grow my channel, and most of them say I have to just get lucky or play with someone who has a large fanbase. Out of the people I talked most of them recommended that I switch to StreamLabs because of how much easier it is to use. I finally made the switch last week and I think my stream is looking a lot more professional with the things StreamLabs suggested I add. I am hoping to get ahead in my school work so I can have free days to play games and stream, but I'm not sure when that will be, hopefully soon. I thought I was going to have all the time in the world to stream, but online school has proved to be a lot harder to learn with than I thought it was going to be. I really just my math class would be on zoom so I could interact as she taught instead of watching a video and not having any idea what is going on.
3/22/2020 2 Comments OMG, MOM GET THE CAMERA!We have been making a lot of progress on my stream. I have been streaming a lot more frequently since we are out of school. I have been trying to stream every time I'm online, but sometimes this isn't possible because my PC just isn't strong enough to stream certain games. This week we hit a great milestone for the channel and I hit a all time high of 9 active viewers and I went from 17 to 24 followers in just 1 day! I am very surprised at how well adding "TTV" to my in-game username has advertised my channel. I have been advertising my stream a lot more this week via social media, friends, etc and I am hoping to hit 30 followers by the end of the week.
3/15/2020 0 Comments Thanks, Can I Have it Back?This week wasn't very productive at all. I didn't have much time to game/stream because I have been really busy. Roy Cooper decided to shut down sports on Thursday which was very sad, but it gives me a lot more time to stream which is good for you guys. I am really going to miss lacrosse, but you have to do what you have to do. As of Saturday we are out of school for a couple weeks, so I am going to be streaming A LOT in these coming weeks. :)
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AuthorHi! I'm Chase, and this is my Genius Hour blog. |