The streamer Papaplatte talks about his streaming everyday life in his podcast Edeltalk
and considers changing his content.
Why does Papaplatte want to change his Twitch everyday life? In his podcast Edeltalk, which Papaplatte conducts together with his Twitch colleague and friend Reeze, Papaplatte talked about his break from streaming. He reports that he needed this break and that he finds the streaming everyday life stressful.
About a day when he streams on Twitch, Papaplatte says the following:
Bro, it’s really, like the day I stream is just a dead day, because before that, I wake up, I eat something, then maybe I go to the gym, then there are one or two calls, then I stream and it’s really the whole day is dead and I really don’t see anyone on those days, Bro.
– Papaplatte in the podcast Edeltalk on YouTube starting at 01:14:37
During his one-week break, when the Twitch streamer didn’t stream at all, his view of his work life changed. Among other things, his sleep quality suffers from it, and he sees his family and friends less.
Previously, breaks would make him lose the desire to stream upon his return; now he feels rather the opposite.
Papaplatte reduces streaming
What are Papaplatte’s future plans? In light of his current state, Papaplatte wants to change something. He reports that he wants to reorient himself but does not yet know exactly where to.
In the near future, he wants to first reduce the streams to find out what exactly bothers him:
I wonder if maybe I just don’t feel like doing things because I am exhausted. You understand what I mean? […] I don’t know if I am just exhausted and I don’t want to do what I did, or if I don’t want to do it because I am so exhausted, and now I just have to fix this exhaustion thing, that’s it.
– Papaplatte in the podcast Edeltalk on YouTube starting at 01:15:58
For him, it is clear that even though he has handled streaming this way for the last 10 years, he cannot do it the same way for the next 10 years.
In his ideal vision, he would run a 2-week model: He streams for 2 weeks straight and then has 2 weeks completely off. Continuing to stream almost every day would just influence his social life too much.
A similar statement was made by the YouTuber MrBeast. His life as a self-employed YouTuber and entrepreneur also seems to be exhausting and impacts his mental health: He became a billionaire with YouTube, now he says: No one wants the life he leads
