The YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes conducted an experiment where he was live on Twitch for 100 days. His conclusion: Twitch is significantly more tiring than YouTube.
Who is it about? Josh Strife Hayes is a YouTuber who also occasionally livestreams on Twitch. He prepares long video essays for his over 1 million subscribers on YouTube, which are almost like mini-documentaries. His main topics are MMOs and MMORPGs, and a popular format of his is Worst MMO ever?
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While his focus is on YouTube, Josh Strife Hayes is also active on Twitch. He has over 215,000 followers there and according to SullyGnome.com, he averaged 1,449 viewers during his livestreams over the past 30 days.
In his latest video, Josh Strife Hayes conducted an experiment: He livestreamed for 100 days on Twitch. He documented the results and what he learned about the supposed dream job of a streamer in a YouTube video.
Twitch is exhausting, YouTube is lonely
What does he find out about Twitch? Josh Strife Hayes discovers through his Twitch experiment primarily how difficult Twitch is compared to YouTube. After all, viewers must be entertained constantly, which can sometimes be a significant strain.
He became aware of his overexertion when he treated a viewer condescendingly while playing Darkest Dungeon. He also realized it when he had to wear sunglasses during the stream because he could no longer tolerate the bright ring lights.
The increasingly negative atmosphere was also noticed by viewers. This is confirmed in the comments of the YouTube video. For example, Blisterdude123 writes: Honestly, Josh seemed completely drained at the end of this whole streaming experiment. In his earlier, more sporadic streams, he was still so lively and full of energy, full of joy and bad jokes. But in the last livestreams, he just seemed totally done.
You can watch the entire video by Josh Strife Hayes here on YouTube:
According to Josh Strife Hayes, Twitch automatically creates enormous pressure for streamers. One has to deliver constantly during the 8 hours of livestreaming – if one streams full-time. There is also a financial pressure behind this: If you are not online, you earn no money and viewers find someone else to watch in the meantime.
At the same time, the MMORPG expert states that YouTube, while bringing in more money in comparison – after all, you earn passively from old videos, something that doesn’t really work on Twitch – is much lonelier. You write the script alone, refine it, record the video, edit it, and upload it. Only during the upload does viewer interaction occur.
Twitch and YouTube seem to be two fundamentally different platforms, even if they are often executed simultaneously, where one should choose one based on type. Josh Strife Hayes has thus concluded that his dream job is probably not a full-time Twitch streamer.
Minecraft also seems to be something that the MMORPG expert will not try, and for a very specific reason: MMORPG expert fears that YouTube will turn off the money tap if he reports on a certain game
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