I love watching streams. Mostly, of course, the author’s, but since I’ve watched all the posts and, for lack of anything better, I started watching streams on blogs.
There were many of them, in different games, genres, with different presenters, and so on. But watching them, most (the vast majority) of them is almost impossible. I’m not talking about technical performance. It’s important, of course, but that’s not what I’m talking about.
Most of the user streams are simply impossible to listen to due to the overwhelming amount of nonsense (swearing, laughter) uttered by the stream authors.
Or it’s a couple of presenters, sitting “on their own wavelength,” communicating on some topics known to them and trying to drag the viewer into it all (and absolutely in vain, because most of the time the viewer doesn’t understand anything).
Or it’s a funny campaign (some kind of stream on Half-Life2: Episode One), where the ears literally begin to curl into a tube, and this is in the very first minutes, depending on the amount of swearing, inappropriate and inappropriate. I myself am not afraid of swearing, I use it with pleasure myself. But when swearing for the sake of swearing itself (and this is exactly such a case) – it’s regrettable.
Either this is a funny https://nongamstopsites.uk/ camp again (Swat 4 recent. Although it’s on the main page, it’s still user-friendly, as I understand it), where there are so many people and so few presenters. And as a result, everyone is trying to say something like that, but there are many of them, but everyone wants to say it, and preferably now. And preferably, interrupting your colleague mid-sentence. And as a result, complete chaos (“Yes, here… Yes, here in… Yeah, here you write in the chat… Yes, here they write in the chat… I’m reading the chat. ")
Or it’s a couple of presenters trying to extract a joke from literally everything that catches their eye. But the most offensive thing is that the joke doesn’t work, and the deathly silence behind the word “shovel” is diluted with an unnatural laugh or a completely fake cackle, which immediately makes you feel very, very sad.
But there are streams that you can still watch. They play calmly. They lead you calmly. There are few of them, but they still exist, and that’s good.
Basically, end of the preface.
Just recently watched the stream. And everything is fine, I liked it, and didn’t turn it off after ten minutes, which is extremely rare for user streams.
And there they constantly said “How few people are there, I love three-digit numbers, but what would happen, I wonder, if it was a Minecraft stream. ».
I don’t understand this. Well, yes. There are thirty people. Your audience. Well then, work with her. Why sigh every time, every ten minutes, that there are not enough people, that everyone is leaving??
The audience is like that. Capricious.
Capricious audience and capricious human desires. There will be a hundred people – but you will always want more. If it’s three hundred, you’ll want four hundred. Five hundred – six hundred. Well, seven hundred – you’ll want a thousand at once. But even this thousand will scatter, you won’t even have time to blink an eye, if you constantly sigh for each one who has left. And demand – “Write to chat”. What to write?!
If there are thirty people, then work for them. Get interested. After all, it worked out (here I judge by myself, I didn’t leave. So it worked). Well, yes, they don’t write in the chat. Look for approaches. Discuss anything, ask. Someone will write, and then people will follow.
And so, a wish from myself. Don’t count views. In any case, there is no need to inform viewers about this. Somehow there is an instant feeling of sadness (“Well, since everything is so sad here, I’ll go and look for something else”).
And… And read the chat.
I mean, before you greedily pounce on every message that appears, read it. For ourselves. So as not to shut up and stumble on every word if you suddenly encounter a typo.
Or vice versa – they read it and suddenly realized that they didn’t understand a damn thing, what was meant.