I don't see the appeal of streamers. I've tried to watch a few, and I just don't get the format. It seems so boring and pointless. Why would I sit there and watch people either play video games or react to the news while making inane commentary? Podcasts, I get. Vloggers, youtubers, sure. Makes sense. That sort of content tends to be either edited to be more concise or else was planned from the start. They tend to be focused, and about something.
But then streams are all like "watch this guy play Overwatch for six hours a day." I don't know why people watch that.
I think the biggest reason is that atomization has made people incredibly lonely and so listening to some person talking unscripted or playing video games is sort of a stand in for having a friend over to do those things with
Some people that are funny or entertaining I can kind of get, or extremely skilled like @aaaaaaadjsf said. I used to watch vinesauce ones and sometimes I’ll watch speedruns
But I really don’t get watching it live, I guess the participation is the point but I like being able to skip forward if it gets boring
The only way I can make sense of it is if they're very good at the game, then it's kinda like watching video game sports. But otherwise yeah I got nothing
I watch my friends streams but thats more like us hanging out because we'll actually interact as they're playing lol. I can get gaming streams if they're explain how to play a kinda difficult game
I don't see the appeal of streamers. I've tried to watch a few, and I just don't get the format. It seems so boring and pointless. Why would I sit there and watch people either play video games or react to the news while making inane commentary? Podcasts, I get. Vloggers, youtubers, sure. Makes sense. That sort of content tends to be either edited to be more concise or else was planned from the start. They tend to be focused, and about something.
But then streams are all like "watch this guy play Overwatch for six hours a day." I don't know why people watch that.
I think the biggest reason is that atomization has made people incredibly lonely and so listening to some person talking unscripted or playing video games is sort of a stand in for having a friend over to do those things with
Kids discovering parasociality:
:is-this: Is this friendship?
Some people that are funny or entertaining I can kind of get, or extremely skilled like @aaaaaaadjsf said. I used to watch vinesauce ones and sometimes I’ll watch speedruns
But I really don’t get watching it live, I guess the participation is the point but I like being able to skip forward if it gets boring
The only way I can make sense of it is if they're very good at the game, then it's kinda like watching video game sports. But otherwise yeah I got nothing
I watch my friends streams but thats more like us hanging out because we'll actually interact as they're playing lol. I can get gaming streams if they're explain how to play a kinda difficult game
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