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Kailey Kbubblez Hankins has been a full-time streamer for the last four years. She first went viral from a video of her dad scolding her live on Twitch in 2017.
The biggest misconceptions about how to make it in her profession, she said, include retaining viewers, the time commitment, equipment requirements, and income expectations.
Hankins lived in a streamer house in Austin, Texas, for a year, and was in the January 7 premiere of MTV s Revenge Pranks.
Challenges to the job include the distance from family while in a streaming house, ongoing pressure to entertain, and the constant trolling, which wreaked havoc on her self-esteem for the first few years.