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Easy Allies |EZOT| Good Vibes and Good Hype
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SmartWaffles
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Add twitch subs, donations and their side jobs (they are not full time on this), I think it is looking pretty good so far.
Forget the sidejobs, ain't gonna happen. They were expecting at best a support of 2.5k a month in the beginning and starting very slow with the shows. Now they have like 7 or 8 shows to be back/remade and a huge crowd of followers to please. There is no way in hell anyone of them could sustain another job, it's all in or out.
Portugeezer
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How many subs they have on Twitch? Because Twitch takes 50% I believe.
They probably don't want them, but they still might need them. Who knows what their individual circumstances are right now even with all this. They did say at the start it probably wouldn't support them full time, but that was before the massive outpour of pledges.
Japanmanx3
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Fell asleep like right at 2:45a so I missed a few minutes of the end of Mario Party. But it was such a great stream through out. Really glad to see these guys again.
Yeah, exactly, I wonder if with this money they could be taking this job full time.
Yeah, they are a lot of people, so I still don't know how far can this money support them
Caipirinha
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These guys are my favorite humans on the internet. Every one of them is gold <3
I remember reading yesterday that one of them said it would take somewhere beyond $50,000 a month to support them all full-time. I can't remember where it was to source it, since I was reading everything yesterday, but I do remember reading that. It's hard to know what, if anything, has changed as a result of the unexpected (to them) runaway success of the Patreon, but I'm still thinking that they'll need to keep working in order to make rent, and car insurance, and groceries, and electricity costs, and so on. I'd say it's not a coincidence that the stream times are mostly late in the evening to set that precedent.
I don't think they are thinking of making a site, the main focus is the youtube channel and twitch.
Since they are this much people, yeah, 50k seems reasonable, specially considering some of you already said living in LA is quite costly.
I just hope this is just the start of a better income later on with some other supporters and sponsors, the kinda funny way seems like the correct thing to do.
This is still probably not enough to support them all in the end though. But at the very least, instead of taking fulltime jobs elsewhere and treating this as a side project. They can treat this as their main project and look for part-time jobs instead if they have other costs to cover.
I have no clue about cost of living, taxes and what not. But at 25k a month, if you split it 8 ways, the annual income per person comes out to 37.5k (before taxes).
Not sure, it's not on the schedule, but Brandon said he was doing it.
Twitch takes half yeah.
He said 10 am for the Toybox Tuesday stuff on the stream.
Oh nice, PT I assume? We might have some streams to watch after all!
just a guess, but maybe some guys will work full time, others part time
Static Veins
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Yeah they've been pretty clever with the model they're using. With it being so flexible, they can at the bare minimum stream and make a podcast while working another, main job. As more money comes in via Patreon, sponsors, etc. it allows more and more of them to focus on EZA full time.
At the moment I think it's only Brandon who is not actively seeking out other employment, with him being in charge of EZA (at least that was the impression I got, maybe he is finding another job as well). Obviously with the incredible reaction they've had after one day of Patreon some of the others may be coming on board full time too.
Mikey Jr.
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Yeah, not only did they surpass their expectations, they smashed through them. They were expecting around 3k, they fucking got 28k (subs and merch).
I think they are going to have meetings soon to discuss "ok wow, what do we do now?"
Like I said, invest that first in equipment. Put out high quality stuff, and it'll be easier to maintain patreon/gain sponsorships.
I know everyone probably wants to get paid, and rightfully so. But I think getting everything set up and looking good asap will pay dividends for them later.
Plus the good thing is that right now, they honestly don't have a lot of overhead. But I wonder what the long term goal is. Would it possible to rent a space on their current budget? 50k I think is out of reach. It seems to be extremely rare for a patreon to get 40k, nevermind 50k. Can they do anything for less?
I think they are going to have meetings soon to discuss "ok wow, what do we do now?"
Like I said, invest that first in equipment. Put out high quality stuff, and it'll be easier to maintain patreon/gain sponsorships.
I know everyone probably wants to get paid, and rightfully so. But I think getting everything set up and looking good asap will pay dividends for them later.
Plus the good thing is that right now, they honestly don't have a lot of overhead. But I wonder what the long term goal is. Would it possible to rent a space on their current budget? 50k I think is out of reach. It seems to be extremely rare for a patreon to get 40k, nevermind 50k. Can they do anything for less?
There is no way to access an archive on the twitch mobile app, right?
Using the browser for those archive links is the worst, mostly don't ever work.
Using the browser for those archive links is the worst, mostly don't ever work.
Only monthly for now, just patreon and twitch, both are monthly
wapplew
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Ok, rewatch stream, Jones said 10am, should be 4 hours later.
He said 10 am pst for the Toybox Tuesday and 6pm pst for their second stream which is being voted on I believe.
Yeah, the schedule has the choices, although no vote yet.
Perfect Dark/The Division/Pokken
wapplew
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Pokken is lock! Huber is Hooked.
The systems available are only monthly, but patreon allows you to pledge whatever you want. So you can basically set up a monthly patreon amount, but set it to the 1 time amount you want to give them. And then stop it from recurring after the 1st payment is made I guess.
You can go to the channel and click past broadcasts. That's how it is on the android app anyway
Hydrophobic
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It's the same on the iPhone app as well.
Its not a bad start at all. Now its time for them to figure out what they are going to do. Since it seemed their plan was a couple shows. Now they have the funding to almost run an entire outlet.
The stream was such a joy, especially because their streams are usually very EU-unfriendly. That's fine for me, because I'm not that interested in twitch streams, but still, I thoroughly enjoyed watching last night and must've fallen asleep during Whiplash, which was such a riot. Love the jackbox party games.
Now I'm super excited for tomorrow.
Now I'm super excited for tomorrow.
Their plan was streaming, podcast and Bosman doing his thing. They didn't think that they would even hit the Huber show at $4k in the first day. Now they've got to sit down and thrash out a production schedule for all the shows and around 4 reviews a month.
Still my favourite exchange on the stream:
Ben: "Thanks to you guys, we'll be doing things we thought we'd never be able to do. We're doing reviews again!"
Ryan: "I'm so sorry"
So Brandon is doing Toybox Tuesday today at 10am pacific which means 17:00 hours for us in the UK and an hour later for Western Europe. So we get another stream for our time!
plasmawave
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It's awesome that they managed to hit all the goals except for the last two.
I'm positive it will reach 30k.
I'm positive it will reach 30k.
Sweet.
I hope Ben's Monster Hunter Generations stream will be EU friendlyish. He seemed very excited yesterday when I asked him if he'll play.
I'm not entirely wrong.
Ryan Stevens was on the stream? When i tuned in i saw Brandon's trainer, AJ and later Justin Speer.
plasmawave
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He was there for little bit.
Yep! I'm sure we would've gotten a review anyway. He should do community hunts on stream, game is fun to watch.
Dawn I missed him.
Napalm_Frank
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Ben: ''I was at the Gamestop.''
?: ''What game did you pick up?''
Ben: ''Senran Kagura. The guy asked if I really wanted that game. I told him to look at me.''
Oh, it was very true. That's why it was so great
Ben: "I'm importing DOAX3. Expect coverage" with the greatest deadpan delivery ever.
uomoartificiale
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Totally agree. I never understood why they always streamed with such low quality equipment. I think the reasoning was to have high production for the shows and the reviews, while the streams were a thing "on the side". Nowadays things are reversed, you have to put your best in community interaction, you can't skim on that front.
I really hope that they start streaming with good audio and a damn mixer, plus maybe someone checking the levels on their side (the days of "chat, how's the audio?" have to end).
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