So guys... big news for the channel! You might have heard of it, might not, but recently Twitch was beginning to roll out a feature called Twitch Affiliates. There are Twitch Partners, who receive the ability for streamers to subscribe to them for $5 a month and get a bonus set of emotes to use across all of Twitch. They also get ad revenue and money from things called "bits," which you can earn either by paying for them or watching ads for them and then use them to "cheer" in a partner's chat.
Affiliates are like Partner Lite; they don't get subscription buttons or ad revenue, but you can cheer for them. They get once cent per bit; so for instance, 100 bits is a dollar.
I was watching for other streamers I knew to get invited to this program, particularly TeamUDF, possibly Eppy, and a couple others I watch including Mystakin and Diezal. I did not expect myself to get an invite; I didn't think I qualified! But it's all set up now, and I really owe it to all of my viewers from here and elsewhere, so thanks to all of you for miraculously making this happen!
If you're curious about bits and want to show support sometime, here's the guide for it. I'm hoping I don't become the only PureZC streamer to become an affiliate, so definitely keep an eye out for some of our other fellow members and see if they achieve this status. And now I'm going to go live right away.
... maybe tomorrow. But I definitely am going to stream more, just so I can stay worthy of this status.