Nah. One time I imagined I was a game youtuber. It was awful, I cannot enjoy gaming at the same time as commenting to idiots on Twitch and narrating.
Which one of these sounds nicer?
You decide to play your favorite game, you sit on a sofa, relax, and play at your own leisure in quietness only focusing on the gaming experience, fully immersed.
You want to play your favorite game, your subscribers complain about it and want you to play this brand new AAA game that everyone else is playing too. You turn of your fave game, purchase a shitty AAA game from a genre you hate, install and play it. Your chat wants to play coop with you. You realize it would encourage people to donate to you if you had some sort of "Pay me 5 dollars to play with me". You feel like a greedy old bastard for forcing people to give you money especially since you have played thousands of hours of coop before your streaming career but never asked any money for it, besides people should pay for more important things, you don't wanna see a student pay for coop chance instead of say food, but hey, moremoneyisalwaysgoodrighmoney:D. People on coop blahblahblah to you, you cannot focus on the game while having to chat with your fans on both voice stream and twitch chat. People backseat game and spoil things for you. People call you stupid if a puzzle takes you more than a second, however, if you still insist on solving the puzzle yourself, the chat will get irritated and bored in a minute. You feel tired, you want to quit the game, turn off the computer, go for a walk, think of the puzzle, come back later, but noooo, you're a streaming, you have to make long streams, it's only been 20 minutes. You play for four more hours, and stop it. The next day you think "I'll play something else" oh no no no you won't! Your fans demand you finish the game, nothing irritates more than unfinished playthroughs right? You decide to just run through it missing half of the content in order to play any other game. Your fans critize you for skipping half of the game. "BLÖBBIUS is my favorite game, I can't believe you skipped half of it! Will you do another replay some other day? I wanna see you beat boss plah and häh. Besides you wondered why A is bah well it's revealed in a secret area that you skipped!".
After you finally finish the whole game, your friend (real friend, not twitch fans) asks you what you thought of it. You say "I don't remember anything about it, I don't remember the characters, or the plot or the boss fights, I only remember that stupid idiot I had to coop with instead of playing solo and all the Twitch chat constantly calling me stupid and noob".
Remember also that if something happens, for example, if your stupid trolling younger brother comes into the room when you are streaming and yells something racist or sexist, that can damage your reputation, and then you have to make ten thousand apology videos "I'm so sorry my 5 year old brother said some bad things in my stream". People will complain to you either way. Another thing, you have to be very careful about what you say. Anything you say can be seen as racist, sexist, ableist etc. People will find the 7 year old comment where you said "There's a new bank? Is there a jew bank too lol?". (Doesn't matter if you a jew yourself, or African or disabled etc., people will hate you for every comment you make, even if that comment was made 10 years ago when you were 13 and no matter how much you have since changed and apologized.)
Another thing is, you can't be yourself. People love streamers who are emotional, you have to curse, make jokes, yells, be angry, be scared, be stupid. If you don't, you better be hyper sexual and constantly say things like "these mountains are like asscheeks and the lake between them my cum, I'm gonna wreck your asshole and build my new penis in it". The only times you can be calm, serious, "normal", is if you make some sort of speedrun videos. And in those cases you have to be really skilled and people will still wish you joked and you'll only get a portion of the fans you'd get if you made "funny" streams.
I prefer being able to play whatever game I want, when I want, for how long I want, how many times I want, in whatever way I want with the company I choose.
PS: I hate those millionaire streamers who are like "I'm a good person, I have donated lots of money! Just yesterday I donated 10 000€ to support poor young people! How? Well, I asked people to give me money and then donated that forward! What? Most of those who donated were poor young people? Well none of my business!". And then the whole public will praise the person "He's so great! He donates money!" and the guy will fuel that narrative instead of admitting "It was all donation money, it wasn't my money that was donated! Don't praise me! I'm just the messenger! Praise the people who donated!". They live like Morax who created all that money himself for himself instead of being Zhongli who just begged for it.
What the fuck?! Imagine if I was a millionaire, and you were starving and asked for food or money for food. And I said "Sure!" and then went and begged some schoolkids for food and money, and gave it to you? Wouldn't that be assholish?
Also, I feel sorry for the girls. Imagine this. You want to stream a game, some people will say "Lol, why would I want to watch a girl streamer?", some people will watch you but you only get like 100 subs. Then you look at the most popular girl streamers and almost all of them are young cute silicone titted prostitutes. A man won't feel the pressure to put on fake-up and silicone and look cute and young and sexy, just look at asmongold, ugly and dirty and still widely loved. But a girl will look what other girls are doing and feel the pressure to also wear fakeup and fake tits. She gets fakeup and tits and sexy clothes. Suddenly she has loooooooots of subs but she knows they aren't there to enjoy her gaming or commentary, she's just a walking sex toy for them. And let's say you won't give up to the pressure and put on fakeup and tits and sexiness, if you just make normal funny game streams, most people will still associate "gamer girl" with "prostitute" and think you are a walking fleshlight who only uses gaming for an excuse to be on twitch. There's also a third problem. Imagine if you were a heterosexual man in a company, all the other women wore sexy minidresses, how long before you start thinking "Hey, that last girl should wear a sexy minidress too? All the other girls do it too and I like it!". So men will try to make you be more sexy, because hey, other women are sexy too!
So a girl loses whether she goes the "sexy road" or the "I do what I want" road...
