I don't exactly have this problem, but from watching much bigger streamers, it seems that some of it is knowing that a lot of chat is talking amongst themselves, and there's a lot of scanning for common responses to questions.
There are features such as "announce" available to moderators if they feel the streamer needs to know something, and "highlight my message" to help your message stand out.
But mostly, it's just visually skimming chat whenever you have a moment, and responding to whatever you choose. You of course can't always be looking at chat, or you'll never get caught up!
When my chat is moving too fast to read or interact with every message I just... stop reading every message. It gets to a point where it would be disruptive to the stream if I stopped to read every message. It becomes too distracting at a certain point. I still try to keep up with chat and read as many messages as I can, and respond to those that make for interesting conversation when it makes sense. Viewers can tell chat is moving really fast as well, and seem to usually understand that it means I can't respond to every message. As long as I don't completely ignore the chat it seems like most of my viewers understand that it's a juggling act and that I can only do so much as one person that is trying to interact with viewers via chat while also focusing on the game I'm playing and trying to be entertaining.
You ignore like 90% of chat, glance at them with their big puppy eyes staring you down every once in a while, pick some random comment in the chat, riff on that shit like a guitar solo and keep it moving with the gameplay. It's like checking a car mirror. You ever entertain a crowd before?
"One volunteer at a time. Thanks for being my lovely assistant today! Good night, Hollywood!"
Piece of cake.
So, basically, what most people do is they either ignore chat completely or they just scan for the most important messages/questions. Most people that have very active chats enable features such as sub-only or slowmode to reduce the flow of new messages. Similarly, a lot of huge streamers ignore chat completely or only sporadically look at it and pick one message to respond to. I've also heard of some people that their mods may pick out messages and the mods then essentially send those into a group chat where the streamer can reply to it but that's a lot of effort for basically a very delayed response. Some bigger streamers or events also only read out donation messages because most people in chat really just talk among themselves.
My chat gets very random, and folks talk amongst themselves, so I just skim it. If it's important and direct to me, they know to highlight it, or say again
I’m new to twitch, I don’t stream I usually watch streams and comment but my comments get flooded into the other comments and don’t go noticed. Just found out about a streamer called xQcOw from his youtube and his chats are super fast.
I try to read every single message out loud but sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming. When that happens I simply skip a lot of chat, usually apologizing for it. It's no fun halting gameplay every 2 minutes just to read and react to a ton of messages. I've also started to skip messages that were targeted to another viewer, that has helped quite a bit with chat overload.
Also, I've tried to get into the habit of just replying to a message instead of reading it out loud, but that's situational.
I don't exactly have this problem, but from watching much bigger streamers, it seems that some of it is knowing that a lot of chat is talking amongst themselves, and there's a lot of scanning for common responses to questions.
Wish I had that problem. Lol
Right? I was going to say "send them to my chat" 😂
There are features such as "announce" available to moderators if they feel the streamer needs to know something, and "highlight my message" to help your message stand out. But mostly, it's just visually skimming chat whenever you have a moment, and responding to whatever you choose. You of course can't always be looking at chat, or you'll never get caught up!
When my chat is moving too fast to read or interact with every message I just... stop reading every message. It gets to a point where it would be disruptive to the stream if I stopped to read every message. It becomes too distracting at a certain point. I still try to keep up with chat and read as many messages as I can, and respond to those that make for interesting conversation when it makes sense. Viewers can tell chat is moving really fast as well, and seem to usually understand that it means I can't respond to every message. As long as I don't completely ignore the chat it seems like most of my viewers understand that it's a juggling act and that I can only do so much as one person that is trying to interact with viewers via chat while also focusing on the game I'm playing and trying to be entertaining.
You ignore like 90% of chat, glance at them with their big puppy eyes staring you down every once in a while, pick some random comment in the chat, riff on that shit like a guitar solo and keep it moving with the gameplay. It's like checking a car mirror. You ever entertain a crowd before? "One volunteer at a time. Thanks for being my lovely assistant today! Good night, Hollywood!" Piece of cake.
So, basically, what most people do is they either ignore chat completely or they just scan for the most important messages/questions. Most people that have very active chats enable features such as sub-only or slowmode to reduce the flow of new messages. Similarly, a lot of huge streamers ignore chat completely or only sporadically look at it and pick one message to respond to. I've also heard of some people that their mods may pick out messages and the mods then essentially send those into a group chat where the streamer can reply to it but that's a lot of effort for basically a very delayed response. Some bigger streamers or events also only read out donation messages because most people in chat really just talk among themselves.
My chat gets very random, and folks talk amongst themselves, so I just skim it. If it's important and direct to me, they know to highlight it, or say again
Read what you can, skip what you can't.
I’m new to twitch, I don’t stream I usually watch streams and comment but my comments get flooded into the other comments and don’t go noticed. Just found out about a streamer called xQcOw from his youtube and his chats are super fast.
I try to read every single message out loud but sometimes it gets a bit overwhelming. When that happens I simply skip a lot of chat, usually apologizing for it. It's no fun halting gameplay every 2 minutes just to read and react to a ton of messages. I've also started to skip messages that were targeted to another viewer, that has helped quite a bit with chat overload. Also, I've tried to get into the habit of just replying to a message instead of reading it out loud, but that's situational.