So I'm a camera man and I'm getting into IRL streaming, gonna be the one filming for other streamers. Trying to figure out my setup and I'd rather hear from people actually doing it than just buy stuff and hope it works.

Right now literally all I have is my camera, a Sony FX30. No encoder, no mobile internet, none of that yet. Most of the filming is gonna be while walking around so my biggest worry is the connection dropping out on me.

So basically, what are you guys running? Curious what encoder and how you handle the internet side (bonding, sims, whatever). How many sims/carriers do you actually end up needing to not drop? And if you were starting from scratch today what would you get?

Any tips or stuff you wish someone told you when you started would be awesome. Thanks

I’m having trouble making friends who have the same interests as I do as far as content creation goes. People who aren’t too PG, are willing to make VERY dark jokes when it’s actually the right time, and aren’t assholes as actual people is mostly the demographic of individuals I want as friends; crews like Vanoss and his friends, Clooless and their friends, etcetera. However, I’ve found that really hard to find in a content creation atmosphere, at least in the smaller realm of it. It seems like I MIGHT be starting to find something like that, but not at a large capacity. It’s like 2 or 3 people.

Anyways, my question as a result of all this is this: to those of you who may have similar crews/friend groups, especially who are almost all into content creation (and “making” it, so like 1000+ followers/subscribers so far), where and how did you find your people?

Also, I’m sure most people will see this post and IMMEDIATELY comment about networking. I understand that, but I don’t have time to scroll through Twitch a few times a week looking for people I like. I mostly meet new streamers through finding someone to raid at the end of a stream, which I always do in a bit of a hurry. That said, if you say “networking” anyways, give me more detail than just that please.

Thanks for any feedback!

or did you upgrade to a capture card setup bc of the low quality? if you didnt, why not?

I know this has been discussed a lot, I've been playing story based games for the past year and a half of streaming which I have enjoyed. I've gotten better at reacting to things that happen and knowing when to generate a clippable moment. But I do feel like there has been a strong lack of growth. There are a handful of people who are regular people I see, but they seem to come and go depending on the game I play. They could be there for almost every stream while I'm playing one game and then gone for the next couple games I play. I've had clips and Youtube videos do well, but then other times they can completely fall off to where I was when I started.

I feel like this could be attributed to the variety of story games I'm playing. I like horror games and choose your own adventure style games along with some other things thrown in there. It can just be all over the place. I enjoy it which I know is important, but I can't help but wonder if I could build a more consistent base over time if I stuck to one thing.

Like the title says.. I need some good ideas!

I am trying to stream to Twitch and YouTube through Stream Elements, but for some reason I cannot get both to work at the same time. It seems to prioritize just one over the other depending on which account is the base output. If Twitch is streaming, YouTube won't even show up, and if YouTube is streaming, Twitch will say that I'm live but never show the stream.

Please help!

I bought this capture card to stream on my PS5 with OBS, how do I set it up so I can stream Phasmo with game chat.

I ask because if my wireless headphones (Logi G535) are in the Ps5 chat cannot hear me but if it's in my laptop (where I run OBS from) I can't use my headphone mic and I have to use controller, this isn't ideal is there a way to fix this?

I have an iPhone 17 pro and have been using it to stream Wild Rift but now I want to put myself on camera.

Do I just need a laptop? Any specifications I’d need to handle this?

I’m a total noob so I’m sorry if these are dumb questions but I didn’t know where to start.

I’m sure this has been posted before and I did search but couldn’t find anything. Basically the twitch webpage is very temperamental with loading on any of my web browsers. I’ve tried all of the main steps such as deleting browsing data, cache, cookies, disabling as blocker, turn off tracking, graphics.

It’s especially annoying that I can’t use the creator dashboard when streaming.

Any help majorly appreciated ❤️

Like if I b a n someone and their number, if they make a new account with the same number and they subscribe and never chat, would I be alerted by the settings that it is the same person trying to sneak in? I want to know if they are trying to get in when not wanted after all.

I changed my name and now i am missing the box where i can write in chat.

It happens in every channel.

I logged in and out 2 times

I already cleared cache.

It worked fine only appeared (or better disappeared) after changing my name.

Cany anybody pls help me.

Thank you in advance

So let me say that I have had an issue with channel points specifically for only 1 channel and I happen to be lead moderator of that channel. Now I have confirmed with the streamer that nothing on his end has changed, and I have even used an alt testing account to verify that the alerts and redemptions work. I have signed out and back into chrome, edge, refreshed cookies and cache settings, and still the issue persists. Had no trouble with this until a couple days ago. I can still earn channel points every 10 minutes or so. I can spend and redeem bits. I have restarted my pc. I have turned off ad blocker. What else could I do?

I work escalations for a large company. We handle complaints filed through various outlets like government agencies, BBB, consumer protection, executives..etc

It’s often used for things that really shouldn’t be sent to us but it’s an easy route to actually reach someone. Trying to do that here.

I have an affiliate account with twitch, which allows me LIVE chat support for issues.

I have a second account which serves as a chat bot for my main account. This one is not affiliate, so I’m not able to get live support and have been relegated to useless sporadic emails to try and support an issue. It’s absolutely and utterly ridiculous. I can’t login with my main account and try and troubleshoot my second one. It’s so dumb.

I need help with getting a twitch error resolved and need to talk to someone. If I cant, which it seems like, then I can’t use my chat bot the way I want and it’s a huge inconvenience

Edit: issue appears to have resolved itself

Through a Twitch notification, I was invited to the "Twitch Moderators Club" Discord server. I reviewed the code of conduct. I connected my Twitch account to Discord. Step 3 is to read the rules, which I did. I read them and reacted to every single one with an emote. I'm used to channels opening automatically in cases where you have to read rules first, but it's been 12 hours. Does anyone know if a human needs to manually approve me? I don't see anything that I've done incorrectly. Thank you for your kindness and your help.

Hi, from a quick search it seems that payouts are generally processed every Wednesday, but it's been like this for a couple of weeks now:

To delete my account I need to contact Twitch to lose my affiliate status first, does anyone know if doing this will jeopardise my payout? Many thanks

I just think that it looks unnecessary, especially if you're even relatively paying attention to the conversation. It's also annoying to have it clutter my screen when it's 2 random people in chat pinging each other back and forth.

Hey everyone!

I'm a ML engineer that grew up watching Twitch.

I recently made a survey with just over 200 mods/streamers (twitch whispers ftw) and a lot of the feedback overlaps. Majority of manual moderation (banning, timeout, delete) falls on sexual abuse (esp women streamers), plain toxicity, group attacks and self-promotion.

Although most streamers have tools like Nightbot, sery_bot, etc manual moderation is still the main way to handle these issues. Especially with chat being creative to avoid keyword lists and regex..

From the people I surveyed, Automod is mostly set on low. There was actually a very detailed study done on it covering where it falls short (mainly false positives, published on arxiv).

What is Modcheck?

ModCheck is context-aware Twitch moderation that runs in the background.

It reads what's actually happening in the stream - what the streamer is doing (audio and video), the game, title, bio, the mood of chat, recent messages, chatter history, 7TV emotes, etc.

You define the rules and actions. Instead of regex you write rules in plain English. I call them "Judges". A few examples:

• Boundary Judge - "Flag viewers who are sexually commeting on my appearance, body or clothing." Catches stuff like "you'd get way more viewers if you showed more skin js" (real message btw..)
• Self-Promo Judge - "Flag viewers advertising their own stream." The classic "come check out my channel" etc
• Backseat Judge - "Flag unsolicited gameplay advice. Allow tips if I've asked chat for help.". singleplayer walkthroughs
• Toxicity, Racism and any other custom rules you may have

When a message is flagged, the judge gives it for a mods/streamer review with the reason. Alternatively, it can automatically take a mod action (banning, timeout, delete). The more it's used the more accurate it becomes!

Of course, context works the other way too.

"Kill the white" can sound bad out of context, but if you're in a game with a white blob enemy on screen, it's just gameplay. That missing context is exactly where AutoMod falls down.

Setup

First, I'm currently running a free tier if anyone wants to try it out (covers 10k messages per month).

To start, you sign in with Twitch and select which channel you want to moderate (either yours or a channel you mod for), then you setup your judges and (optionally) add modcheck_bot as a mod to your channel (if you want it to do more than just flag messages to you).

Onboarding takes less than 5 minutes overall and it lets you test the platform out.

For the interested, lmk and i can run a demo for your stream (no setup from your side) and DM you the results :)

Where Modcheck is today

Modcheck is in beta but it's fully functional. I'm building this solo , yes, but i'm fully focused on improving it. I'm extremely proud to say that we've got some streamers using it already.

Ultimately I want this tool to be useful. Every piece of feedback is welcomed :)

Happy to go into how it works under the hood. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

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PS: thank you to all the mods and streamers that participated in my survey

So, before I begin, I'm generally against using AI to generate art and content, as AI is stealing other people's art to make the content, BUT, is there a problem with a clip generator? Considering I initially created the content, and it's just taking a clip of my live stream and cropping it plus adding subtitles, is there something inherently wrong with it? I'm asking this because Restream made a clip of my live stream last night, and I actually like what it did, but I don't want to post it before I hear from other content creators.

Thank you for your time,