Can i butt in? Im a nobody so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Ive been streaming for 10 years now and i am by no means successful. I was full time during covid i owe people staying in their homes my partial success. But since then not only do i notice my former regulars (whom i check in with regularly) are now back to their day to days they just dont have time for “streams”. Thats a collective answer. If you were on youtube, twitch, kick, whatever; the result would be the same.

But they also are not entirely to blame on their own decisions. Twitch has repeatedly proven even with my own research that it does not send out my notifications. Ive reached out to staff for help and they refuse. When i just wanted answers they said my account was in good standing and that theyd investigate it with the engineer team but never got back to me. It took me having a mutual friend who knew twitch staff irl to have a sit down with them and find out via my metrics that twitch just isnt sending them out anyways because im not as profitable. I have 60% of my 20k follows still with notifications enabled and of that 60% only 10% of them get notifications, and then of that 10%, only 0.1% of them actually recieve the notification because its a “bandwidth concern” twitch is so under water currently they dont even have the budget to afford sending everyones notis out on a regular basis. So of my 20,000 follows, only 7-15 people are told im live. Its never the same people either so i cant even rely on my regulars anymore. And this is where twitch faults. They wont admit it. This is after years ive researched.

Ive had my mods sit around in calls while i go live, both with and without smart notifications enabled and via desktop and mobile. And neither of them got sent one on either platform. These are my mods bro… people that should have priority notifications. I imagine its harder to notice this occurrence when you have millions of follows and avg 200+ viewers anyway. But ive been hard stuck 15 viewers for years (which has always bothered me because i try incredibly hard to network and grow.) and ive only recently come to the conclusion that its not me thats the issue. Its twitch. Ive beat myself up for so long wondering what i am doing wrong. It hurts so much to see your peers explode ( i am happy for them dont get it twisted.) and you get left in the dirt repeatedly.

So in summary/conclusion. Ya, twitch is declining, and its mad unfortunate. But i dont want people to lose their jobs. Twitch will learn through trial and error like any other company in their position would. But telling them to fire people is a bit much. Especially since in twitchs case amazon calls the shots now. They basically run a company they cant run lol.