People that watch streamers content are low IQ. Change my mind.

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By and large, I would agree.

Growing up I think we all hated watching our friends play video games.

Like if you had a bunch of friends over, you’d be dying for your turn in Tekken or Madden or Street Fighter or whatever. Or if you watched your friend try to beat a stage of a single player game, you wanted the controller to see if you could do it for him.

I understand if you watch a twitch stream for tips on strategy or skill. But to sit for hours and days watching them is silly. Worse if you donate your own money to them.
 

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By and large, I would agree.

Growing up I think we all hated watching our friends play video games.

Like if you had a bunch of friends over, you’d be dying for your turn in Tekken or Madden or Street Fighter or whatever. Or if you watched your friend try to beat a stage of a single player game, you wanted the controller to see if you could do it for him.

I understand if you watch a twitch stream for tips on strategy or skill. But to sit for hours and days watching them is silly. Worse if you donate your own money to them.

I thought they watched to improve their game
 

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I watched in the very beginning when I saw black folks on there doing something new/different but at this point, I could give af about a nikkas life or opinion unless he is doing something special, unique, or talking about something relevant/important…

Which is not what 99% of these “streamers” or “influencers” are doing now.

Its like trash reality TV now, except its regular ass, untalented people trying to get famous now to get “paid” and to floss/flex like they’re really living a life that they pretend to live.

I don’t watch/listen to podcasts at all regularly because again, it’s other peoples opinions and most of them are not even qualified to speak on the subjects they bring up.

Only thing I MIGHT watch is sports podcasts from a lot of retired athletes or podcasts about certain interests of mines (like Neil Degrasse Tyson) or some depending on the guests they brought up (Michelle Obama/Kat Williams interview came to mind), but I’m not sitting through that shyt for over an hour.

Society needs to learn how to do the work to form their own opinions of shyt.

Some podcasts I might watch have something to do with what I do/did in real life so I might watch those to see if they’re bullshyttin or not.

But ultimately, I agree now. If this is your main source of education or entertainment you might be dumb as fukk. Most of it is just opinions from talking heads with an ulterior motive or Influencer-slop. Gamers don’t bother me as much though, they been around for ever.

There are even chess influencers and shyt now too that I watch every once in awhile
 

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By and large, I would agree.

Growing up I think we all hated watching our friends play video games.

Like if you had a bunch of friends over, you’d be dying for your turn in Tekken or Madden or Street Fighter or whatever. Or if you watched your friend try to beat a stage of a single player game, you wanted the controller to see if you could do it for him.

I understand if you watch a twitch stream for tips on strategy or skill. But to sit for hours and days watching them is silly. Worse if you donate your own money to them.

Facts

I've heard kids say "bu bu but y'all watch other people play football, why don't you go play?"

Some of the most asinine shyt I've ever heard :mjlol:
 

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As far as gaming streamers, it's entertaining for me to watch people play the games that I like or am interested in. I dont go as far as donating and all that extra shyt tho. If it wasn't for the low IQ ppl streamers wouldn't be bankin.
 

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As far as gaming streamers, it's entertaining for me to watch people play the games that I like or am interested in. I dont go as far as donating and all that extra shyt tho. If it wasn't for the low IQ ppl streamers wouldn't be bankin.
Twitch been around since 2011, and was something else before that in 2007 when it was the gaming portion of another streaming service.

So Twitch and gaming been a thing for 15-20 years now. After Covid, it got big with other dumb shyt but Twitch was originally just gaming content.

Videogame streamers don’t really bother me like that. Everyone used to watch their homies game, or watch shyt in arcades and etc.

I don’t usually involve those specific streamers like that. Gaming is a hobby and a Mental Health thing for a lot of people. No different from playing cards, playing pool, or hooping with homies to me. Only console wars really made it lame
 

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You're right. They can't read, struggle with basic thought, and don't know anything about anything. It's just impulse driven dopamine for borderline retards. The thing that really bothers me is how anti-social it is. The behavior caters entirely to an online chat. You got people out here walking through life saying wild shyt out loud, doing weird shyt in person etc and they don't even peep there are consequences because they're only focused on chat reactions.
 

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IMO the rise in streaming is a result of the rise in people feeling isolated and lonely, especially during Covid. A lot of it is dumb content but it fulfills many people's need for human interaction.


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These people wouldn't be doing shyt else with their lives otherwise. Its smarter than going into student loan debt just to work for Cacs.
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