I'm surprised by the sentiment here. What, like you shouldn't stream unless you consent to people unloading all of their personal baggage on you at any given moment? You wouldn't do that to any other kind of performer and it shouldn't be a precondition for streaming to have to take responsibility for people's emotional wellbeing. That's super fucking unhealthy for everyone involved.
Some people do make room for it in their communities and streams, and that's great for them, but it absolutely has to be predicated on consent and mutual understanding of boundaries. Don't force people to do emotional labor for you.
There's a reason the article never addressed the intrinsic cause of trauma for all these people. This shit cannot go on. Something is about to give, hopefully it's the boot on our neck, but let's be honest, they're not going to stop.
i mean unloading trauma is a natural thing to basically any chat based service, not just a streamer thing. its just shit to expect a particular person to respond
like if someone came to me asking advice for ptsd issues that were exactly similar to my ptsd issues, i could help them in vague terms but i absolutely could not discuss it in full with them without ruining my own day (or potentially week). but if they came to me expecting an answer from me specifically id think thats pretty mean of them. like all my irl friends know specific problems i have with specific things and give me a heads up before i interact with those things, and i do the same for them. but you dont have this same quality with a parasocial relationship
dont force people to do emotional labor for you? then who does? no one. these "trauma dumpers" will suffer and either hurt themselves or crack. you do not understand the sheer depths of pain people go through. being overworked to hell and back is only the start of it
therapists cost money and loved ones tend to either be outright hostile to your existence if you're LGBTQIA+ or too far away due to the normalization of moving away from family.
the fact that decent mental health resources are inaccessible to a section of the population is awful and is a systemic problem. The streamer is just an individual. I'm just repeating the parent comment now because they said it so well, but taking responsibility for people's emotional wellbeing should not be a precondition for streaming
i never said they had to. just don't use the term 'trauma dumping' and don't villainize people who are suffering. and i dont give a fuck about the 11 minutes of discomfort some random streamer goes through. i go through 24 fucking hours of discomfort.
if you view someone begging for help as an obligation then that's your issue. everyone should treat public chats like streets. if you see a beggar on a street, you don't attack the beggar for "poverty dumping". and i hate to fucking say it but unless you're also a beggar and they're trying to screw you over somehow you're not being "hurt" by them at all. sure, their presence might make you uncomfortable, and that's valid because poverty is a terrible thing, but it isn't the fucking beggar's fault. it isn't the mentally ill's responsibility to make you feel comfortable about the world.
I'm surprised by the sentiment here. What, like you shouldn't stream unless you consent to people unloading all of their personal baggage on you at any given moment? You wouldn't do that to any other kind of performer and it shouldn't be a precondition for streaming to have to take responsibility for people's emotional wellbeing. That's super fucking unhealthy for everyone involved.
Some people do make room for it in their communities and streams, and that's great for them, but it absolutely has to be predicated on consent and mutual understanding of boundaries. Don't force people to do emotional labor for you.
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There's a reason the article never addressed the intrinsic cause of trauma for all these people. This shit cannot go on. Something is about to give, hopefully it's the boot on our neck, but let's be honest, they're not going to stop.
i mean unloading trauma is a natural thing to basically any chat based service, not just a streamer thing. its just shit to expect a particular person to respond
like if someone came to me asking advice for ptsd issues that were exactly similar to my ptsd issues, i could help them in vague terms but i absolutely could not discuss it in full with them without ruining my own day (or potentially week). but if they came to me expecting an answer from me specifically id think thats pretty mean of them. like all my irl friends know specific problems i have with specific things and give me a heads up before i interact with those things, and i do the same for them. but you dont have this same quality with a parasocial relationship
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dont force people to do emotional labor for you? then who does? no one. these "trauma dumpers" will suffer and either hurt themselves or crack. you do not understand the sheer depths of pain people go through. being overworked to hell and back is only the start of it
maybe loved ones, preferably therapists
therapists cost money and loved ones tend to either be outright hostile to your existence if you're LGBTQIA+ or too far away due to the normalization of moving away from family.
the fact that decent mental health resources are inaccessible to a section of the population is awful and is a systemic problem. The streamer is just an individual. I'm just repeating the parent comment now because they said it so well, but taking responsibility for people's emotional wellbeing should not be a precondition for streaming
i never said they had to. just don't use the term 'trauma dumping' and don't villainize people who are suffering. and i dont give a fuck about the 11 minutes of discomfort some random streamer goes through. i go through 24 fucking hours of discomfort.
the way I see it, this statement implies that streamers have an obligation, or at least an expectation to do emotional labor
The article doesn't use the term 'trauma dumping' in a derogatory way, nor does it encourage villainizing people who are suffering.
if you view someone begging for help as an obligation then that's your issue. everyone should treat public chats like streets. if you see a beggar on a street, you don't attack the beggar for "poverty dumping". and i hate to fucking say it but unless you're also a beggar and they're trying to screw you over somehow you're not being "hurt" by them at all. sure, their presence might make you uncomfortable, and that's valid because poverty is a terrible thing, but it isn't the fucking beggar's fault. it isn't the mentally ill's responsibility to make you feel comfortable about the world.