Launching Next Level Together Live | Creator Burnout, Community & Building in Public #founderstory

oh let me get it full of love yeah make sure it's uh it's looking good all right test test i mean i hear you hello hello hello everyone so oh next level together we're just gonna give people a minute to come in come out yeah absolutely we have two viewers already how do we have two viewers ready uh i'm one of them so okay good because i need to give you mod rights there you go yeah yeah thank you thank you oh you don't really yeah i i hate mod view um i don't see a point i need to give her mod as well we can we totally should because it's like a big deal yeah absolutely hi cecilia cecilia sunshine welcome in although i don't have any shout out things set up just just do the shout out stuff it'll be fine of course a little human came in from the cold um i think i needed to i think shut up please i think i need to make some uh some posters for this right To post on Discord. I forgot to do that. I forgot to do that. Let me get that done. Are we live right now? Mm-hmm. All together. It's sad you remember that. Like crazy. I did think it was sad. Welcome in, everybody. Give me a minute. Yeah, next level together. So we'll give everybody a couple more minutes. before we get started talking about next level together hey where's the dinner thank you guys for for coming in here yes thank you all of our wonderful streaming community here live on twitch tonight we're going to be doing our opening launch of next level together we're going to talk a little bit about uh what it's for and who is it who it's for and why this is different and it's going to be really exciting so and keep in mind i do not have a script at all like this is all stay tuned guys uh this is all new to me to talk about uh it's something that i'm very passionate about i think a lot of you will be as well um i'm just trying to get caught up on posting it into discords right now guys so because i forgot my bad Let me turn my music down for me. Is the video doing okay though? Yeah, yeah starting there. Okay. I'm so used to everything opening up on that screen. I forgot I'm screen sharing. There we go with that one. Where's yours? Promote yourself. There it is. I found it. Promote. Promote. Promote. We are promoting. We're working. Working. I'm going to put on everybody's, but it's going to take me so long. Don't do too many. Don't do too many. Hopefully I'm putting this in the right spot in Randall and Cecilia's. I'm not used to doing promoting anymore. She'll let me know. I'm trying not to do too many. Mostly because I don't know where to put this most of the time. Hopefully I'm putting it in the right place over here as well. I'm sure you are doing fine. i'm i'm trying guys i really am trying okay there we go so okay so we've waited a little bit we're gonna i'm gonna do it so i can see my screen yeah this is uh this is our home base at next level together.com yeah everything that we're building lives right here all in one location Rosie has worked very, very hard at making everything easy to read, easy to use. Everything's kind of straightforward. So we're going to talk about what Next Level Together is and who it's for. So, Rosie, what is Next Level Together? What is this? Well, let me say it like this. launching something that's not just like your regular type of website. It's not just your regular type of app. It's not something that we want you to be like, oh yeah, I've seen this before. You know, it's the same thing, different day. No. Streamers, the world is changing around us every day. I'm sorry, I am nearly 40. It has been the hardest thing to get a job since COVID. This has been my outlet. Streaming has been it for me. Welcome Inbred! How are you doing today? Well, this evening. How are you doing this evening? So glad to see you. So happy for you guys to be here and get to experience the launch with us. So we are really launching more of a safe space for streamers and content creators with credible resources for you so you don't keep getting all those spams or falling into spam traps as well because we've seen that happen to multiple of us, right? We get like scammed out of something. It happens to me all the time. I get tells, what are they called? Whispers. Oh, yeah. Messages on TikTok and right here on Twitch and stuff all the time of people trying to sell me art and things like this. And, you know, who do you trust? Who do you not trust? What's a scam and what's not? You know, so we're trying to. uh create something that has uh how do you say it rosie uh marva basically like like verified content creators yes uh that's just a small thing that we're doing uh so if you stream and make content draw edit uh we're concentrating on vtubers pmt tours you belong here it doesn't matter if you're new or seasoned we have lots of ideas and lots of abilities uh coming up for you guys so it's really really really exciting about what we're doing especially for our content creators out there yes exactly and um keep in mind like this is not something that's like a short term we're planning on making this a long-term ecosystem with that being said we are giving something to the community that we're hoping is appreciated which is mental health support as well so no uh we are not therapists we are not licensed therapists Even though I've studied to be one, I am not advertising myself as that right now. We are offering you guys something that allows you to see everything in one spot. It is almost like a go-to library where you don't just have how-to videos. How do you start streaming? How do you make money? How do you do this? No, you have how-to videos. You have how to maintain your well-being, how to maintain your mental health. You also have mental health resources in case you need them. Right. Because I don't know how many times I have heard from a streamer or even somebody in my community saying like, I don't know where to turn to. I don't know how I'm supposed to get this help in the country I'm in. Or it could be like absolutely looked down upon in that country. So it's not advertised. So that is something that I really wanted us to focus on and really start on. uh in addition a lot of us who do stream we experience so many highs and lows in our communities themselves right like we go from having the zero viewers and we can go to the next day having like 10 or 12 and getting rated over and over and then the next day we're back down to like one or two like the highs and lows that we experience it it can be very it's real yeah it's very real It can be almost like traumatizing for us, right? Because we constantly go through, okay, this is working great. I'm gaining my community. I'm building up my space. I want this to be something that I can subsidize my income with or as doing it part time and still make some kind of income. Okay, great. Wonderful. We love that. We want to focus on the fact that the world is changing. Work environments are changing. I'm sorry. I enjoy being at home. Not just because I need to, not just for my mental health, not because of my physical health, but because it allows me to interact with my everyday people that I need to have a break. Okay, I cannot sit in an office for nine hours. That being said, I cannot sit and stream for nine hours. That is very taxing on myself. So realizing where my mental health starts and where my streaming career starts and ends is very important. I didn't realize that when I first started, guys. I saw people streaming for 12 hours. I saw people stream for 24 hours. And I thought that was like the goal, right? To stream for that many hours every day. And it really like took me back for a bit. And then not having the instant help or help available to be like, it's okay if you only stream for one or two hours. It's okay if you don't stream every day. I needed that community. I needed that support as somebody who is a streamer. I didn't know that. And then trying to find information on, okay, how do I get started? What streaming service do I use? Am I going to use OBS? Do I use Streamlabs? Do you use Mel? Do you use Prism? Guys, there's so many streaming services out there and none of us really know about them. Yeah, and lots of us are coming together on Twitch from completely different backgrounds, different countries, different cultures, and even from different, how do you say, console, PC, we're all combined together here. And streaming is not the same for all of us. So we're trying to provide tools that you can use. uh even with our free membership uh to help you you know fight back against that that mental fatigue uh because streaming it doesn't matter if you're brand new or if you're a seasoned veteran uh streaming it can be very mentally taxing it's it's uh it's not easy so i i think we have lots of ideas with that too Now, keep in mind, like we are launching this as an online platform right now. So that being said, is not currently available on Google, on your Android phones, is not currently available in the Apple store yet. We are required to wait a certain amount of days to get approval from both before they will release it. So that's what we're waiting on. However, we are live. We are working. So let me show you a little bit about this. This has been in the works since like mid-August, guys, is when we actually started. And we finally got the idea to become an actual corporation. That's why we're incorporated. And we do pay our taxes, everybody. We do pay our taxes. We are out of Delaware. I feel like I have to say that. It gives me something to say, guys. I'm nervous. So we are out of Delaware, and we started building the website towards the end of September, like officially working on the coding, officially working on the branding. And we always felt like, you know, how do you level up? How do you get from point A to point B? Usually you need somebody. Usually you need some guidance. Well, what about next level? A lot of us are gamers, and we felt like next level together. help each other get there, right? We will help each other get to a wonderful community that is for streamers, supported by streamers. You have outside resources. You have connections. So let's jump into this beautiful page that took me, guys, I'm not even kidding. The amount of coding that I had to learn to do was ridiculous. Totally worth it though. I have never coded anything like this before. I'm not bread. If you guys need coding help, go to bread. Even the Xeno craze, he's very good at coding. I think Big Boss also codes. He's also a coder. Yeah. So we do have a lot of people in the community that do code that are willing to help teach coding or help you with a code. And I think that's absolutely fantastic. And we want to bring that into this community. So we're going to start off with, I went ahead and I pinned our actual website at the top of this chat. It is literally nextleveltogether.com. That is ours. It belongs to me. I bought it. It's mine. Okay. So. When you first get on, you're going to see, it really talks about Next All Together, that we are a creator-focused platform offering education, mental health awareness, and genuine community support. Your well-being as a streamer, as a content creator, really matters. We're not about, oh, work as hard as you can, put in so many hours, and we're going to take all the profits from you. No. I'm sorry. I don't have the heart to do that to you guys. you can obviously join the community uh explore free resources most of our resources are free yo what's up how you doing maximus okay welcome in welcome in welcome in so what is next level together yeah sorry i was just gonna say this isn't a follow for follow fit this is uh you know our our corporation providing real support workshops uh resources and people that'll show up for you so i think that's really important yes so um we do have uh like our statements are on here what is next level together we are about well-being we're about we're all human everybody has their limits and not everybody is the same you guys don't all fit in the same mold right everybody has their own meshegas as my dad would call it like own craziness own kind of way of doing things and we want you know it's okay it's like in crocheting when i used to crochet i used to crochet and um somebody would tell me you're holding the hook wrong no it just works for me you guys are all gonna have something that works for you um so who's this platform for um it is for streamers for vtubers png tubers content creators If you are an educator and teach how to use OBS, if you are a mentor in anything like that, this platform is also for you. You have a lot of creators that are moving from being a brand new creator to burning out to maybe you need to really find what resonates with you to make your streams completely like back to who you are again. Okay. A lot of us get into this. kind of like a flow of crazy madness and go into streaming from like two hours to 24 hours i did it we try everything we try everything as streamers you know we try different games we try uh streaming at different times of the day and you know anything we can think of to try to boost our viewers boost our our income uh Let's get straight to the point. I think most of us that are Twitch streamers do this to make money on the side. I'm sure there's a few of you that do this for a hobby. You're not trying to do anything with it. That's fine. But I think bare bones, this is a great way for content creators to make money from home. I think we should really, you know, not forget that. Yeah, and I think it is something that sometimes you need that extra insight. When I first got started streaming, I didn't have people telling me, oh, hey, your volume's low. Oh, hey, this isn't really working or, you know, I can't really understand what you're playing or what you're explaining. I didn't. have that like if it wasn't for my spouse half the time i wouldn't know what i was doing wrong like um and i see it all the time too loud or yeah yeah too loud or too soft or this or that or whatever guys we have absolute experts on ovs and meld and stream labs and all of our all of our platforms that we use for streaming uh even prism uh that rosie mentioned etc etc so we we have something for everyone and like i said uh uh you can join our discord right here you see it in the top left uh can we drop our discord um i can i can is that something we're ready to do yet that is no that is i absolutely like worked on discord today as well like i was okay i was multi multitasking right yeah so if you guys want to check out our discord we have so much information for you guys so please uh uh you know follows are free i always say that you know follows are free uh come to our discord we have we absolutely have free uh information and you know you can ask questions we we are here here to help you know you we are here here to help one another uh you know if you're having trouble with that that platform or you know your vtuber or whatever we absolutely you know we we we're all linked together so it's pretty amazing what we've created in a very very short time and it's only going to get better as each day passes so thank you all for being here guys all right there is our discord link um our current discord link i think i have an old one in the platform i don't know uh oh bad rosie rosie's making a note of that right now just so you guys know i'm i'm writing that down i i'm writing that down uh not even kidding you guys Literally, this is my checklist from today for everything to verify that everything was working and I forgot to check the Discord link. Shame on Rosie, guys. Shame on me. I'm seeing, you know, at the top of our... our list on the left side, VTubers and PNKTubers. Is that something we can talk about real quick? Because I know we have a massive VTuber and PNKTuber community here. And I feel like as Tubers, we don't get the support. that we need because it's something basically created by fans you know it's just like a lot of player made uh you know streamer homemade things it's just it's just crazy it's like its own universe uh into the streaming world and it's growing every day and it's it's an amazing thing yeah so um vtuber hub and pngtuber hub we have them both under the paid memberships The reason for that is their communities, I feel, get some hate. And we really wanted to protect them. However, if you are interested in being a VTuber or a PNGTuber, we do have the resources that are free to learn from. And you will be able to go to the VTuber Hub, maybe. Give it a minute because I might have a panic attack if this stops working. I'm not signed in. I'm not signing. I forgot to sign in. You jumped the gun. Hold on. We're talking about the different things that we have in the platform. Let me go ahead and log in. You guys, when you join, maybe if it decides to work today, I don't know. Rosie and I just broke the whole system. We've been having a few issues. I fixed one thing. yeah so yeah continue there we go so i know i can sign in but you guys let me know if there's an issue with joining uh oh my gosh really all right have a username on it's uh it's a little glitchy guys give me a minute so we're not getting through this quite yet but uh rosie has even added in uh parts of this website that will very soon well it's already an app it's just not a published app yet uh like she said we're waiting for uh google and apple to approve that so it takes a little time but she has been able to integrate basically social media into this app so uh it's a big deal it's a really big deal and i hope we have time to talk about that today Yeah, we will. I am. Hold on. This is going to be because I introduced an onboarding page and it wasn't supposed to ask me to do that. And so it's it's glitching again. It wouldn't be a stream without things going wrong. That's very true. It's OK. It's OK. We will get there. I promise. But yes, what we. worked on was creating a member's profile. So you would have your own profile to work through and on as well. Let me see why it's doing that. Okay. You were talking about VTuber Hub and PNGTuber Hub and I wanted to touch base on that. I know there's not a visual right now, guys. I'm trying to fix that simultaneously. So we have different VTubers and PNGTubers are two very different types of characters, right? A VTuber is more of a 3D model. A lot of times they can be a 2D model and they really track your face, track your movements. PNGTubers are more of a still image that is moved with your voice most of the time. We do have the resources for it, how to get started with it, quick start guides on the VTuber Hub and PNGTuber Hub, as well as their own communities in the Discord. Very important. And then I'm figuring out how to fix it. Let's get into some streamer humor. I think the universal truth is as streamers, we spend about 10% of our time gaming. talking you know doing all the fun stuff and about 90 is fixing something that that was working perfect perfectly fine yesterday so exactly um yeah and it happens right it happens to all of us we can't bring it back haha the uh the stream goblins wake up and use violence uh randomly all the time all the time guys i'm not kidding yes uh two days ago i i came back on and i was gonna do some coding and the whole processor the back it everything was just completely broken nothing was working and i literally had a panic attack it was it was bad um but got some uh some tech help on it and we got back to working on the whole process. So what I was going to show you guys in the VTube hub was this page right here. So it does talk about what is a VTuber and how do you get started. It also has VTuber resources which are coming. And then you also have creator spotlights. So what are creator spotlights? Actually after we name that it's going to be artist spotlights. See I'm catching stuff right now guys. Hold on. So it's the same thing in the PNG Tuber Hub. We have the opening, what PNG Tuber is, the services that are offered to you PNG Tuber, creators, how to get started, the resources, spotlights, and then we also have their community. When are you going to artists? We're going to be able to provide tools, advice. Yeah. inside and outside resources uh so you don't have to sit there and google things for nine and a half hours you know yeah so yes we don't want you to be able to to hit that strong because that's something that rosie and i have done ourselves and there's just I'm not going to say no help, but very little help out there, especially if you're new to the Twitch community or new to streaming. It's very overwhelming. And we're going to be able to take all this information and put it in the form of tools, videos, other things all in one place for you to click on. So I think it's a really good deal for you guys. It is. So our artist directory, this was actually a lot of work. These are all actual artists who specialize in emotes, VTuber modeling, overlay designs. You have branding. Okay, your streams, what you create is your brand. Everything from your logo, from your name, your gamertag, all that is your branding. Well, some of us want to have a very unique logo or create our own or have everything done for us. We have people that will help you do that. We also, you'll see on here, some of our artists actually offer for our paid members a percentage off of anything that you buy from them. So when you go in, I'm going to show you guys real quick on mine because I don't want to offend any of the artists. Say I'm going to go buy something from Rosie's Crafts and Arts. Yes, that's owned by me. I'm going to click here. I offer 20% off. I'm going to click on contact. It's going to take me to the Etsy shop. Okay. Now here's the trick with getting the percentage off. Okay. It's not showing right now, but it will. When you click to contact, it will reveal your discount code right here. And that discount code will be used in your checkout. on Etsy or on whatever their shop is. I know it's not always Etsy. There are some other shops on here, but it will take you over to there and you'll just have to click back to the artist page and it'll reveal the code. What Rook was talking about, when you first log in and you're in your dashboard and it says, oh, welcome back, right? It's like, oh, welcome, welcome. Okay, so this was all working earlier. Oh, it's because I'm a Checkpoint member. Why am I a Checkpoint member? Okay. I'm going to show you guys. Because you were testing. Yeah, you were testing that. Yeah, because I'm testing it out. Okay, I'm going to show you guys real quick our membership programs, right? Checkpoint gets you in here. Checkpoint gives you access to almost everything, okay? You do not get any. That's why I didn't show me the code, the discount codes. Because I am not a paid member. Okay. Things solved right there. If you're a checkpoint, you do not get the discount codes for the artists. That is something we worked out directly with the artists themselves. We didn't want to charge these people who are making all this artwork, who are already getting charged Etsy fees or other fees from other platforms to host their art on there or to sell it to you. We wanted them to be able to Now I have to have another bill to pay. So instead, they went ahead and they're giving us a very specific discount for our paid members only. So I apologize for that, guys, who are in Checkpoint. But Checkpoint is free. You don't have to pay to be a member, to have your membership with us, okay? Bonus stage, you get a few more things unlocked. Panels and workshops, we will talk about that here in a minute. You have different accesses. You'll have access to a VTuber hub, the full access to a PNGTuber hub. You also get different access and different area in our Discord community. Power up, same thing. You get different benefits. You get two free emotes, like custom emotes for you for the first time you ever sign up with it. You also have your own Discord channels. specific to you I'll talk to you guys about that here in a minute with our next level membership okay I hope you guys appreciate the names I gave these right like oh gamer here yeah power exactly you get everything that all the other members memberships have you get 50% off of workshops and panels 20% off of anything at Creative Bundles. You get two free one-on-one sessions or review sessions. And you also get five custom emotes for the first time you sign up. Okay. You also have your own Discord server area. All that fun stuff. You can choose to pay monthly. You can choose to set up an annual payment. With annual payments, you get 17% off on everything. So it works out. I think. I think it works great. When you do sign up, you have our beautiful resource hub. This is what we're talking about, where we have resources for you to immediately get started with. These are teaching opportunities that you would see, like how do you make streaming go easily? How do you add the speech engine to SpeakerBot? How do you do the TTS that people are using that I use? Literally, I did that tutorial right there. It's all right here. yeah uh you can look at it from okay i want to do streaming software let me find meld you can type it up in the top meld and it should pull up everything meld i have i might have to resell that no yeah i did and the all resources yeah sure yeah streaming just got so easy meld studios complete tutorials um you guys these aren't only from our team members These are videos on YouTube. They're available. And we have narrowed down what ones are still valid for all the updates that are done. Big Boss, welcome in. Good to see you. How are you doing? What, what? Big Boss is in the house. We can give him a shout out. Yeah, thank you. So you do have different softwares on here. That's why, because you have platform support. So how to stream on Kik, for example, is a big one. Tech and tools. Again, when you're back to TTS because that is a tool. That is a streaming tool. Okay. That is a going live tool. You have StreamerBot on here. You have like the SiriBot tutorial. How do you start SiriBot to prevent your... your stream from getting botted right like that's a huge thing that's a major problem right now i highly recommend this right here siri bot yeah all of you streamers need siri bot it will absolutely save your butt it has it can do so many things it's an amazing piece of software so if you don't know about siri bot definitely look into this right here yeah um if you click On watch, it'll literally take you to that video. It will just show it up for you. You don't have to go through YouTube. It's still owned by YouTube. You can choose to watch it on YouTube. You can choose to save it on YouTube. We will eventually, future talking here, this is coming soon. Mr. Randlescape right here, guys. Yes, Mr. Randlescape. We will eventually have where you can save the tutorials or the videos that you want to watch later or next time or if you want to ever reference them again you can save them right now that's not featured that is going to be a coming soon feature and that will be a paid feature right coding takes time now everything's gonna be perfect right we're working through things you have a streamer deck series how to use your streamer deck you guys if you ever have a problem reach out to us in our discord We are more than happy, A, to help you figure it out. We have a wonderful community of people that will try to help you figure it out. If we can't figure it out, if there's something like, you know, you didn't talk about this streaming software. How do I use it? I need to use it, like, for my Xbox. We'll get you the right tools you need. All right. Yeah. We have a few reading options for, like, mental health, the benefits of playing video games. We also have... like a little bit of the darker side of um like streaming and playing video games and how it can change the population some of us are very curious into a lot of these things so we will try to keep you guys posted with more content in those areas we do have let me take you guys to the about us real quick i know i'm skipping around i'm so sorry guys uh um this is the about us page about next level together So we have our mission statement, why we exist. I mean, I struggled when I first started. I didn't have the help. I spent hours looking up, how do you do this? How do you do that? And the content that I would find would be old or it wasn't currently valid for the new updates of like Streamlabs or it didn't work with Streamlabs or it wasn't integratable. And it was very frustrating to get started. And I nearly gave up. So confusing. yeah i really wanted to give up on streaming uh anything and let alone feeling like i had to be on a video i had to always show my face um that was that was stressful that was a lot yeah yeah i i i feel that for lots of streamers that just getting uh affiliate you know can make your oh gosh uh let's not even start about partner yeah it almost did me i mean getting affiliate you know for some people is pretty straightforward and simple uh for me it almost broke me it was not easy i almost stopped streaming because of it so yeah you know that you know there are all these scammy things out there and follow bots and you know uh you know for for things like that you know we can uh We can provide you information that can help you, that's safe and trusted and all of that. So I think that's pretty amazing. Let's talk about our mission, Rosie. Oh, our mission is to build a holistic ecosystem. Do you guys just like my writing? For content creators, we believe that true success isn't just about follower counts or subscriptions, guys. It's about sustainable growth. We're not looking for, and Twitch will even, by the way, they will put you under investigation. Sometimes, as I've experienced, if you go from having one to two people sometimes in your stream to suddenly having hundreds in your streams overnight, they will, that's not growth. That's suspicious activity to them. It's follow-bodying. Oh, it could be. right because if you get right if you get not always yeah of course but um also mental well-being yeah sorry yes cut you off no that's okay uh mental well-being and genuine community connections so community connections i think are very vital for a content creator um for a streamer for us to have our own community connections with other streamers with other content creators Riel! Hi, Riel! Welcome in. How are you doing? Long time no see. Hope you're doing good today. Or this evening. Today? Evening. Right? Maybe it's morning for her. I can't remember. Next stream, we'll have our shoutouts working, guys. Sorry about that. I neglected my Twitch. I was working on trying to get... the platform out and uh and we put a lot of work into the platform so we're we're excited about it um but yes no mental well-being and genuine community support and connections when i was struggling the hardest i turned to other creators i turned to other streamers and sometimes i literally got brushed off with well that's your own problem uh which that's very disheartening guys like If you're trying to start streaming and you reach out to somebody that's been there and like, hey, can you help me through this? I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I just need a little bit of help. Like, just tell me if I'm doing something wrong or if I can improve somewhere. And they're like, no, that's your own problem. Figure it out. Like, why even try was like my response to that. And then I found the right people and the right kind of help. Even streamers who have been doing this for 10 years, some of them will come up to you and be like, yeah, no, I'll help you. Tell me what you need. I'm like, I just need somebody to watch my stream and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I just need somebody to tell me like, how do you make it work every time? What was a trick that you learned that really helped you out? So that was something that I wanted to bring to this community. I wanted us to have that in a community. where you don't have to go searching or asking all the time. You can ask in one spot, right? So we'll talk about the community section in here in a minute. But we also combine technical support. Again, our resources, our discord. You're having an issue. You need immediate help. You need somebody to help walk you through MELD. Guess what? We will help you. We will figure it out. Somebody in our community will help you. We want you to have that assistance. and always be able to get there. Hawk, how are you doing? Welcome in. You better not be at work. I hope he's off. I don't want him to get in trouble at work. Yes, we have creative services. Again, our artists, we even offer some creative services in the future. We also have business tools. We will be talking about that in the future, about monetization, how to monetize, and what's really out there for you and how you can actually make this into a sustainable living. We'll also talk about the mental health resources here in a minute. But we want everything to be under one roof, right? We don't want you guys to have to scour the internet for hours looking for one resource. Okay. I want to say something about community, Rosie. You know, community is the core of this whole thing. I mean, look at us all sitting here together. in different corners of the earth. I mean, it's an amazing thing. So I think community is the core of this. Streaming can feel lonely. You're grinding, you're learning, you're failing and succeeding most of the time by yourself. So next level together. is here so none of us have to do it alone and it's not just about next level together it's about us coming together as a community of of gamers and streamers so community is what this is all about it is um community and realizing like a big part for me was realizing that you can set your boundaries uh with any community but also with your stream I think that was something that was never told to me. I tolerated a lot of things at the beginning that I wouldn't now. And I didn't realize that it was okay. I thought like, oh gosh, if I tell them no, like I'll lose everybody. No. And that also ties into community guys. Because having somebody come to me and be like, no, I don't know why you're tolerating this. It's not okay. I'm like, oh, it's not just me thinking it's not okay. This is real. It's really not okay. It's really not acceptable. And they could tell I was uncomfortable. And they're like, no, we're going to put a stop to it there. I will mention to you guys, I have lived a lot of my life being kind of, what would you call it? I don't know what you'd call it. Where people just disregard you because of who you are or treat you differently because of who you are. um because they think you represent something and i yeah i can't think of the word either yeah my words are gone out of my ears break the streamers guys yes break the streamers um but i i wanted to like let people know like you have choices you have options you have a voice you have somewhere to go yes yes you have a voice And a safe space. And as I said, again, community is the secret sauce. Yes. So we do have a wonderful team at the moment, guys. I am your CEO and founder of Next Level Together. Rook is your COO and co-founder. And we do have three other people on our team at the moment. We are all unpaid, guys. At the moment, we are all unpaid. So don't think that if we haven't reached out to you for a paid position, it's fine. We're sorry. We do have our director of operations who is in chat. I don't know if she wants me to tell you guys who she is. That's up to her. yeah right now well that's what i said stay quiet oh my god sorry oh my gosh um anyway and you guys all know randall scape he is our public relations and media strategist and we do have wendy uh she is our mental health specialist she is a licensed therapist in arizona um i have known her since i was in high school so I reached out to her. What an amazing human, Wendy. Gosh, I can say so many things about her. She's going to be able to help us with lots of mental health resources. Like it says, her title is mental health specialist. She's certified, I believe, in the state of Arizona. So she's an American. mental health specialist on paper and she is there to provide materials and health and information and stuff for us as next level together so we've got some really big things coming up with uh you know having to do with with streamers and gamers and mental health and it's an amazing thing yeah um we really want to bring a lot of awareness to it When I had approached Wendy about becoming our mental health specialist, guys, she was so excited. She deals with teenagers, young adults who are gamers, who use gaming as an escape route. And she is a gamer. Oh, yeah. Big time Zelda fan. yeah so and she is a gamer so it's not like you're you're talking to or or you know we're talking to a mental health specialist that's never played a video game so like she's our people and we are super super proud to have her on board so okay okay cecilia said we can say her name her name's cecilia sunshine right there is our director of operations So welcome in, Cecilia Sunshine, Director of Operations. We do, we're talking about community. So let me take you guys to the community and keep your fingers crossed that it works because I am on the checkpoint. It probably won't pull up much. I might have to go into, okay, it kind of pulled up. Okay. So if you are a checkpoint, which is the free membership guys, which is why we're looking through the checkpoint. This is what you'll see in the community. Zero dollars, guys. Zero dollars a month. Sign up and click. Yes. You can stay free for as long as you want until you're ready to level up or not. There's absolutely no pressure, no gimmicks, no scams. We want you to be here, and we have resources for you. So thank all of you guys for being here. And so in our community part, you'll see where there are posts on here currently. Like one that I did today. You guys are going to have to disregard this. I have to go back into a code and fix that. I really apologize. I have it wrote down. I have it wrote down already. That will happen. But like a post that I did was, is Elgato really worth it? Guys, there are debates on here. You can have a conversation. You can ask for help. You can post your wins like, oh my gosh, I made affiliate today. Thank you for all your help or support. Or you know what? I woke up this morning. I had breakfast. I brushed my hair. I took a shower and brushed my teeth. That's still a win. I don't care what you say. Some of us struggle with that. We do also have the mental health area. Obviously no posts are on there yet. If you're struggling with anything and you need mental health help or advice or just like somebody to talk to, guys, we have that tab for you. We have it open for you guys. Hot takes, which is the debate part. It's also like a complete full-on discussion where people can take sides. I love it. You can share videos. You can share like your recent TikTok. Please share them. we want to see them we want to see you guys succeed we want to see you guys level up and grow your communities and grow as an individual at the same time right everything we do helps us grow um so yeah i i know that i know that you know social media uh posts uh you know from gamers you know your clips uh etc etc all these different platforms tick tock youtube etc etc like let's see your stuff put it up on there like it's okay to promote yourself uh you know uh it's a big deal for us so we we want to we want to share each other's you know stories wins you know i don't know it's amazing We want to share your success. We want to know about your success. We want to celebrate you and your success and your ability to achieve this. I don't know about you guys, but I struggled with a long time thinking that I can't do this. And I struggle with clinical depression. It is a nightmare. But I'm here. I have social anxiety, guys. I'm here. For me, this is a major win. This is something that I want to share with everybody. so you are streaming on camera oh yeah to the whole world you are so amazing you're so amazing um so i'm going to show you guys real quick this is this is what it looks like if you're a paid member okay i want i'm going to get them side by side so you guys can kind of see the difference i can do this yeah if we can if we can go back to the uh the membership uh maybe we can talk about some of the other uh uh paid memberships as well as briefly we did we touched base on them on all of them yeah okay okay so um any pay we'll still touch base on them a little bit throughout because it helps to have a visual at the same time it's not just the tiers but um any paid membership uh you get a profile a public profile that's available to you and that you can share and show people um hold on or you can keep your profile private yes exactly um so you yeah except to you to you know you can allow what other people see yes and you'll see now i have that freedom yeah you see now i have a friend's feed that's available to me So if I just want to like say I followed a few people that I really enjoyed their posts and what they're talking about and I decided to add them as a friend and they accepted, I can go into my friend's feed and see what recently they have posted. You can also see the whole community, what everybody's talking about. So there is a uniqueness to it and something that's a little bit different. You'll see how... paid i have my profile i have my profile photo it gives me my display name my username as well as what level i am i can share my status i can write a status launching next all together yay um i can do a current mood oh i'm feeling happy about it i can eventually we will have this integrated with spotify but i can tell you guys what i'm listening to whether it's a song or a podcast it's a work in progress guys Everything, it takes time. But I also want to hear from you guys what you guys would like to see in something like this. You can have your friends. You can add your friends. You can search for them and then it'll pull them up. And these are the current friends I have on here. You can add friends by clicking on their name in a comment, let's say. And I'm already friends with him, so I can either remove him or not. I will not remove you at the moment. Yes. So if you're not friends with them, you'll have an ad friend. And it'll tell you what level they are as well. Featured creators, it's just going to be the most recent creators that have posted. I am going to rename it. You do have the community guidelines. And again, you have our join the Discord. This will take you to our server. Okay. Now, we were mentioning workshops isn't available yet. You guys see? Coming soon, right? Workshops are exactly what they sound like. They are workshops where we teach you guys or help you guys figure out how to use something or how to do something. Like we will have a workshop for TTS next month. That's something dead on we will have. We will hopefully also be scheduling a collab panel with our mental health specialist, Wendy. for next month. Again, the reasons coming soon is because we still have to work on scheduling and I didn't want to just put a random date in there for you guys. I want to be scheduled. We don't want to throw everything up at once. Yes. Our goal with workshops and panels is to have up to 10 workshops and panels a month in the future. Because I feel like that way you do touch base on streaming, branding, mental health, monetization, tech setup. uh the newest tech i out there i feel like that gives an opportunity to cover everything every month and what everything's changing all the time right we always see new updates so we feel like we would it would be keeping everybody in the same loop right so that's coming we do have some sponsors already that are so excited to be a part of this community um creators for mental health They offer a lot of support for mental health resources. They offer a lot of the resources and support and awareness for content creators, for streamers. And they realize that a lot of us sometimes do need mental health and they will give you resources and the time of their day to talk to you even. We also have the 1000 Dreams Fund. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of them because I didn't. I didn't know who they were. And really, it is more for women and girls who are pursuing education or career in anything that has to do with streaming, something that's your dream to achieve. You could be going to school. I know they give a lot of grants, a lot of mentorship, starting your own business. They have a lot of mentors for that. Anything of that sort. They offer that. They have a lot of resources towards it. They support streamers. Okay. They support women in business. Like I can't talk about them enough. I didn't know who they were. I feel bad. I didn't know who they were. They literally have their own partner like program. Okay. So I'm just like, ah, but they are so excited about what we're doing and they found us. And then Lenovo is actually fixing to offer you guys. Pretty wonderful discount code here in the next few weeks. That's a big deal if you're into Lenovo or know about Lenovo hardware. I think they provide software too. A big deal for you gamers out there. Super cool gear. Oh my gosh. I love my Lenovo laptop, guys. They did not give it to me. I have to put that out there as a disclaimer. They did not give it to me. I had to pay for it, but I absolutely love it. Yeah, full price, full price. Absolutely love it. And I can game on it. I love everything that they do with their tech and what they offer. So those are currently our partners, our sponsors. We do have the opportunity to be sponsors for different companies. um if they're interested anybody's interested we can talk to them about it um you will see you do have a give feedback available if you have any opinions ideas um something that we haven't touched base on let us know just know what you guys yeah let us know what you guys think if there's something maybe you know we forgot or you know you can bench in or you know if you can think of a good idea you know something that will help us to help you please let us know yes uh one thing that i did not touch base on yet was your uh accounts so you do have a let me go back into this one page yeah right here oh there we go um if you are a checkpoint member uh which is the free membership You'll see where you have the creator network. So until you upgrade to a paid member, you will not have your public profile. But you still have your own account. I have to apparently complete the age verification on this one. My bad. Yeah, and we do have that safety and security of age verification. You have to be 16 years old. Minimum. Lots of other security. Features. And safety features that we spent lots of time researching and putting into our software. So we're here to keep you guys safe. Yes. You will notice under Activity, currently there's nothing because we do not have any workshops available right now. But if you sign up for a workshop or you pay for a workshop or a panel. Then you will see on here what you have coming up, what's already passed, what you've already went through. I think it kind of helps keep us on track. Like it would help me stay on track with, did I sign up for that? Yes, I did. So the way that workshops and panels will eventually work, if we hire, if we have a panel of, let's say, streamers. They're coming in to discuss about something for like an hour, two hours. We want to get them paid. So some of our panels will be free. Some of them will cost per person. And when there is a cost, a lot of that money is going to go to whoever is doing the panels. We are making a different world of technology, right? We are... streamers we are content creators and we are talking to people who are streamers and content creators and we are supporting them at the same time we're offering them another revenue of monetization with panels so that is something to keep in mind if you guys are ever interested in being in a panel in the future let us know um more than happy to have everybody and anybody um you will notice um we have achievements on here i am a gamer I had to have achievements. I'm an achievement hunter. It's bad. So as long as they work properly, we are not 100% sure yet because I have to completely test them out. It's a questionable obsession, everyone. You hunters are a different breed of gamer. We are. We are. We get so frustrated if we don't get that one achievement. So with that being said, we do have achievements at the moment. Most of them are achievable. Some of them, obviously, where you have to be in a workshop. Well, that will open when workshops are available. We do have our settings, which public profile is telling you, you need to upgrade for the public profile. Now, let me show you guys something in my other one. Yeah, right here. In this profile, you'll see where... you can enable public profile meaning if you decide to not allow people to view your public profile you can turn that off. You can decide that people can add you or not add you and that's I think very vital and important. I don't want to get like a whole bunch of like requests for being added if I don't feel comfortable with that yet. So you can turn that off. You don't want people to know what you're posting all the time. You can turn that off. You can make posts anonymous. Again, though, please make sure you adhere to the community guidelines because you might be anonymous to everybody else. You will not be anonymous to our team. And that will get you banned for a very long time. Yeah, this is all about... respect and common courtesy and you know about respecting one another so that's something we really really you know uh feel passionate about yes and it's very important to us we know like we are all for you guys coming in and venting any event about your stream any event about life there's areas for all of that in this community and we're perfectly fine with it um but please be respectful of each other and everything you guys say like be mindful um treat each other the way you want to be treated is a big part of everything that we are doing um but yes you'll see that you can enable disable your public profile you can then view your public profile make sure it's what you want it to see maybe eventually it'll load i don't know there it goes cross your fingers oh my gosh work You'll see I have I did upload my own photos to this the other day just to make sure the photo part works. So right now you can see like you can see like the New Year's photo on there and I loved it so much. I shared it. You will notice we are connected to different platforms on here. For some reason it removed the ability of it to be a proper button. My bad. I will have to fix that. Work in progress. Work in progress. You fix one thing, something else breaks in the code. It's an ongoing thing. If you guys are coders, you know exactly what I mean. So you'll see we have different integrations right now. We have Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Kik, and Spotify. It is not a full onboarding integration yet. It is more of what is your... your username on there as far as what people will see and what is your link so people can watch you. So like I have my Twitch in there, I have my YouTube, I have my TikTok, I have my Spotify because I make my own music. I like listening to music. I like sharing my music. So if you guys don't want to put Spotify in, don't put Spotify in. If you don't want people to know your YouTube, don't put it in. As simple as that. You get to decide what type of interactions you have, what kind of emails you'll be getting, how often you will be getting them. You get to decide on your, did I already say interactions? Community and interactions. So are you going to be visible to the community? Are you going to allow people to see your profile, just your little tiny click about you? Do you want to show your achievements publicly? So remember, I mentioned achievements, guys. Well, it wouldn't be achievements if you couldn't showcase them, right? So in your public profile, people will be able to see what achievements you have gotten so far. But you get to decide that if you want them to or not. You get to also decide if you want to share your activity status, which at the moment, obviously it's not available, but eventually that will be, you'll be able to turn it on or off. How people will... tag you, if they will tag you, if you will be notified if somebody replies to your post or not, that is purely up to you to decide. You can also decide if you are wanting to see the wellness and sensitive content on there. I know some of us have a problem with reading about mental health for other people or how bad it can get, how good it can get. Sometimes it's very triggering for some. You can decide to turn it off where you don't see those posts, where you don't see that content. And that is something we really wanted to give because I know all of us get triggered sometimes for other reasons. I want to, again, make this a safe space. To me, that was how to make it a safe space. You get to decide, right? It's not in your face, okay? like i don't want you guys to feel that way so you get to do all that you also have account control over your own account okay so you if you are you're like okay you know what this wasn't for me i didn't enjoy it didn't like it don't want to have anything to do with it you can decide to delete your account deactivate your account you can request to download all your data from it um and i think those are actually very good aspects to everything that we are trying to do and achieve um so that is Kind of a very quick walkthrough. I was planning on just being here for 30 minutes, guys. We weren't going to do a 15-minute stream, guys. 30 minutes. 30 minutes. It was going to be a 30-minute stream. That was the original plan. So. I do have some notes of some other stuff that I need to work on and fix. You guys should be able to join. If you guys can't, please let me know. But you should be able to click on the join now and then go and join as checkpoint just to check things out if you want to. See how it works. If you guys come into any issues, please let me know. Or let somebody in our community know. One of our mobs will get back with you guys. I mean, there's so many things that can go wrong in coding. This is the first version. This is the first time it is out. good news is we'll have a lot of this stuff fixed before it gets approved through google and apple probably so so there's that to look forward to yeah you can send it if you guys have any questions or comments you can send a whisper right here to your next level together on twitch and uh you know we'll respond to you uh as quick as we can get to you uh or even our discord community um that is another way of getting a hold of us so i i think i think that was it yeah the best way yeah is that everything um i think we forget anything i i what do you i don't know what do you what do you guys oh my god i'm so good uh yeah does anybody have any questions what is what is everything yeah what does everybody think uh you guys have anything to say questions comments concerns please uh put it right here in the yeah we'll talk about it right now yeah i'm you know i'm willing we're here and we're live we're we're we're here for you guys so um yeah i'm excited this is very exciting this is a big deal it is um we have lots of lots of plans uh on future growth and and all kinds of special things we want to do and provide uh oh yeah speaking speaking of future growth guys um when we do have i forgot to talk about fourth wall um oh yeah yeah yeah we skipped fourth wall right we skipped the the the shop stuff i i skipped over it so with fourth wall we are working with them right now we will have a uh we got a very specific code for you guys uh for those who are paid members um to actually make your own shop with fourth wall i'm going to show you guys ours here in a minute your own word shop um and they will give you credits to use in your shop to buy your items and you will be able to pretty much order a sample of whatever you want like this this hoodie i'm wearing this is mine yeah do we have an example other than your hoodie an example of fourth wall merch that we can show my my water that's almost gone for you for you streamers you know it's a camelback if you want to you know lots of streamers do uh some simple merch you know giveaways and you know other things like that and maybe you just want your own thing so so discussing if i want my own you know tumbler with uh you know rook raccoon on it or whatever i can get my logo and i can rock my own brand and it's really cool um not just that like you'll see like on the top of our shop right here it says bizarro official merch shop and takes you to our uh fourth wall shop okay uh we are working with fourth wall a little bit we are implementing a few changes and adapting a few other things you'll see we have our merch already on here we have quite a few things We have a few hidden items as well that are not going to be offered yet. We plan on releasing them in about two months or so. So keep an eye out for those. But we do, obviously, you can see like promo is available on these, right? We have cups because I love my coffee, guys. I had to have coffee mugs in here. And I also love my tea. And then we have our camelback. We have our tumblers. We have hoodies. You name it, they have it on this site. I don't have this merch. They will ship it to you directly. They will print it for you when you buy it. Okay. Yeah, there's no middleman or whatever. These guys are, these people are absolute professionals and they sell and provide a high quality service and high quality products. uh and we can absolutely vouch for that i'm very very impressed with them uh they are they're so good business savvy one major aspect that they do have and this is kind of why we're mentioning to streamers to content creators you can host your shop on your page and people instead of gifting subscriptions they can gift merch to others Or they could gift you merch to do a drawing or to do a spin the wheel thing. That is so freaking cool, guys. Live on your stream. That is so cool. And they will send you the items to you. So, like, they have made something that is so unique, so branding to your brand, right? Because we get gifted subs. It's wonderful. It's fantastic. We all know the feeling. But to be gifted of merch and to be able to host that on your stream is, in my opinion, like a huge step towards monetization, not just for a streamer, but for everybody involved. Because you're getting your name out there. Okay, that might get you more views. More views means more monetization. Like there's a give and take all the time. But you're not out of pocket if nobody buys. right because you don't have to buy like all the shirts all the merch yourself and then have an inventory have a space for it go to the post office yourself you don't need to do all the all the work yourself these guys take care of everything yeah and they've been fantastic we we have loved them um this of course guys if you guys want support us aside from um subscribing to a membership This is another way of supporting, showing support. You guys can gift it to others. It's an amazing way to support streamers and channels, you know, other than subs and vids. Exactly. So eventually we will have a code up for you guys, I think in the next week, that will give you, I think it's $20 to buy your own merch from them. what the prices that you sell right now are the prices that make me some income but you would be buying samples of your merch to make sure it's how you want it trust me that 20 goes somewhere yes um so we are thankful to fourth wall for that and that they do offer and they are excited to be a partner with us but why am i mentioning fourth wall to you guys uh when i was talking with fourth wall and i had mentioned to them one of the the things that we can see ourselves in the next five years doing is a VTuberCon, right? A virtual con. Their response to us was, oh, no, that already exists. Well, not in the way that we're thinking. Yes, I did not know there was already a VTuberCon, which is literally like a TwitchCon where you actually have to go to a location, get a hotel room, pay for tickets. They're really pricey, in my opinion. to go and buy merch to support VTubers. I love that you guys support this kind of stuff. I love that you guys go, but now everybody can afford it. We want to give something to people who, A, can't afford to travel, can't travel due to any other reason. For me, it was the hardest thing to travel to places because I had my kid. I had a job. I had responsibilities. I couldn't get days off. There are so many reasons. We cannot. take off three or four days to go really experience something that we want to. So we want to give a different type of virtual con where you get to meet VTubers, PNG Tubers, or other people in the community. People that you follow, people that you want to hear from, companies you want to hear from, where you can buy virtual assets like digital assets. You can buy actual merch that will be mailed to you like from Fourth Wall. Items of that sort Where you're not having to spend a lot of money to book, let's say, an airfare, hotel, tickets, food, meals, like everything that you'd have to do if you were to go to an actual TwitchCon, right? It also takes care, in our opinion, a part of security. Yeah, it's safety. Safety and security. You know, you don't have to travel and be around. you know, lots of other unpredictable humans and situations that could make you uncomfortable or whatever, you're going to be able to, you know, go to, you know, basically a VTuber con, you know, from the safety of your already established, you know, desktop or your, you know. or your vr already streamed from or whatever and i think that's amazing so so that that is that is the direction we are going eventually in the future um that is like one of our five-year plans we do have a 10-year plan uh so we are are here for the long haul believe it or not like i can't i can't even believe that we launched today like that is insane to me still uh so i'm i'm thrilled um but yes i think i think that was it's kind of it right like was i missing anything else uh not i i don't have anything that i can think of uh are we gonna raid out i think we should totally raise somebody oh yeah i was totally going to oh we have eight members already what wow Guys, you guys are awesome. We have eight members. We have 68 resources currently available. That number will be going up daily because we're going to be adding in new resources daily for a little while. Workshops at the moment. We don't have any workshops yet, guys, but we will. We will. And you'll be able to see it in your member dashboard. And then community posts right now. We just have the two, which is fantastic. This was why I couldn't show you guys on. the checkpoint which it should still pull up the featured resources i'm not sure why i didn't i will look into that but you have featured resources these are rotated out so every time you come back into the platform you'll see different featured resources in my opinion that gets you to a look at six of them see if there's something that maybe oh you know what i really want one look at how how do you multi-stream from a console like i really want to learn that one let me go look um So it gives you an option to look at those. We have featured creators, which are going to be our featured artists. And they will also rotate. So you don't always see the same four. You'll see newer people and they'll tell you a little bit of branding, emote art, who they are, all that fun stuff. We also have, of course, our privacy policies, terms of use, terms of service and use. cookie policy all the legal disclaimers which is very important because it does have our mental health disclaimer in there our trust and safety and what we're bringing to you guys and our community guidelines again community guidelines I highly recommend everybody look at them just so you know what you're agreeing to know what you are what you put out there we will see even if you post anonymously again like I said our team members will be able to tell who you are And, you know, we might touch base and be like, are you doing okay? Is everything okay? Like, did you mean to post that or, you know? So just so you guys are aware, if you guys come across anything that we have not touched base on, that we are missing, that you feel, A, isn't working properly, should be working better, have ideas on how to improve anything, please reach out to us. We're always happy to hear anything that you guys have to say and post. And we love reading about everybody's success and how far they're getting and what they're able to achieve daily. I think that's it. We should rate out. You said that. So who should we rate out to is the next question, right? That's right. So, yeah, guys, thank you for all being here, each and every one of you. Thank you from the bottom of our heart. You are what makes us awesome. Make sure you follow the channel right here on Twitch if you haven't already. There's a Discord link that we've already dropped in. So party up in the Discord. Go to nextleveltogether.com. Grab your free account and let's unlock the next level together. Yes. With that being said to you guys, word of mouth is... huge for us. We are of course just launching right now. We're just getting started. Feel free to mention us. Feel free to tag us. Feel free to put us everywhere and anywhere. Help us grow because then we can help more people. We can reach more people. We can do more panels. Everything of that sort that we are excited to bring to you guys. We do not hoard information here and we want to share it. So if you guys know anybody, want to suggest them hey go visit them they have like some good resources again we we grow you guys grow everybody grows everybody helps each other i don't know i see as a win-win so we're gonna find somebody to raid right um let's go what kind of ray do we want to do we want to chaos do we want to just raid somebody who's chatting as well You're driving, boss. Dang it. That doesn't help me because I am a very indecisive person. It's so bad. Let's see. Who do I have? Nobody that I'm following, by the way, is live right now. Oh my goodness. Like on this account. So. It's a bit of an issue. We can. We can raid one of my. Yeah. I can totally raid Mellow Teddy. If you guys are up for paleo. Do it. So let me. I have to type your name in. Mellow Teddy. amazing streamer guys if you guys don't know is and i love i love her puppy oh my gosh she has a golden retriever guys and it is adorable so we are yeah they're gonna go ahead we are gonna raid her guys again thank you guys so much for coming in for the launch thank you guys for those who have already signed up uh let me know if you guys are come across any issues um any problems i will work really hard to get them fixed within a few hours hopefully. I'm going to be working on a few of these fixes that we have already found and we hope to catch you guys. We want to kind of do a stream once a week or maybe once every two weeks on here talking about anything new that we put in. I think every two weeks is better. And just seeing and checking in with people and seeing how everything is going. We love seeing you guys. I hope you guys have a fantastic evening, fantastic rest of your day. And we plan on catching you guys here in about two weeks and seeing what and all we can do in post and how far we can go together. Y'all have a wonderful rest of your day. Go game, guys. Go level up.

This is the full, unedited Twitch VOD from the official launch of Next Level Together — a creator-first platform built to support streamers beyond the stream.

During this live launch, we talk honestly about:
– Creator burnout and mental health
– Being brushed off by bigger creators when asking for help
– Why community matters more than numbers
– Building something meaningful in public
– And why Next Level Together exists in the first place

This stream is raw, emotional, and real. No scripts. No polish. Just two creators talking about what it’s really like to try, fail, and keep going anyway.

If you’re a streamer, VTuber, content creator, or someone who’s ever thought “why even try?” — this is for you.

💜 Next Level Together was built for creators who want support, not gatekeeping.

▶️ Clips and highlights from this stream are also available as Shorts.
🌱 Learn more about the project and community here:
https://www.nextleveltogether.com

Thank you for being here. You’re not alone.

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