Watching streamers

>Watching streamers
>Giving streamers money
Why do people do this?

If you don't briefly watch a stream just to get a quick assessment of what you're about to waste bandwidth on, then you're doing it wrong.

>watching
Entertainment: same reason for sports.
>Giving money.
Dunno.

>youtube's face when people just straight up give money to twitch for no reason while it hasn't made a profit even once in over a decade

>Entertainment: same reason for sports.
>Comparing video games to physical sports

>Comparing entertainment to entertainment
Oh no, such a terrible thing they've done. I'm going to go compare movies to books now, is that stupid, too?

I met a dude at a con who I later found was a streamer. We hung out during the con and became friends because we actually lived around the same area

It was only after the fact that i found out he streamed. My sudden appearence in his discord and stream butt-blasted some of his viewers who use twitch as an "e-friend" service

>people have different tastes than me so kill yourself
NOICE

Why is chess considered a legit sport but strategy games are not?

surrogate friends

This. This is the best post right here. No other post can compete with it. Witness its glory and fuck off. You can not beat it by any means. Simply observe and aknowledge your meaningless existence, then move on.

streamer is a medium
I'm interacting with other retards

Man I watch lots of LPs and I cannot even fathom thinking some stranger you watch because they relieve boredom is somehow your best buddy. I guess all it takes is seeing them happy that you gave them 5 dollars to read out an epic maymay.

i'd watch mori's stream

>implying it is

What? I don't think there's a direct comparison being made there. Simply saying people watch film, read books, play games, or participate in sports are all valid forms of entertainment.

I don't regularly donate money to my friends.

Friendship simulator.

>cutting hair
why do girls and shit anime do it?

>Watching cuckold anime

what?

because long hair gets dirty, dry, can give girls rashes on their backs if they don't wash it often enough, gets caught on shit, gets annoying when its in their face constantly, and frankly it just looks like she doesn't give a shit anymore

you cant buy friends, user

shit reasons because girls are not fucking soldiers or survivalists to do everything for efficiency

Why do you care?

hair that long IRL is a fucking disaster to maintain. they have to spend hundreds of dollars a month to keep it moisturized, trimming split ends constantly, using expensive conditioners etc. all so it doesn't turn into a greasy-up-top, dry-on-the-bottom mess.
imagine trying to maintain an anime dude's haircut IRL. you would be blowing so much money on waxes/gels just to keep its shape, meanwhile your scalp is full of disgusting dead hair particles and dry gel clumps
similar thing with chicks

>They have to spend hundreds of dollars a month
No, they really don't. I've had waist to hip length hair for about 7 years now and the maintenance cost is only barely higher than when I had short hair.
Then again, women are always envious of my hair. Demanding to know my 'secret'.

>Then again, women are always envious of my hair. Demanding to know my 'secret'.
my ex would always use my "for men" shampoo cause it worked way better than her $80 stuff, even though it was like $4.00
i'm pretty sure women are given complete bullshit products meanwhile we get all the good shit

I don't know about giving them money but what's wrong about watching? I watch to know if a game is shit or when I feel lonely. It is basically having fake friends.

I have interest in this topic and I can tell you that you're exaggerating a lot. Costs of shampoo and conditioner are not that larger than for women with shorter hair, trimming isn't really constant
hairdyes are much more dangerous, yet it doesn't stop women from dyeing their hair, they use these excuses not to grow their hair but they do much worse things to their hair

can you honestly tell me the chick in pic related isn't blowing hundos on her hair every month? i disagree

I got a long hair too and the same happens to me. "how are these so strong and healthy?" because I don't use a blowdrier on them and don't fuck with it all the time. let it dry, comb the fucker, slap on a ponytail if you're so inclined, and leave it alone. I just wash them. No conditioner, nothing extra.

>all society is going to shit
>why do you care
you are right, i should go you assholes rot in hell while i camp comfy on some forest

>Watching streamers
Its no different then watching tv, except its tv that you choose what you watch and when.
>Giving streamers money
Hey if you are spending time and enjoying yourself, be it a game or a streamer sure toss em a buck
>Giving streamers loads of money
Now thats the part I dont fucking get, maybe because I am just a wage slave but when I see people tossing away hundreds to a streamer? There are so many better uses for that

this one too - zero split ends, moisturized all the way to the bottom. theres no way she doesn't make weekly trips to the hairdresser

with that dried up tumbleweed? I fucking hope so.

It's entertaining and free.

Would watch her stream?

yeah because I've watched the haircare channels of girls with hair of similar length
their haircare routine was never anything too crazy - both in the way of costs and how often do they have to do it

i see a chick like this and i already know everything there is to know about her, because shes the exact type i dated back in high school. why the fuck is she interesting at all? she probably sucks at video games too, so wtf is the point?

Surrogate friends describes the entire success of most internet personalities.

So yes.

so no, like i said what is the point? everything she says is going to be predictable as fuck, her gameplay is going to be mediocre, so why? because there might be a chance she'll see something you said in chat and she'll respond to you? does that give you a boner?
it just seems so fucking pathetic

I want to try streaming for money but what the fuck do I do? Just play video games and talk?

Why do cereal, bro?

>be attractive
>don't be unattractive
>play something popular
success

i'm just trying to contribute to the discussion

I was going to do a faceless stream because I hate those but apparently that's a recipe for failure.

>watching content
>giving people money for content
Why do people do this

>see a stream with 0 viewers
>no facecam
>immediately ignored by literally everyone
you have to be attractive to sucker in that first wave of viewers. either that or be like a GrandMaster in SC2 or top of some league in whatever game, so people see your name and say "hey thats that dude in the top 10 of the ladder!" or whatever
without that theres no way youre going to succeed in the already saturated streamer market

>simulator

I've never seen a streamer put a budgie camera on stream. Maybe I'll put my budgie on stream.

what are you fuckin jontron lol

>>Watching streamers
Pseudo friends to fill the gap left by no real friends.
Entertainment like TV but with no ads and with the option to communicate with the performer directly and with other viewers and to choose precisely what you are watching.
Learning things and aspects and new metas for games.
>>Giving streamers money
Delusional betas feed attention whores and dream to get something back in return.
Neets with disposable income donate to their favorite streamers to keep them streaming, increase the amount of streaming they do, etc.
Richfag braindead arabs with easy money they never worked for.
The fake subscriber/donor routine to create an appearance that there is someone already donating/subscribing. (Similar to viewbots that eases the psychological barrier to watching a stream(easier to watch a stream with 200 people than with 20 or 2) fake subs/donations bring in real ones)

>it's a "user thinks he knows everything there is to know about women because he went to high school" episode

>its a "user sees someone that claims to know something about women, but can't refute anything because he is a virginal chicken mcnugget so he lashes out" episode

i have curly hair up to my ass. Girls always compliment on it and ask me what i do.

Answer: whatever you are doing do the opposite.

Its even cheaper than maintaining short hair. You only spend more if you are a retard obsessed with shampoo when you really dont need to.

...

>gorillaz shirt
>nose ring for pigs
>fake self confidence
>fishmouth in the making
>weak arms that never did any hard work in its life

Just tumbler buzcut, 20Kg of fat and a pink hair dye away from complete disaster...

only chess players think chess is a legit sport

>Why is chess considered a legit sport
It is?

You're not actually playing said sport, so it doesn't matter.

Chess, more like chiss.

Well, I feel betrayed. I thought we were pals, but it looks like you would rather see some twitch retard.

>Why do people do this?

>playing game
>300$ console minimum
>60$+DLCs+season pass+microtransactions+tip+online fees for a single game
>have to do all boring fetch quests or play artificially difficult games (see cuphead)

>watching streamer
>it's free
>for as low as 4.99 you get a subscriber shoutout+cool emotes
>stremer does all the boring shit for me all while entertaining me, so I can fully enjoy the game without hassles

jeez, I dunno

>NTR shit

every time

This. Etika's living the life right now. Especially after that stupid kid stole his mom's card and donated $1700+ to him.

I can understand if you're trying to support some noname schmuck who needs the money since his actual job sucks and he's pretty entertaining to watch.
I can't understand if you're just shoving money down some pseudo-ecelebs throat that's already rich as fuck thanks to other sheep, youtube and sponsors so he notices you like the little bitch you are for a split-second.

>Watching streamer
>Donation comes in
>Dude doesnt say anything
>Donator gets mad as fuck
I dont get it

I think streamers are OK people. It's a good way to help get people ingratiated into bigger memes like programming and stuff. People just won't sit still long enough to watch that kind of stuff in person.

>NTR
Wut?

>sitting on your ass watching sports is somehow better than sitting on your ass watching video games

He donated to get a few seconds of attention.

the only streamers I watch are speedrunners.

male protagonist gets cucked with her saying "I just want to stay good online friends"
later on in the manga she sleep with another man

pffft hahahaha

It kind of is to me personally. Not saying what that guy said was right but I watch some sports just because there is no way I could ever be in shape to play physical sports at any relevant level myself. For video games if If I was interested in the game I'd just fucking play the game myself.

People watch streamers because they think they're funny. If you wanted to see gameplay, you could do so without a retard screaming in the corner or the video. Furthermore, they watch streamers to feel like they are a part of something. "Oh you watch this guy that I watch too that plays that game that I play too?! Oh man, great!"

Also, streamers biggest audience is children. There were never streamers for me growing up cause I just played the god damn Vidya myself.

Check them pls. Also super mario sunshine is best mario

>Not saying what that guy said was right but I watch some sports just because there is no way I could ever be in shape to play physical sports at any relevant level myself.
>implying that's not the case if you watch games like pubg or csgo where actual skill is required

>streamers biggest audience is children
If that were the case I doubt they'd get as many donations as they do.
I'm convinced it's a bunch of people in their early to mid 20s with shitty jobs in need of some kind of religion to throw their money at.