How Streaming on Twitch almost killed me
65How Streaming on Twitch almost killed me. Thanks for listening to my story. Stay safe, and take care of yourself.
This is a hard video to make, and this is essentially all about the Twitch grind. I am a full time Twitch streamer who had a lot of health issues happening in these past few weeks of streaming on Twitch. Especially these past few months as well. I hope this story can help other content creators and especially Twitch streamers who are living this same toxic grind mentality. I know I rambled a lot about my Twitch stories and twitch streams, but I hope this can help anyone out at all. I really dislike how hardcore some people are about their grinds. It's OK to take a break, it's ok to take time off, it's ok to "lose some money" to be able to relax when you need to. It's ok to take a day off of twitch, it's ok to take some time off of streaming. It's ok.
I know I grinded hard, especially with me trying to get 10k twitch subscribers and getting twitch emotes, but it was something I really wanted to do. But, the grind kept going and continuing right after. I know many streamers who have grinded too hard, got burnt out, and felt like they lost their twitch channels. I ended up in the hospital from all my twitch streaming, and needed the days off. I also spent more money by going to doctors then IU would have made doing twitch sponsors and all the extra hours and time I spent streaming. I should have listened to my twitch community, and my twitch stream and twitch friends.
Some awesome streamers like SheSnaps and DrLupo have pushed me into a positive mindset on even sharing this story. I think SheSnaps has a great Twitch mentality and content creator mindset where she wants people to relax, to take the time off, to do yoga, to do ANYTHING to not force yourself into this toxic and awful grind.
Twitch can be a blessing, being a streamer can be a blessing, but grinding so hard to never experience life and to hurt yourself isn't a blessing. It's a curse. Take the time you need to focus on yourself, take the time you need to breathe, take the time you need to decompress. You need it. Especially with how hardcore people are now a days. There are even videos out there of people who have died during 24 hour or 48 hour streams. There's a popular video of PoShYbRiD who died during his 24 hour Charity Live Stream on Twitch. You don't want to be that guy. You don't want to be a streamer who is known for dying on stream.
I added some Twitch tags for things that maybe people would google search, or search on YouTube so hopefully they see this video instead. life isn't about the grind.