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3 Ways to Become the Best Game Streamer in Existence

Wanna be an amazing Twitch streamer? Get ready to get a bit weird.
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Be Funny and Interact

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What’s the one thing most streamers have? A sense of humor. People like to laugh, it’s just a simple fact of life. When you look at people like Pewdiepie, If you wanna make this a true career, you wanna be funny all the time. Just never stop being funny. Make your audience laugh themselves so hard their ribs split or their heart stops. Everyone has that one thing that makes them funny, unless you’re Adam Sandler. You just have to find your one thing and get that through when you’re streaming. Maybe you’re snarky, maybe you can do funny voices. Just make it you.

And when you aren’t making them laugh, interact with them. Ask them about their day, their favorite part of the game you’re streaming, other games in the same vein. Do whatever you can to get them involved so they’ll feel like coming back and bringing more people with them to watch your antics! Or if that doesn’t work, pay them to laugh and say you’re awesome all over Twitter.

Sponsors, Sponsors, Sponsors

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In the business world, your customers want to know if someone with a good reputation is behind your product. People don’t buy anything unless it’s sponsored or it has a cat’s face on it. You can try to stream a game with a cat on your face and see how far that gets you, or you could just get sponsors. Sponsors can help you make a name for yourself and will always have your back.  All you’d have to do is be entertaining for a couple of hours a week and in return, you get money, fame, free swag to give. And sometimes Mountain Dew, but only on Thursdays.

Sponsors can get you far in the streaming world, but first you have to prove to them that you’re worthy of their time. You can do this one of two ways. One, blackmail one of the employees into sponsoring you and giving you money to hype their products. Two, you could just catch their attention by being funny and interesting and not blackmail them, but where’s the fun in that?

Do Something Drastic

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You’re the worst streamer of all time. You have few, if any, fans, and even less traffic. Your brain is scrambling for a solution. Desperate times call for desperate measures. So what do you do? You go nuts. You come up with the craziest stuff in your brain, write it down, and figure out what could get you those views you so desperately need. But maybe you can’t think of anything. Say no more, we’ve got you covered.

Offer to give $500 to whoever watches your stream the longest. Tell people you’re going to shave your entire body if you get over 1,000 viewers for a straight hour, tell people you’re going to eat shaving cream live if they tune in. Yes, people can smell desperation, but they also love watching someone humiliate themselves online. You’ll look like an idiot, but you’ll forever be immortalized in Twitch streamer history as the person who ate shaving cream.


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Justin Carter
Justin was a former Staff Writer for Twinfinite between 2014 and 2017 who specialized in writing lists and covering news across the entire video games industry. Sometimes a writer, always a dork. When he isn't staring in front of a screen for hours, he's probably reading comics or eating Hot Pockets. So many of them.