The whole principle of Twitch is to be a whore. Streamers whore their viewers for donations. Viewers whore for their streamers for attention. It’s just cringe and a waste of time content wise, while eating up idiotic amounts of resources. The majority of people there are part of the bottom barrel of society and no amount of “small streamers” can convince me otherwise as most of those would become just as much of a sellout if they’d had a chance to become popular enough.
Nah. People uploaded content they thought was interesting or funny, simply things they wanted to share with others, they weren’t thinking how to milk the most engagement out of you for monetary reasons.
I agree that this is a wider problem with streams as a genre.
I think the main problem is that starting a stream and talking about whatever in order to appeal to a larger and larger audience is rewarded rather than good research and preparing high quality content, like on YT or TikTok.
It’s just not possible when you’re streaming and would defeat the purpose. It’s all quantity over quality, so assholes get to the top.
TicTok is a 99% low quality garbage too, on top of being a data hording machine for China.
YouTube isn’t any better nowadays either, it’s all just clickbait garbage and real life vlog type shit.
Frankly, the internet was better when it was mostly nerds filling it. But I suppose now that it is mainstream, it is just a mirror of society.
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The whole principle of Twitch is to be a whore. Streamers whore their viewers for donations. Viewers whore for their streamers for attention. It’s just cringe and a waste of time content wise, while eating up idiotic amounts of resources. The majority of people there are part of the bottom barrel of society and no amount of “small streamers” can convince me otherwise as most of those would become just as much of a sellout if they’d had a chance to become popular enough.
I think you can say the same for nearly all social platforms in the new age of internet. “influencers” generate “content” for their “followers”
Nowadays, yes. Go back 10-15+ years and it was quite a different experience.
I’d argue that it was the same, but now it’s more efficient and optimized.
Nah. People uploaded content they thought was interesting or funny, simply things they wanted to share with others, they weren’t thinking how to milk the most engagement out of you for monetary reasons.
It sounds so dirty, doesn’t it?
I agree that this is a wider problem with streams as a genre.
I think the main problem is that starting a stream and talking about whatever in order to appeal to a larger and larger audience is rewarded rather than good research and preparing high quality content, like on YT or TikTok.
It’s just not possible when you’re streaming and would defeat the purpose. It’s all quantity over quality, so assholes get to the top.
TicTok is a 99% low quality garbage too, on top of being a data hording machine for China. YouTube isn’t any better nowadays either, it’s all just clickbait garbage and real life vlog type shit.
Frankly, the internet was better when it was mostly nerds filling it. But I suppose now that it is mainstream, it is just a mirror of society.