Evalia Spends a Stream Getting Instagram and Facebook Live Alongside YouTube

ALGORHYTHM PROJECT — Evalia, a virtual streamer with Algorhythm Project, used a Thursday stream to try broadcasting on several platforms at once. By the end she had live video running on Instagram and Facebook alongside YouTube. TikTok never worked.

She opened by saying that since she has accounts on many platforms, she wanted to stream to all of them, and that she had downloaded new software to do it. The stream key and server address were entered, but nothing appeared anywhere. She traced the trouble to the vertical canvas she wanted for Instagram. “I know where the problem is, but I don’t know how to fix it,” she said in the first quarter hour. She joked that she had overestimated her ability to do it alone, and described the stream as a fight against technology.

“Thank you all for coming to test the streaming system today.” — Evalia, as she signed off

Progress came in steps. Around the half-hour mark she announced a first viewer on Facebook, which she calls the “blue house” in the nicknames she uses for platforms. Instagram followed, and she asked viewers whether the picture was sharp. Partway through, someone helping from outside took control of her computer with her consent while she watched the mouse move on its own. “It feels like being hacked, with consent,” she said. She also worked on getting donation alerts to appear, and they began to trigger after viewers sent small tips as tests, a little before the hour-long mark.

Later she confirmed that Instagram was showing a vertical picture, and said that if nothing else worked, Instagram and Facebook would do for the day. She set TikTok aside, saying its own streaming tool demanded too much of her computer and that she was looking for a lighter way to do it. She said she had worked the setup out herself.

She then turned to singing, which she said she had not done in a long time and had not rehearsed for. She sang several songs to mark the result and told viewers a last song was coming before she left for a hot-pot dinner with someone who had invited her. She closed by calling the test a success and said she would be back soon, possibly later that night or the next day.