I feel like at least one user predicted this but the closest I could find was makotech222 saying she would become a full fledged lib over 400viewers

  • CrimsonSage [any]
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    2 years ago

    The best solution to all of this is to just ignore it. These people function by generating outrage and drama, it is literally their business model. Personally I think most of it is cynical and self conscious, but even if it isn't the end result is the same. Like these aren't politicians or powerful businesses interests, they are just monetized shit posters.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Streamers posted a silly video. We shall neither view it nor reply to them.

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This is correct. Nothing of any importance has ever been decided in these e-celeb circles. Their entire "influence" has been making a relatively small segment of teen to early-20-something posters more annoying, and nothing else.

      Remember that the largest of them, HasanAbi, has only 1.18 million subscribers, and typically gets maybe a quarter of that in views for his videos (on stream he's getting around 40k viewers on a good night, according to the "twitch recommends"). That's great for an online media career, but how many people is he reaching relative to the total (adult) population?

      For easier math, I'll round his subscribers up to 2 million, and we'll pretend he or any of these people got most of their subs to watch. We'll also pretend that their viewership is entirely based in the US rather than spread out: The largest political streamer reaches about 0.7 percent of the adult population of the US under ideal circumstances.

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        2 years ago

        Basically yeah. Obviously there is some threshold at which point a influencer becomes powerful/important enough where pushback becomes warranted, but spending your time and energy getting dikchikluvr1488 kicked off stream for his "why labensraim is good actually" is kind of a waste when he's got like 100 viewers. Like obviously the world would be better if every ficking fascist got throat punched into silence, but at a certain point the energy invested outweighs the good it might do; especially when the parasites feed of the drama.

      • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        this is extremely generous napkin math that 1) Hasan's audience in American adults 2) 1.18 rounds to 2 3) his subs aren't bots, abandoned accounts, hate watchers, etc. 4) the majority of what's left will watch a given video

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        2 years ago

        Even if a shit person is advancing shit politics if they don't have either political or economic power or national audience giving them attention just seems counter productive. By all means attack big name entertainers/opinion havers, but I guarantee 99.99999% of people have no idea who these fucking niche internet psychos are.