re: Why is Twitch so popular?

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It’s fun content and no different than you Boomers watching Fox News all day long.

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I'm in my thirties and refuse to watch Fox News or any other 24 hour news channel. So much for your ignorant group think assumption.

And this calling everyone "Boomers" movement is ridiculous. Especially from a young generation that gets pissy about paying back their own student loans for their gender theory degrees.

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Boomer is a state of mind and way of life and not an age, bud. Stay mad

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OH, my apologies. I thought it actually referred to the baby boomers. Forgive me for my ignorance in hipster slang.

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It is millennials in their thirties like you screeching for student loan forgiveness.

The Zoomers are still in school and not many are in the loan payoff stage yet. Their time will come.

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Must be a different set of adults that we're familiar with. What I was referring to directly, was the current college aged kids wanting free education and student loan forgiveness. Most adults in their thirties that I know, have loans paid off are so close enough it wouldn't matter. Forgive my ethnocentric view.

And I'm not mad, I'm annoyed. But I can always drive to a Sonic when provoked Baw.

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There's a dude right now on twitch sleeping on stream with 50k viewers

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I'm assuming you are talking about Ludwig Ahgren who just finished a 31 day continuous stream.

That was more of a novelty stream called a subathon (essentially the same concept as the old TV telethon). He was trying up his subscription base by doing a marathon stream.

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All of this is part of what is known on Twitch as a “subathon.” A subathon is a short period of time when a streamer will engage in certain activities or stunts to accrue paid subscriptions to his or her channel. Some streamers set numeric goals. For instance, if they reach 2,000 new subs, they’ll eat something spicy on camera or play a particular game for fans.

Mr. Ahgren, 25, structured his subathon so that every new subscription adds an additional 10 seconds to a clock that dictates how long he’ll stream. When Mr. Ahgren set things up this way, he imagined that he’d be streaming for 24 hours max, maybe 48. Five days later, his subathon stream has blown up and become the top stream on Twitch, driving tens of thousands of new subscriptions daily as fans pay to see how long he can go. He has gained more than 40,000 new subscriptions since he began streaming.

“The weirdest thing is every time I wake up, it feels like it gets bigger and bigger,” Mr. Ahgren said. “Last night, I went to bed with 30,000 viewers and 60,000 subs. I woke up and I was at 70,000 viewers and 70,000 subs.”

That’s because as Mr. Ahgren sleeps, an army of fans works overtime to maximize his subscribers. They chat and play YouTube clips and videos for one another to keep the channel entertaining. Mr. Ahgren’s name has trended on Twitter twice in the past week, both times while he was asleep.

“At night, the rest of us do his content for him,” said a 21-year-old college student who goes by Happygate and acts as one of Mr. Ahgren’s moderators. “We try to keep everyone excited and highly motivated to see this go on as long as possible.”

“The sleep streams have been really interesting,” said Stephen Seaver, 15, a high school student in Georgia. “Basically what happens is his mods” — that’s short for moderators — “get on a Discord call and they’re calling and talking the entire time, shilling out of their mind for subs. The idea is that it’s funny, while he’s sleeping the timer is going up.”

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So again, like I said, you have to have a specific hook to get a lot of views. He didn't just turn on his stream when he was asleep and suddenly gain 50k viewers. That was his fans basically trying to keep his stream up at the top to try and add time to his marathon stream to see how long he would actually do it. It's the kind of thing the guys from Jackass might pull if they came up now instead of 20 years ago. Hell, its not even that different that what you get from the internet live feeds from Big Brother which have been around for over a decade.

lol correct.

Technically nudity gets you banned from Twitch but there are a few high sub streamers who have gotten away with "accidentally" flashing w/no bans. On the other hand, there have been several people banned who actually did not break the rules w/nudity while showing off their cosplay outfits. Most likely it was b/c trolls brigaded them with reports of rule breaking similar to how if enough people on XBox Live report you all at once you can catch a ban even if you didn't actually do anything wrong.

After checking her instagram I can see why she would be popular.

I have seen it for video games before and am not a huge fan. It's great for watching chess from high level players though.

One thing that weirds me out is when they feel compelled to sort of beg for whatever the money points are called.

Games are $65 plus + new maps etc... To kids it's like us old dudes watching a review on a Hustler Mower before we pull the trigger on a new one. I shock the sales guy half the time.

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It actually is; Twitch is a great platform and you can find any kind of content you want.

I watch Destiny, Bastiat, Fantano, and the related panels they go on.

It’s fun content and no different than you Boomers watching Fox News all day long.

You guys just automatically hate what you don’t understand; that sums up the OT groupthink.

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I agreed with everything you said until fantano.

Peak fantano (2013) would destroy woke/hypebeast fantano in a heartbeat. Dude should have stayed in his lane reviewing noise rock/metal/ambient/alt rock.

Isn't he the guy on Ellen's game of games ?