On the bright side, once you get enough subs, chat will be going too fast to even care about the plebs. Remember to like that channel and subscribe! And remember, the streamer is the center of all attention, and only they can trauma dump. It's a one way street, and you gotta pay for it
Most cases where I see streamers traumadump they just get gangstalked and bullied into worse and worse mental health, but maybe thats because I mainly pay attention to trans streamers.
Idk, in general I think all of these takes treating streamers like some sort of machiavellian social manipulators are weird, 99% of streamers arent fucking porky. Its fucking weird to go "Thats what you fucking get" at someone experiencing mental struggles due to the shit they have to deal with making a living, it just comes off very similar to "Boo hoo go get a real job building brick houses if playing video games is too hard for you" takes from shitty reactionaries IMO.
Word. I'm surprised to see people here being shitty about one of the most concrete examples of capitalist alienation and social disintegration in the modern world.
It's more that it's shitty for everyone involved, and I don't believe that within our current paradigm that it is going to change. Go ahead and ban the viewers sharing stuff, all it means is that theyre probably just going to keep struggling mentally. I don't see any real solutions for this
I mean yeah, but it still feels misguided to start making snide jokes and mocking the streamers themselves rather than the greater structures and platforms, like theres at least a couple of mid to high profile suicides among streamers every year basically.
Sure they might make a living out of doing streaming, but someone makes money from the transaction in pretty much any industry that pops up to handle social alienation and crushing loneliness. If streamers are working to try and make sure that their conditions are at least more bearable and less stressful then that seems like a good thing to me.
Ok but its not fucking Pewdiepie, Ninja and Destiny being interviewed here, its some guys named Rob Logan and Terrence Wiggins with less than 800 followers and who already take anxiety meds, and would like to be able to stream without having to be a therapist for people that unfortunately cant separate "casual hangout" with "closest friend Ive ever had"
And without having to then pay for a therapist of their own to avoid having a mental breakdown on camera and getting put on /r/livestreamfails to get gangstalked for it by some of the same poor lonely alienated souls.
Theres some real fucking kafkaesque stories of streamers who absolutely despise streaming and feel like its worsening their physical and mental health, but who are kept into streaming by the fact that enough people think its funny to spend money provoking them and watching them lose control of their emotions to clip and edit into funny montages so it remains the best financial option they have, essentially directly incentivising them to constantly decay and spiral further out of control.
The fabric of society is fraying and ripping right before our eyes, but the real tragedy is some dipshit streamer might have to feel obligated to actually perform the bare minimum amount of emotional labor for this new age busking.
This breaks his illusion that things are okay. Why can't his stream focus on what matters - him and what he has to say.
I want community but it has to make me money and also there can't be any obligation on my part is a perfect summary of neolib everything.
You want that sweet streaming money, you better be ready for parasocial relationships
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On the bright side, once you get enough subs, chat will be going too fast to even care about the plebs. Remember to like that channel and subscribe! And remember, the streamer is the center of all attention, and only they can trauma dump. It's a one way street, and you gotta pay for it
Most cases where I see streamers traumadump they just get gangstalked and bullied into worse and worse mental health, but maybe thats because I mainly pay attention to trans streamers.
Idk, in general I think all of these takes treating streamers like some sort of machiavellian social manipulators are weird, 99% of streamers arent fucking porky. Its fucking weird to go "Thats what you fucking get" at someone experiencing mental struggles due to the shit they have to deal with making a living, it just comes off very similar to "Boo hoo go get a real job building brick houses if playing video games is too hard for you" takes from shitty reactionaries IMO.
Word. I'm surprised to see people here being shitty about one of the most concrete examples of capitalist alienation and social disintegration in the modern world.
It's more that it's shitty for everyone involved, and I don't believe that within our current paradigm that it is going to change. Go ahead and ban the viewers sharing stuff, all it means is that theyre probably just going to keep struggling mentally. I don't see any real solutions for this
I mean yeah, but it still feels misguided to start making snide jokes and mocking the streamers themselves rather than the greater structures and platforms, like theres at least a couple of mid to high profile suicides among streamers every year basically.
Sure they might make a living out of doing streaming, but someone makes money from the transaction in pretty much any industry that pops up to handle social alienation and crushing loneliness. If streamers are working to try and make sure that their conditions are at least more bearable and less stressful then that seems like a good thing to me.
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Ok but its not fucking Pewdiepie, Ninja and Destiny being interviewed here, its some guys named Rob Logan and Terrence Wiggins with less than 800 followers and who already take anxiety meds, and would like to be able to stream without having to be a therapist for people that unfortunately cant separate "casual hangout" with "closest friend Ive ever had"
And without having to then pay for a therapist of their own to avoid having a mental breakdown on camera and getting put on /r/livestreamfails to get gangstalked for it by some of the same poor lonely alienated souls.
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Theres some real fucking kafkaesque stories of streamers who absolutely despise streaming and feel like its worsening their physical and mental health, but who are kept into streaming by the fact that enough people think its funny to spend money provoking them and watching them lose control of their emotions to clip and edit into funny montages so it remains the best financial option they have, essentially directly incentivising them to constantly decay and spiral further out of control.
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I feel called out because this is my exact relationship with reading the news.
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The fabric of society is fraying and ripping right before our eyes, but the real tragedy is some dipshit streamer might have to feel obligated to actually perform the bare minimum amount of emotional labor for this new age busking.
This breaks his illusion that things are okay. Why can't his stream focus on what matters - him and what he has to say.
I want community but it has to make me money and also there can't be any obligation on my part is a perfect summary of neolib everything.