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Damn. 0.117% of twitch streamers making even 15kUSD a year is rather bleak in terms of calling it a potential career.
by RF_Savage 5y ago
Damn. 0.117% of twitch streamers making even 15kUSD a year is rather bleak in terms of calling it a potential career.
- nradov 5y agoWhat is the percentage of musicians or actors or comedians making over $15K per year?
- Barrin92 5y agoprobably not much better, but as the article points out, influencer/streamer is now the most popular future job in the eyes of many kids. "People have always invested incredible amounts of their youth into pursuing dead-end career choices. But we deserve to do so for the right reasons and to channel our creativity towards better goals." These new platforms are unique in that they give a widespread young audience the idea that this is some sort of ordinary career. Nobody ever believed that about comedians.
- nradov 5y agoI'm not too worried. When I was a kid some of my peers invested incredible amounts of their youth into pursuing professional sports careers. None of them succeeded, but I think most of them eventually did fine in other fields.
- danudey 5y ago0.117% of everyone who streams on Twitch, even people who just stream one game to some friends every now and then.
- coldtea 5y agoIt looks like a huge number to me. More than the percentage of people who play music making that money even, and music has been with us since the dawn of time, and has a huge industry. Twitch is just a streaming service.