"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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JamieDaggers commented
Co-signed! I was waving this flag back in May, and your platform will inevitably reach further than mine! It’s silly that this is such a difficult process to implement!
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beto_brush commented
Signed! Scrolling through "Warhammer" to find painting streams takes away recognition from others
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JoJosChaoticQuest commented
Signed! Scrolling through "Warhammer" to find painting streams is unnecessary.
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garrth415 commented
Signed, definitely need more categories for stuff besides generic art and makers/crafting
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TuppyTheDucky commented
It’s infuriating for me as someone who spends a lot of time painting miniatures on stream not having a suitable category for it
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wilf_999 commented
There are a lot of miniature painting streamers. There should be a catagory for them, and to help people find them.
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CabeBedlam commented
Categories help build communities, please add this!