The Corona time literally let the Twitch platform explode. Many viewers have come, but also a lot of new ones Twitch Streamer. Again and again I read in the social media how critics approach streamers and influencers with the arguments “unemployed” and “too much money”. Are streamers unemployed and making too much money?
We live in the digital age
When I was a child, I used to call my friends with a push-button phone or a rotary dial. I knew almost every phone number by heart. As soon as you left the house, you could no longer be reached and only exposed to yourself and your environment.
September 2021: Meanwhile there are 8 million Twitch streamers worldwide. Almost everyone has a cell phone and can be reached around the clock. Every destination can now be reached with a navigation system, old road maps are only used sporadically.
The length of time between the rotary dial to the cell phone and Twitch streaming is not even the blink of an eye in human history. The development progressed rapidly, not everyone can still cope with it. Again and again I read reviews of streamers and influencers, with which I would like to express my statement in this article.
Twitch streamers make too much money- is that so?
That is an argument to which I can still say “yes”. The majority of streamers, from affiliates to small partner streamers, only earn a little pocket money. Through my research, I have already met so many streamers who all have the dream of making so much money with their hobby that they only have to work part-time or can even make a living from it.
However, there are also many Twitch Streamerwho take 2,000 to 5,000 or more subs per month, receive additional bits and donations and have lucrative advertising contracts. Here we are already in regions whose income, after deducting all ancillary costs and taxes, still makes you dizzy. This high income is felt to be too much if you compare it with other professional groups, in which they also work very hard but only earn a fraction of it.
Twitch streamers pay tax on their income, so it’s as much a job as any other. They not only contribute taxes, the platform also regularly hosts fundraising campaigns for social issues and environmental protection.
If you now look at the Top 20 Twitch Streamer purely only in the German-speaking area, so you can definitely say that there is absolutely too much money flowing here compared to many other streamers. I will give good examples later in the article that put this thing into perspective.
However, earn Streamer only as much money as your community would like to spend on you. If the majority of viewers consider the entertainment program to be great, this will usually also affect the income of the Content Creators impact. A Twitch streamer is only partially responsible for the amount of income, he / she is always on the Dependent on the support morale of the audience.
Twitch streamers are unemployed – is that so?
A short and clear answer to this: “NO!”. As stated at the beginning, we live in the digital age. New professional groups have been added, including counting Influencer, video cutter, content creator and streamer. Certainly, the rapid growth of this industry is difficult for some groups of people to understand and accept. I attribute this to the fact that Twitch has basically only gained great importance for 3-4 years.
Just as a carpenter liked to work and carve with wood in his childhood and later chose this as his profession, streamers are now living their original hobby. Twitch has long ceased to be a pure game interface, it is developing more and more into a pure business from week to week. From Twitch teammates to fishing camps, there are more and more entertainment shows that move away from pure gameplay.
Is politics or playing football a job?
On today’s election Sunday, this is a good example for me. Anyone who questions streaming as a profession should compare it with many other existing professions.
We are currently experiencing one Politicalwhich is demonstrably overlaid with empty promises and corruption. Politicians who lead us to every election big promises make which in the end for the most part are not adhered to, collect huge amounts of money from the economy Donations. Some politicians earn money donating more money than their actual calling. Is it still possible to call politics a profession? Politics is just as much a job as streaming on Twitch or working as an influencer, but this can be questioned as well.
Is playing football or Formula 1 a job? In the The 50s-70s had professional footballers still partly in the Bundesliga work on the side or even full-time walkso that they could make enough money a month. In the meantime, some footballers and racing drivers earn as much money in just 2-4 weeks as many people earn in a whole year. For just kicking one ball week after week, is that justified as a job? Yes, professional sport has long been recognized as a profession as it has been in modern times Streamer and Influence gives.
Twitch is the modern theater game
I always like to compare the Twitch platform with that Theater. One or more actors appear on a stage and play a play for the audience. This is Roleplay, in which the actors slip into a role and thus entertain the audience.
Depending on how good you are and how well-known you are, more or fewer spectators come to the theater performance. So the income of the actors is always dependent on the audience.
As on Twitch, you can also experience in the theater that so-called merch is available at the exit, whether these are signed books or CDs by the actors.
Twitch Streamer So basically don’t do anything else than actors on a stage. They entertain their viewers, whether that’s just chatting, gameplay, music or a show.
A Mario barth is a multi-millionaire for comedy that not everyone can understand. But there is also a very large number of fans who fill entire stadiums. He doesn’t do anything other than a Twitch Streamer, he offers pure entertainment and is rewarded as his fans are willing to invest.
Football, Formula 1, tennis as well as quite a few other sports are by the way just as a show business, in which the athletes are always dependent on what viewers are already investing. If there weren’t so many football fanatics, footballers wouldn’t make that much money either.
Still don’t recognize Twitch Streamer as a job?
Sure, in some eyes streamers just sit behind a camera and earn their money “playing”. In the same way, border controls or porters sit in their little houses and press a button to open the barrier. Whatever your opinion, if you cannot understand or accept a thing or a professional group, then simply ignore it.
If you don’t like football, you don’t pay any attention to it. If you don’t like corrupt politicians from a particular party, you simply vote for another party. If you don’t understand Twitch Streamer, just move on to other topics and let them do their thing.
Welcome to the present!
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