"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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gelatinous_rube commented
Absolutely. It's a diverse spectrum of a hobby that reaches across several games and communities.
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PaintingPirate commented
Absolutely. Grouping in with Art or Makers & Crafting is too vague for such a distinct and uniquely focused category.
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cypheroftyr commented
I concur. When I do mini painting I choose either Art or Warhammer but neither is accurate.
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GerboPotato commented
Good idea, will improve searchability :)
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lord_grimos commented
Here Here!
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Elle_Firespray commented
Much needed!
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NDimage commented
Yes please!
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woah77 commented
We need this.
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Timthesorcer3r commented
This is a wonderful community that deserves the full discoverability that Twitch can offer. Let's get this created!
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OhnoCreates commented
PLEASE. This is absolutely something we need. It is often not just asscoiated with simply painting them either - this includes assembly of these models and custom 3d-printed design work associated with them. This alone takes them more out of the " Art " category as it is not always just painting.
I vote " Miniatures " to include other aspects.
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fourtysixand2 commented
I have streamed on twitch for a number of years until recently. I stopped due to international move. I plan to go back to streaming once I move back home. This would be a fantastic addition to our community. It would make discoverability so much better for all of us that stream miniature painting.
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righty_streams_stuff commented
Make it so!
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wicked_minis commented
Been streaming for almost three years on twitch. Some others up to sevin years and more. Twitch only gave us the miniature figure keyword is all we got over the years. It would be fantastic if twitch would give us our own category. would be excellent to get all of the amazing content creators together in one place to share our miniatures together to our community. We have in my opinion the best community out here so let's all get on board and make this happen.
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Elitefirst commented
I’ve thought about this for ages - tbh there needs to be a category for miniature war games too.
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danieltrainorart commented
Warhammer is only a portion of the hobby community. Mini painting should be a category.
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Mini_Armory commented
This is an amazzzzzzing idea.
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the_highland_hobbyist commented
+100 I’m pretty new to the scene and was flabbergasted this wasn’t a thing!
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ChrisV commented
This would really help discoverability. Twitch Creative was a great thing for this and I wish it had never gone away. Since it's gone, though, having a category for miniatures and/or miniature painting would be great.
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DennisDeMennies commented
This is the hobby I'm only interested in, we need this category.
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rockrspaniel commented
So there's a pools, hot tubs & beaches category but nothing for a legitimately interesting hobby/craft as mini painting or miniatures in general 🤷