Obviously most people are well aware of the more overt ways of supporting your favourite streamers such as donating bits or subscribing as well as following them and even shouting out about them on social media platforms, but there are some lesser known ways to support your favourite streamers which can have a big impact without costing you a single penny.
The first way of supporting your favourite streamers is by adding them to your autohost list, this will add their channel on your recommended streamers section on your profile as well as when they go live automatically hosting their channel to show off their content to your followers, as well as hosting your favourite streamers by typing /host in your channel while they are live as an alternative if you don’t have them automatically hosted. This isn’t to be confused with raiding which also is great, but autohosting itself is a very underrated tool which can create a large impact, obviously raiding at the end of your stream and carrying over your viewership to another channel is also a great way to help out another streamer, especially if you participate with a raid command for your chat and hang around for a while.
Another major way of supporting a channel is by lurking in channels, if you’re doing other things and don’t have the time to participate and pay full attention lurking can make a big difference as adding just that one extra view to the count pushes the channel further up the recommended list and makes it more likely to be noticed, and if you want to support someone but really can’t even watch leaving the tab muted but not the video adds to the viewcount and helps support a streamer and bring in other viewers which otherwise might not notice the channel. Obviously talking and participating in chat also helps immensely but we’re talking about the underrated and undernoticed ways of supporting a channel, and every extra lurk adds up and really does help support the channel greatly.
The last of the underrated ways to support a twitch channel is by clipping entertaining moments during a stream. Obviously a streamer could do this themselves after a stream, but it’s a great idea to clip often things you find entertaining in any channel especially smaller ones, and taking the time to give it an appropriate title and edit the length properly is ideal. This not only shows what you’re finding entertaining as opposed to just what the streamer may have done, it creates a way of discovering the channel in itself through the popular clips section, and if you share this around you help advertise the streamer. A streamer may also wish to use these in a variety of forms from creating intro’s and highlight video’s to using these for youtube shorts and tiktoks. The most important thing is that you’re showing the streamer which moments you’re particularly enjoying and finding entertaining and they can also use this to recreate more entertaining and fun moments in the future based upon what the viewership is enjoying most, and seeing these clips is a good feedback of what was the best parts of a stream.
As a bonus and a follow on to clips is using !addquote to add quotes in chat for funny moments, which chat can then randomly trigger by typing !quote in chat. Not every stream has this enabled as it’s done through cloudbot but for those channels that do it can be fun to quote entertaining moments during the stream, or just something said completely out of context that can be triggered through a quote command later, it adds to the fun of a stream and creates more engaging ways to participate in the chat, so if you witness something silly or something that would sound fun out of context don’t be afraid to quote it.