So a while ago, Twitch introduced this Ad Incentive Program. It was like "Hey, just have 1 minute of ads an hour, and you get a little bonus!" The bonuses were absolutely pitiful then, so I didn't take it, but a bit later they did a rehaul. Now the bonus is just "you get 100% of the ad revenue", and after testing it for a month, it greatly increased my income. I went from 350 a month to about 650. But now, it was requiring 3 minutes of ad an hour. That's a LOT of ads, and they're always interrupting Good Shit, and it sucks. I hate it.
So what is a Goblin to do? Well, I kinda put up with it. 300 extra dollars a month is nothing to sneeze at. But you noticed how they slid the line from 1 minute to 3? Yeah uh, they slid the line again. In the past month, with no warning, and without telling me, they slid my line from 3 minutes an hour to 4 minutes an hour. And that dropped me from the ad incentive program, and now I'm making 55% of the money from the ads. So suddenly my income dropped, like, quite a bit.
And they've got me by the balls. That extra 200-ish dollars was really, really useful. But Twitch is just a small indie company, they NEED MORE AD MONEY. They want my stream to be 100% ads if they can help it. But the ads are already chaffing my community. Every single time ads pop up, people complain. Or they leave. I had to make a rule to stop complaining about the ads, because it was getting so exhausting, and it's all chat would devolve to (I removed that rule after some people got upset about it, kinda understandably, but the conversation is just so exhausting...)
I feel like if I stretch with them, to try and make back that extra 100-150 dollars, I will snap too far. People will snap too far with me. So I guess I'm just making less money now. Yeah sure, I appreciate that, Twitch, I didn't need that money to eat or pay medical bills, anyway.