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THE TAP - Come, All Ye Incompetent

Every Quote of the week in 2018

12/31/2018

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  • "You've seen elf on the shelf but have you seen Trey under the desk?!" -GamerSmack January 3rd
  • "Eventually the multi mondays will devolve into Rex just handing Trey an unplugged controller and telling him that he's actually playing." -Kymiras January 8th
  • "Oh hey, it's Trey does nothing useful for a few hours: the stream" -NervousBird January 15
  • "It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits." -n8whiteshark January 22nd 
  • "Oh look, it's that guy who looks like all the other guys but with a different hair length." -DoctorBobson Feb 5th 
  • "A week without Trey is like a week without work. It's a huge relief at first but then you run out of things to do." -scrabblezard feb 12th 
  • "Trey you ruined christmas and it's only february." -EP Feb 19th
  • "Trey is like a clearance bin Tony Stark." -EP Feb 26th 
  • "You could go into a gaming competition as the only competitor and still come second." -NervousBird March 5th 
  • "Please use code 'thetapstream' to make the purchase process much harder than it needs to be." -TheCzar March 12th
  • "I'm too damned competitive to let anyone hate me more than myself." -TacoMan March 19th
  • "TheTapStream. It's not being bad at video games. It's falling in style." -N8WhiteShark March 26th
  • "The Rumor comes out: Does Trey thetapstream is rude." -QSwordWielder April 2
  • "QOTW = "Trey is dumb" but in a wittier way." -Nervousbird April 9
  • "Trey the king of references and the king of not remembering them."-Kiko_Senpai April 16
  • "Trey you can do anything! Don't let your IQ hold you back." -Joltyawn April 23rd 
  • "That blue shell ruined my life. I now have no money to take care of my family and I have to file for bankruptcy." -morninfrost/SunFlows april 30th
  • "Oh I thought we were talking about shaggy the musician but I guess it wasn't him." -MorninFrost/SunFlows May 7th
  • "Games and movies are like a good glass of milk, best when unspoiled." -gingerthekid2746 may 21st
  • "One time a buddy and I had a big crowd around us playing air hockey, thought it was so cool. In reality it was probably just a line." -Jhubbit may 29th
  • "My existence is a donger." -Aero_Ken June 4th 
  • "Canadians used to bottle their feelings inside beavers. That's where the word damn comes from." -Doctorbobson June 11th 
  • "I want to offer an encouraging 'you got this' but I feel like that will jinx you." -tiredbeenzino June 18th 
  • "I am infinite, I am all. I am unlimited bread sticks at Olive Garden." -N8 June 25th 
  • "Pick up the flute, classy yet sassy." -TiredBeenzino July 2nd 
  • "New phone hubris?" -Aero_Ken July 9th
  • "Guy Fieri is the secret optional boss. You have to find flavortown" -EP July 16th
  • "I also said I'd be an astronaut but here I am, still speaking lies." -GamerSmack July 20th
  • "In West Virginia born and raised, on the fallout is where I spent most of my day." -Kiko July 23rd
  • "Trey, I never expect progress, I just celebrate it when it happens." -EP August 6th 
  • "You can take my emote but you'll never take my donger!"-Kiko_Senpai August 12th 
  • "I always get excited for my first shit of the new year." -n8whiteshark August 20th
  • "You're not an idiot, you're our idiot." -Aero_Plane Sept 3
  • "they say failure is the best teacher and I know nothing."-Hrothmar Sept 10th
  • "It's called fantasy football cause I want the bears to win." -Kiko_Senpai Sept 17th
  • "There's no amount of pizza that I could eat that I would regret." -Sept 24th
  • "the real song lyrics are the one made up along the way." -thekey147 October 1st 
  • "Did you climb the wrong zeus yet?" -doctorbobson october 8
  • "If life gives you lemons, then something went wrong in the cereal packaging." -Kiko_Senpai October 15th 
  • "I watch a guy scream at a game for four hours." -Bubblzdancer October 22nd
  • "Sunday without sprinkles is just a looming reminder of a monday." -Kiko_Senpai November 5th 
  • "If Trey doesn't show up in 15 mins I'm legally allowed to unfollow" -EP November 12th
  • "When a shootout happens everyone Trey is aiming at is completely safe" -JHubbit November 19th
  • "So would Hrothermar's Soup restaurant be called Brothmar?" -EP November 26th 
  • "Joltyawn used sports reference! Trey is confused!" -DoctorBobson December 3rd
  • "You're not an idiot Trey, you just allocate whatever genius you have in the worst way." -AeroPlane December 11th 
  • "My first favorite food is free, my second favorite is fresh LUL." -TheKey147 December 17th
  • "Trey is like the mall santa that kids either love or cry." -Kiko_Senpai December 26th 
  • "Why get thinner when you can get more dinner" -TheRed Menace December 31st 
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This Still On?

12/28/2018

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So keeping up with a weekly blog didn't turn out to be so weekly after all. That's okay. You're here now and while I have you I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you. Depending on when you read this, today is my three year anniversary. I know. I'm surprised too. My history has like a 2 year commitment max, but this little Tap experience just turned 3. We're officially in 'setting the bar,' territory and let me tell you that that's equal parts cool and scary. Things have changed since the last time I wrote so I'm gonna do my best to fill you in and thank you for this year. This blog post comes in bulk.  

Of all years, season 3 of TheTapStream has been the most humbling. I took the most amount of time off than any previous year. I hit a lot of walls mentally and even questioned whether or not I wanted to keep at this or hang it up. (Told you it was a 2 year max level of commitment for me.) In many ways I felt that I regressed as an entertainer. I kept wrestling with this question, 'How do I know the difference between quitting and knowing when to move on from something that's not working?" That question haunted me on so many sleepless nights this year. We've covered imposter syndrome in previous blogs so I won't go down that road again, but you get the idea of where I've been at my lows this year. So yeah, consider this guy humbled.  Luckily, all stories need their protagonists to be humbled otherwise Woody never sets aside his differences to become friends with Buzz. Marlin never learns to trust Dory even when he's afraid of letting go. Peter Parker never learns that his strength is more than the gadgets in his suit. 

Spoilers for those movies by the way. The main takeaway is that I know I'll look back on this year as a turning point for me. I really had to dig in and reflect on who I am as a streamer and what my ultimate goal is. I want to be a content creator. I want this to be my job. Plain and simple. When I say humbled it's more than just taking gut punches, it's also about recognizing the time scale that I'm working with. I've spent the last three years learning how to be a great streamer. I've only spent one of those years really pushing to make sure that content is being put in front of eyeballs. I've only spent a fraction of that time learning external skills such as video editing, photoshopping, and social media management to accompany what I'm making. I haven't even begun to tackle the business strategies that I've internally referred to as 'we'll cross that bridge when we get there.' Yeah. I've got a lot to learn. 3 years is a long time, but in the grand scheme of things I'm just getting started. Even more so now that I've made the move to Mixer. Oh yeah. That's one of the 'things have changed,' tidbits from the first paragraph.

Moving to Mixer was the hardest thing I've done this year. Streaming and Twitch were synonymous to me when I got started. When I envisioned what success meant, it meant becoming a Twitch partner and rising through the ranks on Twitch. It was all I knew given how limited my scope of success was. Listening to established full time streamers put me on a different path. Specifically, ProfessorBroman was the one who shouted from the rooftops that anyone seeking full time status should be seriously starting on Mixer, citing "Mixer is where Twitch was when they got started." Making the move to Mixer would have been easier if it all it meant was redefining my idea of success. What made it so hard to move was that this project isn't just me anymore. We're a community. You reading this. We're apart of this weird thing called TheTapStream. Making that decision meant seriously disrupting the ecosystem we created together. Whenever I describe what streaming means to me I'm quick to mention that it's an honor that you, the community members, have allowed me to become a daily routine in your life. That's what this means to me and asking you to change that was, is, and always will be more than I should and could ask of you. But I did anyway. 

Time is the only way we'll find out if Mixer is the right move for me. What I did learn? How fucking fortunate I am to be surrounded by the people in this community. There's no sentence I can write that will adequately convey just how much it means to me every time I see a familiar face hop into the stream now that we've made this move. Even if only for a moment. Kiko can't even view the stream without going into audio only mode and they're still there just about every stream. (<3) That's not even beginning to touch on joining the Mixer community and finding new faces that I admire and respect. Streamers who have helped inspire and reevaluate my process. New community members who help shape the culture and what we're doing. We've all coalesced into this group of people who genuinely care about each other and that above else is special. When I searched for a stream channel name I called it TheTapStream because it was always supposed to be bigger than myself. 3 years later TheTapStream is all of you. Everyone of you that tunes into share your highlights. Everyone of you that tunes in even when you don't have a highlight but lean on the community to get you through days that aren't as easy. Everyone of you that lift me up on days where mental walls seem insurmountable or gut punches feel swifter than before. You all are good people.  Simply good people. I'm surrounded by good people and I have nothing to fear as long as you are around. 

So yeah, I'm extremely fortunate and it's not an understatement when I refer to my community as family. I'm often asked why I made the jump to Mixer and I'm always quick to list the reasons why growing with a platform is better than trying to push through the saturation on a more popular one. I'll say, "I'm not streaming on Mixer for what it is today, but for what it could be tomorrow." I'm taking my shot in hoping that Mixer will have a better tomorrow, but for now you, yes you, are making it a better today every day. So thank you. 
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Season three of TheTapStream is without a doubt the hardest one I've been through. I hit low lows and wrestled with the question "How do I know the difference between giving up and moving on from something that's not working?" I'm looking towards season four with a renewed sense of purpose. A new understanding that I'm going to have to take risks and gamble on things that may or may not work. A new understanding that the difference between giving up and moving on is not being afraid to try. Thank you for giving me that courage. Thank you for the year. Thank you making this home.

<3,
Trey
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    Trey Solis

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