I stream a couple times a week in my spare time and typically don't have a ton of time to make clips for things like YT shorts or Tiktok.

I've been an affiliate for about 4 years at this point, have 450 followers and currently still rarely crack above 2 average viewers per-stream.

I've spent money upgrading my setup to improve my audio output, try to make my layout all nice, upgraded my PNG to a proper VTuber model etc. and doesn't seem to have helped a lot (although I do like how my stream looks/sounds at least).

I'm not trying to become some big streamer or anything, would just be nice to have a few folks to chat to when I'm streaming.

Are things like Tiktok, YT, Twitter shorts etc. really significant for bringing potential viewers in considering how saturated Twitch is as a platform.