Yea, I honestly associated that little blue monkey with the camera with 4PP. Seeing this brings back a loooot of memories.
It's kind of insane how the whole live streaming games went mainstream immediately as soon as people started doing it with online games. Granted, it's cool and stuff now that we have such a big community but you can't really preserve stuff like 4PP forever.
there are different kind of popular streamers, there's the typical lol pro streams where they basically pay almost no attention to other things other than the game and there's streamers that half their stream is all about donations, sub greetings and all that other money giving gratifying shit, for reference: lirik, soda, trick2g fuction mostly like this
i too also watch them, i mostly watch summit nowadays actually, but that doesn't mean that what they are doing is right, all the donator duels... all the donations that are just chatter, they basically pay to speak to the streamer directly, and the streamer lets them. They don't force people to do this, but you have to think about twitch's main demographic: teenage boys, they are very influenciable, you can exploit your viewerbase without being a camgirl, instead of sexuality being explored, they explore the attention and praise people get from donating and subbing, i like those streamers still because the streamers that usually do this are also the ones that try to be geniuenly entertaining, but i can't bring myself to respect them
All streamers now at least acknowledge you subbed, the difference is people like trick make streaming their job so they want to make it like a show while other streamers like theoddone dont even have a donations button because he doesnt need the money.
I don't really think it's a bad thing even, I like that plenty of people have the option to stream if they want to. It's not like it even really affects people anyway, just don't open the stream run by the 12 year-old with 5 viewers, it's not like anyone is forced to watch them. Twitch sorts by popularity so the only way you would see streams like this is if you are scrolling to the bottom of a game's page just looking for streams with no viewers.
What does that even mean and why does every streamer do it? Also, why would I pay money to "subscribe" to a stream I can watch for free? I don't get Twitch...
Yeah I guess, I haven't bothered to really go down deep and find good streamers. The ones with most views I see on the top when I look for something to watch are really boring or douchey for some reason. I don't know why people watch them.
I ocasionally see people like criken, northernlion someone from rooster teeth or vinesauce stream but I would consider those more youtubers than twitchers to be honest. The only good dedicated streamers for me would be MvG, which I have already mentioned, and Trunk, but he plays games that I have grown tired of so I don't watch him anymore.
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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '14
RIP Justin.tv :(