All streamers are trash so it’s always pleasurable to see any of them being taken down for being the assholes they are.
(This is in reference to the guy who is shocking his dog, not the woman who was assaulted, which wouldn’t have happened if Twitch allowed people to bring their own private security. I think streamers are trash but that justifies critiquing them not assaulting them.)
idk where you get that impression from, you can definitely find nice streamers if you look for them.
take RTGame. no controversy whatsoever. swears a bunch, but only as a result of being irish. fantastic community. but he streams on twitch, so i guess he’s trash?
is it because streamers ask for donations? because they play games as a job? i’m genuinely curious.
It’s more there’s such a over prevalence of pedophiles, groomers and general other assholes among the largest circles of streamers and YouTubers. That they all get washed with the same brush which is not fair to many such as RTGame.
But it’s also the profession at it’s highest levels isn’t actually playing games as a job. It’s being a talk show entertainer. That’s WHAT streaming is.
The video game is the stand in for the guest stars.
There is an inherent disingenuity to the whole performance. At least at the upper levels. While streaming may have started off as just gamer sharing their gameplay and what not, it’s very much not the reality of what it is anymore.
That’s why it’s not fair to paint everybody as an asshole just because they’re a streamer. It is genuinely fair to be distrustful of pretty much every streamer. So long as you’re keeping in mind that not everyone is an asshole even if they are in a horrible industry.
It’s a mentally toxic industry after all. Any form of parasocial entertainment is inherently toxic.
I’ll ignore how dumb the rest of this take is but she did bring her own private security. Her own security guy is the one who got the perpetrator off of her, while event security did nothing and also failed at securing the meet and greet properly in the first place.
In general con security seems to be terrible almost across the board. Absolutely not equipped for how big internet personalities have gotten, it’s mostly in “we’re just a bunch of nerds having our niche event” mode even for events where that’s decidedly no longer the case. And for twitchcon that’s not even the tiniest bit of an excuse since it’s organized by one of the largest tech companies in the world.
All streamers are trash so it’s always pleasurable to see any of them being taken down for being the assholes they are.
(This is in reference to the guy who is shocking his dog, not the woman who was assaulted, which wouldn’t have happened if Twitch allowed people to bring their own private security. I think streamers are trash but that justifies critiquing them not assaulting them.)
idk where you get that impression from, you can definitely find nice streamers if you look for them.
take RTGame. no controversy whatsoever. swears a bunch, but only as a result of being irish. fantastic community. but he streams on twitch, so i guess he’s trash?
is it because streamers ask for donations? because they play games as a job? i’m genuinely curious.
It’s more there’s such a over prevalence of pedophiles, groomers and general other assholes among the largest circles of streamers and YouTubers. That they all get washed with the same brush which is not fair to many such as RTGame.
But it’s also the profession at it’s highest levels isn’t actually playing games as a job. It’s being a talk show entertainer. That’s WHAT streaming is.
The video game is the stand in for the guest stars.
There is an inherent disingenuity to the whole performance. At least at the upper levels. While streaming may have started off as just gamer sharing their gameplay and what not, it’s very much not the reality of what it is anymore.
That’s why it’s not fair to paint everybody as an asshole just because they’re a streamer. It is genuinely fair to be distrustful of pretty much every streamer. So long as you’re keeping in mind that not everyone is an asshole even if they are in a horrible industry.
It’s a mentally toxic industry after all. Any form of parasocial entertainment is inherently toxic.
I’ll ignore how dumb the rest of this take is but she did bring her own private security. Her own security guy is the one who got the perpetrator off of her, while event security did nothing and also failed at securing the meet and greet properly in the first place.
In general con security seems to be terrible almost across the board. Absolutely not equipped for how big internet personalities have gotten, it’s mostly in “we’re just a bunch of nerds having our niche event” mode even for events where that’s decidedly no longer the case. And for twitchcon that’s not even the tiniest bit of an excuse since it’s organized by one of the largest tech companies in the world.
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