Twitch is a battlefield.

Imagine this:

You wanted to join the cause, You wanted to be a Twitch Streamer. You put on your Purple shirt and march out into the unknown. You enter the battlefield and see millions of other purple shirt wearing people running in all directions. Some running to the top of the mountain, others running in circles. It chaos! For some reason there is millions of people watching this all unfold.

Luckily for you, you run into a group of nice people who want to go on this adventure with you. On your adventures you encounter many endless battles. Trolls who come out of nowhere and try to destroy your efforts. Hackers who come in a wipe teammates off the face of the earth. You experience watching friends have a mental break down and rip the purple off their backs and tell you that its not their battle anymore.

The adventures press on, you cant believe what you see. While climbing you encounter others who grab on to your ankles and try to pull you down as you make your climb. Why would they do this? Is it jealousy? Your just climbing the same mountain, why not work together? You worked for this, you overcome the hard parts and luck out every now and then and find some shortcuts. Why are they so mad?

As you get closer to the top, you notice that along the way some of your friends have been upgraded, they now wear a badge with honor. They have been promoted to Partner! You may not have that badge yet, but thats not stopping your climb.

You continue to climb as you meet new faces, watch old friends fall, and continue to climb..Your emotions spiral. On some days the crowds watching are all cheering you on, others it seems like no one is watching. What do you do? Why are you doing this? Do you continue? Do you take the purple shirt off and quit this adventure? What you do is your choice!

Streaming on Twitch is its own amazing adventure. Everyone who hits that "Start Streaming" button has a completely different adventure. Some good, some bad, some right in the middle. But your adventure is unique to you. Almost a self tailored experience. One thing most of us streamers are very guilty of is comparing ourselves to each other. Maybe its the gamer mentality? Trying to always be on the leader board?

Some of us let this mentality get the better of us, and it ruins the experience for everyone. If someone is doing good shouldn't we be happy for them? If you were doing good wouldn't you want people to be happy for you?

I think the climb up the mountain is a much better experience with friends, Will we ever reach the top? Who knows? But even if we never do, does that truly matter? If we are having fun daily, and can look back and go "man, if I never started this adventure I would have never met these people," does the top really matter?

Till the day we rip the purple off our backs, lets keep adventuring.~