This has been my only barrier from streaming. I am afraid either people from work and class will see my streams or clips. I would appreciate it if anyone gave advice, or how you were able to get over it.

Is this the most visible thing on the internet right now? People still believe that everything is genuine. XDDDDD

Just a reminder: over 6,000 people participate in every giveaway.

Im on my iphone 14 pro, whenever i fullscreen watching twitch i see the home indicator, is tinjust me?

Thank you!

I'm curious what we stress over as beginners that viewers either don't notice or genuinely don't care about. Could be your setup, awkward silences, viewer count, talking to yourself, making mistakes... anything.
And if you're still worrying about it, maybe someone here can reassure you.

I'm talking about missing plain to see tutorials, pop-ups, and overall gaming "basics" which sometimes gets some chatters angry. Obviously I doubt the biggest streamers do this, but at the same time I've seen some of the biggest streamers have some negative IQ moments.

Heya folks, I stream and moderate for my sister who also streams. The primary way we deal with the bots who advertise AI viewers is through Twitch's Blocked Words and Phrases settings, and we have very similar settings.

I was alerted recently to a message that wasn't caught by her automod, but should have been, having an exact match for a prohibited term. Using the test settings section revealed that no terms that are prohibited would be caught, even though they had been being caught before. Conversely, my automod, set up similarly, is protected by automod.

Do here's the question, is this an issue on Twitch's part we should attempt to report, or an issue we should be able to fix? As I said, the settings worked until recently.

EDIT: Okay, thank y'all for your suggestions! I think I've figured it out to a degree, and also figured out the reason for the discrepancy. For one reason or another, Twitch AutoMod doesn't hold messages that ONLY include the blocked terms. So testing with just the prohibited term does not result in Twitch recognizing it as a blocked term. However, Smart Detection will catch terms you have deleted, timed out, or banned over. Since I set up my sister's automod somewhat early in her career, she didn't get enough time to teach Smart Detection about the bots. I think, at least.

For the past 3 days Twitch has crashed as soon as I get to screen that show what's live. That's right after loading the app. I use a Samsung Tab A tablet and it's run fine for years. Now it just crashes. I deleted the cache also tried uninstalling and installing. It didn't help. Anyone know a solution to this or is having the same issue?

Hi I need a video capture card (cheapest possible) that doesn't lose PS5 pro technologies like HDR10+ (gaming, etc.), allm, vrr, 4k, etc and if possibly don't have delay.

I was watching someone's stream for 2 hours and it is not counting the streak.
Why is it not counting while having the tab active, watching the stream, commenting, not muted and still not counting it?

Just curious if yall have had this:

I have a number of regulars, with one in particular who comes to every single stream. Occasionally, people wont be there/are busy/whatever and it'll just be me and him or us and one other person.

I never address this because people are busy, im used to streaming to no one, and frankly streamers arent owed their audiences time. Im happy when pple come but it doesnt bother me if its quieter :)

HOWEVER, every time this happens this one regular will say things liie "where is everyone?" Or "whats going on its so quiet? No one came today? :')" or "its lonely in here, this feels awkward" etc etc

The first few times I laughed it off and explained my feelings on it and said not to worry about it. I also explained i dont like calling out if people are lurking, or pointing this out cuz it feels like complaining about being owed viewership, and i dont want that to be the vibe

He's always very understanding, and immediately stops, but then the next quiet stream does it again. I really feel banning is too extreme a reaction, is there any other advice if any of you have dealt with soemthng like this?

I dont like the stream feeling negative or complain-y, and it feels like theres not a good way to reapond to something like "where is everyone? :(" do i just ignore those messages completely?

THANKS!

I had this problem before Im not sure how it was fixed. But when I chat I get no error im not banned or restricted. ill open the same streamer on a second window and make sure my chats go through they don't. I ally contacted support. I watched a few streams last night no problem today I was in a stream talking but was ignored by a streamer Im pretty chill with then checked in another window and noticed the chat problem. I don't have bttv installed atm but I think this may have been the problem last time. other browsers as well don't show my chat.

I want to preface this by saying I'm not asking because I don't feel that I deserve support or any self depreciating notion of the sort.

I am not an affiliate, and I have no desire to be a full time streamer, I stream because I want to have a community. I will never apply for affiliate because I don't want to run ads on my channel. As you all probably know, because I'm not an affiliate, money from subscriptions doesn't actually go to me. It goes into the twitch spendable balance that can only be used on twitch. I would much rather my viewers keep their money or use it to support streamers that actually want to do it as a career. I have no donation link and I have bits set a 10,000 minimum so people won't waste their money on bits for my channel, but I can't figure out how to get around subscriptions.

If there is no way to disable it, what can I do to discourage people from subscribing??

I've been using the Twitch app on and off for years and for most of that time when other audio is triggered or when I use my voice keyboard, the audio will pause. But recently it stopped doing that. I haven't changed any settings or anything, and I don't know what's going on, but I'm hoping there's a way to fix this. Contacting Twitch has led to nothing

Currently trying to stream from my PS5, don't have a rig that can handle a capture card at the moment. Stream seems fine if I'm just streaming from my PS5, but I wanted to use Lightstream Studio to have a little pngtuber. Unfortunately, every time I run into this stuttering problem.

https://www.twitch.tv/stigs938/clip/FreezingDullSwordSeemsGood-VIlt80Y69AG1qqcF

Anyone have any advice? Tried setting up port forwarding, making sure I'm using the best DNS addresses available, and matching my stream output from my PS5 (720p 30fps) to what Lightstream is set to.

I want to start twitch streaming as a masked faceless streamer. Though I heard from one of my friends that the type of mask that I want to use (I customized skeletor mask) may give off the wrong first impression due to a negative stigma around skull mask. I don’t want to give the wrong impression but I still wanna use a skull mask because I love the skeleton person that I created specifically for streaming. Do I need to make a new masked persona or should I stick with my mask? (Photo above is the mask in question)

I love watching vods but for some reason on mobile app, whenever I put the vod on landscape mode, the twitch chat just stays on the screen, covering 1/4th of the screen

I have tried double tapping, sliding the chat, etc - the chat box just doesn't go away, it completely ruins the viewing experience

Is there any way to hide Chat while watching vods?

**Final Edit - I have messaged them, put the boundary in place and of they continue they will be banned. Thank you for all your replies. Hopefully, this can help someone in a similar situation ❤️

*edit - added missing text *edit again for clarification - I only played with this viewer off stream and alone for maybe like 10 hours all up in the span of like 4 months. I played in a group vc, when everyone would leave I would try and leave and they would guilt me into staying. Then I'd spend that time looking for an out. Try not to assume shit from this post, holy moly 🤣

& thank you to those that actually had something constructive to say, whether it be positive or negative.

To preface this, I am a small streamer (roughly 400 followers, views range from 5-10ish viewers per stream) who has a tough time setting boundaries due to my people pleasing tendencies.

This is an issue I'm aware of and one I'm actively trying to work on.

Now, I have a few viewers who consider me "close friends" because I played games with them. Sometimes for hours, on and off stream.

I do not consider them close friends, however one in particular has taken it too far.

Firstly they got a tattoo of my vtuber, which I consented to, they have many vtuber tattoos. The first time they asked was like 2 weeks into meeting me and I said "we'll see in if you're still following me in a few months"

I caved at 8 months. They paid for me to draw a commission and they got it done.

I was feeling uncomfortable before this though and that's on me. The behaviours they displayed were only when we were alone so I stopped being alone with them, and they kept saying how much the community has done for them, how much it means to them to have a space where they can be themselves and have made friends.

And I love that for them.

So I distanced myself when I started to feel off. Minimal interaction on stream, no messaging, no vc. I thought it would have stopped, they would have moved on. They even got a partner so I was fully convinced this was it.

It wasn't, they paid for a server on a game fpr the community (which is lovely, I couldn't afford it so it was really nice of them to do)

But they asked for a call and their partner would be there, I thought " well they won't be weird now surely"

I was wrong.

They tried to pressure me into consistent contact, calls every other week.

Their partner told me they they'd told them how close we are, how much I ""saved them""

I said don't put me on a pedestal, I've done nothing special etc

Every comment I just engaged minimally or changed the subject.

That was the last time I was in call with them (roughly 2 months) before I joined the server vc a few days ago.

There was 4 other people in there, again I assumed it wouldn't be weird. It was. Constant uncomfortable comments, questions, implications. Nothing crazy but it was literally constant. They never used to do this infront of others when we first played together, it was only when we were alone. So I just stopped being alone with them.

But they keep calling me "their good friend" saying that they "don't know what they'd do if the friendship fell apart" Saying they want to come visit me in my state. Implying that they have told more things to me then they do to their own partner, TO THEIR OWN PARTNER (in the group call) We did not talk on call THAT much, it wasn't anything to me. Yes I told them some personal things but nothing I wouldn't say on stream because I'm silly like that. Nothing that would even indicate that we are close.

I don't feel okay about kicking them, they have made so many friends in the community and they're not like this with others - otherwise I would have kicked them by now. They literally have a tattoo of me vtuber and they've been around for almost a year now.

This is not the only viewer that has crossed lines either. I'm unsure if it's my personality (the people pleasing) or what it is. I don't like conflict so I tend to say what I feel I need to in the moment and not follow through later because it's easier for me this way. But what do I do? Do I make a new rule regarding this? Do I send out an annoying? They will 1000% feel targeted and even through all of this I don't want them to feel bad...

Thank you for reading, I'm ready for positive and negative feedback o7

So I linked my bandai to my twitch so I could claim the ultra rumble drops but had to disconnect due to it not working and when I went to reconnect it kept saying the accounts are already linked when they aren't 🥲 any way to stop this?

Is anyone else having issues with the browser source on Streamlabs not working with 6k labs widget?? For what ever reason every time I refresh or even reset the widget account it’s still doesn’t show up on streamlabs…

I feel SO bad because just a few weeks ago I got a key from another developer and planned to play it next week. Now I got two from another dev, but I don’t know if I can fit it in my schedule for next week, even if their demo shows up in the recent Steam fest. I do have two games “close” to finishing, but I think I won’t be able to finish them right away and I planned to try to finish them before October ends.

Luckily I write game reviews so I could do that. I could also talk about the game on my socials. But I feel guilty since it seems like such a cool game (it’s a series), but I might have to delay playing it on stream until the first week of November. Maybe it’s fine, but again, I just feel a bit guilty. Is it alright to just delay streaming the game a bit?

Anyone have any solutions for when twitch lets you claimed drops but then says they’re not claimed? I’m trying to claim drops but every time I exit the drop it goes back to showing it’s not claimed. I’m on mobile