PSA

[u/TrackLabs]

[u/Imaginary-Nebula1778]

I am too old to understand these things buy can you make money with 12 people or you need as many subscribers as possible?

[u/TrackLabs → u/Imaginary-Nebula1778]

12 people wont donate as much, if anything, compared to having multiple thousand people. And no one sponsors someone with a aufience of 12 people.

So if you want to make money, 12 isnt anything worth it.

[u/avwitcher → u/TrackLabs]

And THAT is why people demean streamers with so few viewers, because many of them do it as their job despite only making $200 a month from it

[u/LordGalen → u/[deleted]]

You also aren't making $200/mo off 12 viewers. Last month, I had about 20 subs and made like $40 between that and the scraps of ad revenue.

Streaming is not a job unless you have enough viewers to get sponsorships.

[u/Alexis_Bailey → u/LordGalen]

In like, 20 years of blogging, I think I have made maybe $200 total.

 Most from one ad during Black Friday one year.

It costs me that much per year in hosting.

[u/ravioliguy → u/[deleted]]

I cook for my friends occasionally and they jokingly call me chef sometimes but it doesn't really make me a chef.

Hobbies are cool and there's nothing wrong with having 12 viewers but it's a bit disingenuous if they market themselves as a streamer, because everyone is thinking about the 10k+ streamers.

[u/CjBoomstick → u/[deleted]]

That's because you only think of things people enjoy doing that literally don't give you anything. Some people enjoy extreme couponing.