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“That's why you say, oh, you have five million on Twitch, but cumulatively you have over twenty million followers.”

“A lot of these people really just want your attention. They don't know how else to get it. They don't know how to get it in a positive manner, and so they will go the complete extreme opposite route”

“Also diversifying in the same way that you would want to diversify your streams of income. As a content creator, you have to do the same with your online platforms.”

“Luckily, I've kind of put in the work. I have a name and brand of my own, and so I can be really, really picky and choosy. So I guess the saying I have now is, if it's not an F yes, then it's a no. So I kind of just try to work with the companies that I'm real…”

“For me personally, I think it was a lot of networking. Some of my viewers would mention my stream to other streamers, and then I'd make friends that way. So it had quite a bit to do with the networking, and a lot to do with just organic growth, and a bit to do…”

“Around that time, sponsors and companies started entering the space and they started sponsoring streamers like me. So for example, They would just say, okay, for 2000 dollars a month, you just need to put our company logo and branding on your stream. You need …”

“Now that I recognize my position within the gaming industry, sometimes I do feel a pressure that is a bit difficult, which is to kind of Represent a lot of women in gaming, and also I absolutely want to uplift more women people of color, LGBTQ, just, I just wa…”

“I knew I wanted to work with larger companies, but in order to do that, I kind of had to almost, like, build credibility by working with similar brands that maybe aren't as big, even if those sponsorships were perhaps a bit more difficult, or I wasn't as inter…”

“If you reflect on these things prior and just kind of tell yourself that it's okay to say, I don't want to talk about these topics, I don't want to talk about this, and I hope you respect that, everything kind of just deflates. And things that feel like a mass…”

“So when I think about it, I would much rather stay at home and have full creative control of everything I do and put out the content that I like.”