Well. It might be worth asking if there are really 10k viewers actually out there anymore. The official numbers reported are what they are. But the second-order metrics don't IMO line up with the audience actually being what its reported as being.
His superchat to viewing time ratio must be rock bottom among streamers whose business is mostly oriented towards generating super chats) and not by a small amount either,
This is the most obvious metric I can think of for being able to monetize ones audience for a super chat based streamer.
Throwing out numbers I think are close to accurate, let's say Ralph averages 500 concurrent viewers over the course of a day and makes like $200 streaming for 8 hours. That means:
- There were 500*8 = 4,000 hours watched of Ralph that day.
- Ralph made $200/[500*8] = $0.05 in super chats per hour watched.
- Alternate scenarios:
- If he averages 750 viewers instead it would be $0.033 per hour watched.
- If he only made $100 that day instead the figure would be $0.025 per hour watched.
Last night, Nick streamed for about three hours , let's say he averaged 10k viewers across both platforms (that looks like around where he ended up on Rumble alone according to
@Potatoherder's post, not sure how popular his YouTube stream was). Total take was $191.
- That is $191/(10000*3) = $0.006 per hour watched.
- Note that there's an extra decimal place there.
One kind of expects this value would be lower for larger streamers but Nick seemed to be in the same ballpark last year. If he made $1750 streaming to 7,000 people for 5 hours, which sounds roughly right for what he would have made last year, that's $0.05 per hour watched, the same as the estimate I made for Ralph above.
The only thing I can think of is that Rekieta's basically got dibs on the Rumble front page based on the fact that he streams late at night. It's possible that he actually has 10k viewers watching at any given time, but they are mostly people checking out the stream and click off after a minute, or maybe they are actual boomers from Rumble who have no idea what a super chat is or does. But it doesn't really matter to Nick to the extent he can't monetize them.
- He got his leather blazer in Vegas with 4 others.
Yeah I had already guessed that because he appears to have gotten most of his cringe aging rock star wardrobe on that trip.
Everyone in person liked it, but everyone online hated it. Same with the belt.
What does "everyone online" mean? Cut the crap and say "my thread". Nobody else cares.
He can pull it off because he 'is not a normal person' and when you aren't 'you can do a bunch of stupid shit and get away with it.'
Called it. He did it because he wants to prove that he's special in some way.