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 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 busker
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
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 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 busker
I'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