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Winter, A guy with 2k viewers for starcraft said he made $70k in the past year. Forsen who is in that picture usually has 17-30k viewers and pushes donations a lot without ever running ads. Honestly i thought he was making more than what is in that picture. I forget what he said the other day. I think he said he was nearing 3k subscribers which would top that number up a lot.

I watch twitch a lot and have noticed that streamers who average 2,000 viewers or more treat streaming as their primary full time job.

By virtue of their popularity many of them also get endorsements, donations and other perks to supplement their subscription/ad revenue from twitch.

Are you sure? I've never seen Forsen below 15,000 concurrent viewers. I would say 15,000 to 20,000 is his standard.