Absolutely. Like you say, it just doesn’t happen in large streams, and the threshold is probably a lot largerbthan you think, since on average maybe 10% of viewers actually participate in chat. The dynamic starts shifting at around 1,000 simultaneous viewers, in my experience, between chat being readable and interactable, and being just spam. That’s still plenty big enough to qualify for partner, and even make a living off of streaming alone.
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jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Do people actually form any sort of relationships in Twitch chat? For a decent size streamer, chat moves so fast that I can’t imagine anyone ever recognizing anyone.
Maybe for a super small streamer.
JakenVeina@lemm.ee 4 months ago
towerful@programming.dev 4 months ago
If you find the 10-100 viewer streamers playing fun and community games it can be nice and chill.
Feels like old school cs1.6 community servers where you hang out with regulars and have fun.
The community gaming is probably what makes it, thoJJROKCZ@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You certainly can if you spend any decent amount of time in one game’s directory or stick to streamers in the couple thousand viewers at most. Basically niche games or being a regular to a small streamer mean you can make friends on the platform or at least recognize people.
I’ve been on the platform since 2012ish and have been a part of some great communities there, I also enjoy the massive streams of day Lirik or Summit1G but those I watch if I’m not wanting to talk to others since the chat is 10000 mph
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
I feel the same about Discord.
Live chat does not really work well with large numbers.