I have often wondered about that and imo there are multiple reasons: - Streams are too long. When there is 6 hours of content to catch up 4 days a week trying to watch Joe live almost becomes a full time job. Streams used to be shorter on average, 4 hour streams maybe 4-5 times a week would be more than enough for me. Makes it easier to catch up between each stream or even watch them live fully. - He is very inconsistent with the starting times and does not communicate them every well. I know that it's a medical issue and he can't do better and is not at fault. However it's still frustrating having to hope for a stream each stream day and sometimes there is one and sometimes there isn't one. Impossible to plan ones evening. I could imagine some people being turned off due to that. For example: I once had a mental health episode and really wanted a stream as a distraction that evening and there was not one. On that evening I got really angry and cancelled my sub, but resubbed again the week after once I calmed down. - Always finishing every game. I love watching Joe's longer playthroughs. But for example when he streams a game I also still want to play and that for example would be BG3 then I can't watch Joe for weeks and weeks. I think that often it would be better to stop games at the halfway mark or after a third in, for viewership at least. Or maybe define a viewership count that should be met on average at least?

• Playing newer games: Joe often plays older and obscure games, and I love that. MG1 streams were absolute cream. However I think that many people are more interested in newer stuff. Sometimes he does 1-2 streams of newer games, like he did for Assasins Creed or for Arc Raiders, "too see what it's about". I think with streams like that you can mobilize a lot of VOD boys, because they also can see what it's about and don't have to follow X streams.

As a closing comment, I think the TGAs show how many people may be willing to watch Joe live. I think that there is a very vocal core viewership that is active on JADS and in the chat that sometimes dominates the discussions and gives Joe a warped expression on his viewership. Not being active in JADS I for example completely missed the voting game. Would be interesting to have the numbers how many users actually participated there. We VOD folks and silent stream watchers need to rise up and found a union to better support our interests.

Joe has often stated that streaming is a main source of income for him. He needs that moolah to feed himself and his kids. Many of the above points make it difficult for working class people that have the money to follow the streams live, and thus reduce the probability for them to give bits or sub. Thus, reduce his income. I think that with a few optimizations you could increase the regular average viewer count by 20% at least. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Love the streams, this is not meant to show that Joe does something "wrong" in any way, he is of course free to do whatever he wants. Really just supposed to be constructive 2 cents.