The Twitch streamer Robcdee is Australian and known for his IRL livestreams in Japan. However, to extend his visa in the country, he had to officially rent an office. He has now presented it in the livestream.
What is so special about the office? Robcdee is a full-time streamer on Twitch. For his content, he categorizes it 100% as “Just Chatting” and is live almost daily for about 8 hours.
However, he does not sit at home and play, like most streamers do. Instead, he shows cities, helps strangers, goes shopping, or eating. All of this he shares with his viewers.
It seems even stranger that he now had to rent an office to extend his visa. Since he did not need a large space, he rented a small room on the sixth floor of a building. It resembles more of a cell than a real office:
Anime figures as personal assistant and receptionist
What makes the office special? The office is a small room, with a nameplate of Robcdee hanging on the door. The room offers:
- A small table
- An even smaller shelf
- A window
- A light switch
- An internet connection
- Additionally, there is a mini-kitchen and toilets in the hallway
In the short video clip, he also introduces an anime figure as a personal assistant and a manga as a receptionist.
For this room, the streamer has to pay 500 dollars in rent monthly. Additionally, the contract had to be signed directly for at least one year.
How is the room used? When looking at the size of the “office,” it seems unlikely that Rob will actually spend much time there.
As he mentions in another clip, he even had to go to the office twice for his lawyer to show that it is actually used as a workspace:
The [office] is one of the requirements for a Business Management visa, which allows me to stream full-time.
And when I had to prove that I had an office, I came here to confirm it with all the nameplates and so on, and my lawyer said: ‘I’m sorry, I need to ask you to go back there, place your laptop there [on the table], and take another picture.’
In fact, Japan requires that for a Business Management visa of a company an office is needed, as well as a revenue of approximately 90,000 dollars. It seems the streamer now meets this requirement.
For his fans, this is good news. With his IRL streams, Robcdee reaches around 1,800 simultaneous viewers daily over 8 or more hours.
The well-known streamer Ninja does reach an average of 14,000 viewers, significantly more people, but is no longer number 1 on Twitch. Nevertheless, with this, and with his Mixer deal, he still attracts viewers:
Ninja is no longer number 1 on Twitch and everyone annoys him with Mixer
