It is a fundamental divide in the community. YT and Twitch chatters cannot cross-communicate, by nature of the separated chats. Yes, you can respond to both yourself using an aggregator, but that intrinsic 'wall' tends to quickly lead to an 'us vs them' mentality, even with careful cultivation, at least as an undercurrent.
no offense but you're really over thinking it... either way, if viewers started feeling that way, I feel like most of the viewers would just simply think: "oh, Joe Winko is paying more attention to the youtube chat instead of the twitch chat, I should just type my messages to him on youtube instead" which doesn't seem to generate a rivalry...
But either way, since I discovered that you can use restream to manage all the messages, that won't even be an issue.
Worse, as you grow, you WILL eventually hit a point where platform-exclusivity is a requirement. You'll have to pick one, and dump the other. And yes, some from the other may make the jump across. But more often it leads to anger at a perceived (and very real) abandonment, as 'their side' loses.
this would Never occur with me.
I'm not trying to make money off my livestreams, im just doing it for fun. That will Definately never happen to me.
I do want
more viewers but I'm DEFINATELY not aiming to become logan paul...
I never have & never will be joining any partnerships on either platform.
I have been streaming for years... I looked you up & see that you have too for a bit longer than I have.
I'm not sure what kind of people watch your streams, but based on what you're telling me here, I have a COMPLETELY different kind of audience. They never really seem to take my gaming streams that seriously. They wouldn't get 'angry' or 'betrayed' with me if i started using one site more than the other (which would Never happen anyway, because I'd be using both of them).
All-around it's a bad call that looks good on the surface. Not from a practical or technical standpoint, but a sociological one.
It's absolutely your call to make, but it's fundamentally, deeply flawed in the long run, and not recommended. Much better to make platform-specific content; dead-file video for YT, livestreams on Twitch. Improves your overall funnel in playing to the strengths of each, instead of dumping everything together in one piled-up mess.
It doesn't seem flawed at all to me... Another thing I forgot to mention is that I actually HAVE streamed on both twitch & youtube back when restream was for free, but i only stopped because restream started adding a watermark. Back then I never had any issues streaming to both sites & actually loved it.
Another MAJOR thing I noticed is that people from twitch ALSO had accounts on youtube & then started subscribing to my youtube channel as well to watch me there.
luck of the draw & matter of opinion for each person I guess, but I honestly think it's a really good idea.
