>>86950000Essay incoming. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and pretend that this is a legitimate post from someone either streaming or trying to start streaming rather than a shitpost. As someone who spends a well above average amount of money in this hobby, these are my takeaways:
Nobody is interested in you. Unless you're the sort of genuinely charismatic person irl that people are seriously interested in, you're not interesting enough to just make money. I don't mean that you had lots of fun experiences, that you have lots of friends, etc. I'm talking the sort of person random people go out of their way to make time for because you're genuinely enjoyable. Those sort of people very very rarely do this because they have a lot of fulfilment in the rest of their lives, so scrap the idea that is you.
The other sort of people who can pull money easily without trying are large streamers. This is because the money is payment for their attention in an attention-deficit economy. You're not that person. Your attention will be in abundance on AniLive because of the lack of viewers. If you're a Jumpstart this is even rougher because without a contract getting any whales interested in you when you could just disappear tomorrow requires you to build up trust and commitment.
On to making money. Most paying viewers aren't interested in you. They don't care too much about your random daily life, watching you play games, etc. You can get some memberships and some viewer numbers doing this, but you're not going to make big money. To get money at the level where you're not large you need to build attachment/parasocialism. How you do this is up to you.
Judging by your reaction to Esila you probably still feel shame/embarrassment at the concept of GFE or GFE-adjacent content, so you should try to fill another niche. You can be an older-sibling style, younger-sibling style, aunt/uncle style, parental style, close friend/confidant style. Ideally with key characteristics (cute, ditzy, dumb, smart, knowledgeable, fit, shy, energetic, controlling, yandere, etc) It's up to you. You're trying to find a part of the viewers life that is missing or deficient and supplement it online. You can do that while doing all your other things (karaoke, playing games, etc) but you need to aim for something like this and keep it consistent. Keyfabe is key.
You may not actually be the person you portray, but your goal is to take your 1-4hrs/day and turn that into a window where you show a version of yourself morphed into that shape. Try to make it as natural as possible. Don't tell stories that break that image. Exaggerate stories that support that image. Do things or try things that type of person might try, talk about them on stream. Every streamer that's successful is playing a character. That character might be an interpretation of themselves, but it is not just "joe or jane got online and started streaming". Plan a couple of talking points, 5-10 to lead the conversation back to that reinforce or create that image so you have fall backs.
There are plenty of people who make nice income off non-romantic parasocialism but almost all large incomes are from parasocialism until you get massive, and the chances of that happening here are low. Wish you the best of luck
