Valkyrae reveals stress about leaving Twitch viewers for YouTube: \u201cI abandoned them\u201d Twitter, @ValkyraeOne of the world\u2019s most influential streamers, 100 Thieves\u2019 Valkyrae has opened up and revealed the stresses behind her switch from Twitch to YouTube \u2014 including worries that she had \u201cabandoned\u201d her viewers. Taking a cursory look at the gaming and streaming industry, Rachel \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter seems to have easily earned her \u201cQueen of YouTube\u201d recognition. In the past year alone, the 100T streamer overtook Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys as the most-watched female streamer, won the Game Awards\u2019 Content Creator of the Year, and became a co-owner of 100 Thieves. But, while Rae\u2019s YouTube channel now earns around nearly $200,000 a month, that success did not come easily. In a new retrospective video, Valkyrae reveals how stressed and unhappy she was during the switch to YouTube back in January 2020 \u2014 and, particularly, why she worried she had betrayed her followers. https:\/\/twitter.com\/100Thieves\/status\/1390748285699125250 Touching on current successes and the path to get here, Valkyrae dives into the emotions she felt when she left thousands of daily viewers for contract security: \u201cWhen I decided to switch over to YouTube, I pretty much was sacrificing everything I had worked for, for stability.\u201d Namely, the streamer was concerned that she had sacrificed her community: \u201cI was kind of freaking out about how people were going to think about me switching over to a different platform.\u201d After losing thousands of viewers during the switch, Rae elaborates that she was concerned about disappointing her fans: \u201cI was pretty stressed about it \u2026 I felt like I was letting a lot of people down, like my core community that used to watch me on Twitch. I felt like they just didn\u2019t wanna watch me anymore because I left them or abandoned them.\u201d Ultimately, we all know that Valkyrae\u2019s audience bounced back \u2014 in a major way. But, at the time, the successful streamer reveals that she \u201cwasn\u2019t necessarily happy\u201d and \u201cwas really, really struggling with the move.\u201d A testament to the care for her community, those early woes have slipped aside as the streamer now opens new doors. Making music, appearing in music videos and on talk shows, Rae is especially proud of a new accomplishment: 45% of her viewers are now women. And that\u2019s what counts for the 100T co-owner, who seems most proud of her efforts to legitimize minorities in the gaming world: \u201cMe, a woman of color and a female in gaming? If I can do it, I can inspire so many other women to be able to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valkyrae reveals stress about leaving Twitch viewers for YouTube: \u201cI abandoned them\u201d Twitter, @ValkyraeOne of the world\u2019s most influential streamers, 100 Thieves\u2019 Valkyrae has opened up and revealed the stresses behind her switch from Twitch to YouTube \u2014 including worries that she had \u201cabandoned\u201d her viewers. Taking a cursory look at the gaming and streaming […]<\/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-63324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63324","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=63324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}