A recent study has shown that online viewing of Twitch, YouTube, NetFlix...

>A recent study has shown that online viewing of Twitch, YouTube, NetFlix, and other online viewing platforms now outnumbers television by over 200% in total viewing hours.
>For those under 30 years old, online viewing accounts for 71% of all hours watched. It increases to a whopping 89% for those 15 and younger.
>A new documentary has been launched to research the rise of eSports and online streamers. They are changing the cultural landscape and evolving their own verbal and body language.

What the fuck is going on? Why are people watching vidya instead of playing it?

>REEEEEEEEEEE why do people like New York style pizza instead of Chicago deep dish style pizza?

Fuck off

Normal people are fucking terrible at video games and easily latch on to personalities

>Why do people enjoy stuff I don't?

>REEEEEEEEEEEEE why do people like watching a social stream of eating pizza instead of eating some themselves

Because most people suck at games/just want to be entertained, and streamers are always going 24/7 with no seasons, so it makes sense that there would be more viewers than traditional media

My friends are some of the worst offenders of this. I just get irritated when someone says they love a game, and when I ask them about it they start talking about the streamer playing it, and they haven't even bought it let alone played it themselves. Shit at least pirates actually bother to play the game.
I remember back in high school, I was talking to this group of three girls in my class, two of them were pretty sjw but I didn't care at the time. We were talking about portal, and the third girl started talking about her favorite parts. At one point one of us asked if she'd gone to whatever secret in that area, or took the companion, or whatever the fuck I don't remember. She said that it isn't possible or isn't real, because the video she saw didn't show it. So we asked if she'd ever played it herself, she said no. The three of us were extremely irritated at the fact she'd never played her supposed favorite game.
I just don't get how it can be entertaining enough to watch someone else play a game. I can barely stand watching a friend play a game when we're hanging out, just cause it's so boring.

You're an idiot. People are watching online shit more than TV, that's whats going on

>it's a food analogy episode
Chicago style pizza >>>>>>>>>> NY shit pizza and that's an objective fact.

>Why are people watching vidya instead of playing it?

Casuals suck so much ass that watching is the best they can do.

It says netflix right there. It's just the immediate choice that people like. No commercials and hoping a good show is on. And good luck watching a full season of anything on cable

That's not even what this is saying. It's just that nobody watches TV. I both play vidya and watch vidya on twitch. Also not everything on Netflix and YouTube are video games.

>tfw I like watching people draw lewd pics on Picarto more than I like watching porn.

a cable plan is more expensive than a internet plan

As stupid as it is, watching retards play games terribly on the internet is still better written and more honest than primetime television.

I'm playing vidya while watching vidya on occasions. Watching vidya on its own is boring most of the time.

Only good twitch streamer ever was Ice Poseidon, and even he jumped the shark when his fanbase killed the program.

>A recent study has shown that online viewing of Twitch, YouTube, NetFlix, and other online viewing platforms now outnumbers actually playing video games
>For those under 30 years old, online viewing accounts for 71% of all hours watched. It increases to a whopping 89% for those 15 and younger.
>A new documentary has been launched to research the rise of athletic sports and televisiom. They are changing the cultural landscape and evolving their own verbal and body language.

What the fuck is going on? Why are people watching tv instead of living their lives?

>Why are people watching vidya instead of playing it?
Because they suck at it and dont want to git gud so they prefer to watch someone else do it
Also people like to think the streamer is their firend

>not St. Louis pizza.
Fag

I could never get into draw streams. I love lewd art a lot but they always seem
like the most boring thing to watch. Who do you watch?

You gotta find people who watch movies while they stream. I have two monitors so if I watch I usually stick it on the second screen while I'm doing something else on my main monitor.

I think therein lies the key to the success of streaming. People like them as white noise, and they like the side chat. It's not like a TV show where if you don't give it your full attention you'll miss something. It's basically like just hanging out with someone while they play a game or draw.

Nice blog.

Entry level escapism.
Watching TV is easy, it doesn't require any efforts and people need get away from their daily problems temporarily.

Us streamboars, man

How do I watch vidya on Netflix?

Are you retarded, OP?

Vidya is probably 1% of what is watched online.

99% are Netflix stuff and non-vidya YouTube content.

Get out of you autistic basement for once, dumbnut.

>watching someone do something instead of doing it yourself
It's the rise of the (white) cuckold generation.

Norwegian Grandiosa is superior rich man's pizza.

This is why Net Neutrality is getting buttfucked isn't it? This is the new television and the cable companies want a piece of it.

Why the fuck do you autistic shitters watch people play games? What the fuck is the appeal? WHY NOT PLAY THE GAME YOURSELF like holy fucking shit streamcucks make me so mad

A lot of shitty games are more fun to watch than to play. A lot of people just watch for the streamer and the game is irrelevant to them too.

As someone who watches Twitch a fair amount, watching streamers has mostly replaced watching TV or anime. I don't get what's so hard to understand about the concept of streaming.

I play plenty of games myself, but when I'm eating, reading, playing magic or some other non-vidya activity, I usually just put on a stream for some background noise.
It's literally the same as putting on TV in the background and if you can't understand, then you're just screeching like an autist about people doing something that you don't like.

Oh wait this is Sup Forums so I guess that's the usual.

>tv is fake news and constantly pushes propaganda to the point that people rather watch "normal" people talk about their daily life and play some vidya

95% is normies repeatedly streaming music on Youtube instead of downloading it once.

I unironically enjoy watching Sup Forums's own simulated divegrass league than watching IRL sports.

Can't decide why, but there are many possible reasons.

>commentary is a wild free for all while still being technically decent
>can't really beat having a literal memeball player
>entertaining player names
>Sup Forums Cup is done purely out of love for it while IRL sports are commissoned by greedy jews who want to force you to watch ads every time anything happens

Yup, that seems about right. TV dug it's own hole.

You might as well ask why people like watching cooking shows if you're going with that analogy.

I think ive gained a bit of insight into this over the last year

I moved into a house with 3 roommates, 2 of which are genuinely autistic pc gamers. Their entire mentality on life is that time spent away from playing games is a waste and must be a means to game. A job is needed in order to sustain internet and a place for a computer. They eat lots of fast food and scarf it down as fast as possible because thats the most efficient means to take in calories to have energy to play more. If you ask them they would never say this is their stated goal but after a lot of conversation i pretty much sussed it out after their frustration that i would take an hour to eat and chill after getting home from work rather than jumping into whatever with them immediately.

actually made me understand Sup Forums quite a bit better as i find a lot of opinions mirrored even though i know for a fact neither browse Sup Forums at all, this streaming thing in particular. It all comes back to an immensely different view of both self and the world. Or maybe im just talking bullshit with my armchair psyco-analysis, who knows

Entertainment is a pretty subjective concept and just about anything can entertain someone.

I just don't get why Sup Forums of all places uses the excuse of "why not just play the games yourself" when those people are posting on fucking Sup Forums instead of playing games themselves. The lack of self-awareness is incredible.

>studies
reminder that TV audience is only checked by 100K Nielsen boxes for the whole USA

Teenagers turning into suicidal housewives with Valium addictions is a good thing?

Doesn't change the fact that hundreds of millions of people stream and that cable subscriptions have been hitting all time lows ever year

yeah, who believes studies anyway? If i cant see it with my own eyes its not real
>checkmate scientists

Pretty much this. The big media corporate oligarchy is out of touch with the everyday person, so one day they find that numbers are down and shareholders are pissed because of those pesky 'internet nerds'. So they grab a lobbyist put some cash in his pocket, some coke in his nose and a whore on his dick and it's off to Washington to ensure his corporate overlords have their way in a system they pretty much tailored to favor them.

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>be a kid in 2017
>tv cartoon shows are all trying to be correct and teach you something boring
>there may be a few cool shows but they only air at certain times
>meanwhile on the interwebs
>cool streams all the fucking time
Complete with lol so random chats, tv don't have chats.

They keep raising the prices on cable, forcing people to bundle in more and more failing specialty channels that have become generic reality TV fodder, and moving the good content from the basic cable package to the premium packages. The basic cable versions of these channels are increasingly getting pumped full of low-budget filler like reality TV, which makes easy ratings but leaves no lasting impression.

And that's not even getting to the propaganda aspect. So many cable channels today exist almost exclusively to peddle political propaganda. Whether you watch them or not, your subscription fees are being used to subsidize that programming because the media thinks they have a "social responsibility" to support it.

Netflix was supposed to be the savior of pay TV, and in some ways it might be, but because you've seen such a major shift towards it it was only a matter of time before the political propagandists took root there too. Now you are seeing Netflix using their subscription fees to subsidize "socially responsible" shit like Bill Nye Saves the World and Dear White People, even if they aren't very popular compared to their other originals. Supposedly George Soros has managed to dip his testicles into Netflix in some way so maybe that's why.

Not that i waste my time with streaming sites but who is still watching television? The last time i did that was 2001-2002 if i remember correctly.

My family and co-workers can't deal with me not owning a TV.