02-22-2025, 07:02 AM
L Thammy wrote:I don't think you can be a top Twitch streamer and be a good person. I don't mean that as a blanket "all Twitch streamers are shit" thing to pat ourselves on the back for being out of touch, everyone and their mothers streams nowdays and if you look at all streamers of any size you're going to see a spectrum.
But that's just the thing. Streaming is such a hypersaturated market. There are far more people who want to go online and get fame and popularity from not developing any sort of skills that are useful to people in the outside world but just playing video games or something than there is enough audience to support all of them. It seems like a cool job so everybody wants a piece of the pie and we ran out long ago.
Without exaggeration, if most of the people posting in this thread tried their hands in streaming, I'd suspect that they'd get no viewers. Not few viewers, I mean I don't think they'd get a single one. That's how bad the market for streamers is. There are at least tens of thousands of people watching at the moment, but they're most often getting pushed to those same big channels that everybody's watching with millions of followers, meanwhile others stream for years and have nothing to show for it.
So the people who actually succeed on the platform can't do it by just buckling down and working hard. That isn't possible. They do it by networking, sharing whatever audience they have so that the success of one of them lends to the success of all of them. And that's where the whole guilt by association issue that people are talking about comes up. Because Emiru at some point had to recognize that she was surrounded by incredibly toxic people, and her success was tied to these toxic people, and she had the choice of either dropping them and damaging her career or continuing to pretend nothing happened so that she could keep leeching off their success.
And, obviously, she took the fame and success at the cost of her soul. You wouldn't know her if she didn't.
Fuck streamers! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
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