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TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The whole principle of Twitch is to be a whore. Streamers whore their viewers for donations. Viewers whore for their streamers for attention. It's just cringe and a waste of time content wise, while eating up idiotic amounts of resources. The majority of people there are part of the bottom barrel of society and no amount of "small streamers" can convince me otherwise as most of those would become just as much of a sellout if they'd had a chance to become popular enough.

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  • piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think you can say the same for nearly all social platforms in the new age of internet. “influencers” generate “content” for their “followers”

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    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nowadays, yes. Go back 10-15+ years and it was quite a different experience.

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      • some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’d argue that it was the same, but now it’s more efficient and optimized.

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    • Iapar@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It sounds so dirty, doesn’t it?

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  • TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I agree that this is a wider problem with streams. I think the main problem is that starting a stream and talking about whatever in order to appeal to a larger and larger audience is rewarded rather than good research and preparing high quality content, like on YT or TikTok.

    It’s just not possible when you’re streaming and would deat the purpose. It’s all quantity over quality, so assholes get to the top.

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    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      TicTok is a 99% low quality garbage too, on top of being a data hording machine for China.
      YouTube isn't any better nowadays either, it's all just clickbait garbage and real life vlog type shit.

      Frankly, the internet was better when it was mostly nerds filling it. But I suppose now that it is mainstream, it is just a mirror of society.

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