“My guess is that if you watch the same handful of people over time, you start to feel like they’re… your friends...

>“My guess is that if you watch the same handful of people over time, you start to feel like they’re… your friends,” Dr. Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Research Center in Newport Beach, California, said, with what sounded to me like just a hint of shade. But it’s true. I do want updates on these Internet strangers’ lives. How’s Katie’s dog Kodo doing? What does the EndGameBlues guy eat when he pauses for a 15-minute “meal break?” That’s not enough time. I’m worried about him!

Why do you watch vidya streamers? Is it because they're your internet friends?

>white woman-black man
PURE COINCIDENCE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG!

>you start to feel like they’re… your friends

Shouldn't we do something about this? I mean, this sounds like we're going to end up with a generation of socially retarded kids.

We dont work in a media psychology research center and pretty much everyone here knows ecelebs are nothing but surrogate friends

Where the fuck did this friendship simulator meme start?

I only watch LPs on bad games because its funny

Entertainment.
Why do you spend your time here? Internet friends? Probably not. You're here because it entertains you. But from an outside perspective, spending your time here or watching people play videogames looks just as pathetic.

This is shit we already knew, though. Someone post the pic of the comment where a kid tells Pewdiepie he has to do his chores or something

backround noise and to see if i wanna play a game or not. But yeah I do think many people like seeing them as 'friends' of sorts.
pretty sure shes asain but whatever your cuckmind wants to see my man.

You forgot the white guy peeking through window.

I saw someone eating shit once while playing your favorite game, so it's safe to say that everyone that likes your favorite game is into eating shit.

>"My guess is that if you watch the same handful of people over time, you start to feel like they’re… your friends,”
wow what a shocking revelation
really putting that phd to use

The next generation will be fine...haha just kidding, we're fucked

>implying it hasn't happened already

Every year it seems like that movie "Idiocracy" is right about the future.

is not a mystery, is the same reason why reality tv is so successful and why people listen podcasts, is personality driven

>we're going to end up with a generation of socially retarded kids.
you are 2 gens too late

no one bats an eye about people that care way to much about real celebs

whoa

Am I the only one who sees Trip?

No, only like a quarter of millenials (mostly white males) are NEET tier autists. Upwards of 50% of gen z may end up as NEET tier autists.

some of them are actually funny and play video games i'm either skeptical on or don't really give a shit about, plus a lot of them are pretty humble and don't let youtube fame get to their head, at least the ones I watch anyway.

>Electrolytes

>Why do people root for their favorite football player?

Idiots.

Only a cuck would notice and feel the need to comment.

I don't understand why people get so worked up over who a consenting adult fucks.

>Why do you watch vidya streamers? I
1. I don't care to buy some games, so I watch someone else playing without spending a dime on the game.
2. Watch streams of actual friends who stream just for our little group of friends
3. Watch pro fighting game players so I can pick up some tips.

Streamers are entertainers, they're engaging to watch.
They're either funny, or very knowledgeable or very good at the game.

The only people that watch other people play video games online, are little kids that think it's cool, and sad, desperate manchildren, that really believe donating to the streamer establishes a bond with them.

>white guy watching black man playing with white girl

totally not race mixing propaganda

looks yellow desu

who fucking cares lad what's your problem

people from south africa care

She's obviously Asian

It's clearly an Asian tranny. Dial down your cuck fetish a few notches

Horseshit. Look at how the general public looks down on Kardashian lovers and those fucking Benedict Cumberball fangirls.

whatever excuses you can find to justify such trash

Fpbp, thought the same thing. Damn artists can't help but insert MARXISM into everything they do.

It's just the next generation of celeb cancer, now on the internet.

welcome to costco i love you

>getting booty blasted over the skin colors of a shitty cartoon

Take your meds

with the videocuck watching them play from a tiny window at the background

>if you talk to the cashier at the supermarket it means you don't have friends
these armchair psychologists are on to something

Let's Play fans just need a good friend

I won't be your friend, mr shit taste

You don't get to regularly talk or sometimes play with your favorite football player though

That's clearly an asian female and a melanesian dude.

You're on Sup Forums everyday?

Filthy kikes are to blame.

The only shit I watch is the NLSS which I don't even watch. I listen to it like a podcast for the banter.

Couldn't give a shit what goes on in their lives otherwise, hope they are doing well of course but if I ever met them I'd probably just say hi. Say I like the show and that's about it really.

That person is a doctor? Jesus Christ..

>Streamers are entertainers, they're engaging to watch.

No they're not

>They're either funny, or very knowledgeable or very good at the game.

They're not either of these.

>its just a cartoon

oh yeah lets just completely also dismiss rewriting of history with african cast for historically white characters as just "its just a cartoon"

>next generation will be X
-old out of touch person who think he can tell how kids think

If only there was a superior race to stop them. Oh wait, Jews are the master race.

Why do billions watch TV?

It requires no interaction, you just sit back and watch
That's all there is to it. It's passive.

At least we won't miss out on space travel if the human race ends itself now.

It's almost like if you interact with someone on a regular basis you get to know them on a personal level.

All these studies seem to discount chat interaction. When you hang out with a group of people regularly and you learn all their dank memes so you can meme out together you become a part of that sub culture.

The opening quote is a complete guess made by a doctor who has done no research into the subject. The rest of the greentext is from a ""journalist""

Turn on the tv randomly and you'll usually catch a show where people are just at home doing fuck all. It's the same shit.

What exactly do the characters have to be doing that verifies watching them I'd worthwhile?

if you let your women fuck sub 80 iq niggers you know your country is screwed

A lot of entertainment is friendship simulation. Music, tv, even books.

How is this a bad thing, exactly?

You don't see tv characters as your friends though, right? Although tv and streamers are similar, streamers seem to be messing with people's heads a lot more than tv.

You know that's fake, right?

because people on TV are 'fake' whereas streamers are 'our guys'

If you lose the mating game to sub 80 iq niggers, then maybe the problem is in the mirror

I always assumed it was little brother shit. I'm the older brother so I was never forced to watch my sibling play games. I don't have the patience for that shit and my backlog is too huge to waste time.

>cast
If you think that the perception of history coming from movies wasn't totally fucked before this BLACKED! trend, you're either naive or stupid.

don't worry corbin bleu's not black

>Media Psychology Research Center
>Newport Beach, California
Give me 1 (one) reason not to disregard everything she says.

>You don't see tv characters as your friends though, right?

Many do.

It's bad because the non-white generation will not reproduce.

What did ((((((((((they))))))))))))) mean by this
#fpbp

>“My guess is that if you watch the same handful of people over time, you start to feel like they’re… your friends,” Dr. Pamela
Ding there is your answer!

How are they not? Do you even know what entertainment is or do you just come here to disagree with everyone?

lol none of the streamers are my friends

I often watch games I'm interested in but would likely not buy

I watch some streamers, but in no way do I consider them my friends. They're merely entertainers.

it wasnt as fucked as it is now and you can simply not just dismiss this fact like a god damn africa lover

>blank is blank
>no it isn't
good argument

I watch because I like seeing people suffer

and other people reacting to said suffering

It was as fucked, you burgers are too used to it to notice.

Too many people in the world as is. If a few mentally fucked people want to stop reproducing I don't see the problem

>it's better to live in mogadishu than being called racist
ayyy

I watch them because just like television, it's just a timekiller. They might play a game I would otherwise never play and they might make a few entertaining jokes along the way. Why do people always think it's some deep psychological nonsense?

Never understood the point of watching others play games. I guess its goid if your looking into the game and want to see unedited gameplay.

I flew from crash 1-3 on saturday and just finished witcher 3 new game + on death march but i very much doubt people want to see that.

I only watch Vinesauce because he's hilarious and interesting. Better comedy than most television shows.

I don't watch the streamers that just play the game and echo donations. If I am interested in a game but not sold on it, I might have a stream to watch to see what it's actually like hour-to-hour.

>Why do you watch vidya streamers?

I don't, and I tried hard because I had a crush on this asian trap that would stream in stockings (my fetish) and costumes. Watching her play just made me want to play.

Nah, I don't watch every single second of the youtubers and streamers I watch. If they're playing a game I don't like, I don't watch it.

>next generation is gay / bi
>also conservative as fuck

did millennials and gen X just create the uber-mensch by their sheer incompetence ?

Yes. Most of the time it's genuine interest in the games being played too, but the main reason is the person behind it.
>tfw you know you can never be like them because you're not interesting enough

>DUDE UH THIS IS LIKE [musician you've never heard of]
>proceeds to talk about said musician for 30 minutes while barely paying attention to the game, wandering around in circles and dying

vinny has been on a roll lately, 100k in charity money, vinny and mike play is better than oney (imho) his guest appereance on cinemassacre and he was on both cr1ticals and two best friends podcast. good for him

Too late

name?

i can see where the author is coming from, a lot of kids (especially the more socially retarded ones) and quite a few teenagers/adults start to have friend-esque imagined relations with lots of characters/people in different forms of media, this is very common with books within the adventure/shonen style but seems more outlandish when it comes to streamers
and artists. we had droves of young girls falling head over heels over justin beiber despite never having met him.

tl:dr this is not anything new, its just happening in a different form of entertainment

>this sounds like we're going to end up with a generation of socially retarded kids

You don't need streamers to do that. Just look at Sup Forums.

whoa, did faceapp update with race presets?

I just put videos on as background noise while I play games. I don't have cabal so i'll put on some random video and if something funny happens while I'm playing I'll rewind and switch to it.

Read the actual studies/surveys on Gen Z being conservative. They're fiscally conservative since they grew up during the 2008 meltdown but they're full borne social libs...except maybe on drugs depending on the study. Plus they're the least white generation in American history.

It's over. We lost. I'm not even going to worry about it anymore. I'm just going to try to have fun before I die.

>caring about race

nah, it's just moral groundstating, everybody used to have a big friendslist on steam or console or their guild. watching streamers is just another way of making "friends" online, i wouldn't read too much into it

ok nvm, we've got a good running you guys. It was an honor enjoying Civilization that our ancestors build in their sweat

Balkanized white ethnostate made from the current midwest states WHEN?