the buttons are complicated

it's more efficient to have multiple streams going on while you game so you can beat multiple games at once.

I unironically think a lot of people get such terrible sleep and are so chronically fatigued that all they can do besides work is passively consume media.

>>714333692 (OP)
>inflation is up
>games are expensive
>PC & consoles are expensive
>pirating is too difficult for the new generation
>increased loneliness in new generation leads to lots of people seeking parasocial relationships
>etc etc etc things I forgot
what else?

>>714333692 (OP)
I don't watch Twitch as it's an open terrorism platform. I don't watch streamers on youtube either, but if I watched streamers it would be on youtube.

>>714334060
>>714333692 (OP)
How is watching streamers different than the old days of cable and sitting down watching television all night with popcorn/chips?

>>714334163
In the old days you didn't turn on the TV to watch a guy watching tv.....

I watch twitch on the 2nd screen while I'm already playing a different game

>>714334201
You watch people play sports instead of playing them yourself

>>714333692 (OP)
Maybe to compare against those who are super skilled

>>714334259
I sure don't watch people worse than me at sports poorly playing sports and talking about their fucking day

>>714333692 (OP)
zoomers are braindead and think googling strategy guides to beat a videogame is completely normal

>>714334146
>I don't watch Twitch as it's an open terrorism platform
They put openly hostile political activists on the front page on a regular basis, which is insane considering what a chill and friendly place it pretends to be.

>>714334163
Well a big part of it is that TV, oddly enough, respects your time more than a livestream. I would rather be a couch potato than a Twitch viewer.

1. Games aren't as good as they used to be
2. Because of 1., less people will even take the risk of investing their time in any game
3. People are replacing socialization they're missing from growing up on the internet or not have friends at work with background noise
4. Replace TV because TV is also shit now, and watching a "channel" that's about video games is more interesting than some random show.

>>714334439
WHOA THERE FRIEND, DID YOU JUST CALL ME DUMB!? THATS A 3 DAY BAN!!! Anyway, Here's my plan to kill Rick Scott........in real life.....I mean Minecraft.......and if you say Im an extremist I'll just say you're crazy

>>714334521
Don't forget that Youtube and Twitch are free and a pretty significant amount of kids don't grow up in households with cable, so that's their only real option for entertainment. The ideal solution would be to pirate a bunch of fun shows for your children and run it off a local server, but that's obviously a lot to ask of the average person.

>>714334737
I've been saying for years that 99% of Twitch's userbase is literally brown children

>>714334259
Shit bro you're right let me just find 17 other people, an unoccupied, regulation size baseball diamond and equipment for everybody real quick and I'll get a game going

My understanding is that its a zoomer specific phenomenon, and for them it makes them feel like they have buddies. Its like hanging out with your friends playing a video game. For them their friend is the twitch streamer (and their gf is the qt on onlyfans). its all transactional and one sided. I unironically think social media should be banned for <18s if not <25s

>>714334867
>he's unwed
lol

>>714335068
Most medium sized streamers' audiences are nothing but no-life millennials. I'm pretty sure lots of grown ass men watch Asmongold. I've even met guys IRL that talk about watching streamers with their family before.

>>714335395
I am a millennial (married with children). There was no such thing as a twitch streamer for us. Messageboards and forums (like this one) yes, and even then only for the super geeks. Nobody watches twitch streamers

>>714333692 (OP)
qt girls

Pretending the anime woman loves me makes my life happier

>>714335878
bad news bro she loves you and is real and is approaching your location

>>714333692 (OP)
The truth is, Twitch isn't that amazing. I used to enjoy watching South Park episodes, even if it wasn't necessarily on streaming sites, because I chose the episode, whereas on Twitch it was random and I liked it. But since they deleted the channels I used to watch, I don't watch Twitch at all. Anyway, they're just streamers, big jerks, who encourage you to pay for nothing, their content is empty.