Hey everyone. So welcome back to the episode of the hello spring podcast. I hope you're all doing well, because in today's episode, it's going to be more of a chill sit down Q&A episode. And today is actually episode 20, which is the last episode you'll be hearing for this season of hello spring. But I will be Turning in the next couple of months. So be sure to check out all my social media. All the links are down below, like, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube everywhere.
So, you know, when season 2 will be premiering, but nevertheless, I did ask you all questions on like Twitter, Youtube Community tab Discord, among what you all wanted me to answer based on the questions you have provided me today. So I will answer them to the best of my ability. But again, sit back, relax and enjoy the episode.
So the first question actually comes from a good friend, Ocean City, And if you don't remember, we did a podcast episode together on episode 3, so make sure you go give that a listen. If you haven't heard it already. But the first question she has asked me. Is there a Sims Family? You have played that. You hold close to your heart and they're 100% is and I don't know why I love this family, man.
I dunno why, but it's like this family is so different from the other families I think created especially with their backstory and it revolves around my Sims from my cats and dogs, LP a couple of years ago, the Larsen family and it consists of Nina Marie Larson. Nate Larson. Darius, Grove Savannah Larson. And a few other Sims that are
like the background characters. But the main focus is around Nina. Maria Larson who was a 17 year old or Sixteen Going On Seventeen year old SIM who lived in the wonderful world of Brendan Bay for a couple of years. Until recently, her parents died in a tragic fire on the 10th wedding anniversary which is so tragic and sad. But around that time Nina was only like around like 10, 11 years old and so she had to move over to her brother's house Nate Larson with her wife's.
Anna. And honestly, around that time, it was tragic because Nate was going through a difficult time in his life where his business wasn't really growing. But also he kind of got into the wrong path with the wrong people. And so will result into him going crazy with his job and crazy with his family. We almost lost everything and so Nina.
Maria Larson was a go-getter, an artist a Visionary and a newer self-made Sim. And she met, this one kind sweet person named Darius Grove who happened to live like a couple of doors down from where Savannah and Nate lived at the time and when they met, they were like, instantly connected,
they were the best couple ever. I have ever met in ever made, and they were both artists photographers, entrepreneurs, self-made, Sims, and around that time when Nina became like 17 years old, she end up being pregnant which didn't stop her at all. But she didn't find out until a couple of months later. And even though a lot of people call her names and criticized her and told her she would fail
at life. No matter what she did that didn't stop her to be the best person that Can be for ourself her boyfriends and now husband and her daughter Nevaeh Marie Larson and Nevaeh Marie. Larson is so cute and so adorable and I'm bringing them back at some point in the future. But for right now, Nina Maria Larson has a graduate from high school going to University in the the art history degree Darius.
On the other hand, he decided not to go to college and in order to help provide for his family and going into the manual labor career full-time and makes so much money. Money to build them a new home and I'm so excited for that and they're going to be getting married very soon which is also very fun but you'll be seen the video on YouTube hopefully the next couple of weeks or months whenever I get around to filming the rest of the Machinima that I'm creating.
But overall the Larsen family is my 100 favorite family, that I hold close to my heart and forever will, because they're just so good in the family Dynamics. Amongst all the Sims are just so well, put together. And if you want to go check it out. All the links are down below in the description in the show notes, so you can check out the you Yep, let's play and all that
jazz. But the second question that she asked me, how did your family feel about gaming as your profession and honestly, they were a little bit skeptical at first, but until you know, I showed them the ropes about YouTube and twitch and how all work and especially what was funny. Me and my parents went to like this restaurant and I literally and I'm not kidding.
I made a whole presentation about my YouTube channel where I see it's going in the next five years and how I'm going to grow it. And also what I want to do for the future, because I'm always a person who likes to plan ahead Head in the future like The Five-Year Plan. 10-year plan and see where it goes and work that plan until I achieve all my
goals. And honestly, it was wild that my younger self like my 14 year old self, didn't think this will be a profession but it ended up being a very successful. In my eyes successful, profession job that I've always ever dreamed for and I could not ask for anything different. So but my parents now are definitely one percent on board with everything I've done and what I'm doing right now and what I'm going to be doing for the future.
But the next question, what's something you've always wanted to do? In the semis but haven't yet. And honestly, to be honest, The Sims 2 and Sims 3. I have never done the 100 baby challenge, but I've always wanted to try but I'm Loki nervous that my game will literally explode and run out my room and out the window and
never be seen again. If I did the 100 baby challenge in The Sims 2 & 3 eventually, I probably will but not for very long time, until I feel the most confident and the last question, how do you say inspired to make content? And honestly, it's my community, I spring Squad, my fam, they know Me the I know them and it feels so great to know that we are here through the end who thicken sin because they know
how I make my content. They know who I am and they know how inspired I get for certain little things. Like maybe a toilet plunger or a piece of paper or a post that I see on the wall, it within the game and they know how to be
very collaborative. And when I was able to collaborate with my audience and show them that I want to get you all and more involved in my content, whether it's my, Let's Plays my twitch series my twitch streams, my bill, My Creator since my story lines, because when you involve your community into what you're doing, it makes it so more worth it at the end of the day. And there was one Series in particular, that I didn't really continue because I don't know.
I just get uninspired sometimes. But usually, there's a series that I had made that I didn't know much about the Heritage, the culture, how to create the Sims, what? Hair cells, I should put on them, how they should dress and everything. And when that time came, I ask my community. I need help with knowledge and expertise. And they flooded me with so many links and so much backstory that I necessarily did not know how to convey it very well in a video.
And so I took all the information and read, all more about it and made it, let's play made some Sims and gave him a back story that made perfect sense for the history and knowledge, and culture that I learned through my community. And 100%, if you involve your community a lot more into your, your videos, it becomes more authentic and more real and more exciting to watch in my humble opinion.
I've always been so. Is be able to involve my community, and the videos that I've made where I collaborated with them was, it's the rebuild of renovating their builds or our let's play. I find my, Let's Plays more entertaining that way. And so that's kind of really how I stay inspired to make content, but it's also through everyday life. Whatever. I read. See or hear. I tried to convey it through my videos. But yeah, thank you so much ocean, Sims 4, you know.
Give me all those questions. I really appreciate it. And the next question comes from a good editor. Ashley. And she asked me, what would you say is your driving for is over. These years to be persistent with content creation. Honestly, at the end of the day, it's always my community, but also time management as long as I have a schedule and I write down what I want to do. Each day, it helps me keep a focus on what I need to get
done. So I can relax and sleep and hang out with family and do everything else and continue the next day. And so, honestly, if you are a person who is trying to get into content creation, or any type of profession that you're trying to do, whether it's YouTube, twitch marketing, social media, whatever it might be, I always
tell everybody. Time management is key have a schedule, be consistent because that way, you can pinpoint the things that are more, they have to prioritize more to do the other things you want to do. Like for me, example, all my life, I've always been in school but the past 24, five years of my life, 24 years of my life. I've always been in school but up until I was like 14 to 24 for the past, decade, schoolwork,
YouTube and twitch. I've don't know how I managed it all, but I think I've always prioritize my Cool schedule for us which is very, very important to me. Education is very important and then I put YouTube and my social media on the back burner because those were like, more fun, fun things I want to do at the end of my day. And when I was done with school, I worked on YouTube and pre-recorded a bunch of videos and pre-recording.
Let me tell you pre-recording is the key thing that helped me throughout my decade of content creation and will always and forever will be. And now that I have help with managing my upload schedule and have an editor like Ashley who helps me? My YouTube videos and upload them for me has helped me so much, like tremendously with taking, you know, staying consistent and persistent with my everyday life ever pre-record. She edits them. She uploads them for me.
I make the thumbnails and it's just like a breath of fresh air when you have help. And so having help time management and knowing where you want to go and having a schedule, like a little notebook or a calendar that you might have on handy on your phone or a paper right in front of your face, calendar helps to, but that's kind of really Get my driving force to take to stay persistent with my content creation every single day for the past 10 years, which is
wild. And it's been almost 10 years. Almost 10 years in August, will be my 10-year anniversary on YouTube. That's weird. Oh gosh. That's a lot of years of my voice on the internet. And now the next question comes from Blue Dempsey fly and they asked me, what has been some of your highlights from the first season of the podcast. Oh, that is a really good question to ask because I love Over this podcast. And I haven't seen on this idea for to make a podcast for 10 up to 22 years now.
And I'm so glad I did it this year because it gave me the ability to stay home and work on my craft and learn from different content creators throughout, you know, the internet, whether it's like, you know, YouTube twitch, Twitter Tick-Tock, Instagram Clubhouse, whatever, social media people have and learning their ins and outs on how they got started and where they see it going in the future and And what are their struggle that their mental health?
How's that going, where you think you want to be in the next 10 years with your YouTube channel or your Twitch Channel? And what's hasn't has inspired you over the years and I think that's what ours likes of my favorite highlights. Being able to have a sit-down honest and raw conversation with other content creators, has been the best highlight of this first season of this podcast and if forever well-being.
And I cannot wait for you all listen to season 2 of the podcast because I got some guests lined up that I think you all will definitely love and the last question blue do. The fly acts. What has been some challenges from doing the podcast, anything. Unexpected. Oh yes. Time my health. I'm getting my first and second polka, the vaccine, and also kind of being overwhelmed by
mental health at times. Weren't, you know, the best when recording YouTube videos or recording, a podcast episode, and being able to tell other people that sorry, I can't really record another episode right now, my mental health is not doing the best, I need to take a little bit of a break before I kind of think get Back up and doing things again. And even though mental health is very, very important and it should be the first priority like your mental, health comes
first, no matter what. And I tell everybody that in every single day, no matter who you are, if you are overwhelmed with something, take a break. Little just like if you are stressed out from work or, you know, making YouTube videos or recording anything, with your voice and your face, or whatever. It might be, take a break, take a step back. Take a walk. Play Animal Crossing on your switch or watch TV and watch their favorite or your movie or read a book or just Take a nap
literally, just take a nap. Do what you got to do to get away from the hustle and bustle and even if you can't take away or take time away from your full-time job or anything like that, takes like, take one minute to minute, three minutes or five minutes out of your day to just breathe. Like, going your lunch break and just just breathe, go outside.
If you can, if you can and just read a book, while you eat your lunch or, you know, sit in your car and turn on the radio and just pick a little small little nap or Just Vibe and just chill, talk to one of your friends text them. Them hang out with them on video chat, voice, chat, whatever might be mistaking that simple five minutes out of your day or how long you want to is very, very important. And my mental health was not the best throughout this entire
process of the podcast here. And there it was. But at some point it wasn't and those were a little bit unexpected, but there were also during there were times where I had to go on vacation, this is like go see family, which I love
family. Family is always comes first and I think when I had those Unexpected, you know, things happening, even though I did have some extra like, episodes recorded and that we're being edited and have videos being uploaded by time away, sometimes some things can be unexpected, but I think at times it was just, what am I doing this? All for, and I knew what I was doing it for.
I was just doing it because I want it to have a project for me to just have fun with and even though if it wasn't going to be successful or was going to flop, I was still having fun and I got to be able to talk to my friends because I couldn't see them for about. About a year and a half like I haven't seen anybody in a year and a half and I'm able to talk to my friends for a very long time. Hopefully, that answers your question.
I mean, I just love talking, if you all haven't heard in all these 20 of these episodes of the podcast, I love talking mental health, became a bit of a struggle throughout this process of the podcast with a surfer season, but taking breaks is definitely very much needed for me and I just love that. So hopefully that answers your question. I hope so. So now that we have a few
questions already answered. I want to make a little bit of a detour in the Out to let you all know that if you haven't heard from the Twitter or Instagram or YouTube, or wherever else, you might be on my social media. The podcast. Hello spring was nominated for an award, which is crazy. So, make sure you go to podcasts Awards.com. The link will be down in the show notes below, but also on my social media twitter.com, slash spring underscore Sims. But make sure you go sign up and vote.
And once you see, the biggest podcast influencer put spring Sims as a name. And then once you sign up and get your email, Email, you know, confirmed make sure you vote for health spring, under the comedy category, but also the best black hosted category as well. So, you know, where my podcast is. No, put into the mix, which is kind of great. So, honestly, I cannot believe that the podcast after 20 episodes has been nominated for
an award. I hope crossing my fingers that, you know, we win an award, or at least two, it can happen. I don't know. But can the spring squat, the seeming community, and The Gaming Community come together, and For my podcast because that will be lovely. However, you only have until July 31st to vote for the podcast. So make sure you go check out the links Down Below. In the show notes, the podcast.com and vote for the hello, spring podcast, on both
categories, until July 31st. However, if you're listening to this episode in the future, it might already be over. But if you listen to this, now on the day, it's uploaded July. 31st is the last day to vote. So make sure you go vote link down below, but let's go ahead and hop back into the episode. Now, I got some questions from um, YouTube and this one's from Aaron and they asked me, what ways do you go about keeping things fresh and building a tine Community around your content?
And honestly, I always set the record straight, that being your true authentic self is super, super important because that way your audience, knows who you are as a person. But also as a content creator and only the letting them know that you are a person with a life and you have other things that might come up, that might be unexpected that you might have to cancel a stream or not upload for a couple of weeks or
a couple of days. And so when you're - to your community and setting the record straight that I want to build a kind healthy and honest community and they will understand. However, if they don't understand, and they want to be rude and negative all the time in your community, they can go through know, scoot scoot, there's the door and move about your day because honestly, in my community, we don't have time for trolls. We don't have time for any negative energy, we just don't
have time for that. So setting the record straight at the very beginning of your stream or in your rule section or in your videos on who you are always healthy. Help somebody to know more about your channel, what you expect and how you want to go about things in the future. So hopefully that answered your question Erin. So the next question comes from Carl Miller and they asked me
what helped you overcome. Your fear of talk in front of people when you're doing such an amazing job on your Twitch streams. All think our car, appreciate it. But also where do you get your inspiration from when it comes to your building? And for me at the end of the day, I have like this never ending fear of failing on my twitch streams because one is unedited. It's raw mistakes in happened,
internet failing. And it's just weird that I can't edit anything, which is kind of like Jill into my brain after so many years of making content on YouTube that was always pre recorded and edited that with Twitch streaming and even though it's raw and real and in real time, it's fun to connect with
people. And I love talking as you all know for this podcast, 20 episodes my voice which is wild but also connecting with people on a personal and deep level because usually on YouTube you only get the ones that are conversation but on Twitch streams it's like I'm talking back to it. Personnel responding and it feels great that I can relate to somebody here and there for three hours or so. But with a never-ending fear of failing, I never feel comfortable streaming sometimes
because I'm always on. I always have FaceCam on and I'm always having the lights on my face and I could mess up on, sing in a word or I could honestly kind of stumble across many different conversations because I have ADHD and it has helped. And also worsen my talk like speaking skills. Lot where I'll talk for like one minute from one conversation and go to the next one after a second. And then go back to a conversation from five minutes ago and talked about that.
So look, I'm all over the place when it comes to Twitch streams. But I feel like it makes it very interactive with the audience that I have and the conversation that we are having and even though I still have that fear, I'm becoming more comfortable was talking front of people, because the more that I time talking on stream has helped me be broke, be more confident in my YouTube videos and also Getting more opportunities to be live on a different Channel with different audience.
It was my face and my voice. So I think having this podcast has helped me a lot with my speaking skills and having my parents helped me with my speaking skills with Toastmaster isn't other things and taking you know time for my voice to heal from speaking for three and a half hours or even longer. So I guess like that has helped me podcast Toastmaster meetings and talking to my friends and rescue my voice.
And this reviewing some not all some of my twitch streams to see my audio quality of. Is it good? Is it bad that the change anything? So honestly yeah that's kind of how I quote unquote overcame my fear in front of like talking in front of people and even though it can be scary I feel like if you do it once or a couple times you'll become a little bit more comfortable over time. It can it's not easy but it's taking the time to try it out
and see what happens. It's kind of great, but if you don't like it, that's totally okay. You don't always have to have Have FaceCam or talk in front of people, you don't have to, but it makes fun for interactivity. And where I find my inspiration for building is usually Pinterest driving around my neighborhood or multiple
neighborhoods to find. Some some houses I want to build, like I don't know if you do this or not but if anyone's listening, do you ever just go on a drive and then in a random neighborhood that you just do not live in? It's like oh I can't build that house. I can feel that house well that family home for their looks really cool. I can build that in The Sims. I've done that multiple times but also I've gone Multiple open houses, like not buying them, but I have found a house.
I want to buy, but I have gone to many open houses and paths from like, I'm just gonna walk in take some photos, I'm gonna buy it, not buying it, and it's like, I can build this house in The Sims. Good laying out, good kitchen
area. The bedroom, look, I'm just like that person who will look at real life housing plans and try to replicate them in The Sims. But nowadays, after so many years of looking at houses online and Pinterest and my everyday surrounding, it's become more natural for me to build. Build like houses in the top of my head. Like, I just go into the game and start building, whatever it might be, and see what happens.
But Pinterest is 100% the best resource to find any house plans or any interior screenshots you might want to replicate or take inspiration from from your own Sims builds. Like, it's so, so helpful. So I highly recommend you go to pinterest.com. Right time, I do have a Pinterest board where I do pin some Of exterior interior and separate rooms case. You want to go check it out. I'll link it down below in the show notes for you all even on,
on my website, too. So, you can check it out, too. Now, the last question comes from long-legged socialist, in the ax me. How does your experience from making a podcast compared to your expectations and do you think something that like spark Willis possibly happen again in the future? For my experience for his, my expectations has been pretty much the same because for the past two years as you all know, I have done a lot of races like
a lot. Lot of research, I have like two or three pages of notes and websites and articles that I have found of analytics. For podcast, podcast networks, where to go what to do, how to make it work. But microphone, What audio equipment, how I'm going to make it work and how many episodes that you have in a season and
all that stuff. So honestly my expectations versus my experience have been pretty similar for the past couple of months, which is kind of great and so far, it's going good and getting feedback on the book reviews, on iTunes and social Has helped me a lot with changing and Shifting the way I make my podcast, but still keeping that true authentic way that I've always wanted to have this is raw and honest now for
sparked. I really do not know if they're going to be another season or not, but it will be very cool if there wasn't that the season of sparked in the future, something like it because as a contestant on the show I have a lot of fun because I knew everyone at the studio and the contestants as well. So it helped me to be more comfortable in front of all those people and the cameras but There was a student to and I was asked to be on. And again, I would not be a contestant.
I rather be a judge or a mentor. I find those two ways much easier just because judging you can judge people's builds your backstory of what's good about it. What's bad about it what they could do better and the next time and such like that but as a mentor it's the same exact way but you're helping them along the process and navigating through their storytelling, their build, and how they're all gonna make it connected through the editing.
So, if the spark was going to happen again, I'd rather be Judgment. Or that's pretty much it because honestly contestants are stressful and I know from experience. So, as we move on to my disk or questions I have to say, my Discord Community is so big and funny and amazing people that they asked me a bunch of questions. So I might not be able to get through all of them. But, however, I do have to say, I just love this podcast. I love being able to answer your
questions. So, eventually in the future, I will be doing another podcast Q&A. Hey episode may be recording my face and posting on YouTube. I don't know. I just have a lot of ideas in my head for season 2 of the podcast. And if you have any ideas, feel free to tweet me, Instagram me on DMS of any ideas. You might want to see on the podcast on audio version or video version on YouTube.
Now this question comes from my Discord and twitch mods Savvy and they asked me, how long do you think you're going to be doing content creation? Now here's the thing, I've been on the internet for about a decade since I was Ten years old, I am now 25 and so I don't really see myself ever stopping content creation for a very long time.
Because even if I stop gaming in the next 5 years or 10 years, I do see myself streaming on Twitch for a very long time, but also making still YouTube content around like lifestyle DIYs Into Your Design, Graphic Design, vlogging, whatever it might be. I still have other different avenues that I can find, very creative and can still keep me inspired to make content for my audience. And which is you all to Spring Squad. So I think. Yeah, I didn't today.
I don't think I'll ever stop. I could be making content until I come 95 years old, imagine me 95 year. Old spring Sims making content on YouTube playing, Animal Crossing or Sims or DIY in a project wild. I know and everything still being yellow. Shocker probably will be who really knows but still? Yeah, I don't know. So the next question comes from Bookworm and they asked me, what was the hardest part about getting started / growing as a new content creator and how did you? Overcome it.
So for me as a content creator, when I first start started at 14, I really didn't do that much promotion of myself on social
media, or anywhere else. Because I did not tell anyone I had a YouTube channel for at least five years, just because I felt like it was so taboo, and I will get made fun of and regardless, I still did, but I would get made fun of and bullied a lot about having a YouTube channel, all about the Sims, and it wasn't until I got into like college, where I realize that, I don't care what people think.
I'm gonna promote. Myself, no matter what people say, and be proud of it. And so, when first getting started, I didn't know much about how to promote myself on social media, how to do the proper tags and keywords, in my descriptions, and my tag when uploading my videos thumbnails, how to edit my videos and it was all through trial and error on where I was able to manage on how much and how little I should keep in my videos and how to make my thumbnails and how to
promote them. Well, and also interacting with the audience And interacting with other content creators in the same genre or same Niche, if that makes any sense.
So, for example, The Sims Community, there's a lot of people around the world who make content around the Sims orders on YouTube twitch Tick-Tock, Tumblr, Wattpad Instagram Clubhouse, whatever might be or always posting content of what we love and what I've learned throughout the years of making content is that collaboration is key because sometimes you might have an audience that might not only other person and vice versa. And so we're both growing our
audience. At the same time because their audience will find my audience and my audience will find Their audience. Because at the end of the day it's like you're finding a new person that you can be friends with and also make content together around the same franchise. Like, for example. Me and my friend rossella, we have this ongoing quote-unquote beef, but it's not a beef. Is Monica, funny banter thing that she loves purple and I love yellow.
And we did at which time together for about five hours or so, or she built an all yellow house and I built in all purple house. And both of her communities are very, you know, similar in a way. A where she has a no yellow emo in her twitch chat and I have a lot of yellow emotes and it was very, very cool to see the two communities come together as a whole to say, who loves yellow, who loves purple, and it was just like so fun to see the engagement between both of our communities.
And we were growing at the same time, because some people didn't know me and some people didn't know my friend Michela and they followed her, they followed me and it's like Two Worlds Collide and it made a big difference. Big difference. So collaboration has helped a lot with, you know, me growing my channel on YouTube and Twitter and Instagram and everything else and promoting myself to the Sims Community.
Like, if I was tagging, The Sims, like the Tim's team and the guru's about my builds, and I created some of my videos, show them that, here I am here, spring Sims making content on YouTube, you should check it out. And notice it and lo and behold, they saw it and it helped me get more eyes on me. And I've been featured in a lot of articles about the Sims and it, Help me throughout my years
of content creation. And so if you take anything from this episode, make sure you collaborate with other like-minded people. Whether it's on YouTube twitch Tick-Tock Tumblr, Wattpad Instagram, whatever.
It might be collaboration is key to grow and make sure you have true intentions of collaborate with people because sometimes it's a lot of people out there who will do a collaboration with other people for quote, unquote, cloud or social, Stardom, which is not a thing that anyone should go into. Because I went into this into this. I whole idea of content creation that. I just want to have fun and entertain people and grow community. That would be like-minded.
So, don't go in it for the money. Don't go tit for the subscribers. The Fame, the recognition that you might get from it like, don't go in and, for those reasons, just go and into intuitive thinking, I want to have fun. And I want to build a community, that's kind loving welcoming and just see where it goes and if something really good happens and Honestly, share it applauded applaud and share your accomplishments because that is very, very important to show
that. Hey, I did not do this alone, we did it collectively. So the next question comes from lucky and the axe me, you stayed in one of your streams that you try to look at your view. Count, is that hard to do? And honestly, it really isn't. So on your Twitch dashboard. You have always liked the what numbers up there, where you can see the view count. How many views you have on your whole entire stream over all the subscriber, count?
How your bitrates doing and everything you can actually turn All that off. So you don't have to look at it because the key thing is the focus on your audience and your stream and like what you're doing in your stream, to keep your audience engaged because I feel like if you focus always on the numbers and you're like, oh, there's nobody here and like I can't probably, you know, get engaged as much or this.
Like only one person here. The key thing is don't focus on the number, focus on what you love doing, because what I've learned over the years is that even if there's one, two, three, five people there. Those five people decide to watch, Watch your streaming because they wanted to find something to watch. While they also found something very entertaining to watch while they do whatever, they're doing whether they're cooking or cleaning or vacuuming or doing
laundry. Even though they might not be actually chatting, they are there for you, not for just the game that you're playing. And I've learned that over the years that sometimes that I play a different game views are lower, but that doesn't really happen for me. Is like, maybe I shouldn't say this game anymore, because I don't have enough viewers for the stream to get certain things. But I've learned that I love
this game. I enjoy the dynamic, the genre of the game and I want to stream it in a way to show my audience. That this game is really cool and to check it out. And when I was partner pushing and a few of my other friends were partner pushing at the same time and they can, like agree with me on this, is that partner pushing on Twitch is hard because was twitch. You need to have 75 to 100 concurrent viewers for the next 30 days in order to achieve partnership. And this is sometimes always
guarantee. You get partnership, even if you reach the whole achievement on Twitch, to get partnered. You're not guaranteed It and sometimes it can be kind of hard to get denied and even, if you are still part of pushing and you're going forth the numbers and trying to figure out what content should I stream? That will be interesting for me.
Also my audience. And if you can kind of come to a middle ground and where both parties will be happy, then do it. So I challenge you all, who is listening to this episode, whose partner pushing, or is already partnered or an affiliate or whatever you might be doing on Twitch and streaming. I challenge you for the 30 days to turn off your view, count and see how it goes. See how your mental health is going your energy, your streams.
Like, just take 30 days, turn off the view count and see what happens. Because, honestly, for me when I did that, it's been like two years since I've turned off my view count, even when I was partner pushing, I turned it off because I did not want to see how many people are in my stream at a given time. So if you do that for next 30 days, I best believe you will feel ten thousand times better because you don't have to be focusing on the views. You're focusing on your audience.
And who's there and your stream. So, hopefully they answer your question lucky. I sure hope so. And now, the next question comes from Kirby and they asked me, do you prefer streaming or making videos? And do you ever get tired of the Sims? So, I always get this question a lot throughout my years of content creation, whether I'm streaming Sims or making videos
about Sims or non Sims stuff. And at the end the day I prefer both like I like streaming just because of the real-time aspect of it where I get real-time conversations about person's day
how they're doing. What they're doing, if they like the Sims, what they're doing in The Sims like it's that real-time connection conversations that I really really love about streaming but I do also like the whole aspect of making videos that are pre-recorded because I get to edit them and I love editing even though it can be very tedious, I find the joy in it and I can convey a story in like 30 minutes and be able to do whatever I want and have fun
with it. So personally I like both and to answer your other question. I don't really ever get tired of playing The Sims just because I find And the joy in The Sims to the best of my ability where it's like a small little detail that I find very unique that I want to expand on, like a storyline of a certain Sims pre-made family that really needs an explanation of why the way they are.
And I do challenges like Rags to Riches or not, so Barry or the decades challenge or the Asylum challenge or the Whimsical Legacy challenge like Legacy challenges that has helped me with storytelling a lot. Just because it's a legacy 10 Generations. You can do whatever. Want and how everyone and make the storyline work best for you.
And so if I get tired of a certain thing, I just make up a random thing, rent, make up a random Challenge and do it that way to make it fun for me. So the next question comes from NAFTA off and they ask me, is there anything specific you want to achieve in the near future or The Not So near future as a content creator old for me. I've always loved the passion like interior design, graphic design, building and architecture. So I've always wanted to have a
TV show. On HDTV, or HBO Max about building interior, design, graphic design, whatever might be something like that, because I think that we really, really cool. But I've also want to achieve the 100,000 subscriber plaque on YouTube, because it's a silver plaque that you get in the mail from YouTube. And they have a letter and this big box and look just looks so
cool. The majority of my friends have it and I'm like I'm jelly and looks cool in the background of your videos, I love it, but that is something I've always wanted to achieve the plaque and my own TV show about No Building architecture interior design and graphic design. So yeah, that's enough White's one to achieve as a content creator. Now this question comes from B which mod and Discord mod dab. And she asks me, when did you realize you wanted to stream and make YouTube videos?
And when did you realize you wanted to make it a full-time job? Now here's the thing, I've never really thought of making it a full-time career, but I had like this idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to do content creation for a very, very long time. Just like part-time, but they know like, hey, something's
happening here. If I should do this full-time at some point, but when I realized I wanted to stream was around like 2015 and I did it for a while, but didn't get back into until 2017 because I wanted that real-time connection to my audience in real time and ask some questions and, you know, talk about whatever I wanted, whatever, assuming I'm gaming, or just just chatting or art or whatever it might be.
So that's kind of when I realized I wanted to stream but what I wanted to make videos, I've always wanted to make videos on YouTube because I've always been this creative Reminded crazy, quirky person that wanted to talk and share my stuff to the world. So YouTube is like my next best thing. So I've always wanted to make videos for YouTube but I wasn't old enough because he had to be 13 years old and making YouTube videos.
So and wait until I was 14 to make it, but I realized I wanted to make this YouTube and streaming career, a full-time job when I got the opportunity to be on the Sims spark. And that was like around late, 2019. And I knew that was graduating University in the next couple of months. And I didn't have, I had a Few things, you know, the fallback one but I wanted to be a content creator full time. So, I went hard in the paint to make a bunch of content pre-recorded.
Make sure I had my videos correctly, social media, promotion, and Twitch streaming, and coming up with new brand, new ideas that I found interesting, but very interactive and engaging for my audience for me, but also for them. And I knew that I was growing slowly, but then I was going faster, and faster, and faster. And I got a lot more opportunities after the fact.
And it helped me so much that I was able to make this a full-time career and I'm so forever grateful for that because I would not be where I am today. If it wasn't for you, all the spring squad for watching my videos or are coming to my twitch streams or interacting with my social media post that I have on Instagram or Twitter because that got eyes to know Brands and other sponsorships and it made it so much easier to just create content that I want
to create. Now, this question comes from Blackberry Bloom and they ask me, how did you find Time to balance your art and content creation. Well, here's a little tricky thing. The tricky thing about balancing, my art and content creation is when I'm not recording or streaming, I just try to find a time to sit down on my couch, or in my bed, or my office just to draw and put on some Lo-Fi music and Just Vibe.
I turned everything off, turn on some music and just draw because I've learned that over time with content creation to become it can become overwhelming when you're constantly uploading to constantly talking and always Almost lights and cameras on your face, that it can be very detrimental to your eyesight, your back and also your mental health and I've learned that drawing and coloring has con these so much that I'm no longer stressed or not as stressed as I used to be then ever before.
So that's kind of usually how I find the time to balance my art and content creation. But then I also make content around my art on my YouTube channel and that kind of helps To where I don't have to be always doing something crazy where I can just turn on my camera of my iPad, or my Photoshop, and just capture the screen, and just draw for how many hours I want, and I can edit it down. And I find editing also very therapeutic to because it can
put music over or yeah. Under my video and do a little voiceover maybe. But that's usually, I just found the time. I just had to take at least one hour to hour, three hours out of my day to just draw, draw whatever I want. Maybe it's a little Doodle or We art piece and just sit there and relax, and that has helped me throughout so many years of my life, and I'm forever. Pleased about that. So, now, this question comes from my other twitch modern Discord mod, Princess Peach.
And they asked me, do you think if you never played The Sims, which you still be a streamer and a YouTuber today, 100%? Yes, because I find the joy in literally, anything and everything. Whether it's bullet, journaling, art drawing Graphic Design, interior design DIY and projects, cooking, whatever it might be. B, I find the joy in that. So I would probably be like a art streamer on Twitch or cooking streamer or whatever it might be and probably play other games other than the Sims.
But as for you two, I'd probably be a lifestyle influencer vlogger YouTuber, and probably just doing that for the rest of my days for the past decade. Yeah, if I, if I never played The Sims, I would probably still be on YouTube and twitch doing the exact same thing, but in different ways other than gaming, if that makes any sense. So I think I wouldn't I would never For being, you know, on YouTube Forever on Twitch.
So now the last and final question comes from Clare and they ask me. Do you ever get overwhelmed by the stress of being an online personality? Honestly, I never really thought to call myself that to be honest. Because I don't consider myself an online personality. Even though I do have an audience, it's still weird term for me.
But I guess at the end of the day, I do find a little bit overwhelming to be an online personality and in the stress that comes with it because all eyes are on you. You could literally make a one mistake and something bad can happen and you're canceled just scary. But then also, we have multiple platforms with multiple audience where are either large or small, you never really know where you stand sometimes and you're always constantly thinking of what should I do on this platform?
What should I do on that platform? What content should I even make? And how should they make it? What people are interested in? And when you make that content that you're making like for instance on YouTube when I ask my audience, something and I make it, but it's not as engaging and they don't Case like well no more of that video series anymore. That's chucked out the water.
So it's kind of overwhelming and stressful when I when you make the content and no one, really watches it and it's like what am I doing wrong? And my failing is is my life over as my channel over, so just stop doing all completely.
So it's like all the mental thing in my brain where it is overwhelming to think about, you know, being an online personality, where all eyes are on you and you have to be constantly on and answering questions and responding to comments and it can be stressful at times. So, Yeah, I do get very stressed out. A lot with being on YouTube and twitch, but then I answered this question a while back ago. In this episode that, I've been taking time for myself where I'm taking a step back and taking
breaks like 5 minutes. 10 minutes an hour to out of my day, just to relax and breathe and not be overwhelmed and stressed out. This being on camera all the time where I don't want to put FaceCam in my videos and I don't want to have FaceCam in my streams or like there are times where I don't want to record or I don't want to stream. Cancel stream and I don't upload videos.
So that's kind of really hard for me when it comes to the fact that being an online personality comes with the stress and there are times where I just need to take a step back and just Breeze for a quick second, just to realize that you don't always have to be 0 and all the time you can just turn off your webcam and be perfectly fine the way it is. So hopefully that answers your question Claire and all that jazz. But nevertheless, I'm going to be wrapping up this episode right here.
Right now, I do hope you all enjoyed today's episode as much as I did. I have a lot of fun being able to answer all your questions to the best of my ability. Hopefully, you learned something from this episode from me about content creation. I mental health, anything and everything from the future to, now, whatever it might be and all that jazz. But anyway, like I said, I hope you all enjoyed it. Make sure you go ahead and follow And subscribe to me on Spotify.
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