Merch?!?!

I'm so excited to expand my merch line. I personally MAKE all my brand merch at my workshop. I am open to talking about opportunities to make merchandise for you or your brand as well. I've got a wide variety of items I can print on and make uniquely yours. I can design things for you or you can bring me your designs you have already made or had made for you as long as you have the rights to reproduce it :-)

The link to the merch shop is here: Merch Shop but feel free to contact me 

I'd like to just show off some stuff, because I'm really happy with what I do and how things have turned out!

Streaming Gear

I just wanted to take a minute and write down some of the items I'm using for streaming and gaming. All these links are my personal Amazon Associate links to the products I use for streaming.

These are my affiliate links, in which I earn from qualifying purchases at no cost to you! Please consider using my links to purchase anything on Amazon!

Camera

Microphone

Ring Light

Headset

Controller

Xbox Series X

Nintendo Switch

Pink & Green Protector Case w/ Screen Protector

Nintendo Switch Wireless Controller

Television

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Adventures In Streaming

By now it should be common knowledge that I've been live streaming gaming content on Twitch, Youtube and Facebook. This has been such an adventure for me. An adventure that I didn't know if I would be able to make something of or not. I still don't know if I can, but I'm trying and that's alright, you know?

I know a lot of people who are doing this use the money to pay their bills, which is totally cool. While I may not be there yet, I do earn a little bit and as that money is not part of my monthly budget, I had been saving it and using it on upgrades for a better viewing experience.

I purchased a prebuilt PC from Best Buy on Black Friday. That was the biggest purchase. I saved all my tips, bits and payouts from the moment I got my first payment from Twitch. I saved them up for that, and I just purchased some new ram for said PC with my most recent payout. While I know this PC isn't the best, what I was working with before was just too underpowered for what I was trying to do with it so I really needed to get something that would produce what people are accustomed to seeing on stream.

The last thing I did with the remainder of the money I have earned streaming, was that I paid a close friend who has been doing graphic work, to make up an intro that I'd been visualizing. With that intro I made a new channel trailer that can be seen on twitch and facebook.

I have spent the better part of a year trying this "streaming" thing out, and you know what? It's alright, I'm having fun, making new friends and learning new things! I wouldn't call myself and artist but I have learned a lot about graphics and video editing. I'm learning about branding and marketing too. Many skills I have learned along the way are skills that can and probably will help me with so many other adventures, should I choose those paths.

I'm going to keep at it and see where it takes me :-)

Growing

I began streaming to mixer in April to play some party games with my friends. It was convenient to be able to stream it straight from my console to the internet with basically no set up. After some encouragement from a friend I started streaming on a schedule at the beginning of May. By the time Mixer announced that they were ditching us to Facebook Gaming, I had nearly reached 100 followers and it really felt like a slam in the face.

Feeling like had to start all over, I went to check out FBG. I had a page with nearly all of the requirements met for monetization. To complete it, all I had to do was, actually stream to it. I did a few and realized that the base of friends and fans I'd built there did not give a lick of shit to me or my stream. I'm monetized, and to keep it, I must continue to stream to that platform. It doesn't feel like it's very discoverable, that's for sure. I will keep working on it I suppose.

I had previously signed up for twitch in hopes of getting my username - I did not. Yet again I've lost my name to someone who signed up to have the name and not actually use the account. I have spent much more time streaming to Twitch now, because I'm growing faster there. This present moment, I've grown faster on Twitch than I did on Mixer even. I am at nearly 80 followers and it hasn't even been 1 month. Although, some people did follow me from Mixer.

I had YouTube already, but I'm still not sure about that. I know I should, I just don't know what to do about it lol. I tried the YT thing last summer with the garden but I guess that content was terrible lol.

Speaking about the garden, it's looking quite nice and bearing fruit (cucumbers and lettuce so far). It's starting to fill up and I've already made my plan for next year and how I'm going to do things better. I believe I have 8 tomato plants and close to 20 cucumber plants. I plan on making ALL of the pickles and ALL of the tomato sauce. I really want to step up my canning this year.

That's it, that's all. Thanks for stopping in!

Highlight: One In The Chamber be broken

While I'm at it, I took another jump and joined Twitch and started streaming to YouTube as well, cuz why not?

Welcome Mixer

SHHHH... You've unlocked the super secret site of Cyreks.

I just wanted to leave something up here to say hello to anyone that visits my site from Mixer. First of all, a big THANK YOU for visiting and I hope you follow me on Mixer and social media platforms.

There's a bunch of content here if you want to browse through and get to know me. Mostly it's just a collection of my thoughts throughout time, and includes my hobbies and interests and various things I've been a part of.

Enjoy!