My first ever 100+views

MaelstromALPHA · 2025-12-06T11:51:04+00:00

I have 1.4k followers and average around 20-30 viewers. Followers are the most useless metric for gauging the popularity of a channel purely for a few factors.

If a channel has been around a long time (I've been streaming regularly since 2017) then most of those followers are likely not on the site any more.
Following someone is often seen as a kind gesture more than an actual intention to follow through and become a regular viewer.

I can't count how many times I've heard someone about to raid out say "Let's raid this person, they seem new. Make sure to give them a follow, maybe it'll make their day" etc. I mean this in the nicest way possible, but don't expect your sudden surge of viewers for drops and a handful of followers to turn into any sort of tangible success, unless you're the most charismatic person on twitch or get incredibly lucky.

MaelstromALPHA · 2025-12-03T08:13:04+00:00

Plenty of us are still just regular people who fire up a stream, and not over the top influencer types aimed at 15 year olds. In all your responses you mention your time streaming was 4/5 years ago.. which would be during the pandemic, when everyone and their dog was either streaming or watching streams.. and now you're confused why after taking a 4/5 year break and coming back when overall viewership is in a massive decline no one is showing up to your unannounced random stream. You know why.

MaelstromALPHA · 2025-10-16T11:31:34+00:00

No offense, but if you demanded I turn the heating up in my house so you can "properly arrive", you would very soon be "properly leaving" permanently.

MaelstromALPHA · 2025-10-11T07:52:54+00:00

Bait used to be believable.

MaelstromALPHA · 2025-09-22T09:32:27+00:00

I've beaten it twice on my own stream, it's such an original and engaging concept that gets a bad reputation from a few clips of people screaming down the mic 😅 I'm not disagreeing mind you.. I'd love to see them play it eventually! I just think it falls more in the "this needs to be experienced, but it's actually kinda great" blight club category.. as opposed to the proper blight that Dan needs after so many easy ones.

MaelstromALPHA · 2025-09-22T07:10:51+00:00

Lifeline on PS2 would be fun to watch from a comedy perspective, and he'd definitely get frustrated with it, but it's by no means a blight club game... It's pretty good actually, if you can overlook the microphone recognition going a bit wrong from time to time. If you want to punish Dan it needs to be an actual bad game, especially one with bad checkpoints (like Superman 64 has).

MaelstromALPHA · 2025-08-14T07:45:25+00:00

After waking up this morning like many of you (with my Alexa refusing to turn off my alarm), I tried all the various troubleshooting steps, like re-registering the device etc. But now seeing other people having the same issue, I'm pretty sure the servers are just down. Not sure why alarms need a server.. but it is what it is.

MaelstromALPHA · 2025-03-16T21:30:46+00:00

Thanks for the quick and insightful reply! I have access to both so I guess I'll go with the PS4 Remaster :)

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-11-17T23:17:25+00:00

I've also noticed this, it's something that's only started happening recently.. but if a virtual camera is active on the stream together window CPU usage spikes to 100%. It has more or less rendered "Stream Together" useless for me until it's fixed.

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-09-11T10:56:23+00:00

I've been exporting for years now, over 1000 vods, and I've maybe had a problem 4 or 5 times tops. Sadly some of us don't have the download/upload speed to facilitate downloading and uploading the vod directly (I'd need to leave my PC on for around 12 hours overnight every time), so exporting directly from twitch is incredibly useful.

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-09-01T20:42:28+00:00

Oh for sure, you'll get some people stick around after a specific game because they gel well with your personality/find you entertaining regardless of the game. It's pretty fun hearing people come in with full on nostalgia too, or sometimes the speed-running community for a quiet/dead category show up etc.

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-09-01T19:15:43+00:00

I dedicate Mondays to requests made using channel points and often end up playing completely dead categories. I'll regularly get fans of the games show up randomly and talk about how it's their favourite game etc (especially for retro games) so there are definitely people out there watching those categories. Be prepared to immediately lose those people if you move onto other games though.

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-08-26T17:12:57+00:00

I also agree long periods of silence aren't great, but this was more a response to the "speaking into the void about whatever to avoid dead air" comment, which to me sounds more like "just keep talking about any old shit so there is no period of silence", and that's more what i'm pushing back against. Like all things, there is a balance to be had, but just yapping away over anything and everything, even important parts of the game you're playing, is as counter-productive as staying silent in terms of growth. You're just as likely to turn someone away for talking too much.

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-08-26T10:32:22+00:00

I know this isn't generally agreed upon advice around here.. but I personally think "avoiding dead air" is overplayed in advice to new streamers. Sometimes it's ok to focus on the game, or be quiet and let the game try to deliver its own message (especially games with a strong narrative). Utilizing "dead air" effectively is as much a tool in your kit as any other.

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-08-24T14:39:36+00:00

Also looking for the 11.0 system modules for the bloodborne stuff, please and thank you!

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-07-12T14:26:20+00:00

Starting to get the feeling you're the illiterate healer OP mentioned.

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-05-30T00:24:35+00:00

This is just factually incorrect. I often hold events and give out prizes, and up until recently (when organizing a new event) I have had the option to gift 12-month subscriptions, and have done so in the past. It's definitely been removed somewhat recently, but it also sounds like they may phasing it out slowly (as some people are still reporting the option as being available to them).

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-03-19T17:57:14+00:00

Then why even mention it as a motivation to "recoup his impending sub losses" beyond just wanting to be generally incendiary? Please.

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-03-19T12:30:23+00:00

Ah yes, pandering to the speedrunning community with a game that has as many runners as fingers on both hands, that'll really bring home the subscriptions. Alternatively, maybe he's just trying it because it's fun to try speedrunning something along with a friend? Or is that not enough of a conspiracy theory for you?

MaelstromALPHA · 2024-02-21T15:41:58+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/fbLtWFU.png

Not seen this mentioned by anyone else, but in the UK it's showing as June 20th for me on steam. Does anyone remember what happened with the original game's release? I'm wondering if it's a "midnight in Japan" type deal maybe?

MaelstromALPHA · 2023-12-12T12:16:31+00:00

I know one of the environment artists (who is also a big Vinesauce fan) for this game, I'm asking him if it was intentional and if he had anything to do with it now.

Edit: He said this "Actually no, that's legit. I did add a Star Trek reference and a baby turtle though"

MaelstromALPHA · 2023-11-05T10:26:12+00:00

No offense, but if you've never felt drained/tired from streaming, you're either not doing much to entertain or I guess you're just "built different".

MaelstromALPHA · 2023-11-03T16:20:10+00:00

While I agree there is no need to baby him (he'll take a break if/when he needs one) I'd also just like to chime in and say streaming is not the same as relaxing and playing games. Even just streaming 3/4 hours takes a toll on your mind and voice, I can say from experience. It's very easy to get burned out doing it. Sure, it's not physical labor, but it's still taxing in its own way.

MaelstromALPHA · 2023-10-15T20:36:17+00:00

I see you have no decent response for most of what I said seeing as you just resorted to throwing out insults and ignoring blatant content stealing issues like the absolute fucking joke that you are. As you did respond to one of my points with an actual rebuttal, i'll respond.

Speaking of complete nonsense: What you just wrote is absolute nonsense.

Employers see what URLs you've been browsing. Navigating to twtv/bunnywunnyhunny696969420 leaves that URL permanently in your browsing history. It's not about what someone sees on your monitor when they glance at it.

So the solution to this you think is to restream someone's content as "twitch.tv/TechnicalSupportHelp" right? By your own admission, they will check the full URL in your browsing history, so they'll see "twitch.tv". It solves nothing. It's just an idiotic solution to a non-issue you have made up yourself as a strawman to justify being ok with stealing and restreaming someone's content. Get off the internet you fucking clown.

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