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An Update Thing About STREAMING!
🕑 Added 2023-06-15 20:56:32 +0000 UTCMy lovely friends, I just wanted to pop in and talk a little about my streaming plans and goals and things.
As you might have noticed, I've been streaming a good amount recently. I'm currently staying with family up in Washington while I house hunt. It's been, well...ENORMOUSLY STRESSFUL LOL But I've been taking advantage of the extra time spent in a quiet house to stream. I'm still very new to the realm of streaming and have a lot to learn. I'm actually still growing more comfortable with the very concept of doing stuff live. But the response thus far has been great, and I've had a lot of fun.
I'm always looking for more ways to grow my "brand" for lack of a better word, and to build up something that might be able to sustain me if Youtube ever dies or deletes my channel or something. Streaming is pretty much THE way people are growing audiences these days, so it just makes sense. Playing the Youtube game and hoping people watch your videos is one thing, but streaming to a smaller, more dedicated group of fans is extremely appealing.
At this point I'm scared of streaming becoming just one more thing that I start and don't follow through on. It really stinks abandoning projects because it's just hard to find the time to do them consistently. (That's Arlocast--I want to keep doing it, but I'm hesitant to keep going until I'm reasonably sure I can do it consistently.) But out of all the Arlo-related stuff I've got going on outside of the channel itself, streaming seems to have the most potential. Unfortunately it also requires the biggest time investment. I feel like if I want to build any kind of real audience I've got to be doing this a few times a week at LEAST. I still don't know if I can manage that. But I'd like to try!
Thing is though, I don't want to just stream games. I want to do funnier and more creative things. A few days ago I streamed myself working with chat to create a fake design document for a silly game, and that was a TON of fun. I want to do that idea a lot more. But I've got other ideas as well. Once I can get my tablet working with my PC I want to draw stuff for the design docs and incorporate silly doodles into just about anything. One idea I have is designing fake Pokemon. If you've got any fun ideas, feel free to shoot them my way! What kinds of things would you like me to do on stream, and what games would you like to see me play?
By the way, lots of people have been asking, and yes I do plan on uploading the VODs somewhere. Right now I'm just trying to decide where. The easiest option is to dump them on ArloPlays, but then the channel will be a lot less organized and will have partial playthroughs, along with streams where I'm not even playing anything. So I'm trying to decide if I should create a dedicated stream archive or not. I'll take any opinions on this as well! I do want to continue ArloPlays eventually so I like the idea of keeping it nice and clean, but I also like the idea of not starting an entirely new channel for videos that are very similar in nature.
So yeah, STREAMING! That's kind of where I'm at right now. I want to continue streaming any day that I can, and we'll see how long I can keep that up and if things change when I finally return home. Let me know what you all think about everything, and I'll catch you later! <3
Comments
Jacob
I joined just to comment where are the pikmin 4 vods?
John Mantikas
I’ve been LOVING the streams but absolutely take your time and never feel pressured to do things you aren’t enjoying. No need to rush anything, I look forward to whatever comes next from you! Since you’ve been streaming I feel like we’ve gotten to know a more relaxed more chill version of you and it’s been awesome to see, so thank you so much :) I hope surgery recovery is going well for you
