vernotte wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 8:27 pm
god yes. phil being a proper twitch streamer with sub goals and emotes. i would sacrifice everything i have for that. SIGN ME UPP
I have made a post about this before but thiiiissssss.
It's been on my mind 'cause I've been watching a LOT of twitch recently and lots of youtubers (or ex-youtubers) are on there as well. Like Phil has joined with Arden and Will, PJ has been streaming loads, and I've popped into a few of Dean Dobbs and Charlie McDonnell's streams recently too. I mean, c'mon Phil, all the nerdy old school yt kids are doing it, get on the damn train.
It is interesting to think of what it would look like for Phil. Overall I think there's a lot of positives. First of all he really has most if not all of the setup he needs, he had a greenscreen, camera and mic setup for younow and he was also already using OBS so he knows how to do that, and how to set up scenes, put up background images, etc. He played a couple games on younow too so he knows how to do all the game capture stuff for streaming. Plus, now that he has emotes for YT members, he already has good and fun emote art, and knows that if he wanted more the community would jUMP at making more. Furthermore twitch has lots of different modes of interaction, some paid and some not. I think Phil could do a lot with channel points and they would make a fun piece of interaction for people that couldn't pay for premium messages on younow. You can customize the amounts and different options as well as the standards, but I could 100% imagine fun things like redeeming rainbow lights or something. Someone I watch (shoutout to m'boy ravs) has a redeemable (for quite a lot of points) dab and I think that is fully up Phil's chaotic alley. In terms of revenue there's subscriptions, which I know I would personally prefer to sub to Phil on twitch than YT but that's just me, and I think Phil could probably get quite a few people to twitch that aren't on it a lot so he could get a lot of people to use their prime sub on him too and bits built into twitch. Ad money ofc as well. He could stick with those or set up a separate direct dono/tip jar only if he wanted to.
There are a few things that I wonder how he would do with/handle. All of which are completely overcomable and within his range but they're interesting to consider. Thinking about Phil on twitch, I've always wondered how he would handle modding. You don't technically
have to have mods, plus you can have bot mods, blacklisted words, etc., and I guess younow never had chat mods, but pretty much all 100+ viewer streams have a mod or two hanging out. Mods are often long-term community members who have been with streamers since they were small and started, or friends of the streamer. However with someone like Phil who would be starting out with a substantial audience, idk how he would do mods. I guess having friends help out, but idk somehow I don't get the vibe that he's super close with that many people that would be up for it?? Maybe I'm wrong on that one. The other thing I think about with Phil and his style compared to most streams I watch is that Phil has a much shorter, intensely packed form of entertainment, rather than more chill, drawn out stuff. Even on younow, his streams were usually just around an hour, dnpg streams too. Which you can totally do on twitch, and if he was just going to chat the whole time I could see it being short, but most streams I watch are 2-3 hours, most of the time being game-focused. If Phil wanted to play games maybe he could do that, but if he didn't or even if he did it's a little harder for me to imagine Phil going on for 2 hours, not that I wouldn't love to see it. He has a lot of energy but seems to like to keep things changing and longer streaming is definitely a different vibe. I do wonder if being a little more chilled out, being out, swearing a little bit on AP would make him feel like he had a bit more 'stamina?' I guess for streaming.
In conclusion, thank you for reading my essay on Why Phil Should Get His Ass On Twitch lmao. With all this, I would LOVE Phil to stream on twitch and
if he did I think, especially if they are moving/have moved, that we probably wouldn't get anything until January at least
Getting things set up, and with the oddities of the holidays, it just seems like waiting 'til the new year when he could be more consistent about it would be likely.
p.s. on YT views and 'relevance' I think we've talked about this a thread or two ago, but from what I see, Phil's pattern is consistent with a lot of YT channels that were big around the time he was. I mentioned then that maybe I'm just old and not up to date/interested in what is really popular on YT now, but I feel like YT as a platform has lost it's 'relevance'/ isn't really in its hayday anymore. And even though Phil may get less views now, I think the core audience that stays and it still here is quite loyal. As long as he's still having fun with it and it's doing enough (which I don't think has to be tons, especially when he's doing other things) on the money front, it's good for him and good for us, regardless of historical viewcount comparisons.
Ok, sorry that was a lot(tm)
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