Tyler1 admits his brutal Twitch streaming deal might lead to him retiring Twitch: Tyler1Tyler \u2018Tyler1\u2019 Steinkamp has opened up on the possibility he may call time on his immense Twitch streaming career soon, with his contracted hours \u2014 which often sees him stay live for more than 50 hours every week \u2014 beginning to take a toll on his life. Star League of Legends streamer Tyler1 has built a reputation for extraordinarily long stream hours and his determination to always be grinding Riot\u2019s biggest game. That drive has certainly played a major role in his ever-rising warpath to the top of the Amazon-owned website. Steinkamp is in his 20s, but he\u2019s already a self-made millionaire, boasts 4.7m streaming followers, and makes $200k in advertising revenue every single month. He reigns as one of Twitch\u2019s biggest stars. The lifestyle he lives to achieve it all is taking its toll though. In a Twitch profile with the Washington Post, Steinkamp admitted he\u2019s thinking \u2014 quite seriously \u2014 about calling time on his streaming career more every day. The main reason Tyler1 is beginning to consider life after streaming is the lifestyle he forces himself to lead to hit his Twitch hours and rack up broadcasts. Every stream, Steinkamp tries to hit 10 hours live. On top of that, he goes live most days of the week. There\u2019s no sick days, no chances to unwind from his job. On the weekend, the Twitch star admitted to the Post, he will totally avoid speaking just to rest his throat. Sometimes he can\u2019t get out of bed. On planned streaming days, he sleeps for five hours. Tyler adds he often doesn\u2019t have the energy to stream 10 hours. In a bid to hit his contracted 200 a month, however, forces himself to. \u201cIf you take one day off, [the fans] are like \u201cwhere are you bro, how could you?\u201d So I don\u2019t miss days. Ever.\u201d \u201cHow bad is it going to get?\u201d Steinkamp asked. It\u2019s already bad, he added, but admits could get worse. \u201cJust f**k it, man. Maybe I just need to retire.\u201d Toying with the idea is very different to actually planning out retirement though, Tyler1 explains. He knows his Twitch lifestyle, and the 200 hours every single month, will \u201ctake their toll\u201d eventually. It\u2019s just that he\u2019s beyond caring. He\u2019s even started sliding in the other direction. His rigorous schedule has turned into an obsession with staying live. On one day in November, he exploded on stream when his broadcast crashed, leaving him with a nine-hour VOD that he claimed looked \u201cugly\u201d and \u201cgross.\u201d It\u2019s that mentality that means Tyler1 won\u2019t quit yet; he\u2019s considered it, but one thing is holding him back. He has nothing else, he says: \u201cIt\u2019s been my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tyler1 admits his brutal Twitch streaming deal might lead to him retiring Twitch: Tyler1Tyler \u2018Tyler1\u2019 Steinkamp has opened up on the possibility he may call time on his immense Twitch streaming career soon, with his contracted hours \u2014 which often sees him stay live for more than 50 hours every week \u2014 beginning to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}