>start watching new streamer
>he seems like a pretty cool, funny person
>start following his streams
>the more you watch, the more he starts showing toxic personality traits
>you slowly begin to discover that he's actually a huge cunt
>appreciation turns into silent ressentment
>you stop watching
Every time.
Yes but this usually only takes like a couple minutes to realize
>the more he starts showing toxic personality traits
>toxic
Reddit detected.
Either Britbong, DSP, or literally every sort of popular streamer on Twitch.
DipShitPhil is a popular streamer?
>watching streamers in the first place
You are subhuman trash
>watching people play video games
Literally worse than shitposting, JUST PLAY FUCKING GAMES
>start watching new streamer
This is where you went wrong
>find a laid back streamer
>doesn't force memes into existence
>actually cares about the games he plays
>but he made fuck all and went back to his day job
>He doesn't watch Jerma985
There's your problem son.
I hate the 2010's.
What do you expect from kids these days, they don't know how to talk and hang out with people in real life so they cling to internet personalities.
watch me instead, user
>start watching new streamer
Already lost me
>watching other people play video games
sage
>watching some middleaged man stream Trails in the Sky for like 4 viewers on Twitch
>super chill stream, he obviously knows a lot about the game, really interesting to listen to his stories about when he first played the game, he talks with chat a lot
>after a couple of hours he says it's time to switch to Overwatch
>he sucks at the game, keeps raging everytime he dies
>calls up some friend on Discord and whole stream turns super obnoxious
>unfollow and close the stream
I don't even play videogames anymore, they have become legitimately boring for me. I search for a streamer when I'm eating or practicing guitar so I have one continuous video to turn my brain off to and don't need to be changing it all the time or paying too much attention. Sorry about that.
This happens to me too much.
>watch someone stream, expecting a fake cheery personality to cling on to
>get an actual human being
GEE
youngfags don't know it's like that irl with almost everyone that's not your family and often time your family too.
>watch streamer
Strike 1
>like streamer enough to follow his streams
Strike 2
>watch streamer enough to learn his negative personality traits
Aaand that's strike 3, you are out.
>start watching a new streaming
>ask myself what the fuck im doing watching a streamer
>close the stream and play the game the streamer was playing
>have more fun playing the game than watching some nobody talk about the game and cracm autistic jokes
>chill twitch streamer
>almost no followers
>one of his followers invites a discord/skype group to the stream
>suddenly his follower count quadruples
>but they're all cancerous memespouting shitheads
I started watching streams a while ago for competitive games as watching a good player gets me motivated to play and the streams can be quite educational.
Around the time Friday the 13th came out I started watching streamers who aren't professional players and it's god awful. What really blew my mind is that every streamer thinks they need to have a theme or gimmick, so you have one dude who flashes some power rangers medallion and poses every time he gets a sub or a follow, the dude looks about 30 and it's the cringiest shit.
The worst was some dude roleplaying a space fleet admiral or something and he'd read out his subs and talk about 'their new ship' and welcoming them to 'the fleet'. It's like marketing principles applied by idiots with no understanding of how they work, and for some reason people like this shit.
>one dude who flashes some power rangers medallion and poses every time he gets a sub or a follow, the dude looks about 30 and it's the cringiest shit.
LMAO I know who you're talking about.
The worst streamers to me, by far, are the GTA V roleplaying ones. It isn't harmless fun like you would imagine it is, it's legitimately a new Second Life, people living in the game all day with "jobs" and taking it EXTREMELY SERIOUS. And they're all extremely popular.
>He watches streamers
man Sup Forums gets really triggered by twitch
this is what happened with spoony
>want to have a chill stream but internet is shit and computer is old as fuck
rip
Replace toxic with annoying and you have dingdong
I know right, I mean I don't spend all my time on there, but a couple nights a week I like to kick back and let someone else drive ya know? Some people are just funny and can end up with some great moments you missed when you play it yourself.
the only decent streamer is ice poesidon who acts like a chad but clearly has never had sex
>he saves thumbnails
really makes you think
I just watch Northernlion because it's basically Kafka comedy. The man has no idea how to play a strategy game. If the game looks good, I usually pick it up anyway.
>find a chill stream
>streamer gets sub button
>starts yelling all the time and tryharding
>stream games for 4 hours straight
>2 viewrers max
>1 was my phone
This.
by how much he's being shilled here on Sup Forums I'd think so
>toxic
fuck off reddit.
>watching a streamer
>tell him he missed something important
>he bans me for backseat gaming
>find new female streamer
>she's really hot and very nice
>she's not completely terrible at games
>donate hundreds of dollars to her over her course of a few weeks
>she mentions her boyfriend randomly on stream
>immediately charge back all donations
Why are women such whores?
i swear every RPG streamer does this
you do have to have some sort of gimmick to 'make it big' as a streamer, though, or at least be able to sell your personality or have a personality that is extremely popular with The Youth™. At least if you want to make it your primary source of income.
>streamer makes 1mil + a week
>20k subs
>people still donate to streamer
...
gimmick or just good luck
>be me
>stream with gf
>laid-back chat interaction
>talk about anything
>meme strats
>no stupid gimmicks
>just two autist lesbians, a webcam, vidya, and a good time
>0-4 viewers
Just watch one of the vinesauce guys
They know how to stream, they're hardened pros who know how to keep it cool.
Is streaming the most ridiculously overpayed job?
The amount of effort/talent/skill to money ratio is insane.
Why watch people play football. Just go play football bro
>streamers are good at video games
Yeah I watched a few minutes of a GTAV RP stream the other day and it's so weird having a streamer narrate everything to the audience in character. I genuinely could not do that I would be far too embarassed.
I have a friend who just got NBN and he's getting into streaming. He's been doing Alien Isolation, just a facecam no sub buttons or anything, chatting to the audience about alien movies during quiet parts, no fake screaming or shit but taking the scary parts seriously. It's actually extremely watchable but not many people stick around for long, maybe he needs to scream memes whenever the alien appears.
only if you make it too the top
and he streams 60+ hours a day
physically pretty easy but mentally it can be tough
sounds comfy, link?
>watching streams
You're trash
Grats on finding my channel op!
Make sure to leave a like and subscribe.
If I'm too much of a huge cunt for you, that's too bad!
Wow 60+ hours a day... I could never manage that
When irl streams were new there was this guy who wandered around Las Vegas alone and chat kept shit talking him and getting vindicated, like they told him he had a unibrow and then he asked a random guy who was like "yea u do lol"
Not really. If you take the top .1% most successful streamers they don't make shit compared to top .1% in pretty much every other fields out there...
That's not even the issue. Everything around the stream takes an awful amount of time and no one see the work in the shadows. Also agency takes a large cut on streamers income and pretty none of the big streamers have the time nor the knowledge to manage business opportunity themselves.
>watch a streamer
>he's awesome
>donation asks "what do you think about Trump"
>he says "I think he gets a bad wrap and the Russia thing is overblown"
Sigh.....unsubscribe.
*a week
>Watching Dyrus play LoL
>He makes a ton of money from playing LoL 8 hours a day
>He clearly hates LoL
>He joins an LCS team to rekindle his passion for the game
>Plays like shit, let's his team down, clearly doesn't care about winning
>Watch him slowly rot into a soulless husk who has to spend every day playing a game he hates because he has no other marketable skills
Watching someone die inside has its moments
What video games were you playing? I bet they were shit.
Because football requires
>real people
>physical ability
>wide open area to play
>accounting for weather, other people's plans, etc.
In comparison to play video games you need
>a PC or console
>a mouse or controller
>internet connection
If you don't see the difference you must have actual brain damage
So does anyone even have a streamer they like? I don't watch Twitch much but I need something to keep me company when I can't sleep
This is what I was gonna say, I wonder how disconnected you start feeling to the "real world." Some guys sleep, wake up and stream basically every hour they're awake.
>looking for Crash streams
>find someone playing all the Crash games to 100%
>slowly but surely starts whining every time they die
>start paying attention to them
>they're actually garbage
Rip
Yeah but I'm not telling you
>that one guy who keeps buying more equipment to make stream better
>still doesnt get any viewers
JUST
Jerma985
check out his videos on youtube to see what you think of him.
>being turned off by a political opinion
I'm sure you hate finding out someone is religious too.
At the end of day most streamers like him are "digital prostitutes". That's how we call them at work (I'm in Marketing).
We just pay agencies, they pay streamers, we get the amount of views/acquisitions we asked for, they get their money.
Those people just stream whatever they're paid to stream whenever they're not doing their "main" game. They don't really have any says.
>follow a streamer
>as they very slowly get more and more attention their "fanbase" starts to form
>the "fanbase" starts to annoy you because at twitch if you arent an annoying obnoxious faggot but you ARENT lurking and keeping your mouth shut, you are basically shunned
>the "fanbase" starts to basically force the streamer to do stuff
I stopped watching streams/twitch. It's all trash.
>watch streamer
Never
Too short for my tastes
>in a twitchroom
>type TriHard ?
>with in 5 minutes the entire chat is spamming TriHards
Only one of the bois to make it out alive
Tagg is irrelevant, b4nny is sinking with TF2 and STAR has made himself hated by being a huge cunt and badmouthing TF2 whenever possible.
>he says, having shitposted on vee all day
>stream games i enjoy and somewhat enthusiastic about
>no one watches because they are old as fuck games
No one watch because you're a nobody. You could stream whatever is the latest meme game you wouldn't get more viewers either.
You're actually more likely to build an audience by giving something not many people do (like streaming old as fuck games) rather than just streaming what's popular.
a better comparison would be
>watch NFL football
>watch ASL Brood War
vs
>watch boys and girls club 5th & 6th grader football
>watch some faggot play a video game
>stream
>get a viewer
>viewer says hello
>never says anything else
>leaves
i dont get why this happens all the time
What's the name of the guy who jacked off live stream in front of millions?!
Short attention span.
They don't like your voice.
They don't like your personality.
They don't like how you look.
They don't like how you play.
Take your pick. Because it's at least one of those.
>be playing game with somebody that I usually play with
>guy is acting different
>he starts commenting on everything he does in some "funny" way
>tells me he is going to do something and will be back in a second
>"OKAY GUYS BRB"
>I look his name up on twitch
>There he is, 1 viewer which is probably him
>fatass donation button
>start watching streamer
>he starts dressing like a woman and taking hormones
This. Anyone that does this shit needs to fuck off of this board.
It depends on the streamer. Some streamers are actually really entertaining (Penguinz0, Vinesauce, Criken2, Soviet Womble etc.) because each of them act completely different from each other, they play the games differently, and they can make a game that's shit golden (in terms of humor.) If the streamers are actually entertaining and interact with their fans, watching them play vidya is fun. But yeah, most streamers are complete garbage. There's only a select few that are actually watchable. The rest just sit there and act retarded or don't even say anything. I'd say it depends on how the streamer actually streams. If they play with other people, how good they entertain, if their charecter is interesting, and weather or not they care about their fans. That all adds up to weather or not a streamer is good. Same with let's players. Most are abysmal, but some are actually good because they're entertaining. Simple as that. Plus, it can also help you deter weather or not you want to buy a game or not.
I still love ClintStevens. Even if he's a dumb money whore who's dating 16 year old fangirls
Ehh. He gets 500-1000 viewers on average. So he's kinda popular. Not really though. Same with Brit.
>>start watching new streamer
Why
2011 was one of my best years but yeah they've been pretty (((toxic.)))
>youtube person makes short, sweet vidya gameplay videos that are good to watch and flow like a dream
>suddenly turns into full time twitch whore
>everything is centered around the chat and the donations, nobody cares about what game is on
>youtube channel becomes a dump where the streams are fully uploaded
I really hope the whole "watch person play video games" bubble bursts.
>being triggered by truth
>large streamer
>tries to read every donation
>never actually ends up saying anythinh himself because its cobstaby donations
or even worse is donations making annoying sounds or doing text to speech. I dont understand why anyone likes this garbage.
Have you not seen the leaked CNN footage, user?
NO BACKSEET GAMIN REEE!
seriously, why don't those people have the capacity to simply ignore the comment?
>start watching new streamer
>he seems like a pretty cool, funny person
>start following his streams
>"So I'm really sick of Anita Sarkeesian getting harassed. She has so many great points, and the cishetero patriarchy wants to literally kill her."
>"DRUUMMPPPPHH! TWOOOO SCOOOOPPPPPS!!!!"
>appreciation turns into silent ressentment
>you stop watching
>start watching new streamer
can't get more of a fag than this
source?
but yeah I just started watching him and he's good.