The general consensus I have heard from both hobbyist stremers and career streamers is basically what ComradeSalad said, don’t go into it with the expressed goal of making it your career. Growing a channel from nothing is extremely hard because the bigger you are the more you get platformed and the easier it is for even more people to find you. When you have 1 or 2 viewers (if that), it is really hard to grow your channel because you won’t be promoted nearly enough. It requires a LOT of dedication and long hours, and still then requires a lot of luck too. There’s a lot of people out there that want to do it. Think of the last time you opened a stream and went straight down to the bottom of the list to watch people with 0-1 viewers.
If you get popular enough that you can make it a job AND want to do so, great. Don’t expect that you will, and please don’t go and buy a bunch of expensive equipment for streaming before you need it. It is unlikely you will really make any money at all, and even less that you can make enough to do it full-time.
Now that said, if you just like doing it? Go for it.
If you want to make content-creation your job, don’t start with just streaming. Getting known for something else in a particular niche and then migrating your audience over is a way more likely thing.
The general consensus I have heard from both hobbyist stremers and career streamers is basically what ComradeSalad said, don’t go into it with the expressed goal of making it your career. Growing a channel from nothing is extremely hard because the bigger you are the more you get platformed and the easier it is for even more people to find you. When you have 1 or 2 viewers (if that), it is really hard to grow your channel because you won’t be promoted nearly enough. It requires a LOT of dedication and long hours, and still then requires a lot of luck too. There’s a lot of people out there that want to do it. Think of the last time you opened a stream and went straight down to the bottom of the list to watch people with 0-1 viewers.
If you get popular enough that you can make it a job AND want to do so, great. Don’t expect that you will, and please don’t go and buy a bunch of expensive equipment for streaming before you need it. It is unlikely you will really make any money at all, and even less that you can make enough to do it full-time.
Now that said, if you just like doing it? Go for it.
If you want to make content-creation your job, don’t start with just streaming. Getting known for something else in a particular niche and then migrating your audience over is a way more likely thing.