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All Rights Reserved - 2018 All Rights Reserved - 2019 Living the Stream is an exploration of the world of Living the Stream is told through honest and internet streaming, in which you’re introduced revealing interviews with a variety of streamers and to the foundational platform, which evolved performer types, who are actively streaming and from an IRL streaming site called Justin.tv, and has have achieved a high level of popularity and success now exploded to over 150 million active accounts. in pursuit of a full-time income playing games. Individual performers have active followings in the Personality-based, skill-based and roleplaying millions, and draw average audiences of thousands who streamers are all exposed to different audiences and watch and interact with them as they showcase indeed real-life threats and perils. Featuring intimate their excellence at video gaming, their engaging and open perspectives from colorful, high-profile and personalities and their talents all live in real time. successful streamers such as JoshOG, Lilypichu, What is it about Twitch streaming that compels fans , DrDisrespect, Ellohime, the founders of to tune in for hours every day, and pay voluntary Twitch itself and Twitch research specialist Dr. Enrico monthly subscription fees and big donations Gandolfi of Kent State University. to do so? These successful entertainers receive subscription fees and donations from their dedicated viewers, and command lucrative advertiser sponsorships as they are influencers with unfathomable reach.

And now organized professional teams and leagues are forming, with competitions staged on Twitch that draw massive worldwide audiences of twenty million. It may very well be worth it as the new reality of professional video gaming has evolved into a Interviews with streamers, developers, industry multi-billion dollar industry with esports franchise fees authorities and those involved with building the upwards of sixty million dollars and player salaries into platform serve to share their diverse perspectives the seven figure range… that’s serious money! While and thoughts on the past, present and future top Twitch streamers enjoy the adulation of fans of Twitch. Is it doing good or harm to a new and certainly the financial benefits of starring generation of creators? And what do the parents on gaming’s most popular content platform, being have to say? a celebrity online also exposes these pros to harassment, health risks and even life-threatening “swatting.” But Twitch is at the forefront of a digital content it can at the same time be a deeply uplifting revolution, with big-money investors, advertisers experience, for both the performers and their and sports-based corporate conglomerates all fan-base. looking to pin their hopes and dollars to the future of live professional gaming. A most fascinating In this realistic, warts-and-all view behind the curtain revelation is that this evolution has the potential of Twitch success and stardom, we see that it’s a to be gender-neutral and geographically unrestricted; great way to make a living, but binge streaming and for the first time, there is a democratization through keeping your viewing audience happy is a mentally- this massive entertainment platform where anyone exhaustive, physically-dangerous and at times life- with the desire and talent can succeed, and male threatening undertaking more dangerous than most and female competitors are able to become stars could possibly imagine. So, is it all worth it? in the brave new world of internet live streaming.

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One of the world's most popular 1,621,000 Twitch followers streamers with more than two million 360,000 followers JoshOG devotees, streaming to a daily audience of thousands for 10 hours a day... every day. 318,000 YouTube subscribers

Twitch's eccentric top artistic streamer, 1,691,000 YouTube subscribers who mixes in piano and painting and is proof Lilypichu of Twitchʼs potential to stretch far beyond 659,000 Twitch followers video games. 361,000 Twitter followers

Twitch's cosplay Queen, she combines 3,616,000 YouTube subscribers Pokimane gaming with beauty tips 3,040,000 Twitch followers and mukbang - thatʼs performative eating. 931,000 Twitter followers

A retired League of Legends esports pro who found a second career in solo 790,000 Twitch followers streaming, and pays the bills for a Los 376,000 Twitter followers Angeles house that he and other superstar 335,000 YouTube subscribers Twitch creators call home.

Twitchʼs resident "game-breaker" who 1,048,000 YouTube subscribers streams hacks and loopholes for the popular 983,000 Twitch followers DisguisedToast card game Hearthstone, attracting legions of international fans. 190,000 Twitter followers

A gruff, bearded streamer who acts as 380,000 Twitch followers an online best friend to his loyal fan base, Ellohime and inspires devotion that has included 71,000 Twitter followers a jaw-dropping $10,000 donation. 49,000 YouTube subscribers

A larger-than-life personality whose 3,457,000 Twitch followers DrDisrespect bombastic presentation has made him one 1,020,000 Twitter followers of the most popular performers on Twitch. 1,038,000 YouTube subscribers

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