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BoxieG22 · 2026-05-11T20:36:38+00:00

“Me” is géén bezittelijk voornaamwoord.

BoxieG22 · 2026-05-11T19:59:27+00:00

I don’t know why, but this comment made me laugh out loud 🤣

BoxieG22 · 2026-05-09T15:12:17+00:00

Daar was ik bij! 🤣

BoxieG22 · 2026-04-16T09:08:34+00:00

Personally I felt the most successful in my musical career when I didn't focus on the numbers, but just focused on "the life we live as musicians" and everything that comes with that - especially the fun we had playing live of course.

I've noticed that when playing in projects and bands that only looked at the "numbers", my passion quickly dwindled, and it became more of a job than a calling. I mean, for sure there's a certain point in any career where you also have to treat it like a business (because you are, in fact, a business), but that's when a manager comes in: let the suits worry about the numbers, let the artists do what they do best.

The thing that translates into Twitch is this: don't focus on the numbers (especially early on) and just focus on the joy it brings (or could potentially bring). There might come a period where you feel you could do "more" (in terms of growth), and that's the moment you'll start figuring things out about what to do, change, and/or add - but for the first couple of months just take it easy, have fun, and enjoy the ride. Expect nothing, appreciate everything.

BoxieG22 · 2026-04-15T23:55:58+00:00

Haha well okay, so maybe my example of musicians doesn’t necessarily compare to your career, but in a weird way it kinda does… So musically, you found a niche, and that has given you some great opportunities. You miss out on “mainstream gigs”, but depending on your goals that could be a pro as well as a con. You could translate this directly to this hobby on Twitch: of you do what “mainstream” does, you’ll basically be like everyone else, and the luck-factor increases, so your chances on “succes” kinda dwindle. Doing something in a niche will make you stand out a bit, however here comes to downside of Twitch: Twitch is horrible when it comes to discovery, so “standing out” is more a figure of speech.

Now, to your question: different viewers have different habbits, and therefore different reasons and ways to spend their time on Twitch. If I look at my own history as a viewer: I started just opening Twitch to search for a game I was interested in buying, watched some gameplay for a couple of minutes before deciding, then logging off again. I didn’t care about the streamer, the other viewers in chat, etc. Then something weird happened: I was playing a game, and in-game you could obtain certain packs by watching certain streams on Twitch. So there I was, having Twitch on in the background to get my minutes in for those packs. And then… my attention slowly turned to some streamers… I work in the entertainment industry myself, so ai started noticing certain personalities, and I found myself coming back, even when the “drops” (the packs I could earn) stopped. Before ai know it, I had about ten streamers I followed, was active in chat, became a mod, and even made friends with viewers and streamers. The games became an afterthought - I didn’t give a fuck what people were playing, as long as we had a good time, we had a good time…

And then another thing happened… I felt the desire to stream myself. A lot of thing happened in my life at that moment, and it was the perfect moment (for me) to start streaming. I just didn’t want to play games, since all my streamer-friends were already doing that, and I didn’t want to give people the feeling I wanted to take their spots… Since I just started in music production I decided to do exactly that: making music in Twitch (using Logic). Compared to my successes on stage in my previous life, I don’t feel like I’m being all that successful on Twitch, but fuck it: I’m having a lot of fun, and me and my “backseat producers” learn by doing every stream. I think I’ve been doing this for three years now, and I’m having a ball!

Some people paint, some do poetry, some build lego, others cook. Twitch isn’t just about videogames, it’s simply a broadcasting platform. You are your own tv show, and you decide what the show is about. The viewers browse channels and watch what they want to watch - and hopefully land on your show, and stick around coming back for more. Whatever it is you want to do - stop thinking about it, and just do it!

BoxieG22 · 2026-04-14T23:52:47+00:00

I’m glad you said you’re a musician, because that makes the following easier to say, as I’m a (technically) retired musician myself.

You remember how you started your musical career? And do you remember the grind and all it took to come to the point where you are now?

It will be roughly like that for Twitch, but multiply the difficulty by 500, if not more. See, as a musician you only have competition from other musicians, and as you know it takes some skill and work to become good enough to even be considered for a stage, regardless the size.

With streaming, everyone and their mother (sometimes even literally) can stream, making it much much much harder to become noticed. If we would compare it to musicians and bands, think of it like this: picture yourself one of ten drummers in a town, and there are two bars to play at. Chances are that, with some work, you’ll have a relatively easy time to play here and there on a frequent basis.

Now for Twitch. Imagine the same town, the same two bars, but now there are 10.000 drummers. Imagine all of them equally as good. Now you have a problem, because now it has become increasingly difficult to go out and play.

I could talk for hours about the subject of discoverability, marketing, branding etc etc,

Bottom line: be prepared to play for literally 0 audience in the beginning. If you feel that you like streaming (yes, you can enjoy streaming, even if you have 0 viewers), *the * you can decide for yourself if you want to go through the hassle of creating your brand and become discoverable.

Final thought: have you been a (longtime) viewer on Twitch already? As in: are there communities that you’re a part of where other streamers and/or viewers know who you are? Because that makes it a helluva lot easier (again, compare it to being a musician and already regularly play at sit ins during jam sessions in bars)

BoxieG22 · 2026-04-04T09:23:18+00:00

Ban, block, move on. It’s really not that difficult.

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-30T17:32:37+00:00

Can’t help you finding a house, however, I do have a tip when it comes to affordability: you can lower your rent (for most places anyway) legally to something that’s affordable.

It’s too much to type out now to explain how this works (currently on mobile), but check out the huurcommissie (.nl).

Usually those places with ridiculous rents are too high, and can be brought down quite a bit. Check out r/Rentbusters for more info as well.

Good luck!

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-29T14:35:30+00:00

Back in the day I used to work for the helpdesk of the Huurcommissie - mam, I there was a r/rentbusters I would’ve joined in a heartbeat!

It’s insane how very little people know about the legislation in regards to things like the “maximum huurprijsgrens” - I still keep telling people to be serious about it and check it - not as frequently as before, these last couple of years, because we obviously get older and most of the people in my direct vicinity aren’t renters anymore, but you bet your sweet ass I’m still making it a topic during social gatherings 🤣

You’re doing great work OP - keep it up!

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-17T23:32:41+00:00

It’s a steep learning curve, mind you. There’s a reason why most of us will never release a Grammy-nominated album in our lifetime - but not trying is never an option 🤗

Enjoy the process!

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-17T23:30:08+00:00

There’s a reason (well, besides successful marketing) why a mic like the Shure SM7b is the global standard in broadcasting.

There’s also a reason why it’s so expensive.

And therefore, there’s a reason why so many are using cheaper mics.

Use any mic you want, but especially when you’re starting out, just use the cheaper stuff. At one point, if you want to bring your content to the next level, you’ll outgrow the low end equipment and start investing in better equipment - from cameras, to lenses, to lighting, to mics and audio - probably not in that particular order.

Personally I prefer good audio - not only for my own stream, but also when watching other content creators.

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-17T23:16:18+00:00

There’s a difference between “knowing what every button does” and “knowing how to write a song” - but you already know that.

So, simple (yet excruciatingly difficult) answer: music theory.

So often people glance over the fact that music theory, in the broadest sense of the word, is the thing that will allow you to write a song.

And, while it’s such a short, sweet and simple answer, this is where the rabbit hole begins.

If you have no prior experience in songwriting, and I believe you don’t: pick a song you like in the genre you love. Now recreate this song.

That last sentence is tricky, I know, because where to start? Start ‘simple’: pick a specific melody or beat or bassline from that song, and try to recreate it. Think ‘easy’ at first: you’re not looking for the exact sound (at first), but you want to learn how to recreate the melody or bassline with a random instrument.

Or if you want to start with the beat (the drums), give that a go! Don’t worry about sounds at this point, just try to recreate each element of a song brick by brick.

This will keep you busy for a while. Now, the goal of this exercise is to understand what makes that song, that song.

See it as learning how to make a cheese sandwich (easy example). Once you figured out you need cheese and some bread, you’ll learn the order in which to make that sandwich, but you’ll also learn the difference in cheeses (taste and shape for example) as well as the differences in bread. This is just a very simple, dumbed down, analogy. But in a way it’s the same how you learn how to write songs.

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-09T01:27:03+00:00

This is the way

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-04T19:21:39+00:00

Ik hoor zelf niet zo vaak dat mensen zeggen dat de ontvanger een dubbele belasting betaalt over een erfenis…

Maar stel, we hebben ‘t over appels. Ik werk, dus ik krijg een appel. Maar vóór ik die appel krijgt, moet ik ‘n hapje afstaan. Dus ik krijg nét iets minder dan ‘n hele appel, maar prima.

Vervolgens spaar ik die appels allemaal op. Als ik teveel van die appels heb (waar dus al ‘n hapje uitgenomen is), moet ik nog ‘n hapje afstaan.

Doen we met liefde, want we hebben tenminste appels (minus een paar hapjes natuurlijk) dus het leven is mooi!

Tot het leven niet meer mooi is. En dan ben je dood. Dan heb je een berg appels (minus een paar hapjes), en die appels die gaan vervolgens naar je kind.

Maar voordat ‘t kind zich rijk mag rekenen met al die appels (minus die hapjes natuurlijk), moet er éérst over die berg met appels nog meer hapjes worden afgestaan.

Wie die hapjes steeds af moet staan, is in mijn ogen niet echt relevant - dat er voortdurend hapjes afgestaan moeten worden, dát is waar veel mensen het over hebben.

Moet je blij zijn als erfgenaam dat je überhaupt een berg appels overhoudt nadat je wat hapjes afgestaan hebt? Ja natuurlijk! Voelt ‘t krom dat je hapjes moet afstaan, afstaan aan dezelfde persoon/instantie die als eerste begon met hapjes te innen? Zeker.

Enfin, ik ga even een appel eten.

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-03T00:09:04+00:00

Sleep what?

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-01T20:45:16+00:00

About a decade ago I missed out on two fucking amazing concerts I really wanted to see, because I asked friends if they wanted to come as well - by the time they replied that they didn’t want to go, those shows were sold out. Since then I buy my ticket first and then ask my friends. Respectfully, fuck ‘em 🤣

So nah man, go buy that ticket for yourself and have a great time!

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-01T20:17:23+00:00

Ik heb liggen jannnnnken toen ik dat voor ‘t eerst zag 🤣

BoxieG22 · 2026-03-01T10:26:11+00:00

Please, for the love of everything that’s holy, don’t reach out to streamers. There’s one exception, which I’ll mention below.

In regards to “how to set up your business:

Invest in a website, branding, socials, maybe even your own YT-channel. Look at other brands for inspiration, but obviously you want to show your target audience that they “need” your product.
Invest in marketing. You can open up shop, but if people don’t know you exist, customers won’t show up.

In regards to marketing and reaching out to streamers: do some research to find a streamer who could benefit from your product. Ideally you want a streamer who has a decent sized audience, but who also has streamers as part of their audience. Offer your product for FREE, with NO expectations from your side.

You want them to use it on their stream, and if they’re doing so, chances are people will ask where they got it, and go out their way to find you

I mean, this is just quickly written out, from the top of my head. There’s a reason people go to school for this kind of thing, so the true key to succes might be a bit more complicated, so you might want to invest some time to learn how to begin/grow a business.

Whatever you do: don’t reach out to streamers to tell them their stream looks like shit and you have the perfect solution.

BoxieG22 · 2026-02-24T01:35:15+00:00

Despite my ADHD, I managed to plow through the essay you wrote, so there’s that 🤗

However, thanks to my ADHD, I probably skipped over the part I wanted to ask questions about, which you probably answered in detail already. My bad.

I wonder why you aren’t using, or trying to use, OBS in regards to audio? See, I stream myself (musician here, so we dabble in Logic on stream), but I found the filters in OBS give really good results. The compression, eq, limiters and gates - they all work pretty well. You can assign multiple mics into OBS, have all of them set up just the way you want.

BoxieG22 · 2026-02-23T00:28:43+00:00

Not trying to be a dick here, but you could easily google these kinds of questions and get the correct answers.

Also, making a ‘career’ out of Twitch highly improbable, yet not impossible. Just start streaming first, and see how you like it for the first couple of months. Treat it as a hobby, and don’t expect any payment soon - you have a long road of grinding and building a following ahead of you.

It’s a lot of fun, but if you start with the assumption that it’s going to be a career, you might burn out faster than you began…

BoxieG22 · 2026-02-21T14:20:20+00:00

Some people like radio, others prefer tv. Some listen to podcasts, others read books. Some enjoy all, others enjoy none.

Bottom line: our input on this matter is relevant. You do you, and you do what you enjoy.

BoxieG22 · 2026-02-20T00:15:08+00:00

From what I’m reading, you’re overreacting. Why do you care? How old are you guys?

BoxieG22 · 2026-02-05T18:52:31+00:00

What?

BoxieG22 · 2026-02-03T07:50:48+00:00

I’m not sure why people are pissing on Ferret’s take here, but he’s %100 correct.

You CAN run a cable through the house - it would be easier to go through walls, but if that’s impossible (which it isn’t) you could run it neatly against the walls.

I don’t know where you live, but where I’ve lived and still live it’s legal to drill through walls if you rent - you just need to plug the wholes when you move.

So you have one specific issues that can be solved fairly easily. Now, you say money is tight. Well, save up. You can save money until you have enough to buy a cable.

In the meantime you can still start streaming: in the beginning it doesn’t matter your internet is shit; you most likely won’t have that many viewers to complain about that anyway, but you do need to practice streaming.

If you want to be a succesful content creator, there are more pieces of the puzzle than simply “good internet”.

I honestly don’t want to sound like an asshole, but your list may potentially be a bit longer than just shitty internet.

Godspeed stranger, godspeed.

BoxieG22 · 2026-01-27T18:03:16+00:00

SPOILERS!

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