Ginpu

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So how do you ask other streamers to do coop/collab stuff with you?

There are so many people I'd love to stream with and get to know better but my mind then tells me that I'm not good enough to do things with others, regardless of how much I WANT to do these things.

Yes, I've been on Pit, and it's because a few people have been willing to give me that nudge/shove I need - that reassurance. I know it's no one's responsibility to do that, but damn it's appreciated BEYOND words.

Like this one artist I've watched for years... I wish I could talk to them more and be friends, but then my lizard brain tells me I'm only good enough to do things alone. The lizard brain says you are too old for this stuff. No one wants to do things with you. Part of me knows it isn't true, but part of me still believes it and that cripples me from moving forward. But if that person extends a hand, I grab it. I'm sure it doesn't help that other people also have social anxiety too.

I'm in a lot of Discords and watch lots of people and would LOVE to do things with others. If I'm in your Discord - it's to interact with you more. I'm just shit at starting conversations.

Anyways... if you have any tips or hey, you're a mutual who is also looking to collab, I'm around and would love to do more stuff with people. You don't have to be a vtuber or artist. I just struggle hard with making that first ask. Once I'm passed that, I'm usually good.

I dunno if any of this made any sense.

Here have a picture for reading all this.


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A thing I have learned from the few collabs and times I have been on Pit with other folks is that a lot of folks want to collaborate with others but are often just as shy/nervous to ask as well! Like, I know I'm pretty shy and nervous about that stuff, and I get excited when others ask me to collab, so I try to think that others will probably also be excited if I ask them to collab. Shifting into that sort of mindset is easier said than done of course, haha.

Otherwise, yeah! Just putting out there that you're looking to collaborate or do co-op stuff with folks like what you did with that post is such a good way to get that started!!

It's the only thing I could think to do. I've been wanting to ask and the thing that pushed me forward was seeing something that I'd loved to be involved with but no one asked me about it and I'm like well... how would they even know I would want to... head desk

I feel you. For me personally, my schedule is so weird, I usually tell myself that most people won’t be available at the same time as me, and then I just never ask anyone about collaborating. I know that’s dumb, and I’ve tried to break out of that mindframe with a few recent collabs. If you want to play some multiplayer retro games some time, let me know. 😀

That sounds like fun. I just dunno how to do multi-player retro. I wager there's a program for it, I just haven't done it yet cause well... never had a need to. But I'd love to.

Prob be easiest to talk more over Discord. Was searching through all the diff Discords I'm in to see if you were there. But I found no matches to your name as I know it from Twitch. I'm simply just Ginpu if you wanna send me a message. :)