Creator-adjacency
Name brainstorm:
- Creator-adjacent roles
- Creatorside roles (play on kingside / queenside castles)
Who do creators have on their team, what are the sizes of these creators
- Find the role that all creators no matter the size seem to NEED — what is this role, why? Are they getting paid?
Who are the roles that are completely needed in creating and what are future cool roles to have?
- Editors (priority) — give you more content per stream Gary Vee effect, make you more funny in a sense (see Sanch / Sneaky editors)
- ** Devs / Michael Reeves as a Service - build you meme-y things to make stream / etc. more interactive compared to other streamers (pee counter, drill that goes off on sub)
- ** Twitch / Discord mods / Community pulsers - throw you freebies of things to riff / make content on as the sort of card-holding teleprompters before your stream / while stream is going on — they're closely monitoring chat and async community of what people are KEKW-ing at
"Why try so hard by yourself to be a personality / create good content that gets on LSF / becomes a viral clip and makes you bigger when you can have a team to help you do that easily?"
Earning potentials for these roles
- How do you go about being a mod / creaotr-adjacent role? What's earning like and why do you do it?
Ludwig mods being paid $1000/day to moderate Twitch streams — how many streamers are paying their mods?
Sandy Lin — who’s on her team helping her pumping out TTs? Internally discern which ones are relevant + use Em info on pay
- Sandy - founder + face of TTs
- Simran Khanna - head of program development
- Cathy Guan - program development manager
- Paris Wang - head of marketing
- Emily Kim - social media manager
- Dayanne - email marketing coordinator
- Kaitlin - graphic design manager
- Vivian - head of operations
MKBHD
- It’s me, Andrew, Vinh, Brandon, and Michael. That’s a combination of cinematographers, set designers, motion graphics specialists, and myself.
- Hiring for
- Video Editing/Production
- Camera work
- Audio Editor/Recordist
- Podcast Producer
- Tech Writing/Editing/Research
- Graphic Designer: Photography/Thumbnails
Mayuko's mods (26.1k on Twitch)
Taeha
- Taeha? Send cold DM about who’s on his team
Sneaky — 2 editors
Paolo
- Paolo? Send Twitch DM about who’s on his team
Non-conversations to research:
- Sneaky has 2 editors? Mods? Discord mods?
Michael Reeves / custom stream overlays as a service: https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/bkm6h9/this_guy_built_a_game_as_an_interface_for_his
- michael reeves piss counter or whatever lmao
- tiktok filter creator
live video sub / overlay to make things more funny? accessibility in making every stream accessible to deaf viewers with subs, transaltions
- korean reactions are pretty good in variety games
- faker live subs
what other LIVE experiences are there (think about it)
- air stewardesses to see if you’re doing ok?
- ushers during concerts to make you get back to your seat ok
- sound mixers in dj sets
- etc etc etc
Community Mgrs and Mods
Mods: find you what people are KEKW-ing at in community, moderate your chat — get pulse + manage your community
Community Mgr: surface good community thoughts, run all things community — get pulse + manage your community
Despite this, why mods community roles not getting paid the $$$ like their community manager counterpart?
- Interview Discord / Twitch mods — why do you do it? What's the goal?
- Interview top community managers (Commsor)
Discord / Twitch mods run socials in shifts from 4-8 hours a day virtually for free
Twitch seemed to roll out features to rule out mods earlier (slow mode, follower / sub only mode)
It doesn't make sense to me that community managers are becoming a hot role to hire for while being called a Discord / Twitch mod is today's Internet playground insult.
To put it into perspective, Discord and Twitch mods were community managers long before the role had a name for its job. Between 4 – 8 hour periods as Twitch streamers
In conclusion, ______. Besides, if the Internet really needs a set of people to become comparable playground insults, it's reply guys — those guys really have problems.
Questions for Mods
- What's a "shift" like? How many hours are you moderating and what does that look like?
- Best parts of your job
- Hardest / worst parts
- How long until you quit?
- How did you make this happen for yourself? ie. How did this get started, how did you pitch yourself becoming a mod
- What was your relationship with creator pre-becoming a mod?
- Are you getting paid?
- etc