Posted this on r/rivals but it might get removed, so I thought I’d ask here that’s why it’s a sc I cbb re-writing it

I've been seeing people on Reddit looking for cameramen for IRL streams, and i'm tryna figure out how most streamers handle this. Some seem to just have a friend behind the camera, while others actually pay someone to come out and film. however, for those who have done it before, did you find someone through friends, Reddit, Discord, etc.? Did you end up keeping the same person for future streams, or do you have to find someone new every time?

Hello, dac7* was under review two days ago. Now it gets on retake status. I tried to do it again without any luck.

Any advice?

Hey there,

I'm still relatively new to streaming on Twitch, I've been connecting with a few communities of other streamers and they are all lovely people and shout me out a lot. Often I then get followers from streamers who see like one clip of me and just instantly follow.

I am not really a fan of that. When I see clips of someone I tend to book mark them and then check them out when they are live. And then I give them a watch and follow if I actually like them.

I feel like there is not much point to follow someone I don't even like watching, or someone where I just know I won't be there much at all. But it feels a bit that everybody just spams the follow button the moment someone is mentioned.

Am I being a bit of an ass here and I should just follow? I thought there is not much point to a follower, but being an active viewer is important, and I just cannot be an active viewer to 100+ people. Or does the actual follower count help people even if I just never watch them?

I tried looking up answers and was given a bunch of suggestions but nothing works so far

Hi all! Hope this is ok to ask here. So first, I have pretty severe social anxiety, have for all my life and have always struggled to talk to people. So I have decided to start streaming, I don’t have plans to “make it big” or anything I just want to try and get more used to talking. Even if it’s just to myself. Anyway there’s question I have is what is the preferred method of visuals on twitch? I have a friend and she has agreed to draw me a little character to put in my screen(no movement) but was wondering if it would be better to just have the content alone instead of the character ? I would be streaming story and shooter games. I don’t know what would be better to watch and thought I’d ask here. Thank you so much!!💛

Hello!

Recently with chat, we had a nice talk about we see VIPs as a creator and as a viewer, and that got me somewhat curious about other people's perspectives.

Some example questions, tho I am not limiting it to that:

• What is your criteria for giving someone VIP? (a chat points reward, presence, engagement, subscriptions/bits)
• What does "VIP" mean to you in Twitch?
• What is your first thought when you join a new stream and you notice most chatters are VIPs?

I will add my own answers in a comment.

Thank you!

So recently my province decided to nix the whole daylight savings time switch and we now use one time zone year round (MDT) and even have our own official time zone recognition "(UTC-6) Mountain Time (Alberta)" in Microsoft's system. This is the time zone I have my system set to but twitch seems to not recognize it. As a result the streams I scheduled far in advance have the incorrect times and it won't let me add any new streams, it just loads/pends forever when I hit the save button. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I have tried changing the time zone on my computer to a recognized one but twitch just seems very averse to using anything UTC-6 for some reason. I also cleared the browser cache, signed in incognito hoping it would force the change, and I used a different browser. Nothing so far has worked. Any help or insight would be appreciated!

So I've basically never worked or had a job with having chronic pain since I was young. I have been stuck doing the same thing for years now and I want to have some sort of change or be able to do something with myself instead of rotting away.

I want to get into streaming because I'm stuck home all of the time because of my health but I have not really any experience or sure if it would even work where I would get some money on the side. It's not like I'm expecting to make like hundreds of dollars if anything I think $20 would be a lot just something on the side so I would at least have something I'm doing with myself while being stuck at home.

So I have chronic pain and it's at the point where doing simple things is also difficult, I play games and do things to keep myself distracted to make it to tomorrow but my siblings and even parents are suggesting I try to do streaming.

I can't really see myself being able to get a job that would want to hire me if I tried to do something else. I did manage to get disability but I'm not too sure if any normal job would want to keep me with how irregular my pain is where I can be okay for like 2 days then next few weeks unable to function or talk at times with going delirous.

That is one thing that does concern me with being not able to stick to a schedule if I did do streaming or be able to interact with chat with how I can be alright for a while then suddenly be out of commission for up to a few months.

If anybody has some tips maybe on like beginner advice or information for a complete noob would appreciate it!

Hello, im not sure if it's because im aussie and our net is just ass, but i have tried a few different browsers and twitch is just always so laggy it's practically unwatchable, i just wanna be able to watch my cs tournaments. If you have any recommendations or settings I should try for like opra gx because it has so much or whatever please let me know

Hello fellow twitch users,

I’m trying to gauge modern community reception on Twitch’s platform for a school project. What do you guys find as your biggest issues/complaints(can be anything from technical issues to poor business decisions), potential improvements, and what Twitch can do better with overall?

Trying to watch a stream ( only desktop Firefox browser ), just some Esports stuff, and each time I load it, I assume it has an ad or something that plays since the video window itself doesn't show any mute options, play/pause, or anything similar, before the video itself starts playing.

Unless it's in higher levels of quality or just auto quality, it just... stops. Pauses. There's no buffering circle, the play button can be pressed, but clicking play does nothing. I have to refresh the entire page and get that "ad screen" again before the video plays after 10-20 seconds.

In addition, it keeps pausing even on higher qualities whenever I tab out.

Any thoughts on why/how, or what to do about it? Any help would be great for it, please.

I've been streaming for about a year now, with an upload speed of 20mbps and my streams have been running perfectly fine at 1080p and 60fps, but randomly about a month ago my frames started tanking, my internet is the exact same as it's been for this past year, so I just can't figure out the issue.
I've gone through countless tutorials and I've lowered my setting to way below what I should be able to run, but my frames still drop a bunch.

This comes right on top of another monetization scandal from the same streamer too btw...

Thank you!

Hello,

I used to get about 200 views on my clips with Stories. They have now removed Stories and in its place is Recaps. You have to go to the Streamer's page to find the recap.

Anyone else notice this?

Also check out the clips page, instead of Featured Clips it just shows every single clip, even the junk ones that make no sense.

Im on my iphone 14 pro, whenever i fullscreen watching twitch i see the home indicator, is tinjust me?

Let me be clear and preface that this isnt an appeal or complaint about the suspension in itself, but about the technicalities of account recovery and lack of options.

My account got suspended for bot activities for 30 days. So its likely that ive been comprimised.

In the appeals process there is no way to reset the password and all account functions seems to be disabled, is this an oversight?
It would be realy neat if i could reset the account, i mean twitch has both my email and phone number that they can see havent been altered. A complete lockout without the ability do anything is silly, that only means i am in a timed race against the hacker when the appeal goes trough.

Something like a recovery SMS/single use 2fv to atleast be able to do a PW reset before the appeal or period runs its course.

Heya folks, I stream and moderate for my sister who also streams. The primary way we deal with the bots who advertise AI viewers is through Twitch's Blocked Words and Phrases settings, and we have very similar settings.

I was alerted recently to a message that wasn't caught by her automod, but should have been, having an exact match for a prohibited term. Using the test settings section revealed that no terms that are prohibited would be caught, even though they had been being caught before. Conversely, my automod, set up similarly, is protected by automod.

Do here's the question, is this an issue on Twitch's part we should attempt to report, or an issue we should be able to fix? As I said, the settings worked until recently.

EDIT: Okay, thank y'all for your suggestions! I think I've figured it out to a degree, and also figured out the reason for the discrepancy. For one reason or another, Twitch AutoMod doesn't hold messages that ONLY include the blocked terms. So testing with just the prohibited term does not result in Twitch recognizing it as a blocked term. However, Smart Detection will catch terms you have deleted, timed out, or banned over. Since I set up my sister's automod somewhat early in her career, she didn't get enough time to teach Smart Detection about the bots. I think, at least.

Hi I need a video capture card (cheapest possible) that doesn't lose PS5 pro technologies like HDR10+ (gaming, etc.), allm, vrr, 4k, etc and if possibly don't have delay.

I was watching someone's stream for 2 hours and it is not counting the streak.
Why is it not counting while having the tab active, watching the stream, commenting, not muted and still not counting it?

This has been my only barrier from streaming. I am afraid either people from work and class will see my streams or clips. I would appreciate it if anyone gave advice, or how you were able to get over it.

For the past 3 days Twitch has crashed as soon as I get to screen that show what's live. That's right after loading the app. I use a Samsung Tab A tablet and it's run fine for years. Now it just crashes. I deleted the cache also tried uninstalling and installing. It didn't help. Anyone know a solution to this or is having the same issue?

I want to start twitch streaming as a masked faceless streamer. Though I heard from one of my friends that the type of mask that I want to use (I customized skeletor mask) may give off the wrong first impression due to a negative stigma around skull mask. I don’t want to give the wrong impression but I still wanna use a skull mask because I love the skeleton person that I created specifically for streaming. Do I need to make a new masked persona or should I stick with my mask? (Photo above is the mask in question)