Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
I don't get streamer culture. Watching people scream at a game doesn't appeal to me.
I don't get popular streamer culture. I like small streamers though, or at least, relatively small ones.

Ones who have between idk, 10 to 100 viewers regularly tuning in. Generally an audience small enough that they can keep up with chat, but active enough that you aren't the only one trying to interact with the streamer.

I mean, like, if I wanted to watch a big streamer where any interaction I attempt is drowned out or dismissed, I might as well be watching a recording.

Course, I don't watch anybody on Twitch unless they're playing a game I find interesting. The most streaming I've watched in this regards is Elden Ring streams from Joe Zieja and Jinzee(Proper Bird). Both are fairly lenient on chat commentary while also engaging with their viewers a ton.

Joe asked for help a lot as well, so I got to flex in game knowledge and map memorization skills for funsies.

Proper Bird didn't want help(backseat gaming spoilers etc). Understandable, but I still dislike that mindset (like even if a viewer is overbearing in wanting you to play a certain way it could only ever be suggestion rather than commandment). Even so, the trick was to just play dumb and make suggestions as if I didn't know what I was talking about. More than that, though, she's very cordial, pretty, and has a wonderful sense of humor. I made her laugh with dumb jokes at least half a dozen times in one stream. And she was laughing at a lot of other people's jokes and puns too.

TL;DR Watching streams CAN be fun, but I think once a streamer's grown past a certain audience size, it becomes more of a cult of celebrity. Folks just there to see what this big name doof does, whether she's farting into a mic or whether he's screaming into several monitors. Like chasing live celebrity tabloids.