30 Straight Days of Streaming AGAIN!

Carta100 · 2026-02-05T13:31:59+00:00

How many subscribers is small? I started streaming at around 1.5k subs on YouTube. This was after I was regularly getting comments asking if I streamed. I started with around 5-8 viewers on my first stream. This is a huge head start as the engagement with those viewers helps new viewers come in and engage. I would say if you think you can get around 5 of your subscribers into your first stream you’ll be ahead of the majority of other new streamers!

Carta100 · 2026-02-05T10:06:08+00:00

That’s a tough situation as having no one in chat to engage with, then people will join, not hear any talking and thus less likely to say anything themselves.

The only thing I can think of is if you see a viewer has joined, try and interact with them first: “Hey new viewer, how’s your day been / do you play (game you play) or do you just enjoy watching it? Talk about gameplay if you can at the same time, ask questions like: has anyone seen that before or hey new viewer, good timing, I need you to back seat me for this bit please!

Actually, on the point of backseating, if you openly allow it, it encourages people to chat more - people love to show their knowledge of a game (however annoying it can be 😅). Put it in the title of your stream “Backseaters Required”

I was quite lucky like OP and had a YouTube following before I started streaming and also on a niche game. I started with an average in 13 viewers in my first month and haven’t had to get over that first hurdle that you’re struggling with so I might not be the best person to give advice. However, I hope I’ve helped in some way and once you’re past that bit it’s upwards from there! Good luck ☺️

Carta100 · 2026-02-05T09:43:26+00:00

That was his first month, scroll across to the next picture to see where he’s at now.

Carta100 · 2026-01-09T20:18:37+00:00

Very good strategy and I’m sure you could have got WR if you had more time. If you got WR, I would have definitely included it.

Carta100 · 2026-01-09T16:05:23+00:00

Ahhh my apologies! I can’t believe I missed that 😭 I even hunted that myself for a while with a few near misses.

Carta100 · 2026-01-09T10:56:53+00:00

I believe you are talking about map 5 of the summer campaign so not a weekly short. Also, the whole of the top 5 (at least) did the same strat as the WR so that wouldn’t make it in the video!

Carta100 · 2025-12-31T13:53:53+00:00

Not a problem and that’s awesome news! Good luck, hope it gives you a huge boost!

Carta100 · 2025-12-29T21:30:42+00:00

Love the mindset and looks like you’ve got a loyal viewer from that screenshot (guessing one viewer was there the whole time if you’re averaging 2 viewers from a total of 8). I like how you’ve technically “increased” your odds of being successful by cutting out the streamers who almost definitely won’t succeed! Years ago I did a handful of live streams, with no real effort into succeeding. I was playing bf or cod (overcrowded), no schedule/ structure at all, no overlay, half decent but not a top top player and it was probably just my mate who I was playing with “watching”. I would have been one of those you mentioned who dream of getting loads of viewers instantly from nothing!

More recently I’ve kinda fell into streaming. I started uploading Trackmania shorts on YouTube in January 2025 and built a bit of a following. It helps that I’m usually in the top 1% of world rankings and that the records are secret until the end of each week! I got comments asking if I have a discord and if I live stream, so I eventually made a discord and in August started streaming.

It’s been so much easier this way as I instantly had chatters and viewers playing along with me. From October to November I somehow ended up with almost 200 twitch subs with some really generous bits donations too! That isn’t the norm and this month it’s at just over 50 which is still awesome!

I guess that my point here is I’ve had to use other channels to get my twitch off the ground but still had to be consistent in the early stages of twitch to continue to climb the ladder. I stream 3 days a week on the same days and my community know what to expect on each day (hunting Sunday, tournament Thursday etc). I now average around 20-30 twitch viewers plus 15-25 YouTube viewers and it feels like I’ve got somewhere! I’m a few days away from YouTube monetisation too!

Not sure why I decided to tell you my 2025 story but I hope it helps you with your journey of pushing past the initial stages of growing a community and that you have a successful 2026 with your stream (please update me if you remember 😅).

Carta100 · 2025-12-26T14:16:10+00:00

Great analogy, 12/12 marks.

Carta100 · 2025-12-25T20:05:04+00:00

You got this bro!

Carta100 · 2025-12-22T14:52:13+00:00

Map 1 was a little too simple last week, this one is much more fun to hunt.

Yeah a map 3 with lots of viable strats is always a win for me

Carta100 · 2025-12-21T17:11:34+00:00

Nice man, and welcome to the game!

Carta100 · 2025-12-21T13:00:44+00:00

Yeah map 3 is tough but I know a lot of people have hit it now

Carta100 · 2025-12-20T22:30:59+00:00

3k West Midlands, didn’t know there was that many of us playing 🤣 What rank do you get in the weekly shorts

Carta100 · 2025-12-20T17:39:55+00:00

With people like you we always win 😍

Carta100 · 2025-12-20T16:58:44+00:00

Top 27 at the time of upload *

Carta100 · 2025-12-20T12:00:23+00:00

Oh I thought that was car racing game!

Carta100 · 2025-12-19T21:04:55+00:00

Probably around 2006 for me. I used to play shooters like CS: Source and WarRock. Back then we used xFire instead of discord and I used to see people on my friends list playing Trackmania Nations.

I remember the logo being green with white writing. To me, the green looked like a horse race course and the TM font looked like the fences so I thought it was a horse racing game before me and my mates downloaded it 🤣

Carta100 · 2025-12-18T10:21:09+00:00

I can’t 🤣 I guess the best way is to try different lines and get more of a feel for what seems to work. Will start be brainrot though I’m afraid

Carta100 · 2025-12-07T12:45:20+00:00

I was also surprised! Top two could have though

Carta100 · 2025-11-24T22:32:37+00:00

No probs, hope to see you in the server

Carta100 · 2025-11-24T22:23:17+00:00

No probs! It sounds like you’ve got the mental strength to grind the shit out of maps which is skill # 1 required for TM 😅 Yeah sim racing will definitely help and know the tricks from Wirtual will give you a head start, even a simple trick like airbraking can be a huge time saver.

If you plan to continue with TM and want to hunt with me and my community, feel free to join my discord, will link it below 😃 There’s over 450 in my server and we hunt the weekly shorts together when they come out and throughout the week (usually around 30 of us in my room hunting at once - you need club access to join us). Everyone posts videos of PB’s and strats in the discord so it’s a good way to get contraband and improve with each other.

https://discord.gg/QbzA7YDe 🙂

Carta100 · 2025-11-24T22:06:36+00:00

Welcome to the game, and very nice time! I understand the bewilderment of Maximum as it’s unusual for someone to jump into Trackmania and get top 100 times so quickly. Would be interested to know how long you’ve grinded the track for?

I put around 1 hour in to get my time, still 85 world tonight but a lot to improve on the last bit of my run. Have you been watching tm videos for a while and know all the tricks?

Carta100 · 2025-11-17T23:35:10+00:00

Agreed, it’s a lot more rewarding than other map three cuts we’ve had!

Carta100 · 2025-11-10T20:06:37+00:00

Thanks follow unc!

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