Casually Explained: Twitch Streamers

so twitch is the world's largest livestreaming platform and owned by Amazonand while originally it was almostentirely for gaming it's now expanded toall sorts of shows and IRL content withtop streamers averaging tens ofthousands of viewers and special eventsand tournaments getting into thehundreds of thousands with so muchcontent there's pretty much somethingfor everyone whether you're a gamer amusician a hobbyist or just a member oftwitch staff unlike TV streaming appealsprimarily to a teenage and young adultaudience and having done some cheeringmyself I've realized it's basically aplace where high school kids go to learnsocial skills from adults who act likehigh school kids with this in mind ifyou're a streamer it can be hard to keepeveryone well behaved in the chat so youhave to set some rules for everyone tofollow personally I think it's importantto listen to the interests of the twitchchamp so just like in a democracythere's really only one good way to makerules do whatever the [ __ ] you want tillJeff Bezos stops paying you now a bigproblem streamers have to deal with isTheir audience developing what arecalled parasocial relationships which iswhen someone from their chat knows somuch about them that they think they'reclose friends even though to thestreamer they're just some random viewerand this is worsened because unliketraditional celebrities twitch chat candirectly message and donate to thestreamer in real time getting a reactionand making them feel more connected andwhile most people thinkbro getting validation that way is kindof sad just remember it's the same thingyour grandparents do for you so makesure you have some empathy so I can tellyou from the perspective of a streamerby far both the best and worst part ofstreaming is the chat because they makeyou feel like you're the hottest girl inthe club you know there's a chance thatsomeone cool is going to come up andchat with you but 95 of yourinteractions are here's five dollarshow old are you how tall are you are yousingleyeah yeah still single oh bloggers duderelatedly because so many twitch viewersare young males a big topic ofconversation in The Gaming Community isalways female streamers and franklyfemale streamers have it rough on Twitchnot financially of course but in termsof being treated like a human being thisis because of the well-known fact thatif you donate all your pocket money forthat month to a female streamer they arenow legally obligated to be yourgirlfriend I'm not saying it's fair orjust but I am saying I will also doanything for 25 nevertheless regardlessof whether someone is a Pro Gamer youjust have a crush on them at the end ofthe day streaming is all aboutentertainment and you can watch andsupport whoever you want but at least behonest with yourself about it I've seenpeople be like oh yeah she does likeyoga the beach and I've donated becauseshe obviously can't afford a properoutfit and I've been trying to learnyoga myself you know yeah okay buddy andI'm a tier three sub to Hassan for hispolitical views and we're back thanksfor unpausing the video Hassan now onething twitch is certainly known for isits drama this is because 98 of alltwitch viewership is concentrated in thetop 50 streamers so they all know andinteract with each other and there's nobetter place to stay up to date on thelatest streamer Shenanigans thanreddit's live stream fail now despiteits name lsf isn't just a place to postfunny live stream blunders it is in facta constantly updated gossip magazine forteenage lore Masters to turn the livesof famous streamers into Choose Your OwnAdventure k-dramas imagine someone inthe chat is like uh Hey streamer youjust made a big mistake and you're likewhat what did I do but nice try liar youshould have said you're innocent beforeyou were accused of being guilty nowyour Twitter notifications look likethis and the top lsf post is six monthsof scandalous DMS the op found in theirPhotoshop folder every other streamer isgiving their lengthy criticism of yourentire character 15 seconds after askingchat what they thought you did then onlyonce the entire subreddit is filled withEclipse destroying your life as whengold says perhaps we should wait formore information before we jump toconclusions which in a complete turn ofevents completely stun locks the entireCommunity who have been starved for suchwisdom their entire lives this effectlasts for a day or two until Destinyabsolutely obliterates you forapologizing wrong you announced you'retaking a mental health break fromstreaming by streaming on your otheraccount and You Begin planning yourRedemption Arc with Dr K now one of thereasons why I'm a terrible streamer isbecause I'm never up to date with thelatest meta which is whatever the goingtrend on the website is that gets themost views like when among us becamepopular I was like and probably justgoing to be a fad like bean rice then acouple months later I was like well Ican't learn it now it's just the end ofthe life cycle and then a month afterthat I was like okay fine I'll buy itand then right when I buy it everyonequits and starts playing rust and thenwhen I spent three months going throughthe same process right when I decided tobuy it everyone just quits to play GTAand so I was like okay the next Trendthat comes around I'm completelyignoring it I'm not wasting any moremoneyso of course what was the next Trend Imissed out on [ __ ] GameStop thenright when I'm ordering my inflatablesfor the hot tub meta guess what the newtrend is now leaving twitch to stream onYouTube it was right in front of me thewhole timebut now the tables have turned onceeveryone's a YouTuber guess who's gonnahave all the power to decide The Metathen that's right expressvpn the VPNthat allows you to reroute yourconnection to over 90 countriesthroughout the world in a single clickand you're like me and don't want peoplehacking into or accessing your TwitterDMS not because there's anythingscandalous in there but because you wishthere was uh expressvpn allows you tofunnel your data through an encryptedconnection so that no one's able toaccess your email password or any ofyour juicy data for all your onlineaccounts which could be much morevulnerable on an unencrypted connectionso I like to use this when I'm in a cafeor on public Wi-Fi uh personally iPadexpressvpn long enough I've tried it forjust about everything and my favoriteuse case is still accessing locationspecific content I otherwise wouldn'thave been able to watch like reroutingmy connection to the UK to watch SouthPark on Netflix or you can also switchto the us to watch Saturday Night Liveon YouTube I also like using it to keepanything out of my history that I don'twant anyone to see a critical mistake ofmany streamers so if you'd like to findout how you can get three months forfree head over to expressvpn.com forwardslash casually explained[Music]