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I dont see the appeal of political streamers at all, like I get dunking on them when they have really bad takes because they do influence kids but I dont get why I see people in their 30s defending some rich guy in their early 20s so often. Also a lot of people act like they actually know the streamers with millions of followers which is so creepy to me
I don’t see the appeal of streamers. I’ve tried to watch a few, and I just don’t get the format. It seems so boring and pointless. Why would I sit there and watch people either play video games or react to the news while making inane commentary? Podcasts, I get. Vloggers, youtubers, sure. Makes sense. That sort of content tends to be either edited to be more concise or else was planned from the start. They tend to be focused, and about something.
But then streams are all like “watch this guy play Overwatch for six hours a day.” I don’t know why people watch that.
I think the biggest reason is that atomization has made people incredibly lonely and so listening to some person talking unscripted or playing video games is sort of a stand in for having a friend over to do those things with
Some people that are funny or entertaining I can kind of get, or extremely skilled like @aaaaaaadjsf said. I used to watch vinesauce ones and sometimes I’ll watch speedruns
But I really don’t get watching it live, I guess the participation is the point but I like being able to skip forward if it gets boring
Every episode of Friends I watched was against my will, and I’ve watched a lot of Friends episodes.
Also Curb your Enthusiasm is worse than Seinfeld.
Unpopular opinion threads.
one time my extremely cool linguistics professor said something about seinfeld and was like “do you guys know that show? whats that show about?” and when people said “nothing” he said “that’s wrong it’s about linguistics”
