I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.

  • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    I see it more as a tip. Do I have to have a personal relationship with my server at a restaurant before I tip them? I know that's not a perfect 1-to-1 comparison, but waiters and streamers are both workers being exploited to some degree.

    Twitch as a company is absolutely predatory, I can't argue with that.

    • BOK6669 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      You could have a personal relationship with your server though, and it does happen right? Tipping is dumb anyway now that I think about it.

      • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        Tipping is good practice in hellworld, what's bad is that tipping is necessary for service workers to survive. Obviously in our ideal world it wouldn't even be a concept anyone would have to grapple with.