r/SmallStreamers

Hi!

I started streaming back in 2021, mostly doing a combo of game development and horror games, with the occasional story game mixed in here and there.

The channel started off quite strong and consistently well, I was streaming every few days very regularly with a schedule for Monday, Wednesday and Friday mainly (switching up every now and then) and my channel was pretty much gaining followers and subscribers at a decently fast rate.

In 2022, I released a demo for my game (a fnaf fan game called 'Cleanup Crew'). It blew up IMMENSELY on YouTube and my channel jumped from averaging maybe 10-15 viewers at a time to over 300 at a time and my channel for a good while was getting some consistent growth and a lot of viewerships, some streams even averaging around the 900-1000 viewer mark.

I tried capitalizing off that the best I could of course, and continued strong with the content and it done really well for a good while! Still gaining viewers and still keeping a strong number of subscribers each month.

From about mid 2023 to end of 2024 the viewership drastically started dropping more, my Discord server went from super active to really quiet and now my streams in 2026 are here averaging about 5-10 viewers and I'm not really gaining or losing any followers, just sort of sitting standstill.

I work more now than I used to, and also do work on my days off for a YouTuber I'm friends with, but would still try to stick to my 3 day a week format. It's getting to a point at the moment where I'm barely getting through one stream a week, and its not cause I don't enjoy it - don't get me wrong, when the stream is going well it's an amazing vibe! I'm just finding it unbelievably demotivating dedicating time to streaming when the channel just sits there with the same 4 or 5 people in chat everytime and nothing else improving at all.

I've not changed my content in any way over the last few years, and have reviewed sometimes looking back at older streams and I still carry a lot of the same energy. Only changes ever made are just slightly improving some stream elements like better microphone/better starting soon/end screens etc, but the general vibe is very much the same.

Just this has been my dream job literally for the past 10 years and I'm now 5 years in and it feels like I was on an incredible path heading up and it felt like my dream was fully forming and now it feels just depressing and like I'm just doing something wrong.

Just asking for some genuine help and advice from other creators, and some guidance on some good moves I can make going forward to help elevate it. I'm not planning on packing it in and quitting anytime soon, so any advice geared towards 'calling it quits', I'm not interested in hearing. I want advice to help elevate it, not bring it to a close.

Thanks so much, I really appreciate you taking the time to read this and hopefully help me.

20F! i’ve streamed a little bit here and there whenever my friends and i would play games but never very consistently. i have 42 followers somehow.

everyone has told me i’d be a great streamer. i’m a fairly attractive 20 y/o girl with a nice setup and i think i have a great personality (as i’ve been told). i’m not amazing at talking to nothing and i find myself more entertaining when im speaking to someone or telling a story. i know for sure if at some point i had regular viewers that would talk to me in chat, i would be very interactive enjoyable to watch! i play valorant and league mostly, and ive recently gotten back into stardew valley. i also play a lot of terraria, an i have rdr2 on hold amongst other games.

i would love some advice on this, like how to begin taking it more seriously and how to get more eyes on me or what i can do to be someone worth watching. and if taking it seriously is worth it at all for me. i know that i should definitely keep my camera on, but is there other things i should do? my friends say i should definitely take advantage of my looks and i don’t mind doing that however i would not go too much into sex appeal. should i have some sort of personality niche? have something people could recognize me by? anything would help :)!

Hi! Im a guy who just started streaming. Right now im streaming CS2 daily to an Avg of 1 viewer. I try to post some clips to YT shorts from my streams but i don’t think that they are fun enough. The clips that get views from CS content is either PRO gameplay highlights, gambling moments (case openings) or racist jokes that the Cs community seem to love. I don’t really stand for neither of those 3.

Now i want to Switch genre. Because if i can’t even entertain myself streaming cs why would honestly anyone Watch. But i need some help. Should i be streaming different games everyday, big titles or small indie games? Im not a Guy that sticks to things and I like to move on and try new things.
But i have a ”problem”, I can’t scream. It sounds stupid but i can’t Give crazy reactions, i lack that quality. IRL its Maybe not a good quality but in the streaming world it seems crucial. I also live with my family so there for i have to be even quiter.
Is it possible to build a personality strong enough to stream different titles without being loud?
I also thought about doing IRL streams. It may seem insane to stream IRL to nobody and thats what I be thinking now. Because honestly for me to show my best personality I have to get of the game. While sitting in a chair your only reaction is your face. But when its IRL its all about body language.

This was Maybe just me posting my thoughts but if anyone has wanted to do the same switch as me, how did you do it? Should i stream IRL to 0 viewers or not?

I love streaming and mainly just want to do it to have people to talk to/game with, but I want to see some growth. Ik most growth comes off stream, but what's actually the most important?

I see a lot of people say clips, but honestly I SUCK at games and it's not even funny failures usually its just sad 🤣 I occasionally hit a wild kill is CS2, but that's not my normal skill level so idk if I should keep posting the rare good kill since people will end up disappointed im usually bottom fragging. I dont find myself funny and don't really do bits or anything for stream, I just interact and yap. How do I get clips to share out of that content? And when I get a clip should I post it multiple places or just one?

What platforms are "best" to focus. Insta feels like pulling teeth and I cannot tolerate trying to learn it and I already have tiktok/twitter/Discord, but idk what else would be an option. Should I be posting weekly/daily/multiple times a day? What should I be posting outside clips? I dont mix irl and stream much due to a prior issue with a stalker so I dont share much about my life on socials so its basically all game/stream/art related atm.

I've been reading a lot of posts lately and i wanted to ask and i'm sure everyone is different but what do you think is the most difficult thing about growing as a streamer? For me it was clipping and distribution. For some others I know its talking to no one in case someone joins the stream and expects the streamer to be active and engaging. Others it could be lack of resources or motivation to improve the stream especially if no one is watching?

What's yours?

Vemos las claves y guias para el exito , grocugame

Hey I’ve been streaming for a couple months now and my channel has grown some but I’m struggling to keep viewers and convert them to followers? Any tips and essential things every streamer should know to improve their page?

so ive been streaming for quite a while ive put money (idm loosing money on stuff bc its a passion so fuck it im not in it for the money) in to get emotes banner stuff to make stream better ive hit affiliate im getting roughly 17 followers a month witch im super happy with but is there any advice anyone could give me on how to grow more unknowndemonnnn is my twitch incase people need to see it feel free to be as harsh as u want all feedback is helpful

Real talk - 3 months of streaming and I was cooked mentally. Consistent schedule, decent setup, putting in the effort. Still averaging zero most nights.

The worst part wasn't the zero viewers. It was opening OBS, going live, and just hearing silence for 2 hours straight. Do that enough times and you start questioning everything, your personality, your content, whether you're just fundamentally not built for this.

Had a whole speech ready in my head about why I was quitting. Wrote it out and everything.

What actually helped was attacking the problem from a few angles at once, jumped into streamer Discords, got more active in other people's chats, and used Botviewer for a bit just so opening OBS didn't feel completely pointless. None of it was a magic fix but together it kept me going long enough for things to slowly start clicking.

Still not big. Still grinding. But the loneliness of the early grind is something nobody really prepares you for and I don't think enough people talk about it honestly.

Anyone else hit that wall? What actually pulled you out of it?

So, I got some great helpful comments from people on my last post, thanks to you all!

Now, uh, I saw a trend saying that I need some sort of like avatar, whether it is a PNG or a VTuber avatar... as well, as having stream overlays and chat stuff...

The issue is uh... I'm broke... young, and uh... only streaming directly from my Xbox.

So, I'm not like saying I'm not gonna try and improve my streaming quality, because right now, its literally just me commentating over gameplay, and nothing else.

What I'm asking is... what solutions or options can I do to improve my streaming? Like are there any console or like mobile apps/websites that can help me?

Another question I do have is I see people suggest streaming on TikTok or YouTube, and it brings up the same issue as I only have my console and phone, equipment wise. So is it still possible for me to do that?

I also will try and get clips out of my streams too :p

Just saying again, thanks to everyone from the last post, and thanks to everybody in advance!

Hi everyone! I occasionally do a “playing with viewers” night on stream and it usually does pretty well! People engage and love to join and play games. But the days following that stream they constantly ask to join and I’m not sure how to go about it. I want to set the boundary of “I play games with viewers every now and then, join then and you can play” but also not come off too harsh and make them feel less involved in my streams. I don’t want to make them feel like they’re just a viewer if that makes sense? Let me know your thoughts!

A really good friend of mine has a bday coming up… she decided to start streaming a few months ago and ended up really enjoying it but she only gets 3-4 viewers max. This Thursday is her birthday and I wanted to do something really big for her stream for her, so I come here to ask if anyone would be willing to stop by her stream Thursday to wish her a Happy Birthday or if any other streamers raid or anything really. It would really make her day!!!

Her twitch is “enchiridion000” and she streams every night at 7:30 Central time (5:30 pacific)

She likes to stream her two favorite games Dead by Daylight and Phasmophobia, which are in the horror genre.

You get a few seconds to memorize something (a color, a frequency, an angle, a brightness level, a musical note)
Then you have to reproduce it from memory as accurately as you can.
Not as easy as it sounds, 'm genuinely terrible at the color one.

5 games for now:

- Color : recreate a color swatch using HSB sliders

- Sound : match a frequency by ear

- Angle : reproduce an angle with a dial

- Brightness : match a luminance level

- Instruments : identify the musical note played by an instrument

Has leaderboards, daily challenges, multiplayer rooms, and personal bests.
Free, no account needed (only required if you want your scores on the leaderboard).

Curious how people will do. Any feedback welcome, and let me know if there's a game you'd want to see added next.

meten.app

I got a message request earlier about a live creator network, it's based off the Philippines, which is where I live, should I apply? The account agency only has about 60-70 followers

Hi all,

Maybe a dumb questions but I recently moved from SLOBS to regular OBS. The SLOBS cloudbot was tracking all the gifted subs and bits but now that I've moved my new bot (StreamElements) doesn't seem to have the same data. Is there any way of getting this? I know Twitch track it because of the banners in the chat but I don't know how to access it. Would like to recognise all the people that have gifted before the switch and don't just want to reset everyones stats!

Any help would be amazing ty :))

I am streaming after 12am on week days because of work, so it's really hard to find teammates to co-stream Valorant together. So, if someone is interested, let me know.

I'm located in the EU and my rank is D2.

So, I'm a new streamer who's been streaming for about 2 weeks now... I want to start growing, but I only have 2 followers and I've been streaming my first ever playthrough of Terraria... but I guess what I'm asking is... tips and advice on how to grow larger? I also have no Webcam or anything of the sorts, so is that just holding me back?

Hey, quick question for streamers.

Right now most donation tools (Streamlabs, etc.) still rely on platforms where:

• payments go through a third party
• you deal with fees / delays / chargebacks

I’m exploring a simple alternative:

• donations go directly to your wallet
• no platform holding funds
• no withdrawals needed
• real-time on-stream alerts (like usual)

The tradeoff: it would use crypto under the hood.

My questions:

• Would you ever consider something like this?
• What would stop you from using it?
• Do your viewers ever ask for crypto donation options?

Not selling anything, just trying to figure out if this solves a real problem.

I got 3/4 things to become affiliated I just need views, how can I do that?

Hey everyone! I've been trying some singing streams on tiktok and i Keep getting copyright restricted, tanking my viewership, any ideas how to avoid this?