I do it sometimes as a sort of surrogate for experience-sharing when I either can’t see/play something with friends (lockdown) or none of my friends are into the same thing I am. Like I’ll play through a really cool sequence, think “that was dope as shit,” and then go find a few people online playing through it to enjoy the feeling of it being dope as shit.

I rarely watch something all the way through and I don’t join chats or anything, there are just some video game interests I have that i share with none of my IRL friends so I like seeing people who do.