"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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RuffLuckGames commented
One category for painting miniatures isn't a huge ask either. It's not like asking for a category for each game's miniatures. Similarly I would love to see a category for playing miniature wargames as they don't exactly fit Board Games or Tabletop RPGs categories. 2 simple additions that would allow our entire hobby and it's content.
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CraftyDogMinis commented
Had it happen a few times where I've been streaming under Warhammer and not painting Warhammer specific models and had people be a bit funny about it. Which is a little frustrating. A mini painting category would be perfect! If we can get a silly hot tub category then why not miniature painting!
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goff10 commented
il like "Miniatures" for painting of course but also 3d printing, Mini modeling, ....
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nuckelaveegaming commented
Always have to stream under warhammer but i never paint Warhammer models. need a better category
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sparkminis commented
yes! this will target our audiences and give the people what they want. Painting Miniatures or Miniature Painting
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CrazyNakedLime commented
+1
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Layson_Paints commented
As a Miniature painter streamer, our audience may not be as big as mainstream games but the ability for viewers to search a specific category would be awesome. Kick does it, Twitch should too.
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sbpart commented
Agree would love to see this as its own category. Let’s make it happen Twitch.
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nemo3538 commented
Would love to see this. With all the miniature content online, it should have its own category.
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teenytinyvictories commented
please Twitch! it's daft not to have Miniatures as it's own thing
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shadowrealms1267 commented
It just makes way more sense.
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BlueNine85 commented
So absolutely necessary! It's so frustrating to not have a section for this.
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EtherForge commented
I agree feels bad streaming to warhammer and painting something else lol
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DrRhino_ commented
for the love of god twitch please. PLEASE.
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DodgeHowell commented
Miniature painting is the main reason I have a Twitch account. I also subscribe to Twitch Turbo and to channels because of miniature painting. I would love if it had its own category.
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waltersworkshop commented
There have been requests for 'Miniatures' as a category before, and other streaming services have implemented this. There's a niche but passionate community of miniature painters, sculptors, gamers, and more that would finally be able to connect much better if this were a possibility.
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rexsoleil commented
I wholeheartedly agree ! voted !
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ElsieBluHobbies commented
This absolutely should be a thing. It'll be so much better instead of lumping it all under warhammer
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YorkMorgan commented
101% Behind this. Fantastic idea!
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Mini_Mommy commented
I agree with this 100% miniature painting is a huge hobby and covers multiple categories, streamers find themself constantly changing categories to fit what they are working on (one day you're painting warhammer, but the next it may be a giant d&d dragon) these categories are not tailored to our niche so we get buried and viewers struggle to find us, this kills streamers discoverability and causes frustration for viewers who would likely hang around longer on twitch if the content they are looking for is in one place.