Gaslight by Chat
Your stream was going as well as your streams went. After months of streaming for only a handful of viewers, your current regular viewership of around 50 people per session seemed like huge progress and a great milestone. Considering the other viewers with thousands and thousands of viewers every stream, 50 wouldn’t sound like much to most people, but to you it felt like an accomplishment, and you were quite proud to have obtained such a loyal following. At first you tried all the mainstream games, what the other big-time streamers played, hitch a ride on their popularity, but soon you realised that nobody was going to go and watch you play those games when there were so many other more prolific people they could watch. Instead, you diverted into a more niche genre, and slowly but surely built up a small but loyal viewer base that was interested in the games you played. It didn’t make a living but it sure was a fun hobby that you could share with other people. You were in the mi...