--- title: 'Video gYHsBKqTTrI' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=gYHsBKqTTrI' video_id: 'gYHsBKqTTrI' date: 2026-07-04 duration_sec: 0 --- # Video gYHsBKqTTrI > Source: [Video gYHsBKqTTrI](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gYHsBKqTTrI) ## Summary A Twitch streamer, Ilyushka (Ilya), recounts his 7-month journey starting from zero viewers, a raid that gave him motivation, and the challenges of building an audience. He shares his modest earnings, follower counts, and the importance of persistence. ### Key Points - **Journey Start** [00:03] — Ilya started streaming 7-8 months ago after being inspired by a Dota 2 streamer, Rachislav 999, despite having an old laptop that could barely run Dota. - **First Broadcasts** [01:14] — After building a new computer, he set up OBS and began streaming Dota 2, talking to himself with zero viewers, facing mental difficulty. - **Brother's Help** [02:43] — Ilya's brother, Lil Lmoti, helped him create clips for TikTok and YouTube Shorts, and advised using a webcam, which improved viewer retention. - **Raid by Kobster** [04:11] — A clip of Ilya's first webcam use was noticed by popular streamer Kobster, who raided him with 500 viewers, giving a massive emotional boost and initial followers. - **Post-Raid Decline** [07:54] — After the raid, viewer numbers dropped from 10 to 2-3, especially after changing his streaming schedule from night to day, but Ilya kept streaming for the love of it. - **Earnings & Stats** [10:46] — In 7 months, Ilya earned 3,000 rubles from donations (no ad offers), gained 142 Twitch followers, 31 Telegram subscribers, and ~50 TikTok subscribers. Average stream viewers: ~3. ### Conclusion Despite modest metrics, Ilya considers his journey a success and plans to continue streaming as a hobby, emphasizing that cutting clips and persistence are key, even without immediate viral success. ## Transcript nickname on Twitch is Ilyushka. I've been streaming on Twitch for about 7-8 months. And today I'll tell you what I've accomplished, how I started my journey, how much money I've earned, how many subscribers I have, how I stream, and how I don't stream. All. That's all. It all started when I went to Twitch one day. As a went to Twitch one day. As a long-time Dota 2 player, I went into this tab and came across Rachislav 999's stream. I sat there for a bit, watched his broadcast, and saw what was going on in the chat. And you know, I was so into this vibe that was vibe that was happening there that I realized that this is what I seem to like, and I might want to try streaming too, to try myself in this role. I could stream, of course, but role. I could stream, of course, but only with 5 FPS calculators, because I had an old, old laptop on which Dota barely ran. And if I had also launched OBS on the same old machine , I think it would have exploded. , I think it would have exploded. Therefore, the realization came that a new computer was needed. After I finally earned some money, I built a new computer, and literally almost immediately, I think within a few days, immediately, I think within a few days, I already set up OBS and started streaming my first broadcasts. Naturally, I turned on Dota. How did it happen? I press the "Start Broadcast" button, play, but at the same time I talk all the time. That is, at least I somehow discuss my game, my actions in the game. I'm here, I'm here, okay, okay. I'm hammering this one, hammering this one. I tried to talk, there were zero spectators there. I just listened to the sound from my phone there. I just listened to the sound from my phone periodically and tried to read the chat. And in fact, it’s very difficult, because you turn on the broadcast every day, spend about 3-4 hours of it, you have zero viewers, no one is watching you, you try to talk, discuss the game, but no one comes to you. You look at the viewer counter, you have zero there. It's very difficult mentally. And in order for you to get some initial viewers, you definitely need to make cuts. you definitely need to make cuts. Actually, this was my next step. My hands are just two pieces of [ __ ]. So when I tried to make some kind of cut, nothing worked . But then a miracle happened. My brother also streamed because I had a Twitch link on Steam. He found out that I was streaming. and wrote to me like: "Yo, are you a streamer or something?" I say, "Well, yeah, yeah, something like that." Since he was already involved in this whole streaming movement, he offered to help me share some help me share some basic knowledge and, perhaps, make some cuts, to help me with this. Well, anyway, some clips appeared , that is, we started posting them on TikTok and YouTube posting them on TikTok and YouTube Shorts, but it didn’t do much good, so we made a strong-willed decision to turn on the webcam. Yes, I didn't say that. Initially, I streamed without a webcam because I simply didn’t have one. I bought a fairly cheap webcam. In fact, this video is still being recorded on it. With the webcam, I tell you, it turned out much better. That means that people who came there from the skating rink stayed on the stream longer, and the cuts started getting a little more views. So, a webcam is very important if you stream without a webcam. Well, how can I stream without a webcam. Well, how can I tell you, you have practically no chance. Then something incredible happened. A clip from my stream where I A clip from my stream where I turn on my webcam for the first time has gotten 10 views on YouTube. But what is the point? The point is not in the views, but in the fact that this cut was noticed by a popular Twitch streamer, his nickname is Kobster, and he subscribed to me on Twitch. One day I was sitting and streaming Dota. I had zero viewers as usual, and he started messaging me in the chat: "Hey, where are you from, what do you do? How long have you been streaming?" And so on. We had a normal conversation and he left the stream. Well, I thought that it was just a person who came to my broadcast by chance and decided to somehow support me and chat. At that time, of course, I did n’t know that he was a streamer. He came to me as a regular user, without checking the box. And at some point, a few days later, er, I don’t remember exactly how long, I’m sitting there playing how long, I’m sitting there playing Tota, as usual. I have zero viewers and a Tota, as usual. I have zero viewers and a raid comes to me. What's happening? But you have no idea what these emotions are. You have zero viewers, you're sitting there playing Dota, and a 500-person raid comes to you. It's simple, it's something incredible. Everything was shaking: my legs, my arms, my butt. And I just sat. At first I couldn't speak, then my heart started to hurt. [ __ ], wait. [ __ ], wait. And now the heart will stop in the student. A, [ __ ], what is this? I can't [ __ ] breathe. This is a clip from that very raid. Then something happened that simply, well, defies any explanation of what was going through my head then. I didn't know what to think, what to do. It was just an incredible emotion when you have a dead chat, and then you have 500 people there. Well, just imagine. That raid gave me a lot of motivation and a lot of raid gave me a lot of motivation and a lot of support to do more. I started streaming more often and trying to make more edits with my brother. Oh, by the way, his nickname is Lil Lmoti. He is simply a legend. He is a brother, streamer, moderator, cutter, editor, music artist, TikToker, He's just, well, well, a legend, a legend. So subscribe to Levonya WW. Well , thanks to that raid, I got some first viewers, people who followed me on Telegram. They kept coming to my stream, meaning I wasn't alone anymore. My terrible dream, which repeated itself every day, disappeared, and I finally started communicating with someone . That is, even if there were one or two people in the chat and they were constantly writing to me, I felt incredibly pleased, and I enjoyed the fact that I was not sitting alone and that my screen was now being looked at not only by me, but at least by one other person. And you can't imagine, after two or three months, when you're just sitting alone, talking to yourself, that one person is just like a million people in your chat. These are incredible emotions. I hope you all experience at some point that you always had one person, whether it was your friend, or your mom, or your dad. And then people you don't know come to you, and you communicate with them , they sit on your stream, subscribe to you on Telegram, you can communicate there. I mean, it's, well, it's streaming. After the raid, I had about 10 viewers consistently, but as we all know, after a big rise there is always a decline, and the number of viewers became smaller. At first somewhere around 5, then smaller. At first somewhere around 5, then 2-3. It actually tilts you a little, but you realize that the most important thing for me was that now I'm not alone. That is, I have 1 2three viewers, and that’s enough for me. I was streaming on a night schedule, but after a while my work schedule changed to daytime, and I decided to stream during the day. So I started streaming at around 4:00 PM. That is, people are used to me streaming at night, they come to me at night. Due to the change in my streaming schedule, my number of viewers has decreased even more. That is, uh, at some point, uh, practically no one came to me at all, or there were two or three people, but I continued to stream. If we talk about big events, then that’s probably all. There were no more raids probably all. There were no more raids , and I just continued streaming. I continue to post cuts. And I try to come up with some different content for the stream. That is, if I play Dota, then I try to somehow, perhaps funny, talk to my allies. I did, well, you could say, a cosplay of Pudge. So I bought a mask, spoke in Pudge's voice, played Pudge, and I'm like, "You're a dick, why are we losing?" All of this went why are we losing?" All of this went into cutting, and as such it did not bring any results. That is, during the entire time, only one person came to my stream from the cuts , one. He just wrote something like, "Hey, what's the rating now?" I say: "How did you get here? How did you get in? Through recommendations or something?" He says: "I came to you from YouTube, shorso." That's it, I now have shorso." That's it, I now have about 1,000 videos posted on two platforms. This is TikTok and YouTube Showtopper. And during all this time, only one person came to see me, and he wrote something and left. That is to say, you see, I don’t want to say that cuts are bad. Slicing is good. bad. Slicing is good. Everyone should definitely make cuts. I've seen a lot of people whose videos got 100,000 views, or at least 50, and that gave them some kind of boost. I'm probably just unlucky. I posted clips on one TikTok account. I had a second TikTok account. Well, they actually exist. On my second account, I posted some videos of myself, so I got more likes on the videos, but none of my videos got more than 5,000 views. That is, accordingly, there how much have I earned during all this time? I earned a little. I earned I earned a little. I earned about 3,000 rubles from donations. And that's all. I have not received any advertising offers to this day. That is, uh, 3,000 to this day. That is, uh, 3,000 donations and that’s it. It's better not to count on making money, especially in the initial stages . I stream because . I stream because I enjoy it. I consider this my hobby at the very least, but at the most it is what I want to do in my life. I like it. Well, let's sum it up. In 7 months of streaming, I've sum it up. In 7 months of streaming, I've gained 142 followers on Twitch, 31 subscribers on Telegram, and about 50 subscribers on TikTok, with 15 subscribers on my second account. These are the results I have achieved during this time. The average online audience for my streams now is about three people. Well, what I want to say is that this is an excellent result, in my opinion. That is, for me this is just the beginning of the journey. I'm not going to go anywhere, give up, or give up. I will also continue to stream, film, maybe make videos, if you like it, and continue on my path, develop and move forward. Only forward. If you want to start streaming, I think there's nothing wrong with that . Just take a computer, laptop, whatever you have. Just set up OBS and click the "Start Broadcast" button. And then everything will go as it should. Don't forget to make cuts, this is very important. This doesn't always bring a boost, but I think my case is rather an exception, because I'm just unlucky with recommendations. My videos don't shoot or hit anything, so there's no point in that. But overall, this is an excellent tool and almost the only one right now to really somehow establish yourself and attract some audience. And this is very important. So what do you do? Well , finally, I want to say that this is my first experience in recording a video of this format. So don't judge me harshly. If you liked it, if you got something interesting from this got something interesting from this video, give it a like. And if you have something to discuss or share, please write comments. Thanks a lot. This was Ilya, Ilyushka on Twitch. Thank you all for watching. Bye bye. H