What to look for when determining whether a group is a support for support (S4S) group
The most vulnerable individuals are those who are small streamers or content makers and are not aware of the warning indicators of an S4S organization. These creators are easy targets for the S4S communities, who prey on them.
You will receive fraudulent promises of bits, subscribers, followers, views, and everything in between from these kinds of groups and communities. These organizations are actually elaborate pyramid systems designed to increase the prominence of individuals at the top while the smaller streamers compete for the attention of their "Leaders."
I get the appeal of stream teams. In light of that, the following is a list of things to watch out for in any community or group you're considering joining. Please feel free to comment below with any other signs they may have.
1. You are required to "Tab up" your team mates whenever you can to "offer support" after they guarantee you viewership statistics.
First off, nobody can promise you views; the only ways to increase your viewership are through hard effort or deceptive methods like "tabbing up" or viewbotting. If your community isn't conversing and participating with you, having a huge audience is nothing, and any new potential viewers will realize how dead your chat is and leave.
2. They post videos with the subject lines like "Drop your Twitch names below as we are seeking for individuals to raid."
Any streamer who is worth their salt understands that you only raid individuals you know and have already seen and appreciated. These streamers are aware that if you make statements like this, you will inflate their numbers needlessly, causing them to increase in number while walking all over you to get there. Don't be fooled by this.
3. They promise you donations, bits, hype trains, and subs.
They don't intend to provide these things to you, and even if they do, it will only be a small portion of the money they have made through mistreating you and your friends. They will always repeat the phrase "Give Back" because they are aware of their obligation to do so. "I like to give back to my community". They don't donate much of the riches they received from everyone else, and they refer to their community as "their" community rather than "our" community. To put it another way, they use your money to look for streamers who are more susceptible to being taken advantage of.
4. Every time the leader or those at the top of the team streams, they push it harder than anything else.
Ironically, they will sit there and claim that they are there to help everyone, but if they don't get their way, they will try to guilt-trip their community into doing what they want. This falls especially true on "Partner Pushes". They will want all hands on deck so that way they get "Partner".
The amusing thing is that once they reach partner, they either leave the team completely and cut relations with everyone, claiming they are taking a "different path," or they form an official "team" on Twitch to recruit other at risk streamers.
These are only a few of the many warning signs. have any more? Please leave your comments below, and feel free to share this with anybody you like—I don't even want credit for it. I simply want to save as many people as I can from being taken advantage of by this evil ploy.
What to look for when determining whether a group is a support for support (S4S) group
The most vulnerable individuals are those who are small streamers or content makers and are not aware of the warning indicators of an S4S organization. These creators are easy targets for the S4S communities, who prey on them.
You will receive fraudulent promises of bits, subscribers, followers, views, and everything in between from these kinds of groups and communities. These organizations are actually elaborate pyramid systems designed to increase the prominence of individuals at the top while the smaller streamers compete for the attention of their "Leaders."
I get the appeal of stream teams. In light of that, the following is a list of things to watch out for in any community or group you're considering joining. Please feel free to comment below with any other signs they may have.
1. You are required to "Tab up" your team mates whenever you can to "offer support" after they guarantee you viewership statistics.
First off, nobody can promise you views; the only ways to increase your viewership are through hard effort or deceptive methods like "tabbing up" or viewbotting. If your community isn't conversing and participating with you, having a huge audience is nothing, and any new potential viewers will realize how dead your chat is and leave.
2. They post videos with the subject lines like "Drop your Twitch names below as we are seeking for individuals to raid."
Any streamer who is worth their salt understands that you only raid individuals you know and have already seen and appreciated. These streamers are aware that if you make statements like this, you will inflate their numbers needlessly, causing them to increase in number while walking all over you to get there. Don't be fooled by this.
3. They promise you donations, bits, hype trains, and subs.
They don't intend to provide these things to you, and even if they do, it will only be a small portion of the money they have made through mistreating you and your friends. They will always repeat the phrase "Give Back" because they are aware of their obligation to do so. "I like to give back to my community". They don't donate much of the riches they received from everyone else, and they refer to their community as "their" community rather than "our" community. To put it another way, they use your money to look for streamers who are more susceptible to being taken advantage of.
4. Every time the leader or those at the top of the team streams, they push it harder than anything else.
Ironically, they will sit there and claim that they are there to help everyone, but if they don't get their way, they will try to guilt-trip their community into doing what they want. This falls especially true on "Partner Pushes". They will want all hands on deck so that way they get "Partner".
The amusing thing is that once they reach partner, they either leave the team completely and cut relations with everyone, claiming they are taking a "different path," or they form an official "team" on Twitch to recruit other at risk streamers.
These are only a few of the many warning signs. have any more? Please leave your comments below, and feel free to share this with anybody you like—I don't even want credit for it. I simply want to save as many people as I can from being taken advantage of by this evil ploy.
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