Maybe it’s just a zoomer thing(which is cool) and I’m a grumpy old man, but I don’t get the whole e-celeb twitch streamer fandom shit.
Especially people who are like hardcore fans of this shit.
To each his own I guess. I’m really just curious of the appeal. If anyone can explain it
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Its a parasocial relationship, simulating playing games with friends.
For me personally, theres three reasons I’m watching a streamer:
- Theyre playing multi-player games with a circle of other streamers with their own personas, usually in genres such as social deduction traitor-mechanic games that I either don’t have enough friends to play myself or my existing friends aren’t interested in.
- Theyre playing high stress single- or multi-player games that I don’t want to subject myself to personally but I want to spectate
- I’m playing another game on my main screen and want to listen to something in the background to which I don’t have to pay much attention
