- Address: Los Angeles
- City: Los Angeles
- State: Los Angeles
Tayer is not wrong. While Twitch may be building a flexible platform, success on Runescape Gold the platform also requires streamers themselves to be flexible workers. While the technical hurdles are gone, some of the social and economic obstacles remain. Streamers still need to devote dozens of hours a week to become successful. They need to find secondary and tertiary income sources, even if that means entering into complex (and, sometimes, questionable) relationships with industry companies. And of course, they also need to deny their desire to get paid. Tayer's is a familiar chorus in the era of hope labor: They've come to realize that spreading their channel name and their brand is a little bit more important to do before asking for funding That's the first logical step. New Voices, Old Strategies DiPietro and Tayer say that Twitch is a platform built to allow self-starters to succeed, but that they can't make superstars. They do, however, curate the front page carousel, which attracts new viewers to up-and-coming streams. It's hard to get an answer about what it takes to get this extra spotlight to shine on your channel, but Twitch's Director of PR, Chase, tells me about the deep roots that Twitch has with gaming culture. Their staff includes former competitive FPS clan founders, eSports announcers, and, of course, streamers like Tayer. Chase doesn't say it explicitly, but it feels like he wants me to know that they love gaming there, that this love would help them bring the best streams to the forefront.To be honest, I don't doubt their intentions. Each of the people I spoke to clearly knows what they have here. They understand that live streaming is emerging as a new, communal, user-driven media form all its own. They are passionate about live streaming, about Runescape games, and about community. It's not just the streamers who are inventing something as they go along, it's the people at Twitch too, and their passions form an engine that drives them to build and improve the platform. Twitch has brought new voices into the conversation around Runescape games, including many voices that have been unable to break into the mainstream Runescape games press. Yes, these new voices range in quality, style, and intention, but that's part of what makes live streaming exciting. Live streaming can be boring or beautiful, offensive or insightful, relaxed or frenetic. Sometimes it really is transformative. What those working at Twitch have done so far is an accomplishment, and deserves praise, but it will take more than good intentions from Twitch to keep these new voices around. After all, which of streamers will be paid?
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