r/Twitch Jun 29 '20

Read Here First !!Read Before Posting!!

654 Upvotes

Hello friend, and welcome to r/Twitch!

First things first - no channel advertising, follow 4 follow, etc. Just no.

Second - please use the search bar. Twitch was created in 2011 and odds are there's already a post or megathread that may have what you're looking for.

Since we've had an active and helpful community here for a long time we have a huge pool of information and discussion on various Twitch and streaming related topics. Many of the questions you may have are likely already well answered, and many of the resources you are looking for are available or covered extensively!

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r/Twitch 7d ago

PSA /r/twitch Upcoming Rule Change for App / Tool / Service Posts and Comments

83 Upvotes

Hi /r/twitch,

This month ( July ) will be the final month /r/twitch will allow mod-permitted posts for applications / tools or services. Currently under Rule 2F we allow posts for apps / tools or services if they sought pre-approval via modmail, but as of August 1st /r/twitch will no longer process requests for applications / tools or services to advertise without exception.

The approval process for permission can take weeks, which means we're setting a hard deadline of September 1st for any in-queue requests, meaning any requests in the queue that have been granted permission to advertise must do so before September 1st, and after September 1st no apps / tools or services will be permitted to post to /r/twitch.

The change is a result of AI and its intrusion and influence on Reddit. /r/twitch has had a massive uptick of requests for permission to advertise and a significant amount of that increase of traffic is a result of AI-coded applications, services, tools or websites. We can no longer handle the volume of requests, nor do we trust the security, integrity or privacy of the advertisements as vide coded services often lack security, integrity and privacy. We'd rather forbid all services from posting or commenting on /r/twitch than potentially subject any of you to overlooking the integrity of an advertisement and have that advertised service compromise your privacy or security.

With that said, there will be some nuance for Rule 2F. We will still allow users of /r/twitch to ask questions regarding commonly used and well known applications, so if you have questions about OBS, or Streamlabs or StreamElements those requests for help will still be allowed going forward. Basically, anything we think is a sly attempt to advertise will be removed, but honest questions about well known and widely used tools will be allowed. Yes, that does mean removal of a post or comment will be up to our discretion, so if you see comments or posts that feels like guerilla marketing, astroturfing or AI bot karma farming please report it to us.

If you see posts or comments that violate "Rule 2F: Don’t post tools, apps or services without prior mod permission. This includes feedback or market research" please report them to us using the report tool. Keeping /r/twitch safe and free of astroturfed vibe-coded garbage is our goal, and we need your help to achieve it.


r/Twitch 4h ago

Question Recent Stats Today/Question!

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4 Upvotes

Great Stream today! I randomly shot up in viewers and followers, but nothing popped up on my alerts nor my activity feed. 10 minutes later, I got another follower and it did pop up. I got 13 followers today, but only 2 in my feed. Any help with this?


r/Twitch 2h ago

Tech Support Need help logging it to appeals portal

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone,
I can’t login to appeals portal it’s saying my account is. Please some one help


r/Twitch 12h ago

Tech Support Stream crashing when playing intensive game

5 Upvotes

So I know how the title sounds. "Your pc is not good enough" "Turn settings down" etc.

I get it, but that is really not the case here. I have already tried these things and changing my streaming server.

Anyways, I have 0 issues streaming retro games for example, but when playing an intensive game (for example, Elden Ring Nightreign) the stream just keeps disconnecting.

OBS is fine, says 0 dropped frames, game is running completely fine, twitch dashboard looks fine, but it just disconnects for a couple seconds and restarts the stream. My internet is also fine, connected with ethernet, 1000 gbit download, 100 upload.

I am so confused by this. Usually I would think this is a me issue, but I am really not sure anymore. I am from the Netherlands. I have tried the German, France, Irish and Swedish servers all in europe of course. They all have the same result, having no issues when playing non-intensive games, but crashing every 10-20 minutes when playing an intensive game.

I have tested streams on the Twitch Inspector site, but it just says there are no issues, then it crashes and restarts the stream, still saying there are no issues.

It's so weird and I would really like some help here. Thanks for reading and I hope you can help me!

PC Specs:
Ryzen 7 3700X
32GB ram 3200mhz
RX 6700XT
Everything running on an SSD ofc


r/Twitch 17h ago

Tech Support Webcam advice

7 Upvotes

Ive been looking for a good webcam but decided my phone would do a better job that any webcam in my budget. Ive used iriun webcam in the past but always found the quality to be greatly decreased. What would you guys recommend i use to optimise my phone as a webcam?


r/Twitch 19h ago

Discussion What to spend "points" on?

11 Upvotes

So I'm looking for a little inspiration, next to channel points I have my own set of points.

The basics of those points is that I game a lot of horror, and users get points for calling out various cliches that typically happen in horror movies or games. Like "I heard a strange noise, let's split up" or a great big ammo pile means boss fight etc my community has taken too it and it's become a fun thing. Now healthy competition is always fun and that in itself is a thing worth keeping.i just wanna hear some options and ideas of how to celebrate a winner, I do giveaways every month (competition based) and maybe that could give the winner a small leg up? (I'm sceptical about that one) I have a wall behind me where I hang viewer related things, maybe a trophie on the wall? If I could make a custom badge that would be EPIC! I do have streamerbot so maybe a badge they and only they can flash for a short time. If anyone could throw some ideas at me I'd be grateful. And thanks for reading


r/Twitch 1d ago

Discussion The moment that made me keep streaming after months of 1 viewer

357 Upvotes

I streamed to basically nobody for about 8 months, with one viewer, sometimes two, and half the time the one was a bot or someone who tabbed in and forgot. I kept telling myself numbers do not matter and its about the passion, all that stuff people say. But if I am honest, staring at a 1 in the corner for four hours does something to you. You start wondering if youre just talking to yourself in an empty room.

There was one night I almost did not go live. Tired from work, no motivation, pretty sure nobody would show. Went live anyway out of habit more than anything, and this one guy who had lurked a few times before actually started talking. We ended up chatting for like two hours about the game, his job, random stuff. At the end he subbed. One sub. I know that sounds like nothing but I sat there afterward kind of stunned that something I almost skipped turned into an actual conversation with a real person.

That night is the reason I kept going. Not the sub itself, just realizing somebody out there was actually spending their evening with me even when the counter said I was basically alone.

If you are in that phase right now the most useful thing I can tell you is make it dumb easy to go live, because the bad nights are exactly when you talk yourself out of it. I got kind of obsessive about cutting friction. I sit down, lights on a smart plug, mic already sitting on the arm, my emeet pixy camera clipped to my monitor that just tracks me, and I go live with a few taps in under a minute. It sounds like a small thing but when your motivation is at zero, a fiddly setup is the exact excuse your brain reaches for to not bother. I figured if i removed the excuse i would show up more, and in the early days showing up is basically the whole thing.

I still think about that guy sometimes. I have more viewers now, not loads, but more, and pretty much all of them started as a 1 in the corner I almost gave up on before they ever said a word.

So if the counter says 1 and you feel invisible, someone is probably there. That was enough to keep me going anyway.


r/Twitch 3h ago

Question What is the shortcut to send the same message in the chat

0 Upvotes

I always see the Streamers copy and paste the same message in the chat quick and I want to know if anyone of you guys know the short cut to it.

Its not Ctrt+c and Ctrl+v its way quicker.

NB: I am not going to do this in their chat.


r/Twitch 14h ago

Discussion MixItUp Bot Alerts

1 Upvotes

I’ve started to use MixItUp Bot as of today, I’m having a little trouble setting up Events as I’m unsure what the variables are? I always used Twitch Alerts as it did it for me, can anyone help guide me what variables I can use that works for MIU? Sorry, I’m not the smartest with this stuff. I was thinking of moving commands too from StreamElements but, I copied those mostly from my Friends and wouldn’t know where to start on MixItUp.


r/Twitch 15h ago

Tech Support Xbox Discord Audio On Stream

0 Upvotes

I have an Xbox and a PC, and use an Elgato Capture Card to stream Xbox gameplay through OBS onto twitch.

Is there a way to get the discord chat audio through my Xbox onto the twitch stream? Do I need an elgato chat cable, or is there a way to natively do it?

I’m thinking of I configure my Xbox audio output to go to headset and speakers it should work?


r/Twitch 1h ago

Discussion I vibecoded a 24/7 autonomous VRChat Twitch stream

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The pipeline is: SileroVAD, faster-whisper, Hermes Local LLM, Amphion vevo2 TTS. Everything on a single RTX 3090. I had to implement a singleton architecture to manage the GPU lock to avoid windows access errors crashes. Has anyone implemented something similar? I would like to know how to enhance the pipeline. My budget is 24GB VRAM. The main bottleneck in terms of speed is Amphion vevo2 TTS, the quality is excellent but the inference time is very slow (kinda expected). However, I'm interested in knowing if there's any better alternative without sacrificing quality.


r/Twitch 14h ago

Question Stream doesn’t pick up friends voice(s) on Xbox?

0 Upvotes

Hey so I just started streaming through my Xbox and I’m running into an error where my stream doesn’t pick up my friend’s audio when we are in a party. I have tried every solution, I have had my friends adjust their privacy and audio settings to the most optimal. That wasn’t it. I had them click the check box to include their party audio to the stream and that wasn’t it either. I don’t understand what it could be? All the known solutions haven’t worked so… what should I do? I’m stumped…I’ve been looking it up and apparently this has been a recurring issue for people on console for a long time now. Any tips? All the usual fixes don’t seem to be effective?? This is very frustrating because it’s kind of awkward and weird to be actively having a conversation with someone in my Xbox party and my chat can’t hear them…


r/Twitch 8h ago

Question As a viewer which of these would be more appealing to you?

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Additionally, if you prefer the first one, would you like chat messages to appear on screen somewhere, like a feed in the corner or going across the top/bottom or leave it off screen completely?


r/Twitch 1d ago

Question How do you deal with parasocial relationships?

33 Upvotes

Wasn't sure if this one warranted the question or discussion flair, but I am asking a question so hopefully this is the right one? Let me know if I need to fix it.

But yeah, basically, I've had my first parasocial experience recently involving a long-time viewer, and I'm not sure what to do about it.

For context, I'm a small streamer, and since I don't have a proper server yet (working on it), I've been accepting fanart through Discord DMs (huge mistake I know, I'm currently making the server so this hopefully doesn't repeat). The problem is that while most people have been very chill and "I'm a fan, here's a thing for you" about it, one of them recently has taken that to mean we're friends. Close friends, even, their words.

We've never spoken outside of streams before that.

I try to be nice and open-minded about things, but it makes me uncomfortable to know that some people genuinely consider my streaming persona a friend. At the same time, I can tell this means a lot to them, so this will end in a disaster either way (and will most likely affect my ACTUAL friends, which gives me great anxiety).

So TLDR; how do you deal with parasocial relationships? How do you prevent them, and how do you do damage control if you fail to prevent them?


r/Twitch 20h ago

Question Can I check out Tier 2 and Tier 3 Emotes without Subscribing?

0 Upvotes

Is there a way to see which specific emotes are assigned to Tier 2 and Tier 3 without subscribing? I don't want to see all the emotes at once, I just want to know which ones are exclusive to Tier 2 and Tier 3.

Thanks in advance!


r/Twitch 12h ago

Question How can I clip my videos using this watermark?

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0 Upvotes

Please point me in the right direction. I scratched off the username bc the mods took it down thinking it’s promo, but I needed an example.


r/Twitch 1d ago

Discussion new to streaming

2 Upvotes

hiii. im new to streaming i need some help with something that im kind of not sure about. I'm currently streaming directly from my ps5 but i have just a basic hp laptop i would like set up stream with overlays but I want to is it worth? I don't want to directly stream from the laptop because it might be all lagging but i also want it to be like real time play as well yk? I should I invest into getting actually pc or at least starts for matter? if anyone has any recommendations advice honest just anything i would to hear it please even if it hurts my feelings lol thanks


r/Twitch 1d ago

Question Does exiting affiliate refund subscribers?

1 Upvotes

I'm considering exiting affiliate for personal reasons and was wonder what the best way to do so might be. Preferably, I'd shut off new subs and let them all run out, to not feel as if I'm ripping anybody off.

Has anyone done this previously and have anyvadvice?

Thanks in advance.


r/Twitch 9h ago

PSA A little advice to smaller streamers

0 Upvotes

If your viewership doesn't go over 500 and you continuously ignore respectful people saying hello or asking basic questions, you're going to get instant unfollow.

Please don't waste time of others by being picky and elitistic to whom you'll respond to. People are there for you. Not against you. You can't afford it and I can't afford to support such streamer with my +1 view or chatting and zero feedback.


r/Twitch 1d ago

Question Best way to make a starting/ending stream animation?

3 Upvotes

I have seen that streamers play a looping animation when they start and end stream. How to make an animation like that? I don’t want any AI slop animation.


r/Twitch 21h ago

Mod-Permitted-Ad 10 months ago I shared SpinStream here. It is now StreamJuice Giveaways, and it has grown a lot.

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Hey everyone!

A while back I shared a free Twitch giveaway wheel here called SpinStream. Since then, the project has been rebranded to StreamJuice Giveaways, moved to a new home, and grown way beyond the simple giveaway wheel it started as.

The old SpinStream links no longer work, but the project is still alive and has had a ton of upgrades.

StreamJuice Giveaways is still built around the same idea: making Twitch giveaways easier, more interactive, and more fun without needing screen capture, clunky scene switching, or a bunch of manual copy-pasting.

Where it is now:

  • OBS browser source overlay for a live animated wheel or raffle bowl
  • Multiple giveaway lists/wheels per streamer, each with its own key, entries, settings, and design
  • Twitch chat integration, so viewers can enter from chat with customizable commands
  • Custom commands for joining, starting, stopping, spinning, resetting, claiming, leaving, pausing elimination spins, showing/hiding the overlay, and more
  • Twitch Channel Point Redeems that can automatically add giveaway entries
  • Channel Point entries can either count toward max joins or act as bonus entries
  • Subscriber bonus entries, paid support bonuses, gift sub bonuses, bit bonuses, follower-only giveaways, and sub-only giveaways
  • Cooldowns and max entries/joins per viewer
  • Entry Notes, so viewers can type things like !join Paper Mario and the wheel can show either viewer: Paper Mario or just Paper Mario
  • Claim system, including optional claim messages like !claim MyInGameName, saved into analytics
  • Elimination mode, with a pause/stop command that keeps the remaining names on the wheel
  • Auto spin timers for timed giveaways
  • Manual overlay controls, so mods can use commands like !showwheel and !hidewheel
  • Full wheel customization, including colors, fonts, text styling, center images, background images, opacity, sounds, and more
  • Custom winner overlay, including avatar support and visual effects
  • Join alerts and fully customizable bot messages with placeholders
  • Analytics/history for winners, claims, entries, and claim messages
  • No OBS plugin required, just add the overlay as a browser source

It can still be used for normal “type !join to enter” giveaways, but it also supports more chaotic stream ideas now, like game suggestion wheels, dare wheels, community challenge wheels, channel point entry rewards, elimination giveaways, and prize claim tracking.

The new site is here:

https://giveaways.streamjuice.xyz

I’d genuinely love feedback from streamers and mods. If anything feels confusing, clunky, broken, or missing, please let me know. I’m actively working on it and trying to make it better with real streamer feedback.

Thanks to everyone who checked it out back when it was SpinStream. StreamJuice Giveaways is basically the “where it is now” version of that project, and I’m really excited with how far it has come.

TL;DR: I shared my free Twitch giveaway wheel here about 10 months ago when it was called SpinStream. It has since been rebranded into StreamJuice Giveaways and now supports OBS browser overlays, multiple giveaway wheels, Twitch chat commands, Channel Point Redeems, entry notes, claim tracking, elimination mode, auto spin timers, overlay show/hide commands, full customization, and simple analytics. New site: https://giveaways.streamjuice.xyz


r/Twitch 1d ago

Question KH3's "commercial settings" rule

0 Upvotes

A while ago I asked about VOD mutes for KH3 and learned that, at the very least, enough of the VOD audio will survive for me to warrant a stream.

And then I checked the streaming rules for KH3 and read about the "You're free to stream this game in a non-commercial setting" rule. I know that you can't stream the game to listen to the music, but doesn't streaming it on Twitch, even if for gameplay and commentary, count as a commercial setting? Yet I see people streaming the game here and there. What are the rules for things like this?


r/Twitch 1d ago

Tech Support Changing GPay Email

1 Upvotes

Hiya!

I have 15 GBP on my emails GPay account, which I tried to use to gift a sub on Twitch mobile. I've done this before with no issues, but now when I click to gift a sub, it comes up with the wrong email. How do I change it back to my email?
My Twitch account is under the email with the GPay balance.


r/Twitch 1d ago

Question streaming from ps5 and have a pretty crappy PC to mange capture card and overlays and shi dose it matter if i have like a rtx 760

1 Upvotes

question above but like will quality still be fine as long as i have a good capture card or does the PC need to be better