So I heard you like livestreaming. I mean, everyone else does, right? It's a pretty safe ice breaker these days, when you're interviewing with a potential guild, or you meet someone in a pickup or whatever. My guild leader in Reckless Embrace streamed through most of the Mists of Pandaria beta (and I REFUSE to link to his stream, because his li'l man ego doesn't need to get any bigger- HI ZILENT!), my cabal leader in TSW is talking about streaming, I found out not too long ago that I popped up in a couple of PvP streams in other games...
Clearly this means there is a band wagon, and I am not on it, but I should be. I crave the internet fame! Problem is... If everyone and their brother is streaming now, who's actually WATCHING the streams? And how do you court those precious few nobodies that prefers to watch rather than broadcast? We'll ignore for a moment the curious and confusing recursive stream, where a guy is playing a game, watching a stream, and streaming all at the same time. What will make my stream stand out from the pack, and attract viewers?
I need a gimmick. Unfortunately, it seems like all the good ones are already taken. Plenty of girls stream. It's not the old days where people actually went "Oh my god, a girl on the internet, and she's playing games!" Roleplayers stream. Apparently, it's like watching reality TV. Farmers stream. People talk about cooking, politics, literature, music. They take requests from their viewers and do the whole...DJ thing. Fashionistas talk transmog/appearance gear, housing decorators talk feng shui...
Identity! Branding! Definition! Who am I and what is my place in the vlogosphere? That whole "naked newbie" thing didn't work out. I thought about billing myself as a scrubtacular scrubanzee or something. (Say it out loud. It's a lot like chimpanzee.)
Eh. I'm always saying my various guilds need to have their own reality series. Maybe THAT can be the defining characteristic of my stream. Watch as the amazing Roxina struggles to balance her progression guild in WoW, her relentlessly hardcore friends in TSW, her roleplaying habit, that pesky job thing, and her utter failures at maintaining adult relationships! The drama! The frustration! The complete and total frigging random! And also comic books.
It'll come to me. Eventually. Maybe. Or it won't, and I'll just throw my usual stream of consciousness charm at it.
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