"Mini Painting" or "Miniatures" Should be a Category
"Mini Painting" is a distinct and vibrant community on Twitch, but it does not have a logical 'Category' home on twitch. This community is currently divided amongst a handful of existing categories which are each misleading or overly general.
"Mini Painting" streams are easily recognized by an overhead shot of hands painting miniatures for RPGs, Board Games, Tabletop Wargames, or for display. These streams often have a secondary face-cam, and possibly even a third camera for a paint palette. They are a distinct type of content. Typically there are close to 1000 concurrent viewers watching content creators from the Mini Painting community.
The easiest way for Twitch to support this branch of content is to give it an appropriate name. "Mini Painting" is my suggestion, but "Miniatures Painting" or "Miniatures" also give the correct idea.
This community is currently split between existing categories such as "warhammer," "art," "makers and crafting," and "just chatting." This hurts discoverability for mini painters. They are all overly broad, and they are often misleading.
Please, Please, PLEASE add "Mini Painting" as a category. :-)
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navigatornick commented
I struggle to find new miniature builders, painters, and players on twitch so I search for new things on YouTube.
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RogalDave commented
BUT, how is it not a category yet?!
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venomousklyntar commented
Please and Thank-you
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WarSmithPaint commented
We need a proper tag Twitch, it's an easy win!
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Blackfox_Kitsune commented
there used to be a category for Miniature painting, then in Twitches infantine un-wisdom you seemed to tag all mini painting as Warhammer, while the table top Warhammer and 40k ARE mini's not all mini's are games workshop and forge world owned. there is D&D, multiple other war games and all kinds of other miniatures that get painted they do not all belong to games workshop.
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PronounsInMyBio commented
I don't see why this isn't a separate category already; its a fully community-supported network of folks who ONLY paint minis.
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Gilboy3 commented
Feels like a no-brainer. Everyone wins.
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FaintMouse commented
This absolutely should be a category. I have no idea why it isn't already one. Come on Twitch, make this happen!
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IronTeranz commented
Getting rid of Creative and the subcategories made discoverability of mini painters or finding the right place to stream difficult. As someone who mostly paints Star Wars Legion and Marvel Crisis Protocol finding the right category to stream in feels daunting because I don't want to misrepresent myself.
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Zambies commented
Yes yes yes! a Miniatures, or miniatures art category would be great. Miniature painting, sculpting and gaming can all live happily there. Instead of being spread out through warhammer, d&d, art, makers and crafting and etc.
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JpGotrokkits commented
While you're at it how about adjusting your algorithm to start pushing regular streamers harder. I've been doing this twice a week for nearly two years and if I were on any other platform my growth would be far greater than it is here. Growth allows me to reach more individuals with sage hobby advice.
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JpGotrokkits commented
Miniatures Painting needs a unified category. When I paint miniatures, I don't always paint Warhammer, but when I paint Warhammer I always paint miniatures. We don't need a "Warhammer" category, nor a "Battletech" category, unless those companies are willing to provide monetary considerations for each painter that paints in their category. Miniatures Painting should be the category with those as hashtags, not categories.
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rodsur commented
Yeah, it would be great to have this category!
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AsmodaeusSoulpyre commented
Let us find our people!
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SpookyJamez commented
I agree. It's confusing to have to go to Art, D&D and Warhammer when you're looking for mini painters. Let's make it a category!
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emmaradfordd commented
These mini really caught my interest.
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lolal_danee commented
yes please!
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AwkwardishPanda commented
Mini and model building/painting can fall into so many categories, Art, Warhammer, Board Games, Makers and Crafting, Dungeons and Dragons, etc. It would help the community greatly to have a blanket category we can all participate in and find one another through.
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brianandrewparker commented
We've got bees and we're goin' on a crusade!
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TabletopMinions commented
Needed for years. This isn't hard, Twitch.