7 evil excuses NOT to stream on twitch
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- welcome back my lovely viewers! today i'm here to talk about the 7 evil excuses i use to avoid streaming.
READ THE BLOG HERE
heyshadylady.com/2022/12/13/7...
from the stresses of trying to feel camera ready on a daily basis, to balancing a work life balance (that also compensates for my mental illnesses like bipolar disorder).... battling the discouraging analytics constantly shoved in my face to navigating the social dynamics & peer pressure to fit in making me feel like I'm back at high school. tech difficulties all the way to the the looming existential crisis of "what the heck am i doing with my life" ---- these are my 7 evil excuses I use to avoid going live on twitch.
i hope that by sharing these with you, i can inspire you to overcome your own obstacles and pursue your passions with confidence.
thanks for watching ♡
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0:00 - welcome back
0:32 - why is consistency important?
3:34 - EXCUSE 1 - i don't always want to be on camera
5:24 - EXCUSE 2 - it's mental illness, innit?
7:23 - EXCUSE 3 - analytics are discouraging af
10:10 - EXCUSE 4 - streaming feels like high school
13:27 - EXCUSE 5 - it's hard to strike a work/life balance
15:55 - EXCUSE 6 - tech difficulties suck
16:55 - EXCUSE 7 - i feel like i'm wasting my time
18:19 - how do i defeat the evil excuses?
21:36 - outro
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how many of you have even heard of homeward bound ....
name 5 homeward bound lyrics!!
Love your channel! Your grind is inspiring!
I LOVE that movie! And actually... weren't there like 2 sequels??
TURKEEEEEEEEEEY!
I cried watching this video. How dare you attack my feels! xD All jokes aside, I resonated with every one of these "evils" (one of which was the reason I switched to being a vtuber, but that's a whole other beast of it's own). Thanks for powering through and making this!
Now just to find a heart wrenching analogy involving Little Foot. iykyk
I know I am late but thank you for being so open about your personal struggles with streaming. I NEEDED to see this video. I am just getting back into streaming and I immediately started with a game I didn’t really want to play with an audience that just did not really fit my vibes. I am going to start from scratch and play a game I actually want to play with people that are positive and supportive!
You have no idea how much I love this video. It's been a struggle to get back to content creation, and this is definitely a video I felt I needed to watch/listen to. It was one of your other videos (I can't remember which one) that even made me flip the switch and decide to fully do it. Thank you. Thank you so much. For everything. That first video that inspired me and this one that has inspired me to continue.
Ayyyy get it!
I'm crying at you just talking about shadow and the mud pit. Jeez.
Milo and Otis was another pet film that got me in the feels as a kid.
the mud pit scene KILLS ME lmaoo
yesss, milo and otis was so good too 🥺
The way i related to the things you said in this video is unreal. This touched me. This saw me. Thank you.
I relate to literally every point of this haha. I always adore your videos about streaming.
Thank you for this video. This video is beyond streaming even. It’s deep and ebbs into all categories of my life. Thank you 🙏🏻❤️
thanks so much for the kind words; and im glad it could resonate 🥺
@@HeyShadyLady you’re welcome. Yes it 100% resonated. ❤️
I appreciate this video! This is so helpful and honest. Thank you ☺️
I felt like with the ladder going up the hill analogy...
Once I stopped looking behind and down at "bad streams" vs "good streams" and stop looking at little dips in numbers, I was able to be more consistent and more growth happened naturally lol
This was a great video. Keep up the great work
Appreciate you so much pasta 🥺💜
i appreciate your content more than you could ever know! i've only recently found you but you're one of my favorite content creators. thank you.
2:25 Desribes my UA-cam Channel and my Twitch Channel Intensity for my UA-cam Channel because back then I used to really UA-cam Videos but overtime when I Discovered Twitch I really liked Livestreaming all the Time so my Twitch Channel became Consistencty making it to the Destination!
Okay but I related to this entire video 100% and you absolutely nailed every point you made!! Amazing video! ❤
thank you so much 🥺🙏
Omg! The never ending scene shattered me as a kid too! 😢😢😢😢
This blog post was how I first found you! I remember it resonating deeply with me, and watching it back in video form I can say it still does. You're very good at taking your thoughts and putting them into words. And I appreciate you sharing your vulnerabilities with us. None of us are alone in these feelings.
I appreciate you and your content sm, thank you shady
thank u sm hayloe!
Wow. Thank you for being so vulnerable with us♥️
thanks for watching and welcoming the vulnerability 🥺
I loved this video so much. Thank you for being extremely transparent. This video just shows your human and you too go through struggles of twitch and life at the same time, because people always think Twitch is ‘easy money’ when it’s truly not. A lot of mental gymnastics come with it. Again, thank you for being transparent ❤
I could not relate more right now and this is exactly what i needed to hear today. Thanks for being real.
the struggle is real 😩 im glad this resonated, thanks for the kind words 🥺
Im glad you are coming back and you are sharing what you have learned over the years.
thank you!
You are literally amazing
Thank you for your words. :) I also struggle with these hurdles, we will make it through though. :) Here's to staying positive :) (:
You got this!
Yay you're back!!!!
yayy!! hope i can keep the energy up~!
man this is so well-timed for me. i want to be a streamer full-time but have been so scared to take the leap. we have a lot of similar struggles with mental health and imposter syndrome. your content has helped me reframe this crazy business a lot in my own head, so, thank you 🥰
im so glad this could help!! thanks for the kind words
I never saw Homeward Bound, no. But Neverending Story yes, broke my little heart. As well as My Girl, Watership Down, Braveheart and, of course, The Lion King. 😭😭😭
omg the lion king scene created a collective conscious trauma LMAO
Yo your hair is so dope!
Off topic but your makeup always looks great! Your hair looks great too!
Edit: it was on topic!!!
aw, THANK YOU!! hehehehee
I mean I expect no less from a fellow Gemini (😜) but wow if this was the first video I’ve ever seen of you, I wouldn’t have known that you haven’t been posting much recently. So well thought out, written, and spoken!
aw wow thanks so much ;-; i appreciate that! gemini power 😂😂
i've been struggling with the daily "i should go live today" thoughts for months now. and instead of going live i'll keep adding new things to obs or make new commands in the hopes of it motivating me to hit that button! but it never works. i've been trying to examine why i am struggling with it so much! overthinking/chronic overwhelm and analysis paralysis. struggles with chronic pain, vision related headaches and of course the classic mental illness. i want to try doing drag on stream but also what if i get a migraine from the lights and can't continue. limiting beliefs, what if's and the pressure of trying to do things "right". i know deep down i could probably be more successful than i am but it almost feels like once i started seeing more subs and people come back the more i would self sabotage. i started streaming cuz i just wanted to play games from my childhood and be a silly little guy!!
anyways thank you so much for always being a real one! your content is always so relatable and makes me feel less alone. i deeply appreciate all you do, ty!
perfectionism procrastination!!!!
i definitely feel you with the headaches getting in the way. sometimes the body just does not allow you to do what you want. but i think maybe a good balance is the days where it's NOT health related, try to push through those "ugh i dont feel like streaming...." because once i get over the hurdle, its easier and easier to go live more often...
self sabotaging is a big hobby of mine too sadly... maybe i can focus a video on that next
thanks for watching moon 🥺
@@HeyShadyLady damn you perfectionism procrastination! i really do need to work on just pushing through and doing the things i want to freakin do! 🥲
thank you for the thoughtful response 💕
Perfectly said video!!
thank you!
Wow I can’t believe people Harass streamers based on giving them money! That’s a scary thought. Giving that money is to help the creator keep creating and giving out free content. That’s disgusting to think they would expect anything more. I never thought about this side of things. I really appreciate your content and enjoy it. Always happy when you bring us a new video. Hope you’ll want to keep doing it but also yes do what’s best for your mental and physical health. 🤗💛
entitlement is a big underbelly both in viewers and streamers tbh 😩
thank you for watching, and for the kind words!
Humans are naturally tribalistic unfortunately. I stream on and off to 1 follower who I am sure doesn’t even watch but honestly I stream to just rewatch myself play and listen to my thoughts. I should also just start a podcast and air shit out, it’s super cathartic for me lol. I appreciate these videos, I feel so happy that I am not alone. I never felt like I fit in either, I was actually upset when I got to work as a full on adult and realized how tribalistic people STILL are in a “professional” setting. Atp I’m like it is what it is. I’m going to check out your blog, I already follow on twitch and UA-cam so I’m sure there are gems on the blog as well. 💜
Wow, I don't usually leave comments, but as someone who has had a number of false-starts on Twitch/UA-cam over the past 6+ years and only recently began sticking to a schedule (for the most part), I relate to this on so many levels. From not wanting to be on camera sometimes (I cancelled my stream last night for that very reason), to mental illness (I've frequently experienced the "doing everything all in one go, then being too exhausted to do anything for months" scenario and really want to get properly diagnosed since mental illnesses like BPD run in my family), to being late for streams because I didn't account for tech difficulties, to being discouraged by analytics (despite how much I try to avoid looking at them), to generally feeling like I'm wasting my time (I've recently been putting more effort into editing some UA-cam videos because of that), and finally, to balancing between a soul-sucking office job and trying to express myself with my content (your vanlife comment got me, lol, because I actually bought a van a few years ago for that very purpose until I adopted my cats and they grounded me at home). I know this was long-winded, but thank you for making this video. It's very validating to hear that I'm not alone in some of the negative feelings and experiences that come with content creation because sometimes it feels like people make it look so much easier than it is. Despite it all though, I don't ever want to stop trying either. ❤️
thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience!! it definitely helps to ease the pain when you feel less alone in the feelings... i wish vanlife was an option for me too, but it's just a silly daydream i fear 😂
this video has really opened my eyes on the reality of streaming, im a super baby streamer and had no clue all this was bts.... but im not gonna give up. even though its hard it is rewarding. gotta stick it though...
I think a big thing for 8:50 section is you have to be willing to take L's when you can or otherwise be conceited enough to double down on everything.
you're so right 😩
not the swamp of sadness, forever PTSD
omg and then you hit me with homeward bound
💕💕💕🙌🙌🙌🌺🌺💝
I've streamed a handful of times on UA-cam, but what keeps me streaming on twitch is I feel like an old queer mom in a sea of young people. I feel like everyone is going to gravitate more toward the young streamers versus a 45 year old woman playing sims or dreamlight valley.
Oh and I recently moved my elderly (in hospice care) mom in, which means I gave up my streaming room so she can have her own room. I now record and stream from my kitchen table and I can't really do that when she is awake during the day. She keeps the TV loud and she talks loud. When she goes to bed at a decent hour I can record or stream but that is inconsistent as sometimes she's up until 11 or 12 at night. I've gone from recording and uploading 6 days a week and streaming at least once a week to uploading videos 3 days a week and maybe streaming once a week. And it's not even the same night each week as I can't plan since I never know when she's going to bed. Which means my streams end up being impromptu streams.
i definitely think that it's just part of the entertainment industry that "young and hip" people will always rise to the top of the watch lists, but that doesn't mean there isn't space for ppl outside of that demographic! and there's plenty of people who seek out that type of energy for relatability!! you just gotta put yourself out there confidently!