One of the best things the Flop House guys do is, at their live shows, they have a bit before the questions where they explain that they aren't interested in lengthy questions that will show off what best friends the questioners and they would be, because that's inconsiderate of the other folks waiting to ask questions.
I think it makes them feel like a cool kid to be able to tell thousands of people that they can't sit with you. Will basically cured me of my desire to listen to chapo in this way. There was an EP where his GF was on and he insisted he was a "bad boy" or something. He seemed sincere and his GF was like, "uuuhhh". If it was a bit, it was horrible.
Speaking of the TB's Tanya was complaining about getting tagged into arguments and her example was someone telling another person to check out the all the trillbilly twitter accounts. How do you do that without tagging her?
Straight to bed, both of you. We're not having this conversation again. :ypg-brace:
After he left Rojava, but before both the Anchor Steam union or the podcast, I was interacting with someone online that claimed to be Brace Belden. I thought it was a bit, but it turned out to actually be him.
"So Dave and Garth were sitting on either side of my crib, telling me about John Brown and Pottawatomie and Harper's Ferry, rocking me to sleep..."
Lol. Dave would have to be one of the most stressful actual friends to have. And I'd just be using Gary to get to Jose, but I'm pretty sure he'd understand.
It's a parasocial relationship to watch my videos and then follow my twitter.
It's a parasocial relationship when you subscribe to my Patreon.
I have a parasocial relationship not with Glenn Greenwald, but with his ability to be a catty bitch on Twitter.
same! honestly he's the cattiest bitch I follow actively and I live for it.
There's a 1/20000 chance that Hasan Piker will directly interact with you, so he's practically your friend
Did he email you back?
By this logic Noam Chomsky is married to a lot of fucking people.
Direct interaction even if its through chat hive mind. Also real time solicitation
People get a dopamine hit from s/os etc
You do realize the list of things that can give you a “dopamine hit” is long as fucking shit, so it doesn’t mean anything
why the hell would you give money to people who play video games for a living? especially if you have a job that sucks? let's play use to be free and done for fun.
My point is saying something gives someone a dopamine rush is just saying “thing people like doing” in a fancy way. Looking at a pretty tree can give you a fucking dopamine rush.
Also, I mean not everyone is PewdiePie. If I’m in cash there’s some dork who’s streams are amusing to me and he isn’t already fucking rich I may throw him a buck as a mild thanks.
The dopamine rush is not the point though, its how its achieved through predatory parasocial relationships and how literally every streamer builds followings with membership that are implied that you are part of something. "WELCOME TO THE CLUB, THAT YOU GET NOTHING OUT OF THAT YOU ALREADY DIDN'T GET"
I'm not paying someone money to play video games, its ridiculous. I can only imagine lefties defending this because they also want to be streamers.
I mean yeah, there’s also dudes who do in between shifts at BestBuy for beer money.
I’ve never gave any streamer money, just saying if I can loaded and bored id maybe throw like $2 to some dork who provided with some amusement during a train ride or something. If you hate that... we’ll I’m not loaded so don’t worry I won’t be helping some guy who did a funny play through of Detroit Become Human afford Chinese takeout.
I agree actually and I think that the dynamic is different when it's just you and some tiny streamer. You can legitimately get a friendship out of that. But for me, once you cross into 25+ people in a stream that's where it becomes problematic for me. The dynamic changes.
You can legitimately get a friendship out of that
you seem to be hung up on this whole friendship thing
on the rare occasion i chuck a few quid at a streamer, it isn't because i think they are my friend, it's because i like the thing they are doing
kinda like a buskerI'd agree but I don't chill with a busker for a couple hours a day multiple days a week.
i'm not a big stream watcher really, but i imagine the difference for people more into watching streamers than i am is that you only come across buskers out on the street, and you're usually doing something, so you might only catch a song or two before you have to get on with shit. Whereas you can watch a streamer from the comfort of your own home when you have nothing better to do
i just want to give my hard earned money to people who play video games all day so they say my name and be my friend why are you guys so mean :(
Also it's not a parasocial relationship if you're just talking to people on voice chat. This was the strangest take I heard the other day!
Wait, what jail? I only accept gulag or the wall. Atleast it's not a parasocial relationship.
The level of thirst people have for yung chomsky is honestly the funniest shit to me. I've seen posts about this on everything from Twitter to tik tok so you can tell this thirst is multi generational.
