Comment on Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch

NotAPenguin@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Breaking: Streamers renamed Ribbons, totally unrelated streamers are up in arms

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• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s up, streams. You been streaming today? I stream every day, stream on brother

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• Fisk400@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you know that the word “Run” has hundreds of definitions? Like, more then 600 depending on who you ask.

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  • hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it in the running for most useful word, or have we just run out of words?

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    • Fisk400@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know, they should run some studies on it.

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• koreth@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not new, though. For example, here’s a Variety article from 2019 that uses it that way.

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• state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the usage you’re familiar with. But even if it was widely accepted at some point, the meaning can change over time. That’s normal, that’s what languages do. If you complain about shit like that, you sound like my 80 year old father.

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  • millie@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right, but part of that process is people thinking some of it is stupid and pushing back. Language isn’t immune to the pressures that form it.

    Likewise, just because you know how something works doesn’t divorce you from the causal forces that bring it into being. The language changes because we change it. It’s okay to try to do it actively.

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• ShroOmeric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because “streamers” existed before Twitch? 🤷‍♂️

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah for paper ribbons

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    • ShroOmeric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you say so…

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• aksdb@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s discriminate the term further by calling the producer the “stream source” and the consumers the “stream sink”.

  We now have “sourcers” and “sinkers”. Thank me later. Or don’t.

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