• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    8 months ago

    This is why I hate watching streamers.

    They are playing the game, and constantly breaking the action to talk about shoutouts that adds zero to the experience

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      8 months ago

      Some people get really offended when their sub or donation doesn’t get mentioned. I go so far as to re-sub when the streamer is offline to try and avoid it at all costs. Parasocial relationships are weird, man.

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        8 months ago

        Yep, the best streams I have watched was the streamer spoke to the chat as if it was a single person, asking for advice or hints on how to continue.

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          8 months ago

          DougDoug, while a bit unhinged, seems to always try to include the community into every stream

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            8 months ago

            As long as it isn’t just shoutout after shoutout after shoutout or similar dumb crap that doesn’t add any real content

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        8 months ago

        Once i had a sub ready while the streamer was offline, i got called rude by someone else who was in the chat for some reason.

        Btw you can turn of to send the notification in the settings.

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      8 months ago

      You should check out APlatypus on Twitch. He went so deep into that hole of constantly shouting out and breaking action, that his stream became a comical bloat of videos and songs and meme clips playing on top of each other. I love the guy’s personality and humour, but it’s unwatchable after the first few laughs.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, this is like my personal hell, to have a streamer do/play something that I’m genuinely interested in, but also, they’re a streamer.