Wes Huber

@GamingOnRumble @MasteringRumble @rumblevideo I have been part of the Creator Program since the very first month it started. I came to Rumble because @thelumpypotato spoke so highly about the platform and the gaming community being built here. I believed in it. I bought into the vision. Since day one I have collaborated, showed up for community events, supported other creators, networked, raided, and worked my ass off just to prove one thing: I AM WHO I SAY I AM. I’m Kammie Kamz. I play Call of Duty and Warzone. I smoke hella weed. I drink gallons of coffee (that’s my energy drink 😂☕). I’m not trying to be anybody else. Last year broke me in ways people will never understand. My brother passed away in June. My mom passed away one month later in July. Then this March my mother-in-law and her sister were brutally murdered in Chicago Heights. Before all of that, I had momentum. I was growing. I was pushing. But real life happened. I had to step away, and my numbers took a hit (yet I stayed in this program never missed a month). I stopped being recommended for Editor’s Picks. That was their choice and I respect that. But over these last few months watching everything unfold, I realized something sad: When you refuse to pick a side, somehow you become the enemy. People say they respect neutrality. They say, “just network, support, show up, be part of the community.” So that’s exactly what I did. I flew around Rumble as a VIEWER supporting people. I joined chats. I raided. I connected. I built relationships. Now suddenly the same things we were told to do are being called pointless unless you are connected to the right side? WHAT IS THIS? AMERICA IN GAMING? “Pick the Republican side if you want to win.” “Pick the Democrat side if you want to win.” And if you are independent? You lose? That mindset is pathetic. Right now, it feels like those same creators are slowly being pushed underwater, creators like @Rallied and @GritsGG still show me love. They smile when I come into their streams. They acknowledge me. They treat me like a human. AND THEY RAID ME... So again… I DID EVERYTHING PEOPLE SAID TO DO. Just to watch people turn around and talk down on those same things. If it wasn’t for people like Nunya, there were moments I would have said screw streaming altogether. I don’t have the best setup. I don’t have a $5,000 computer. I don’t have editors. I don’t have a team behind me. I push out what I can with what I have. I worked hard hoping one day I could improve my setup because improving my setup improves what I can give back as a creator. I asked questions. I asked for help like people told us to do. Only to watch people downplay smaller creators because we don’t have professional production behind us. It’s okay though. For the most part, I enjoyed being one of Rumble’s builders. But it hurts because it feels like people like me were given hope that this was different… just to watch it slowly become the same thing we were told other platforms were. Pay attention. Some people getting opportunities now are creators who spent time talking bad about Rumble on other platforms before there was money involved. I get it. Money talks. Now onto the new requirements. 75 chatters. 500 watch hours. Cool. I barely hit 300 watch hours some months. That’s on me too. I will always hold myself accountable. This is a 50/50 problem. But my biggest issue is not just the numbers. It’s the things I feel nobody is talking about. #1 — The Raid Requirement We have to raid out 5 people. Easy. No problem. BUT… When we raid, viewers get the choice to opt in or out. That defeats the entire purpose of a raid. If a bigger creator raids me with thousands of viewers and only 5-6 people actually come over… how exactly is that helping smaller creators grow? What is the real benefit of making raids a requirement if the system itself limits the impact? #2 — Chat Requirements vs TV Viewers This one really bothers me. If you increase chatter requirements, did anyone factor in that a massive part of your viewer base watches on the TV app? They can WATCH. They cannot CHAT. How do you raise chat requirements when your own platform experience prevents some viewers from participating? That feels like setting creators up to fail. I can have 60-100 viewers sitting with me but only 1-2 chatting. So, what does that mean? Are the others fake? Are they TV viewers? Are they lurking? Creators shouldn’t be punished because viewers consume content differently. Growth is good. Higher standards are good. A platform SHOULD evolve. But Rumble’s whole message was supposed to be about giving smaller creators a chance. Right now, it feels like those same creators are slowly being pushed underwater. I’m not leaving Rumble. And yes, I’m sad knowing I probably won’t qualify under the new requirements. But people also need to understand something: That couple hundred dollars a month I made mattered. ( IT HELPS PAY FOR MY FATHERS MEDS) Maybe that’s nothing to some people. But you don’t know my life outside streaming. I am a caregiver for my 91-year-old father, a Korean War veteran who has been fighting battles with the VA. I help care for his 87-year-old wife who has broken her hip and back within the last 8 months. Since my mother passed, I had to move my stepdad in because he is legally blind, so I also take care of him. I am a mother. A grandmother. A wife. A certified foster parent. Someone VERY active in my community. I remember when merit meant something. When being real meant something. Now it feels like you either sell your soul, sell yourself (OF), or create nonstop drama to get attention. And that’s not me. I WORKED HARD TO BECOME WHO I AM. I survived loss. I overcame addiction. (14YRS SOBER) I battled through things that should have destroyed/KILLED me. I fight every day to keep my PTSD under control. So, thank you Rumble and thank you to the Rumble community (if we can still call it that) for giving me a space and giving me hope. I truly cannot wait to watch some of the amazing creators I’ve grown to love succeed with these new requirements. But let’s also be real… Higher requirements don’t automatically mean creators are getting paid more. The more things that were added, the more my monthly income dropped, even though my numbers today are better than when I first started. I am happy for Rumble. I’m happy for @chrispavlovski , @ric_rac , and everyone seeing success. But I am also sad because it feels like the little creators who helped build this are being forgotten. Not everyone is trying to turn this into a million-dollar career. Some people do this as a side hustle. Some people do this because it gives them purpose. Some people do this because that extra income changes their real life. I said it before and I will say it again: A REAL creator program should have tiers. Especially when the promise was always that the small creators mattered too. Because right now, from the outside looking in, it feels like what every other platform eventually does: The small creators build it… Then the big names benefit from it. I still love Rumble. I still believe in what it could be. But I hope somebody remembers the people who believed before it was popular. — Kammie Kamz 💚💜