Can someone define what a "Small Streamer" is?

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I keep seeing folks criticizing the current Overwatch Support Streamers Promotion for lacking “Small Streamers” asserting that the list featured Streamers consists only of popular streamers who really don’t require any additional support.

However, I really have to question what precisely is the community at large’s definition of a “Small Streamer” when the Streamer I chose to support (Yuuie) only had around 300 viewers during her first stream of the promo, (only 109 as of this post) and the girl that my brother supported (Merciful) had less than 100 viewers during her stream.

So what exactly is a “Small Streamer” then? One with viewers numbered in the single digits?

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A streamer under 5ft 6.

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People who can sit all day and play games doesn’t need any support.

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I gave mine to Joystick who had 49 viewers. People just wanted to complain about this event because they don’t want to pay for optional things they don’t need

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Stevoo werks hard streaming OW day in and day out. He didn’t get selected mmmhmm :face_with_raised_eyebrow::face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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this whole event does not care about streamers, its a cheap marketing stunt … blizzard makes streamers play their game and advertise it for ONE SKIN they made… this skin looks bad, is nothing really special… it was cheap made and they use it to get cheap advertisement from it.

this shows, they just want their game to be promoted as cheap as possible … a small streamer who has ~20 viewers does not bring the audience … so it means nothing to blizzard. they put streamers on the list that do not even stream ow2 and do not care about their event because they dont need this money … its not worth for them to play this game and get paid so little.

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It has custom sound effects and voice lines. I wouldn’t exactly call that cheap. Like I said, Joystick had a whopping 40 viewers at peak and he was on the list. Y’all just live to complain.

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i dont know this streamer…

i saw ml7 getting many subs, while kraagie didnt get anythinf during 30min shortly after the event…

skin looks bad + has no special effects… they made so many voicelines for ow2 as you can easily notice because heroes wont shut up… it was cheap.

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This is an opinion

This is a lie

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I didn’t ask if it was cheap, I asked for people to define what a “Small Streamer” was since that’s what so many folks complain about is that the promo has no “Small Streamers” to support.

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well small streamer is under 50 viewers who does stream regulary…

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You do realize many of the smaller ones on the list have day jobs right?

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Even less reasons to support them then.

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yes. It is super expensive to make a sound effect, and have someone read a few lines. rofl

That would probably be considered a small streamer, yes?

Why are you even asking this question, lol.

If someone is playing a video game in their spare time, and decide to record what they are doing in their spare time, they don’t “need support.”

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tyler1 is a pretty good example of a “small” streamer

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I would personally define Small Streamer as “A streamer who through streaming does not bring in enough viewers/funds to support a living. Requiring a supplemental income.”

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I think their baseline were roughly 1.4k followers and maybe paired with x streams per week or hours per week streaming.

Their definition of small would be, most likely, below those thresholds

Also, the JoystickOW has like 25k followers, while some in the list had 1.4-1.8k prior to the event.

As far I saw when they published the list, the smallest one had around 1.4k followers.