Twitch streamer Disguised Toast has advice for getting into streaming

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### Introduction: Welcoming Disguised Toast

Now joining us right here on DT Daily is Disguised Toast. Hello, hey! How's it going? Good, really well, thank you so much for joining us. Apologies for the couple of issues we had going on there, but it’s awesome to have you on. We’ve got a lot of people chiming in here and asking some different questions, and I’m gonna make sure that we get those answered.

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### The Origin Story: How He Got His Twitch Handle

Now, the first thing I want to ask right off the bat is—what should we call you? Mr. Disguised Toast? Mr. Toast? Or just Toast? Okay, well, just go with “Toast” then. So we’ve got a lot of people are chiming in here and asking some different questions, and I’m gonna make sure that we get those answered.

One question coming through is about how he came up with his Twitch handle. It’s very specific to him, so let’s just kind of share with our audience how you got that.

Well, I was playing a game called Hearthstone, and in that game, there's a card that says, "This guy's toast right before you," you know? Correct? It’s coming running joke down this gals toast dude—disguise host. Right? Sounds like this guy being a toast—it’s like he’s a disguise toast.

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### The Journey to Success on Twitch

Before diving into the questions, I want to ask him about his journey to success on Twitch. What was it like for you when you first found success on Twitch? Was there a certain moment where you knew, "This works," or was it a gradual process?

Well, I first started off on YouTube, like I think a lot of content creators do—making videos and then looking at Twitch streamers and thinking to yourself, "Hey, maybe I can try that too." It wasn’t until my second year of streaming that I started hitting 2,000 viewers, then 3,000. It was a slow build-up, spending like a long time just honing in on what I wanted to do.

It wasn’t until I hit a certain point where I felt like I had made it—when I could sustain myself and think, "Okay, this is legitimate. This is what I’m going to do basically for a living."

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### Twitch’s Mainstream Moment

Another question coming through is about the tipping point for Twitch when it became mainstream. It was kind of underground at one point but then exploded in pop culture or within what you’re doing that made it go mainstream. What moment do you feel was that?

I think it was the whole drinking and gaming thing—it really went mainstream right now. Thanks to a long time we do anything for night, it’s just so true. Every age in high school and middle school is poisoning, obviously, this has spilled over to their parents and now like celebrities talked about it. That was just on Ellen—hey, they’re talking about Twitch! It’s getting really mainstream now.

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### Artifact: Would He Switch Games?

We’ve got a couple of different people asking about Artifact—like, if Artifact turns out to be a good and popular game, would he consider becoming a full-time Artifact streamer?

Well, it really does depend on the viewership. Artifact is another card game similar to Hearthstone, and a lot of people are wondering if Hearthstone streamers will become Artifact streamers. Usually, the big Hearthstone streamers will stay on Hearthstone unless the artifact numbers are just insane—like, "Wow, I bet 10,000 views live on Hearthstone, but I can also get 100 viewers on Artifact." And it becomes a choice of which game I enjoy more. If you go play Artifact and you get 1000 viewers—you know, 10% of the numbers—you’re not really gonna switch because of that. Guys, you’re essentially cutting into your revenue stream by 90%.

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### The Twitch Economy: How He Makes Money

He was also asked about his thoughts on the Twitch economy and care to give six minor bullet points on what he knows about it and what’s entailed in this piece.

So basically, talk about how two extremes make money—subscribers people can give you five bucks a month, or sponsorship. Sponsored playthroughs are really big on Twitch when the new Call of Duty: Black Ops came out, yeah, so much with big streamers being sponsored, and the price range for that ranges between like a thousand dollars an hour to ten thousand dollars per hour just playing someone else's video game. That’s crazy!

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### TwitchCon 2019: His Favorite Part

Looking at some of the questions coming through, people are asking what he’s most excited about for TwitchCon coming up.

Well, I do see the fans in DC—yeah, it’s gonna be a blast having old friends you know, other streamers, cuz as streamers we’re all isolated, you know? From pocket to pocket, we don’t have to be in a room for like years—that’s fine. Your idea—it's pretty exciting.

Where am I at right now? Right now, I’m at the city of Chicon—oh well, next to the convention center. It’s being held there, and it’s all purple and welcome to streamers. It’s happening in two days; this figure, I get a head start and check out the city before heads.

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### Interacting with Fans: A Weird but Cool Experience

He was also asked about his experience interacting with fans after becoming popular at events like TwitchCon.

Well, it’s gotta be a weird experience, right? Yeah, definitely. Cuz I’m not like the most outgoing guy so when people come up randomly to me and they’re nervous, usually *I'm* the nervous one. Random stranger interaction—it's kind of country dynamic. I have to make them feel okay: "It’s cool, you want to take a picture?"

The beginning—like someone would come to me and say, "Hey, you're Skye Stiles, I'm a big fan," and my response was, "Sensual just okay." The more interactions you have and like seeing other streams in Travis Fann, who’s a Starcraft/Hearthstone/variety streamer—I’d do him because he's so good at making them feel comfortable. No awkwardness—these fans they’re super nervous when they talk to you. Like I would take pictures with them and be like slightly shaken, but it's up to me to make them feel okay: "Hey, it’s chill. Let's take a picture."

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### Rapid-Fire Questions on His Channel

Usually, the last two minutes of his broadcast, he does some rapid-fire questions—quick, fun, sociable questions. So what does his mom tell her friends when they ask what he does for a living?

He said, "I make videos online." Like when it comes to parents and toys—it's really hard to convince them that this is legit. The best thing for my experience that convinces parents or older people what you’re doing is essentially the paycheck: "Hey, look at you, I get paid"—that’s a real thing.

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### His Favorite Music Playlist

What’s his favorite spot on Fire Apple Music playlist right now? He said he doesn’t use Cleanest; he just randomly searches up meme songs like Twitch chat likes—ocean man or brain power that B's a lot of requests from Twitter.

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### Final Advice for New Streamers

The last question was about one bit of advice for anyone starting their own Twitch channel. What would it be?

He said, "Don’t start on Twitch. It’s weird; I started—don’t start on to it okay." YouTube and build yourself like a reputation of quality video if you open a Twitch account right now and just turn it on—you’re gonna get zero viewers and like how do you get people to stream one day's hundreds of thousands of this fevers the same thing. Do you suggest YouTube live or just record yourself and then what about oh, you to you regular like record make a good video edit it either montage or highlight or funny’s good. It's like people need to know that you can provide good content before they’re going to watch a lot cuz live is like very hard to do—you have to be entertaining constantly right and if you can’t be funny or can’t be in between in an editing video how you getting people to watch you in a live setting? That's my recommendation.

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### Closing Thoughts

All right, Jess Cheon’s right there from Disguised Toast. Well, I want to say thank you so much—thank you, man. Joining us again here on DT Daily, we'll let you get back to it. I'm sure you've got a lot of head of you as you’re getting ready for for the convention and everything else in the competition, but Disguised Toast—thank you so much for joining DT Daily.

Thank you man, thank you. Thanks for having me; had a great time. Awesome, awesome.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennow joining us right here on DT daily it is disguised toast hello hey how's it going good really well thank you so much for joining us apologies for the couple of the issues that we had going on there but it is awesome to have you on we have some huge fans I do want to ask though right off the bat what should we call you mr. disguise toast mr. toast toast just toast okay well just go a toast so we've got we've got a lot a lot of people are chiming in here and and asking some different questions and I'm gonna make sure that we get those the date of waxing stream I don't even know what that means so how did you come up with a twitch handle I know it's very specific thing to you so like just kind of share with our audience how you got that okay so I'm noting a game called hearthstone and in that game there's a card that says this guy's toast right before you you know correct it's coming running joke down this gals toast dude disguise host right sounds this guy being a toast it's like he's a disguise toast it's uh a couple of questions here coming through I mean I want to ask just before we even get into some of these questions you know what was it like for you when you first found success on Twitch like was there it was there a certain moment where you knew like this works or was it a gradual success like how did that process work for you um so well my twitch I first started off on YouTube like I think a lot of content creators tube making videos then like looking at twitch streamers and think to yourself hey maybe I can yeah so it was until like second year streaming and I start going to like 2,000 viewers you know three thousand years for thousands of you were so slowly building up and spent like a long time like just a hunk of yours I think once you hit and you feel like you've made it by the way you can suspend himself that's where that was kind of the moment what you got into that and it's like okay this is this is legitimate like this is what I'm going to do basically for a living right now is is beyond twitch I'm seeing some questions I got one you know so what point was the tipping point for twitch were like then it became mainstream like you know it was kind of a little underground at one point but then there is some sort of tipping point in pop culture or within you know what you're doing that made it go kind of mainstream at this point what moment you feel was that I think the whole drinking and yeah main thing I really really mainstream right now thanks for a long time we do anything for night it's just so true every age in high school and middle school poisoning obviously this has it spill over to their parents and now like celebrities talked about it that was just on Ellen you know the plate for tonight together and it's getting like really really me twitch we've got a couple different people felon HS and Evil Angel 3 asking about artifact if artifact turns out to be a good and popular game would you consider becoming a full-time artefact streamer mmm it really does depend on the viewership so artifact is another card game similar to a car stomach and a lot of people wondering if hearthstone streamers will become artifact streamers and usually the big hearthstone streamers will stay on hearthstone unless the artifact number it's just like wow I bet 10,000 views live hearthstone I can also dead 10 all yours on artifact and it becomes a choice off game I enjoy more if you go play artifact you get 1000 viewers you know 10% of array of numbers you're not really gonna switch because of that guys you're essentially cutting into your revenue stream by 90 percent right it's kind of interesting you talk about revenue stream I think I just saw a Madrid article about you talking about the twitch economy care to give like six minor bullet points on like what the article is about and what you like entailed in this piece okay so basically talk about how two extreme errs make money subscribers people can give you five bucks a month or sponsorship so sponsored playthroughs a really big on twitch when the new call of duty black back out blackops came out yeah so much big streamers were sponsored and the price range for that ranges between like a thousand dollars an hour to ten thousand dollars per hour just play someone else's video game that's crazy yeah that's that's gotta be just kind of insane part you know learning about that as you go through it having that kind of happen where it just becomes such a huge part of you know of so many picked up from people's lives I'm taking a look at some of the questions that are coming through here people are asking what you're most excited about for twitchcon coming up twitchcon mmm again do you see the fans in DC yeah let's have old friends you know other streamers cuz as streamers were all isolated you know from pocket cuz we don't have to you enjoy how the human being you know they say be in a room for like years that's fine your idea it's pretty exciting where are you at right now right now I am at the city to chicon it's being held at oh well next to the convention like I can see it it's all purple and welcome to streamers it's happening in two days this figure I get a head start and check out the city before heads so I talked about that fandom like once he became you know popular and started having you know these actual fans going to these events was it strange interacting with actual people after you know just mine I mean it's gotta be a weird experience right yeah definitely um cuz I'm not like the most own so when people come up randomly to me and they're nervous usually I'm the nervous one and random stranger interaction so I feel like it's country dynamic I have to make them feel okay it's cool you want to take a picture the beginning like someone would come to me and say hey you know it's Skye Stiles I'm a big fan and my response was sensual just okay the more interactions you have and like seeing other streams in Travis fan 9 who's a Starcraft / hearthstone / variety streamer I would do him because he's so good at was fans like he makes them feel comfortable you know no awkwardness these fans they're super nervous when they talk to you like I would take pictures with them and be like slightly shaken and it's up to me to you like in case hey it's chill let's take a picture yeah so like usually you know the last two minutes of the ship broadcast we kind of like do some rapid fire questions and like kind of quick fun quite sociable questions so what does your mom tell her friends you do for a living I think she just tells them I make videos online like when it comes to parents and toys it's really hard to you know it's cool I play video games on the internet people give me money the best thing for my experience that convinces parents or older people what you doing essentially the paycheck Hey what the legitimacy of this just look at you know this paycheck that usually comes it's a real thing what's your favorite spot a fire apple music playlist right now I don't use cleanest I just randomly like search up meme songs like twitch chat likes like ocean man or brain power that B's a lot of requests from Twitter I don't use playlist last question one bit of advice for anyone starting their own twitch channel what would it be um don't start on Twitch it's weird I started don't start on to it okay stop YouTube and build yourself like a reputation of quality video if you open a twitch account right now and just turn it on you're gonna get zero viewers and like how do you get people to stream one day's hundreds of thousands of this fevers the same thing do you suggest like No do you suggest YouTube live or just record yourself and then what about oh you to you regular like record make a good video edit it either montage or highlight or funny's good it's like people need to know that you can provide good content before they're going to watch a lot cuz live is like very hard to do you have to be entertaining constantly right and if you can't be funny or can be in between in an editing video how you getting people to watch you in a live setting that's my recommendation all right Jess cheon's right there from disguise toast well I want to say thank you so much thank you man joining us you know again here on DT daily we'll let you get back to it I'm sure you've got a lot of head of you as you're getting ready for for the convention and everything else in the competition but disguised toast thank you so much for joining DT daily Thank You Man thank you thanks for having me had a great time an awesome awesomenow joining us right here on DT daily it is disguised toast hello hey how's it going good really well thank you so much for joining us apologies for the couple of the issues that we had going on there but it is awesome to have you on we have some huge fans I do want to ask though right off the bat what should we call you mr. disguise toast mr. toast toast just toast okay well just go a toast so we've got we've got a lot a lot of people are chiming in here and and asking some different questions and I'm gonna make sure that we get those the date of waxing stream I don't even know what that means so how did you come up with a twitch handle I know it's very specific thing to you so like just kind of share with our audience how you got that okay so I'm noting a game called hearthstone and in that game there's a card that says this guy's toast right before you you know correct it's coming running joke down this gals toast dude disguise host right sounds this guy being a toast it's like he's a disguise toast it's uh a couple of questions here coming through I mean I want to ask just before we even get into some of these questions you know what was it like for you when you first found success on Twitch like was there it was there a certain moment where you knew like this works or was it a gradual success like how did that process work for you um so well my twitch I first started off on YouTube like I think a lot of content creators tube making videos then like looking at twitch streamers and think to yourself hey maybe I can yeah so it was until like second year streaming and I start going to like 2,000 viewers you know three thousand years for thousands of you were so slowly building up and spent like a long time like just a hunk of yours I think once you hit and you feel like you've made it by the way you can suspend himself that's where that was kind of the moment what you got into that and it's like okay this is this is legitimate like this is what I'm going to do basically for a living right now is is beyond twitch I'm seeing some questions I got one you know so what point was the tipping point for twitch were like then it became mainstream like you know it was kind of a little underground at one point but then there is some sort of tipping point in pop culture or within you know what you're doing that made it go kind of mainstream at this point what moment you feel was that I think the whole drinking and yeah main thing I really really mainstream right now thanks for a long time we do anything for night it's just so true every age in high school and middle school poisoning obviously this has it spill over to their parents and now like celebrities talked about it that was just on Ellen you know the plate for tonight together and it's getting like really really me twitch we've got a couple different people felon HS and Evil Angel 3 asking about artifact if artifact turns out to be a good and popular game would you consider becoming a full-time artefact streamer mmm it really does depend on the viewership so artifact is another card game similar to a car stomach and a lot of people wondering if hearthstone streamers will become artifact streamers and usually the big hearthstone streamers will stay on hearthstone unless the artifact number it's just like wow I bet 10,000 views live hearthstone I can also dead 10 all yours on artifact and it becomes a choice off game I enjoy more if you go play artifact you get 1000 viewers you know 10% of array of numbers you're not really gonna switch because of that guys you're essentially cutting into your revenue stream by 90 percent right it's kind of interesting you talk about revenue stream I think I just saw a Madrid article about you talking about the twitch economy care to give like six minor bullet points on like what the article is about and what you like entailed in this piece okay so basically talk about how two extreme errs make money subscribers people can give you five bucks a month or sponsorship so sponsored playthroughs a really big on twitch when the new call of duty black back out blackops came out yeah so much big streamers were sponsored and the price range for that ranges between like a thousand dollars an hour to ten thousand dollars per hour just play someone else's video game that's crazy yeah that's that's gotta be just kind of insane part you know learning about that as you go through it having that kind of happen where it just becomes such a huge part of you know of so many picked up from people's lives I'm taking a look at some of the questions that are coming through here people are asking what you're most excited about for twitchcon coming up twitchcon mmm again do you see the fans in DC yeah let's have old friends you know other streamers cuz as streamers were all isolated you know from pocket cuz we don't have to you enjoy how the human being you know they say be in a room for like years that's fine your idea it's pretty exciting where are you at right now right now I am at the city to chicon it's being held at oh well next to the convention like I can see it it's all purple and welcome to streamers it's happening in two days this figure I get a head start and check out the city before heads so I talked about that fandom like once he became you know popular and started having you know these actual fans going to these events was it strange interacting with actual people after you know just mine I mean it's gotta be a weird experience right yeah definitely um cuz I'm not like the most own so when people come up randomly to me and they're nervous usually I'm the nervous one and random stranger interaction so I feel like it's country dynamic I have to make them feel okay it's cool you want to take a picture the beginning like someone would come to me and say hey you know it's Skye Stiles I'm a big fan and my response was sensual just okay the more interactions you have and like seeing other streams in Travis fan 9 who's a Starcraft / hearthstone / variety streamer I would do him because he's so good at was fans like he makes them feel comfortable you know no awkwardness these fans they're super nervous when they talk to you like I would take pictures with them and be like slightly shaken and it's up to me to you like in case hey it's chill let's take a picture yeah so like usually you know the last two minutes of the ship broadcast we kind of like do some rapid fire questions and like kind of quick fun quite sociable questions so what does your mom tell her friends you do for a living I think she just tells them I make videos online like when it comes to parents and toys it's really hard to you know it's cool I play video games on the internet people give me money the best thing for my experience that convinces parents or older people what you doing essentially the paycheck Hey what the legitimacy of this just look at you know this paycheck that usually comes it's a real thing what's your favorite spot a fire apple music playlist right now I don't use cleanest I just randomly like search up meme songs like twitch chat likes like ocean man or brain power that B's a lot of requests from Twitter I don't use playlist last question one bit of advice for anyone starting their own twitch channel what would it be um don't start on Twitch it's weird I started don't start on to it okay stop YouTube and build yourself like a reputation of quality video if you open a twitch account right now and just turn it on you're gonna get zero viewers and like how do you get people to stream one day's hundreds of thousands of this fevers the same thing do you suggest like No do you suggest YouTube live or just record yourself and then what about oh you to you regular like record make a good video edit it either montage or highlight or funny's good it's like people need to know that you can provide good content before they're going to watch a lot cuz live is like very hard to do you have to be entertaining constantly right and if you can't be funny or can be in between in an editing video how you getting people to watch you in a live setting that's my recommendation all right Jess cheon's right there from disguise toast well I want to say thank you so much thank you man joining us you know again here on DT daily we'll let you get back to it I'm sure you've got a lot of head of you as you're getting ready for for the convention and everything else in the competition but disguised toast thank you so much for joining DT daily Thank You Man thank you thanks for having me had a great time an awesome awesome\n"