Quote Originally Posted by Lexia View Post
Wow your post is depressing great way to shoot down other people, only thing I agree in the post is if they are just doing it for the money then yes they are doing it for the wrong reasons. As for you #3 spot I don't want to watch someone that is clueless either. Also from what I hear is speedrunning seems to be pretty big thing also which would fall to #3 as they need to know what they doing to do that.
I wanted to make a distinction between "I can produce a lot of effortless stuff" and "I actually know how to do this challenging thing very well"

Like streaming the Raids in the game, in itself can be entertaining, regardless of how good or bad you are at it. A better way to frame it is "is it boring for you? then it's boring for the viewer."

But at the end of the day, if you're trying to make money at streaming, almost nobody does.

To elaborate... even people who produce other content (say webcomics) only maybe 2% of them actually earn enough revenue to do that job full time without any other income source. Another 10% of them earn most of their income through direct crowdfunding or projects. The people who make the most amount of money also fall squarely on one or the other side of certain social agendas (see gamergate.) And having cameras invites the trolls to try and destroy them on stream.

So there are issues with "live" streaming. Some of it is safety, some of it is legal.