Reposting here for people:
>>77785194I'll say it since everyone knows it but won't say it out loud: collabs are NOT GOOD for streaming unless you're presenting something cool and unique to viewers. You have to ask yourself what could you do in a collab that you can't do on discord voice call. If you wanted to hang out with your friends (that happen to be other streamers) then why not just do that in discord? Your main priority during a collab will be your collab partners and if you don't pay attention to chat, there's no reason for chat to even be there.
This is obviously different when you're a larger streamer (i.e. maybe 40+ ccv) since at that point the people who are watching won't be just other streamers but your own established audience. But people who are smaller or are just starting out need to realize that collabs will hurt your growth, ESPECIALLY if you do it nonstop every other stream. There was a female vtuber I watched who had an amazing setup, voice, model, everything; she collabed with her friends almost every stream and didn't even hit 10 ccv.
It's cool if you want to hang out with other vtubers, and it's fine if you want to stream it. Just be aware that having less chat interaction and not having it just be "friends playing with friends and passively reacting to the game" style streams will make new and even regular viewers tune out.
