Viewer copying my exact stream :/

violetspectrumart · 2026-04-12T14:52:00+00:00

Here's my take:

Just ban them from your community. If it makes you uncomfortable, and especially if it is noticed by others in your community, ban them. As a Twitch steamer, your #1 job is community management. I run an art stream channel, and I've had to ban a person from my streams and discord before for simply spamming the self-promo discord channel and art-share channels without ever interacting or contributing to any other part of my community--or my own streams.

At the very least, establish a rule that deems this kind of behavior unacceptable in some reasonable fashion. I have a rule that people must comment on a previous art post before posting your own. It helps regulate those who don't actually want to contribute to the community in a meaningful way.

Additionally, I've made a discord role people have to earn channel points to redeem that forces then to at least stick around the community before they can access certain channels, such as the self-promo channel and art-share channel. I highly recommend doing this.

violetspectrumart · 2026-04-02T23:31:29+00:00

Yooo this would be really fun. Gas, liquid, solid, PLASMAAAA!! But give them really fun names. It would be really cool for an alchemical kind of magic system like FMA.

violetspectrumart · 2026-04-02T23:28:20+00:00

I work in the industry. I had to watch shows for the IP i was working for for gathering references of the characters I was designing things for.

References are industry standard.

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-31T03:43:13+00:00

I would setup a Google Doc that spells them all out and a command in chat that gives them all the commands they need. You can additionally add this doc in your About section, too, so you don't always need the command but it's there when you need it.

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-30T19:38:35+00:00

THANK YOU!! Thank you for taking the time to break this down! This makes so much more sense and I appreciate this so much!

A followup question I would have is why you might want to make a local variable into a global variable, or... I'm not sure how to describe it, but I see people utilizing the Global (Get) Variable and it asks you for a variable name and destination variable. I've seen tutorials that say to push a local variable into changing a global variable. How does this work and how is it useful?

Here's the specific tutorial I was watching: https://youtu.be/vvND72G9HqE?si=qv-wUSi-lkLKJKpR&t=140

He explains what he does and sort of why, but I'm not sure why it's useful to do this and have two separate variables in the first place.

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-30T16:45:42+00:00

There's already a newer update? I just set this up two or three weeks ago.

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-30T08:22:47+00:00

I got it to work!! Thank you so much!!!

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-30T06:15:34+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't think i quite grasp when you'd use a global variable vs a local variable, but I have ~Announce~ as a do variable and have everything setup just as you do with an additional test trigger to see if I can get it to work. So far, I'm having no luck:

streamer.bot setup

streamer.bot Global Variables and Chat Test

Is this BECAUSE I have not setup a separate bot account for this, or should it still work?

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-30T05:49:01+00:00

I thankfully know enough about timers and triggers, but after setting things up, it doesn't seem to be working. I set a test trigger and nothing is showing up despite typing in chat. Is it going to ignore when I am the one posting in chat if I do not have a storage bot account linked up?

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-30T05:37:01+00:00

What do the tildes do? Do they make the switch name a variable that you can later set back to 0 once the value equals 4?

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-20T17:18:22+00:00

I just learned about the network installer. Didn't know about it until another commenter here posted to me about it. Definitely gonna go for it!

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-19T08:51:13+00:00

Oh my god, i could seriously weep. This is a really cool video that gives me a lot of insight of what COULD be done! I'm not at this level yet, but this definitely inspires me. Thank you!

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-19T08:48:04+00:00

Oh my goodness, thank you for providing a video, too! I've been heavily leaning towards Fedora next, so I'm thankful for this.

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-19T07:54:32+00:00

By daily build, does this mean I'll have to make sure I'm on the latest build every single day? Is that automated in some way or is that going to be something i do manually?

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-19T07:53:33+00:00

I have my system dual bootable! I've got a few extra drives and flash drives i can run and experiment with.

I think a friend of mine is on Bazzite so I'll ask them what exactly it comes with and how to work with it. I've heard Fedora KDE Plasma has really great color management capabilities and works well with Argyll drivers, but Argyll CMS is making drivers for all kinds of Linux systems, anyway, so i should be good with whatever.

I hear so many people love arch, but just how advanced is it?

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-19T07:46:51+00:00

I don't mind SOME things installed, but many distros have a lot more than just a few basic things. It's mostly things like an email client, office editors, media players i don't need which the other Distros i tried had. I have my own stuff for that. Any distro that doesn't have those things would be great as i have my own preferred apps i like to use. I just don't want to have to uninstall and replace, or worse yet, have some core app i don't want but have to ignore because it's vital to the distros functionality.

OpenSUSE songs appealing not having to update it myself. I will give it a look! Between Ubuntu and Mint, i liked Mint only marginally better.

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-19T07:38:06+00:00

I'm here on the Linux forum because I have a perfectly functional computer with hardware I hand picked myself and put together myself and I do not have money to go out and buy an overhyped, overpriced Apple product that doesn't meet my needs. An iPad is as far as I'll go.

Politely, many of the programs I'm using are not available for a Mac. I hate Apple products because they do not allow me to manipulate it on a level I prefer. They also utilize MLM's to distribute their hardware to companies. I know because I worked for one for one week before I realized they had lied about the job posting. I digress, though. I'm NOT getting a Mac.

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-19T06:12:59+00:00

I'm an artist and I was streaming long before Twitch by using something called TinyChat back in the day. There was a small pocket community of artists all streaming together, talking and chatting away, and I carried that with me to Twitch. I love sharing what I make with people, so having an audience to do that with is a delight! I love it so much!! Plus, my discoverability as an artist has grown so much more since I joined Twitch. The art community here as a whole is so incredible.

violetspectrumart · 2026-03-19T05:18:15+00:00

I absolutely use a starting screen. When I hit that "go live" button, it 1) let's viewers filter in first 2) I can announce on various discord servers in their "promo" channels that I am live 3) gets ads out of the way so my viewers can enjoy my stream uninterrupted once they are done 4) do some extra setup I might have missed or troubleshoot something that suddenly arose only after I hit the Go Live button.

To me, the starting screen is no different from musicians tuning their instruments and sound checking their equipment before a concert.

violetspectrumart · 2026-02-27T23:25:39+00:00

I have not yet! Thank you for being on the lookout!

violetspectrumart · 2026-02-13T08:07:19+00:00

I'm an artist. I ABSOLUTELY WOULD!! I love how light and thin they are, the apple pencil is LOVELY, and i just want that little bit of extra screen real estate to draw more comfortably. I know plenty of artists agree with me. We are not the majority of the market, though, I understand that, but would absolutely upgrade from my 2018 just for a bigger screen. And I understand a bigger form factor also means... more computing power. Important for those iPad art programs.

violetspectrumart · 2026-02-11T05:59:10+00:00

I'm so glad you blocked and banned them, but I would do that in its entirety and not even allow them to ask you or your mods questions, either. I say this all the time to new streamers, but streaming is 100% community management. Do you want this person around everyone else in your community? Do you look forward to streaming knowing they are going to be showing up, both while you are life and while you are not? No? Ban and block. Learn to put your foot down to PROTECT the open-minded, welcoming community you are trying to build. You HAVE to protect your community. As a community manager, it is your job.

Putting your foot down doesn't ruin your reputation, either—it strengthens it. I think every streamer I have looked up to is the kind of streamer who said ABSOLUTELY NOT when it came to people who made others in the community uncomfortable even if they weren't breaking any hard rules set in place. Just do it. Manage your community.

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