• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    but she’s also a great streamer in her own right and is actually playing the games on screen. She constatly holds a chat of like 4k people and streams for HOURS. You can only horny watch for so long, at a certain point people are staying because they just enjoy her personality and stories.

    It’s called fostering parasocial relationships for profit and it’s not something we should encourage.

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      8 months ago

      Other than the boobs and butts the description fits 99% of people streaming gameplay and interacting with fans.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, we shouldn’t encourage that either.

        …I’m more serious about this than I’d like to be.

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      8 months ago

      Thats a fair and valid point. I can see how that could lead to whale like spending behavior vying for attention.

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        8 months ago

        It does, and it’s also a thing on larger channels. When you put people’s names on screen for donations, you get that whale behavior.

        A Twitch streamer I like handles this pretty well, yet there are still “whales” who spend easily thousands per year on their channel, and it’s a small-ish channel (like 10-20k total as the top channel in a niche game; <100k followers). The streamer acknowledges bits and subs (calls out how many months they’ve subbed and total gifted subs as relevant), but otherwise doesn’t simp for bits or subs. They even stopped mentioning out-of-band donations unless specifically asked to. Yet the whale behavior still persists because it’s a way to stand out in front of others. I can even name the top handful of donators because they make themselves so visible.

        I don’t like it at all, and wish there was another platform where I can pay for content and not get that nonsense. Nebula is close, but it just doesn’t have the content I’m interested in.