Copy Pasta Paste

In the wonderful world of streaming there are a lot of hurt feelings. One that I encounter a lot is people upset about ideas or themes being "stolen" and then used by others.

My first thought about this is...have you ever gone outside? The entire world of business is exactly what I just typed. Business A offers said plan, Business B offers same plan with a plus sign then Business C orders from china and Business A and B go broke.

In all fairness though, it is really hard to not get your feelings hurt/angry/etc. I'm guilty of this. Nothing sucks more than sharing your ideas and watching someone you shared said idea with rush to beat you to the punch. It can be upsetting cuz guess what, you had the idea but now you look like the copycat. It’s rough but give it time, maybe that person will give you credit? Maybe they won’t?

But really is someone mimicking your work such a bad thing? This is where I retrained my thinking. Instead of getting angry and being like oh mah glob why did so and so have to this too?! Isn't it a compliment? They see what you’re doing and admire it, they see it working for you; see you having fun, why wouldn't they want to try it?

Think hey where did I get my idea? Did you see another streamer do it and then decide to try it too? Did that streamer get credit?

My point to all of this, Streaming is a highly competitive market. You have to change, add ideas, and try new things to stay afloat. If someone in your community starts doing what your doing so what? You already did it right? Help them out, you now have the experience and can help others. Getting angry and letting that shows isolates yourself and will just deepen your upset-ness/anger.

The way to think is that we are all in this together, Stream as a family, and a club “Twitch Club” if your buddies gain some moment a good friend will take you with them. Be happy for them, work together not against each other. Want competition? Set up a competition in a game.

Remember if you turn on your stream and just show anger and vent about other streamers. Do you think your friends/ viewers want to watch that? I’ll admit a random rant would be entertaining the first time but if your stream was negative club I think I’ll go elsewhere. Life can be a stressful bag of dicks sometimes. We all use entertainment to escape that.

Be that Escape and have fun.

If the fun is fading take a much needed break till you remember why you’re streaming in the first place.

Keep up the amazing work.

Vazio82 copied the words you see here from the English dictionary then lined them up in a fashion that put them together to form his ideas and opinions. Vazio82 is not the first or last streamer to feel this way. All ideas may feel original but Vazio82 is sure this is probably somewhere else on the internet in similar form. Sorry?