Today Fox gets around $300 a month from around 50 patrons, about half of what she once earned through Patreon. Kaitlyn Fox also supplemented her income with a Patreon, with exclusive vlogs for for $1 a month and tiers up to $20 a month that offer access to extra streams. "I’d say 99 percent of streamers use it," says Stark.īut her most reliable source of income was through her Patreon account, where she committed to send patrons personalised gifts to encourage them to join up. Some income was through requests for tips via PayPal.
Stark’s income came directly from her viewers, since she hadn’t yet amassed enough of a following on Twitch to earn directly from the platform. "I needed to keep a roof over my head and food on the table." After nine months of slowly working towards it, she was full-time.įor many streamers who do make a living on Twitch, the income from streaming alone isn't enough. "If I was going to pursue it, it couldn’t be overnight," she says. She’d been thinking she might try to go back to university-but realising it was going well, she kept streaming, steadily exchanging bartending shifts for more time on Twitch.īut Stark was careful. Six months later, she was making as much money streaming as she did at her job. She could do it alongside her job, and it felt productive. "It could be fun, but there were low lows." So at New Year in 2016, she made a resolution to be more creative and decided to start streaming. "It was not a good environment," she says. She’d been working as a bartender after dropping out of university. For the first six months, the channel made less than his living costs, but since Ball had redundancy pay from his former job to lean on, he could sustain the losses.įor Kate Stark, Twitch was a more considered decision. That decision was the start of a long road towards eventually feeling like streaming was actually sustainable.
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