**Let Streamers Grow**

As I sit here thinking about my own journey as a streamer and creator, I wanted to take a moment to talk about something that's been on my mind lately. It's about the way we perceive and treat other creators in the online community. Specifically, I want to address the phenomenon of "selling out" when it comes to leaving one platform for another.

I mean, let's be honest with ourselves - if Microsoft came knocking on your door today, tomorrow, or whenever offering a multi-million dollar deal to stream exclusively on their up-and-coming platform, wouldn't you consider it? I know I would. And I'm not alone. There are countless creators out there who have made the same decision at some point in their careers. But instead of embracing this opportunity and growing as a creator, we like to call them "sellouts".

This mindset is not only unfair but also misguided. These people got to where they are by creating content that resonates with audiences. They worked hard to build their brand, engage with their community, and produce high-quality content. And when an exciting deal comes along that could take their career to the next level, why wouldn't they take it? It's not about selling out; it's about making a living.

I've had potential sponsors in the past who wanted me to promote certain products or services on my channel. While I appreciate the offer, I've chosen to turn them down more than once because it didn't align with my values and audience expectations. But that doesn't mean other creators can't make a decision like that for themselves.

The problem is, when we call someone a "sellout", we're implying that they're somehow less worthy or less committed to their craft. Newsflash: creating content online requires sacrifice, dedication, and hard work. And when an opportunity comes along that could take our career to new heights, shouldn't we be celebrating that?

**Let's Focus on Growth**

So what can we do instead of calling out creators who choose to leave one platform for another? How about we focus on supporting their growth and success? Let's celebrate the innovation and creativity that happens when creators experiment with new platforms, formats, or business models.

The online community is constantly evolving, and as a creator, it's my job to stay ahead of the curve. By embracing change and exploring new opportunities, I can continue to produce high-quality content that resonates with my audience. And by supporting other creators who do the same, we can build a more vibrant and diverse online ecosystem.

**About ContentStarterKit**

Speaking of growth and support, I want to take a moment to plug my own website - ContentStarterKit.com (previously ToFrankieMedia). As some of you may know, I've been exploring new ways to help creators grow their brand and build successful online businesses. And today, I'm excited to announce two major updates to the site!

**Guest Posts**

First up is a guest post section on the website. If you have something to share about growing your brand, building a YouTube channel, creating a website, or any other aspect of content creation, I want to hear from you! Submitting a guest post will not only get your voice heard by my audience but also give you the opportunity to include a self-promotion link on your own website.

**The Creators Showcase**

Next, I've introduced what I call the "Creators Showcase" over at ContentStarterKit.com. This feature allows creators to showcase their own websites, built using any of the web hosts featured on my site. By promoting these platforms and offering resources and support, we can help more creators get online and start building their brand.

So, if you're starting a website or looking for advice on how to grow your online presence, please head over to ContentStarterKit.com and check out the showcase. I'd love to feature your site and help take your career to new heights!

**A Personal Note**

Finally, I want to thank all of my amazing supporters who tune in every week to watch me stream and learn from me. Your support means the world to me, and I promise to keep pushing myself to create content that's engaging, informative, and entertaining.

And, yes, I'm overdue on my bookcase update. I've got a few more shelves to fill with all sorts of goodies and treasures. But for now, let's just say it's coming along nicely...

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello guys how are you my name is david franco from davidafran.co and welcome to another geek update it's been a long time since i've done a geek update video and i have a lot to say especially in regards to the recent announcement you know mixer ninja millions of money millions of dollars millions of money jesus christmas david i i haven't had a real lunch yet so i'm not like fully energized but um yeah so i want to talk about mixer today in addition to contentstarterkit.com i'll talk about that in a bit okay so let's just jump right into it my thoughts on mixer for all 2.34 of you who have been hiding under a rock perhaps you didn't hear the big news microsoft owns mixer that's no secret it's been obvious for a while now uh microsoft recently acquired ninja for millions of dollars now nobody knows the exact amount except for ninja and his wife and his family and all that stuff and of course i've seen all kinds of speculation from two or three million dollars all the way up to like 20 million dollars over the next two years or whatever but um yeah microsoft's got that money so to take away one of twitch's biggest and most popular iconic streamers and bring them over exclusively to mixer that is a huge power move by microsoft and guys honestly if you want my true unbiased thoughts this is a win win for everybody allow me to explain okay so first of all for those who don't know mixer is arguably the best alternative to twitch so if you're trying to grow on twitch and you just can't get any followers any viewers any traction basically i gotta be honest guys head over to mixer mixer is a much smaller platform but it has so much potential because of ninja moving over there seriously think about it one of the biggest streamers on twitch is now exclusively on mixer what does that mean that means literally hundreds of thousands potentially millions a year or two from now of uh viewers are coming over to mixer so if you want to grow in mixer right now is the time to start and i'll explain why more in a bit because it's a very fascinating platform they are doing some things that i wish twitch would do i honestly lost my track there because i didn't follow my notes i have notes right here on my phone but i still didn't follow them because this is such an exciting topic i just love talking about this because it's not only an exciting time to be a viewer but it's especially an exciting time to be a streamer someone like myself now what does this mean for my twitch channel is it going away of course not i've worked way too hard to build up my following of over seven thousand five hundred followers yeah seven thousand five hundred followers um actually took the time to take an interest in little old me okay so truthfully most of my success on twitch is because of youtube and there's nothing wrong with that that's why you have to exist everywhere and that's exactly why i'm doing what i'm about to say i'm moving to mixer now am i quitting twitch of course not i just made that very clear however with that said as of this friday what is this friday's date it's friday august 9th okay so as of this friday august 9 2019 not 2019 2019 i will be live over at mixer.com david franco please follow me i appreciate it every single follow helps me grow a lot so it's a little distracting in the background oh oh and by the way speaking of background yeah i realize it's incredibly dull i literally just built that this weekend my my second bookcase so i had to populate it with items but uh anyway yes i am going to be on mixer only on the weekends so that way i still have three or four days during the week that i'll be streaming consistently on twitch so yeah twitch it's not going anywhere i love twitch it is an incredible platform i built up an amazing community so um obviously i can't just leave that behind that would be stupid of me but in addition to that i will also be building my presence on mixer now you gotta ask why david why not put all of your attention into one platform well my response to that would be why would you put all of your interest and all of your energy into one platform that's like me just focusing on youtube that would be incredibly stupid and idiotic of me why because i'm not some big youtuber i can't just live off of youtube hence why i have a very successful patreon campaign also i bring income in via affiliate marketing i love affiliate marketing i find it fascinating and i'm actually exploring another revenue stream potentially in september i'll talk about that when the time comes but for now my biggest focuses are youtube twitch patreon affiliate marketing oh and obviously my own design work um you know graphic design web design all that stuff i've actually been picking up some new clients uh lately which is really cool um and i have some potential clients around the corner which is even cooler busy is good i love staying busy so on top of all that i'll be adding mixer into the mix you get it because you know i just get it i just get it no but seriously mixer has a lot of potential guys um and mixer does have two features that i want to talk about briefly that um twitch does not have let me undo that apparently i just deleted my notes by accident by the way if you didn't know that you can literally shake your phone to undo typing undo trashing and all that stuff it's been a feature since what like the first um version of iphone os yes back one was called iphone os okay so mixer does have two features that i wish twitch would implement my favorite by far being the hype zone say you're in a top five situation in apex legends or a top ten situation in fortnite our top three situation in pub g basically you're in the end game of whatever multiplayer game you're playing well mixer actually has dedicated staff constantly watching the sites and just trying to find streamers who are in that end game level and featuring them on the front page in the hype zone so in theory let's say i'm in a top two situation or top three situation in apex legends which i'm loving by the way i used to hate that game and i love it i have the potential of mixer featuring me on the homepage in the hype zone guys that's a big deal i mean that alone could pick up many many new followers over time it's a really really cool feature and i wish twitch would do something similar maybe one day and the second feature worth looking at for is controller sharing this i'm not that familiar with but i did read up on it on mixers you know their faq page support all that stuff okay so let's say in theory i don't feel like playing a game for some reason let's say i'm playing apex legends i could hand over my controller or keyboard or mouse or whatever to you the viewer and you could quite literally control my game my stream from where you are and that's really neat that's really really neat for several reasons one of the reasons being let's say i like to finish a game a certain way or finish a level or whatever but you the viewer says you know what david there's actually another way to do this a potentially better way why don't you turn on controller sharing and i'll show you myself so i'm like all right turn it on take it away fred i don't know who fred is that's just a name that popped in my head but you gotta admit in theory that's a really really neat idea and that has a lot of potential so guys those are my thoughts on mixer i think it's a win-win for everyone i mean ninja obviously wins because he's getting i know he's making back from this and he's getting a ton of exposure from microsoft and potential sponsors and all that stuff and it's a win for other streamers slash viewers because it has been building a ton of interest for mixer and guys i'm just gonna say this i've actually been signed up for mixer for nearly three years now three years and finally i do want to say one more thing regarding this kind of like a psa for viewers of myself ninja and other streamers please let streamers grow let them grow their brand don't give them just because they want to move to another platform let's be honest if microsoft approached you today tomorrow whenever and said we want to pay you multi millions of dollars just assuming our platform you would do it wouldn't you i mean i don't i don't know anyone who wouldn't i mean i would i would drop twitch in a heartbeat if someone paid me to stream exclusively on their up-and-coming platform i mean obviously it would depend on the money and i would think about it i wouldn't just do it anyway i'm not trying to make this about money i'm just saying don't call streamers sellouts because you know damn well you would also sell out yourself and there's nothing wrong with selling out i mean these people got to make a living i gotta make a living so obviously when you know a very exciting deal like that comes along of course we're gonna take it that's what we creators do we're quite literally self-employed so we're gonna take whatever comes at us as long as it aligns with our morals and everything i mean i've had potential sponsors in the past where they want to pay me to do this or pay me to do that and while i've actually turned the money down several times because i'm just not comfortable doing that on my channel so yeah there's obviously a difference between selling out and staying true to yourself so please let these streamers grow let them be themselves don't give them over their decisions hey guys honestly it doesn't matter where someone streams the content is exactly the same whether ninja is on mixer twitch d live i have no interest in d live it doesn't matter content is content because at the end of the day these are multi-million and multi-billion dollar corporations don't have a relationship with the platform have a relationship with the creator okay i actually talked about that much more than i'm meant to i apologize i'm just passionate about this stuff it's a very very very exciting time to be a streamer and a viewer okay so to wrap up this geek update i do want to give one shout out to contentstarterkit.com that's my website i shouldn't even call it a shout out this is a shameless plug it was formerly to frankie media but the franken media for me still relates to graphic design and creative services so eventually departing media.com will come back as its own websites but for now it's auto forwarding to contentstarterkit.com which i think is a much better name like it's an amazing domain name and i'm shocked absolutely shocked that it was available i mean i snatched it up right away and i'm like this is it contentstarterkit.com sounds great and as of late last week i did roll out two new updates to content stutter kit the first one being guest posts yes if you actually want to write an article on contentstarterkit.com about anything in regards to growing your brand building a youtube channel creating a website writing a blog being a musician being a photographer videographer whatever if you create content and you have something to share whether it's knowledge your story of success whatever please i want to hear from you contentstarterkit.com i'll link it below submit your guest post and of course you get to include a self promotion link of your choice whether it's your website twitter instagram whatever you win i win it's a win-win situation and speaking of win-win i also introduced what i call the creators showcase over contentstutterkid.com which is also linked right below just click that and it'll take you directly to the showcase okay so this is a really exciting feature on the website basically you use any of my links to create a website whether it's wix hostpapa dreamhost wp engine whatever the list goes on and on i have everything on the website itself it is incredibly easy to use you sign up with any of the web hosts that are featured in the website because those links help me out directly as a content creator thank you and while to make it worth your while i will feature your website in the showcase with the website's title website's thumbnail description and of course a direct link to your website itself it is a win-win situation so please if you're starting a website go through contentstarterkit.com and let me feature you i'm trying to build this page as quickly as possible so go there learn something new get inspired and start creating guys thank you so much i hope you enjoyed this geek update a little longer than i expected but hey i'm overdue right i'm overdue and yes i promise i will be populating that bookcase actually starting today thank you guys so much your support means a lot and i'll talk to you soon peace mixer.com david defranco youhello guys how are you my name is david franco from davidafran.co and welcome to another geek update it's been a long time since i've done a geek update video and i have a lot to say especially in regards to the recent announcement you know mixer ninja millions of money millions of dollars millions of money jesus christmas david i i haven't had a real lunch yet so i'm not like fully energized but um yeah so i want to talk about mixer today in addition to contentstarterkit.com i'll talk about that in a bit okay so let's just jump right into it my thoughts on mixer for all 2.34 of you who have been hiding under a rock perhaps you didn't hear the big news microsoft owns mixer that's no secret it's been obvious for a while now uh microsoft recently acquired ninja for millions of dollars now nobody knows the exact amount except for ninja and his wife and his family and all that stuff and of course i've seen all kinds of speculation from two or three million dollars all the way up to like 20 million dollars over the next two years or whatever but um yeah microsoft's got that money so to take away one of twitch's biggest and most popular iconic streamers and bring them over exclusively to mixer that is a huge power move by microsoft and guys honestly if you want my true unbiased thoughts this is a win win for everybody allow me to explain okay so first of all for those who don't know mixer is arguably the best alternative to twitch so if you're trying to grow on twitch and you just can't get any followers any viewers any traction basically i gotta be honest guys head over to mixer mixer is a much smaller platform but it has so much potential because of ninja moving over there seriously think about it one of the biggest streamers on twitch is now exclusively on mixer what does that mean that means literally hundreds of thousands potentially millions a year or two from now of uh viewers are coming over to mixer so if you want to grow in mixer right now is the time to start and i'll explain why more in a bit because it's a very fascinating platform they are doing some things that i wish twitch would do i honestly lost my track there because i didn't follow my notes i have notes right here on my phone but i still didn't follow them because this is such an exciting topic i just love talking about this because it's not only an exciting time to be a viewer but it's especially an exciting time to be a streamer someone like myself now what does this mean for my twitch channel is it going away of course not i've worked way too hard to build up my following of over seven thousand five hundred followers yeah seven thousand five hundred followers um actually took the time to take an interest in little old me okay so truthfully most of my success on twitch is because of youtube and there's nothing wrong with that that's why you have to exist everywhere and that's exactly why i'm doing what i'm about to say i'm moving to mixer now am i quitting twitch of course not i just made that very clear however with that said as of this friday what is this friday's date it's friday august 9th okay so as of this friday august 9 2019 not 2019 2019 i will be live over at mixer.com david franco please follow me i appreciate it every single follow helps me grow a lot so it's a little distracting in the background oh oh and by the way speaking of background yeah i realize it's incredibly dull i literally just built that this weekend my my second bookcase so i had to populate it with items but uh anyway yes i am going to be on mixer only on the weekends so that way i still have three or four days during the week that i'll be streaming consistently on twitch so yeah twitch it's not going anywhere i love twitch it is an incredible platform i built up an amazing community so um obviously i can't just leave that behind that would be stupid of me but in addition to that i will also be building my presence on mixer now you gotta ask why david why not put all of your attention into one platform well my response to that would be why would you put all of your interest and all of your energy into one platform that's like me just focusing on youtube that would be incredibly stupid and idiotic of me why because i'm not some big youtuber i can't just live off of youtube hence why i have a very successful patreon campaign also i bring income in via affiliate marketing i love affiliate marketing i find it fascinating and i'm actually exploring another revenue stream potentially in september i'll talk about that when the time comes but for now my biggest focuses are youtube twitch patreon affiliate marketing oh and obviously my own design work um you know graphic design web design all that stuff i've actually been picking up some new clients uh lately which is really cool um and i have some potential clients around the corner which is even cooler busy is good i love staying busy so on top of all that i'll be adding mixer into the mix you get it because you know i just get it i just get it no but seriously mixer has a lot of potential guys um and mixer does have two features that i want to talk about briefly that um twitch does not have let me undo that apparently i just deleted my notes by accident by the way if you didn't know that you can literally shake your phone to undo typing undo trashing and all that stuff it's been a feature since what like the first um version of iphone os yes back one was called iphone os okay so mixer does have two features that i wish twitch would implement my favorite by far being the hype zone say you're in a top five situation in apex legends or a top ten situation in fortnite our top three situation in pub g basically you're in the end game of whatever multiplayer game you're playing well mixer actually has dedicated staff constantly watching the sites and just trying to find streamers who are in that end game level and featuring them on the front page in the hype zone so in theory let's say i'm in a top two situation or top three situation in apex legends which i'm loving by the way i used to hate that game and i love it i have the potential of mixer featuring me on the homepage in the hype zone guys that's a big deal i mean that alone could pick up many many new followers over time it's a really really cool feature and i wish twitch would do something similar maybe one day and the second feature worth looking at for is controller sharing this i'm not that familiar with but i did read up on it on mixers you know their faq page support all that stuff okay so let's say in theory i don't feel like playing a game for some reason let's say i'm playing apex legends i could hand over my controller or keyboard or mouse or whatever to you the viewer and you could quite literally control my game my stream from where you are and that's really neat that's really really neat for several reasons one of the reasons being let's say i like to finish a game a certain way or finish a level or whatever but you the viewer says you know what david there's actually another way to do this a potentially better way why don't you turn on controller sharing and i'll show you myself so i'm like all right turn it on take it away fred i don't know who fred is that's just a name that popped in my head but you gotta admit in theory that's a really really neat idea and that has a lot of potential so guys those are my thoughts on mixer i think it's a win-win for everyone i mean ninja obviously wins because he's getting i know he's making back from this and he's getting a ton of exposure from microsoft and potential sponsors and all that stuff and it's a win for other streamers slash viewers because it has been building a ton of interest for mixer and guys i'm just gonna say this i've actually been signed up for mixer for nearly three years now three years and finally i do want to say one more thing regarding this kind of like a psa for viewers of myself ninja and other streamers please let streamers grow let them grow their brand don't give them just because they want to move to another platform let's be honest if microsoft approached you today tomorrow whenever and said we want to pay you multi millions of dollars just assuming our platform you would do it wouldn't you i mean i don't i don't know anyone who wouldn't i mean i would i would drop twitch in a heartbeat if someone paid me to stream exclusively on their up-and-coming platform i mean obviously it would depend on the money and i would think about it i wouldn't just do it anyway i'm not trying to make this about money i'm just saying don't call streamers sellouts because you know damn well you would also sell out yourself and there's nothing wrong with selling out i mean these people got to make a living i gotta make a living so obviously when you know a very exciting deal like that comes along of course we're gonna take it that's what we creators do we're quite literally self-employed so we're gonna take whatever comes at us as long as it aligns with our morals and everything i mean i've had potential sponsors in the past where they want to pay me to do this or pay me to do that and while i've actually turned the money down several times because i'm just not comfortable doing that on my channel so yeah there's obviously a difference between selling out and staying true to yourself so please let these streamers grow let them be themselves don't give them over their decisions hey guys honestly it doesn't matter where someone streams the content is exactly the same whether ninja is on mixer twitch d live i have no interest in d live it doesn't matter content is content because at the end of the day these are multi-million and multi-billion dollar corporations don't have a relationship with the platform have a relationship with the creator okay i actually talked about that much more than i'm meant to i apologize i'm just passionate about this stuff it's a very very very exciting time to be a streamer and a viewer okay so to wrap up this geek update i do want to give one shout out to contentstarterkit.com that's my website i shouldn't even call it a shout out this is a shameless plug it was formerly to frankie media but the franken media for me still relates to graphic design and creative services so eventually departing media.com will come back as its own websites but for now it's auto forwarding to contentstarterkit.com which i think is a much better name like it's an amazing domain name and i'm shocked absolutely shocked that it was available i mean i snatched it up right away and i'm like this is it contentstarterkit.com sounds great and as of late last week i did roll out two new updates to content stutter kit the first one being guest posts yes if you actually want to write an article on contentstarterkit.com about anything in regards to growing your brand building a youtube channel creating a website writing a blog being a musician being a photographer videographer whatever if you create content and you have something to share whether it's knowledge your story of success whatever please i want to hear from you contentstarterkit.com i'll link it below submit your guest post and of course you get to include a self promotion link of your choice whether it's your website twitter instagram whatever you win i win it's a win-win situation and speaking of win-win i also introduced what i call the creators showcase over contentstutterkid.com which is also linked right below just click that and it'll take you directly to the showcase okay so this is a really exciting feature on the website basically you use any of my links to create a website whether it's wix hostpapa dreamhost wp engine whatever the list goes on and on i have everything on the website itself it is incredibly easy to use you sign up with any of the web hosts that are featured in the website because those links help me out directly as a content creator thank you and while to make it worth your while i will feature your website in the showcase with the website's title website's thumbnail description and of course a direct link to your website itself it is a win-win situation so please if you're starting a website go through contentstarterkit.com and let me feature you i'm trying to build this page as quickly as possible so go there learn something new get inspired and start creating guys thank you so much i hope you enjoyed this geek update a little longer than i expected but hey i'm overdue right i'm overdue and yes i promise i will be populating that bookcase actually starting today thank you guys so much your support means a lot and i'll talk to you soon peace mixer.com david defranco youhello guys how are you my name is david franco from davidafran.co and welcome to another geek update it's been a long time since i've done a geek update video and i have a lot to say especially in regards to the recent announcement you know mixer ninja millions of money millions of dollars millions of money jesus christmas david i i haven't had a real lunch yet so i'm not like fully energized but um yeah so i want to talk about mixer today in addition to contentstarterkit.com i'll talk about that in a bit okay so let's just jump right into it my thoughts on mixer for all 2.34 of you who have been hiding under a rock perhaps you didn't hear the big news microsoft owns mixer that's no secret it's been obvious for a while now uh microsoft recently acquired ninja for millions of dollars now nobody knows the exact amount except for ninja and his wife and his family and all that stuff and of course i've seen all kinds of speculation from two or three million dollars all the way up to like 20 million dollars over the next two years or whatever but um yeah microsoft's got that money so to take away one of twitch's biggest and most popular iconic streamers and bring them over exclusively to mixer that is a huge power move by microsoft and guys honestly if you want my true unbiased thoughts this is a win win for everybody allow me to explain okay so first of all for those who don't know mixer is arguably the best alternative to twitch so if you're trying to grow on twitch and you just can't get any followers any viewers any traction basically i gotta be honest guys head over to mixer mixer is a much smaller platform but it has so much potential because of ninja moving over there seriously think about it one of the biggest streamers on twitch is now exclusively on mixer what does that mean that means literally hundreds of thousands potentially millions a year or two from now of uh viewers are coming over to mixer so if you want to grow in mixer right now is the time to start and i'll explain why more in a bit because it's a very fascinating platform they are doing some things that i wish twitch would do i honestly lost my track there because i didn't follow my notes i have notes right here on my phone but i still didn't follow them because this is such an exciting topic i just love talking about this because it's not only an exciting time to be a viewer but it's especially an exciting time to be a streamer someone like myself now what does this mean for my twitch channel is it going away of course not i've worked way too hard to build up my following of over seven thousand five hundred followers yeah seven thousand five hundred followers um actually took the time to take an interest in little old me okay so truthfully most of my success on twitch is because of youtube and there's nothing wrong with that that's why you have to exist everywhere and that's exactly why i'm doing what i'm about to say i'm moving to mixer now am i quitting twitch of course not i just made that very clear however with that said as of this friday what is this friday's date it's friday august 9th okay so as of this friday august 9 2019 not 2019 2019 i will be live over at mixer.com david franco please follow me i appreciate it every single follow helps me grow a lot so it's a little distracting in the background oh oh and by the way speaking of background yeah i realize it's incredibly dull i literally just built that this weekend my my second bookcase so i had to populate it with items but uh anyway yes i am going to be on mixer only on the weekends so that way i still have three or four days during the week that i'll be streaming consistently on twitch so yeah twitch it's not going anywhere i love twitch it is an incredible platform i built up an amazing community so um obviously i can't just leave that behind that would be stupid of me but in addition to that i will also be building my presence on mixer now you gotta ask why david why not put all of your attention into one platform well my response to that would be why would you put all of your interest and all of your energy into one platform that's like me just focusing on youtube that would be incredibly stupid and idiotic of me why because i'm not some big youtuber i can't just live off of youtube hence why i have a very successful patreon campaign also i bring income in via affiliate marketing i love affiliate marketing i find it fascinating and i'm actually exploring another revenue stream potentially in september i'll talk about that when the time comes but for now my biggest focuses are youtube twitch patreon affiliate marketing oh and obviously my own design work um you know graphic design web design all that stuff i've actually been picking up some new clients uh lately which is really cool um and i have some potential clients around the corner which is even cooler busy is good i love staying busy so on top of all that i'll be adding mixer into the mix you get it because you know i just get it i just get it no but seriously mixer has a lot of potential guys um and mixer does have two features that i want to talk about briefly that um twitch does not have let me undo that apparently i just deleted my notes by accident by the way if you didn't know that you can literally shake your phone to undo typing undo trashing and all that stuff it's been a feature since what like the first um version of iphone os yes back one was called iphone os okay so mixer does have two features that i wish twitch would implement my favorite by far being the hype zone say you're in a top five situation in apex legends or a top ten situation in fortnite our top three situation in pub g basically you're in the end game of whatever multiplayer game you're playing well mixer actually has dedicated staff constantly watching the sites and just trying to find streamers who are in that end game level and featuring them on the front page in the hype zone so in theory let's say i'm in a top two situation or top three situation in apex legends which i'm loving by the way i used to hate that game and i love it i have the potential of mixer featuring me on the homepage in the hype zone guys that's a big deal i mean that alone could pick up many many new followers over time it's a really really cool feature and i wish twitch would do something similar maybe one day and the second feature worth looking at for is controller sharing this i'm not that familiar with but i did read up on it on mixers you know their faq page support all that stuff okay so let's say in theory i don't feel like playing a game for some reason let's say i'm playing apex legends i could hand over my controller or keyboard or mouse or whatever to you the viewer and you could quite literally control my game my stream from where you are and that's really neat that's really really neat for several reasons one of the reasons being let's say i like to finish a game a certain way or finish a level or whatever but you the viewer says you know what david there's actually another way to do this a potentially better way why don't you turn on controller sharing and i'll show you myself so i'm like all right turn it on take it away fred i don't know who fred is that's just a name that popped in my head but you gotta admit in theory that's a really really neat idea and that has a lot of potential so guys those are my thoughts on mixer i think it's a win-win for everyone i mean ninja obviously wins because he's getting i know he's making back from this and he's getting a ton of exposure from microsoft and potential sponsors and all that stuff and it's a win for other streamers slash viewers because it has been building a ton of interest for mixer and guys i'm just gonna say this i've actually been signed up for mixer for nearly three years now three years and finally i do want to say one more thing regarding this kind of like a psa for viewers of myself ninja and other streamers please let streamers grow let them grow their brand don't give them just because they want to move to another platform let's be honest if microsoft approached you today tomorrow whenever and said we want to pay you multi millions of dollars just assuming our platform you would do it wouldn't you i mean i don't i don't know anyone who wouldn't i mean i would i would drop twitch in a heartbeat if someone paid me to stream exclusively on their up-and-coming platform i mean obviously it would depend on the money and i would think about it i wouldn't just do it anyway i'm not trying to make this about money i'm just saying don't call streamers sellouts because you know damn well you would also sell out yourself and there's nothing wrong with selling out i mean these people got to make a living i gotta make a living so obviously when you know a very exciting deal like that comes along of course we're gonna take it that's what we creators do we're quite literally self-employed so we're gonna take whatever comes at us as long as it aligns with our morals and everything i mean i've had potential sponsors in the past where they want to pay me to do this or pay me to do that and while i've actually turned the money down several times because i'm just not comfortable doing that on my channel so yeah there's obviously a difference between selling out and staying true to yourself so please let these streamers grow let them be themselves don't give them over their decisions hey guys honestly it doesn't matter where someone streams the content is exactly the same whether ninja is on mixer twitch d live i have no interest in d live it doesn't matter content is content because at the end of the day these are multi-million and multi-billion dollar corporations don't have a relationship with the platform have a relationship with the creator okay i actually talked about that much more than i'm meant to i apologize i'm just passionate about this stuff it's a very very very exciting time to be a streamer and a viewer okay so to wrap up this geek update i do want to give one shout out to contentstarterkit.com that's my website i shouldn't even call it a shout out this is a shameless plug it was formerly to frankie media but the franken media for me still relates to graphic design and creative services so eventually departing media.com will come back as its own websites but for now it's auto forwarding to contentstarterkit.com which i think is a much better name like it's an amazing domain name and i'm shocked absolutely shocked that it was available i mean i snatched it up right away and i'm like this is it contentstarterkit.com sounds great and as of late last week i did roll out two new updates to content stutter kit the first one being guest posts yes if you actually want to write an article on contentstarterkit.com about anything in regards to growing your brand building a youtube channel creating a website writing a blog being a musician being a photographer videographer whatever if you create content and you have something to share whether it's knowledge your story of success whatever please i want to hear from you contentstarterkit.com i'll link it below submit your guest post and of course you get to include a self promotion link of your choice whether it's your website twitter instagram whatever you win i win it's a win-win situation and speaking of win-win i also introduced what i call the creators showcase over contentstutterkid.com which is also linked right below just click that and it'll take you directly to the showcase okay so this is a really exciting feature on the website basically you use any of my links to create a website whether it's wix hostpapa dreamhost wp engine whatever the list goes on and on i have everything on the website itself it is incredibly easy to use you sign up with any of the web hosts that are featured in the website because those links help me out directly as a content creator thank you and while to make it worth your while i will feature your website in the showcase with the website's title website's thumbnail description and of course a direct link to your website itself it is a win-win situation so please if you're starting a website go through contentstarterkit.com and let me feature you i'm trying to build this page as quickly as possible so go there learn something new get inspired and start creating guys thank you so much i hope you enjoyed this geek update a little longer than i expected but hey i'm overdue right i'm overdue and yes i promise i will be populating that bookcase actually starting today thank you guys so much your support means a lot and i'll talk to you soon peace mixer.com david defranco you\n"