#vtuber tips

FIRST

if you’ve never used IFTTT before, here’s a quick refresher!

IFTTT stands for If This, Then That. Basically, it’s a no-code way of telling platforms what to do and how to do it so that tasks are accomplished without you ever having to think about it.

There are two sections to this:

Naturally, If This runs first. Then That runs next.

Both of these sections can be any platform action that IFTTT supports. In our case, we want Twitch, Tumblr, and Discord to be supported. Thankfully, it does!

Ingredients are a core aspect of IFTTT and they represent the various elements of the specified platform. If you click “Add Ingredient” you can see the range of options to choose from and customize. In regards to Twitch, this would be things like when the stream started, what game’s being played, the channel name, etc. All these things are considered Ingredients which are used in your “recipe” to create the final result.

Let’s put this into practice and start with our first example:

Twitch to Tumblr

Here’s the command I’ve created:

I’ve set this up so that everytime I go live on twitch, I want it to make a Go Live post on tumblr without me ever having to log into tumblr and make a post mid-stream.

I’ve also set mine to wait 1hr30 before posting because I like to chat with my viewers for a bit, y’know catch up with them etc. before jumping straight into the game but that’s just me.

The twitch section is self-explanatory. You just connect your twitch account if you haven’t already. There are other scenarios here so feel free to experiment!

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As for the tumblr section..

As you can see, HTML is accepted in the caption section so if you wanna jazz it up even more, feel free! For me, I didn’t like that ChannelUrl would post an ifttt link so I forced it to include a direct link to my twitch channel instead.

That’s about it for that applet. Just make sure the little slider shows as Connected and you’re good to go!

NEXT..

Tumblr to Discord

Method 1

The link: https://help.tumblr.com/hc/en-us/articles/4421081082775-Discord-Webhooks

Method 2

So what I’ve done here is a basic command where I’ve specified it to only post in a specific discord channel when I textpost on tumblr with a specific tag in order to avoid spamming it with countless reblogs. Basically have it act as a second twitter so my community can keep up with the essentials!

This is how I’ve set up the tumblr section, note the specific tag included:

And then here’s how I set up the discord section. I will say it was tempting to include other things like PostTitle and PostTags so do note those options and more are available to you (by clicking Add Ingredient), but for my purposes I felt less was more in this circumstance:

This is what my #tumblr discord channel looks like:

And you’re done! Just like the previous applet, make sure the little slider shows as Connected and you’re good to go!