2026-08-312026-08-312026-07-23FERNANDES, Robson Gomes. “Só não pode parar de sorrir”: a precariedade silenciosa no trabalho de streaming. Orientador: Leonardo Ribeiro da Cruz. 2026. 44 f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Bacharelado em Ciências Sociais) - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém, 2026. Disponível em: https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/10048. Acesso em:.https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/10048This monograph aims to examine labor relations within the streaming service Twitch, currently considered the largest streaming platform. Our objective is to outline the socio-historical process that laid the foundation for the service's current status, as well as the monetization mechanisms that generate income for those engaged in this line of work, while connecting these aspects to sociological theories such as those proposed by Biazzi (2025) and Antunes (2020, 2022). Streaming work—particularly game streaming—involves a series of contradictions that blend the operational dynamics of "Platform Capitalism" with a "leisure-as-work" concept distinct from other similar occupations; this results in a pursuit of professional, personal, and economic satisfaction set against a backdrop of eroding labor rights and the shift toward independent contracting (or *pejotização*) (Antunes, 2020). This workforce of precarious laborers spans both sectors of this new model of underemployment; although the specific tools of the trade differ, the inconsistent rhetoric of "partnership"—used to mask underlying contradictions—remains constant. Because these platforms offer no job security, workers are constantly at the mercy of monetization schemes that can shift at any moment as the platform seeks new profit avenues—exploiting the worker in a manner akin to the extraction of relative surplus value (Marx, 1988). Thus, when comparing this with other companies that share this same mode of capital accumulation, our research hypothesis suggests that—whether in app-based delivery work or in streaming—analysis of the Brazilian context points to a similar phenomenon: the consolidation of a business model that exploits deregulation to render labor precarious and to concentrate income and data from both performers and audiences (Wagner, 2021).Acesso AbertoPrecariedadeTrabalhoStreamingCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIATrabalho de Curso - Graduação - MonografiaAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazil