Current Events > Maybe I'm an old man, but I dont *get* twitch >_>

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Dedicating hours of your time at a specific part of the day to watching someone go through a game live while they talk nonstop the whole time. And tipping them just so they say your username for 1 second. >_>

I can understand informative Let's Plays because they're way smaller, editted, and you can watch them at your leisure. Plus they make better background noise imo

Am I out of touch or is it the children that are wrong?

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No, it's definitely the children who are wrong

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Yeah I find it weird to sit around and watch someone else play a game all day. The most I do is check out a stream for a few minutes if its a game i'm interested in just to kinda see how it plays.

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HylianFox posted...

No, it's definitely the children who are wrong

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HylianFox posted...

No, it's definitely the children who are wrong

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Yep, I'm with you TC.

Twitch and Tiktok are beyond me. I have officially moved into "grouchy old man" stage at age 29.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7QJw7EebLg

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I've had it explained to me that it's like watching people play sports (i.e. they're better at it than you) but that doesn't help me because I don't like most sports either.

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Go on the streams of the more popular non cleavage streamers it's like a fucking cult. Maximilian dude for 1, he has fans that are fucking fanatics. "Omg I love seeing max happy playing this it makes me smile", and that's legit what some people write. I wouldn't be surprised what can happen, anything can, just look at the bath water bullshit.

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KillerKhan420 posted...

Go on the streams of the more popular non cleavage streamers it's like a fucking cult. Maximilian dude for 1, he has fans that are fucking fanatics. "Omg I love seeing max happy playing this it makes me smile", and that's legit what some people write. I wouldn't be surprised what can happen, anything can, just look at the bath water bullshit.

wtf

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I follow ASMR livesteams on Twitch. >_>

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yunalenne10 posted...

I follow ASMR livesteams on Twitch. >_>

Are they sexual with cleavage streamers?


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yunalenne10 posted...

I follow ASMR livesteams on Twitch. >_>

That has to be some kind of kink, having people whisper in your ear.


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Yeah I never got into it. Similarly, all my colleagues in our 30s don't get it either but our younger colleagues in their 20s all use it.

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Kildread posted...

That has to be some kind of kink, having people whisper in your ear.

Hahaha, yeah. I honestly do get tingles.

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NeonOctopus posted...

Are they sexual with cleavage streamers?

No, actually. I follow a "clean" presenter.

Sample:
https://youtu.be/wNCtPZXMZZA

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That reminds me: Why are people obsessed with cleavage streamers? Cuz they can vaguely talk to them in chat? Why not just look at porn? >_>

This is why this shit happens smh


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Ive watched some pro heroes of the storm/overwatch games, but Ive never just sat and watched someone play a game. Dont see the appeal in it.

if a games gameplay isnt good enough to actually play I dont care how good the story is. Plenty of games with good story AND gameplay

and I hear people talk at work all day. I don't want to come home and hear people talk about stupid shit all night too. that's why I haven't been in Overwatch voice chat in like 2 years

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TreyFlowers posted...

Yep, I'm with you TC.

Twitch and Tiktok are beyond me. I have officially moved into "grouchy old man" stage at age 29.

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NeonOctopus posted...

That reminds me: Why are people obsessed with cleavage streamers? Cuz they can vaguely talk to them in chat? Why not just look at porn? >_>

This is why this shit happens smh

That is quite possibly the saddest thing I've read in 19 years of using the internet.

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velvet_7 tbh.

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I watch some speedrunning on Twitch but it really blows me away when I see people giving like hundreds (or more) dollars a week to those people. And you just know that a lot of those people donating can't really afford to spend that much money but they're like addicted to the recognition or something.

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I just watch highlights because there's no time in my day to watch streams. I like some streamers and their personalities, and I made a Twitch account from back when it was Justin, but I just can't keep up with Twitch. Luckily the streamers I follow post their highlights on Youtube where I'm watching all my videos.
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I really enjoy using Xbox mixer just to watch footage of a game I'm curious about it for a few minutes, other than that I can't imagine ever using it or twitch

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Puglia77 posted...

I just watch highlights because there's no time in my day to watch streams. I like some streamers and their personalities, and I made a Twitch account from back when it was Justin, but I just can't keep up with Twitch. Luckily the streamers I follow post their highlights on Youtube where I'm watching all my videos.

Wait. Twitch is what Justin.tv used to be?

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__aCEr__ posted...

I watch some speedrunning on Twitch but it really blows me away when I see people giving like hundreds (or more) dollars a week to those people. And you just know that a lot of those people donating can't really afford to spend that much money but they're like addicted to the recognition or something.

Go to Streamlabs and check out top daily videos. You'll see tons of people donating AT LEAST $1000.

Edit: https://streamlabs.com/best-donation-clips

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twitch is for simps

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TreyFlowers posted...

That is quite possibly the saddest thing I've read in 19 years of using the internet.

I couldn't believe it's real. But it is...

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Korean (video game) twitch streamers are better, both male and female streamers.

Chat participants focus more on the game, the occasional but hilarious mispronunciations of English words, and the like. None of this American/Western e-drama and superficial "My only positives are my boobies, pay me".

yunalenne10 posted...

Go to Streamlabs and check out top daily videos. You'll see tons of people donating AT LEAST $1000.

....my career is a lie, I need to do actual work 4 days out of 7 a week.


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Kildread posted...

....my career is a lie, I need to do actual work 4 days out of 7 a week.

Yeah, you and I are in a different generation compared to those millenial streamers.

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NeonOctopus posted...

That reminds me: Why are people obsessed with cleavage streamers? Cuz they can vaguely talk to them in chat? Why not just look at porn? >_>

This is why this shit happens smh

I absolutely love that, but I wonder if it was legit. Have fun being a liar bitchface lol. People are crazy as hell.

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NeonOctopus posted...

I can understand informative Let's Plays on YouTube because they're way smaller, editted, and you can watch them at your leisure. Plus they make better background noise imo

I feel like (depending on what you're watching) Twitch makes much more sense than a Let's Play. If you're watching a Let's Play of someone who is okay at video games do a play through, that's much easier to say "Why are you watching someone play a game instead of just playing it yourself?" whereas watching someone be good at <insert multiplayer game at the top of Twitch> actually gives you something that you probably don't find worth the time to become good enough at yourself.

I also think people get the donations thing wrong. There are obviously exceptions, but for smaller streamers donating is usually more like "Hey person you've given me a lot of content for free so here's $5 to help continue that". It's not all just someone nerding out that someone said their name on the internet.

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5 bucks or a subscription makes sense and is reasonable. If you drop like a $200 donation there's no reason other than you want to be god of a chatroom for a few minutes.

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If you have Amazon Prime, you get a free monthly sub anyway.

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I was first introduced to Twitch in 2012 when a friend said to check out these live Mario 64 speedruns. He gave me a link to Siglemic and I just kept watching while noticing the interaction through chat.

After checking out a couple of other channels and asking questions I bought a Dazzle capture card in an attempt to stream. Due to my computer's limitations they came out horribly, but I was still intrigued by the whole concept. I periodically watched Sig and other speedrunners when I was bored.

Then on Halloween night in 2014 I came across a channel with the title MegaMan Nightly, and a few people were watching. Being the MegaMan fan that I am I got involved quickly, and kept coming back night after night. I was sharing in a game series that I loved since I was 9 years old watching someone in their mid 20s play the games blind. More and more people showed up over the months and we built a community.

We would stream all together and do races, mod each other's channels, and join in on everyone's individual content. With the introduction of Discord into the mix everything continued to grow. I'm now part of a large online community across several Twitch channels and Discord servers, and have made many friends along the way. I have impacted some lives, been part of a short lived podcast, and became a playtester for a fan made MegaMan game as a result.

This is what Twitch means to me.

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I like to watch twitch streamers, I mostly just watch streamers play games that I just recently played and just talk to them about random nonsense about the game lol

I don't really fuck with streamers that have like 50+ viewers. you have to try way too hard to get their attention and it's generally not worth it imo. It's kind of like this board, like why do we spend alot of free time here? I personally just like to shit post, and twitch chatrooms are perfect for that sort of thing, provided if the streamer has a sense of humor lol

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Yeah, I've watched a couple streamers do blind plays of games I really like, but it's always on YouTube. I don't need to be part of the experience, I just want to see them expensive the game for the first time.

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I'm older and like watching Twitch for retro speed running type stuff, or to check out new games I'm on the fence about, and I follow some of the poker streamers. I never sub or donate though besides my Twitch Prime sub, but it does boggle my mind when people donate hundreds of dollars or buy hundreds of dollars worth of sub gifts for the channel. I sometimes wonder if there isn't some kind of money laundering going on but I suppose there's a lot of whales out there who have nothing better to do with their money.
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I pretty much watch twitch for speed runs. Watching someone destroy a game really fast is quite enjoyable to me. Some of the streamers are pretty cool as well.

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When people make topics talking about twitch or YouTube channels, one of the common complaints is that they are not worth watching because you don't learn anything. I don't understand that, can't you just watch something to be entertained? Why do you need to learn something? Why do you need to see someone dominate the game? Most people I watch (on YouTube, never watched a live twitch stream) are average gamers who have a fun personality. That's common with a lot of people's fans, they watch the stream/video for the person, not the game. That's why some people can play any game they want and still have a decent amount of views. Just today I put on a let's play while I did Xenoblade Chronicles side missions.

I also can't get into playthroughs that are not blind. If they know the game already, it's just so boring to watch. In a blind play through, you get to sort of relive those moments through their reactions and comments. Like I'll watch just about any playthrough of Danganronpa because it's fun watching the person get attached to characters and their reactions to their inevitable death. It doesn't have to be story moments, it could be gameplay too. Like I'm currently watching a Doom Eternal play through and its fun watching them get hyped over a new demons glory kill animation.

I've always said that the perfect gamefaqs video is 10 seconds long, black screen with white text, silent, bullet points, and state facts. Everyone is ugly and everyone has a cringy voice, so no faces or voices, it's short, it's to the point, and you learn something.

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