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Told my girlfriend I want to go full time streaming and now she's barely talking to me
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There was a time when people worried kids were too obsessed with phones and gaming, then the kids just turned those obsessions into “careers” and left everyone else scrambling to pretend they understand why instagram bios say UGC creator/Brand Ambassdor and what these terms even mean. This is not a story about chasing a dream, it is a story about chasing a dream while also expecting your girlfriend to treat it like a real job you have already secured.
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So this guy has been streaming for two years, built a following that sounds like a solid Discord server, and now thinks he has unlocked some invisible level where “going full time” means he gets to swap his 60k job for a laptop with a webcam and a donation button. He has a plan, kind of: keep saving, add freelance editing on the side, ignore the fact that full‑time streaming is usually where the money goes down, not up, and hope the girlfriend just nods along while he redefines responsibility in real time. When he finally drops this at dinner, she hits him with a torrent of “how” questions, which is the adult version of “do you have a plan” instead of “congratulations,” and he gets defensive because he conflates skepticism with betrayal.
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The girlfriend is not exactly blameless. If someone tells you they want to try something that could change your shared life, the nuclear option is usually not the first move. She goes quiet, freezes the conversation, then lets the cold war stretch for a day and a half because talking through transitions is apparently more exhausting than imagining a future where rent is paid by Edited Clips & Vibes Inc. She does not get a pass for pretending her silence is some kind of moral high ground, especially when both of them clearly treated the whole topic like a trapdoor instead of a discussion.
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The real joke is that they are both acting like career pivots are spontaneous proposals, not something that should be trailed, talked through, and negotiated like any other big life change. The guy is not being reckless, he is being optimistic with a spreadsheet and a blind spot, and the girlfriend is not being unsupportive, she is being quietly terrified of becoming the default financial parent in a relationship that now comes with a dream‑job subtitle. Somewhere between his “I’ve got a plan” and her “I need to think,” they both forgot that adulting is less about chasing dreams and more about convincing the people who love you that you are not about to quit your job to live off Super Chats and good intentions.
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