Anon on Twitch viewers.

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Pumpkin_Sushi@reddit

>I watch women stream cause theyre hot
>Oh, do they like do sexy things or something
>No they just play video games kinda badly and get bored. Oh but I can pay them money!
>Uh, to like get access to the sexy stuff? Or to merch or something?
>No, to say my username out loud

Guys I simply do not get it

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Working-Tomato8395@reddit

These are the same dudes who think a woman is flirting with them at the grocery store just for having standard customer service levels of politeness or friendliness.

I consider video games one of my top hobbies, I can't imagine being such a boring person that you feel compelled to watch other people play games unless there's something informative, especially interesting, or comedic about it.

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elaborateBlackjack@reddit

IKR??? Just watching random people play is the most idiotic thing ever, in any case I play the game and experience it myself.

The only ones that I can "understand" is pro players or people who do challenge runs. I find Dark souls challenge runs fun, but I don't like doing them myself.

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Arikaido777@reddit

i assume people who watch streamers play games instead of just playing games lack the patience, coordination, and or critical thinking skills required to engage with and enjoy video games. that or they’re just broke boys

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Niibelung@reddit

That's like saying watching sports means you can't or don't play it yourself.

It's just a different thing. I usually watch streams of games I already played and finished, I just want a fresh perspective of a game. Or sometimes I go "oh I wonder what reaction they will have with this particular scene or boss battle"

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Kolintracstar@reddit

Or number three where they lack the friendship groups to be able to play those games in a fun and comedic manner like those streamers.

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nyaasgem@reddit

Assuming only multiplayer games exist

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critacious@reddit

But why would you not just watch a youtube video instead?

What drives people to engage with unedited content?

I don’t need to see all of the boring downtime.

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Niibelung@reddit

For me sometimes it's something in the background while I do chores/do work that it doesn't always need my full attention

Sometimes I like the streamer reacting to what someone on chat said but for some games I don't like that (like Morrowind)

I actually used to watch more Let's plays vs streamers and still do and kinda wanna get into LPing but it's nice having something on for like 3 hours while I do work

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Kolintracstar@reddit

Simple, streamers who would post edited content on youtube get lazy and maybe only post a couple of videos a year, but stream multiple times a week.

A notable name is therussianbadger. He went from almost weekly uploads to monthly to yearly.

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Working-Tomato8395@reddit

I did attempt streaming a few times a while back, not in an effort to gain a following or earn money, I just liked having additional people to participate in Jackbox games during Covid. I'd have a core group of friends who'd play Jackbox with me, mostly friends from high school or old coworkers, then we'd let randoms join in if we didn't have a full stack or if there was an audience participation mode.

People really liked dropping in on us, because a few of my friends were my old comedy writing partners, or we've worked on creative projects together before whether it was written stuff, videos, stage acting, or open mics. Also most of us have been friends for 10-20 years, and have a strong understanding of our dynamic and what makes us laugh.

Probably helped that it was a warm group of people who adored each other, were truly funny, and it probably helped some viewers feel a bit less isolated or that they were part of the "show". Something like having a prepackaged group of people to hang out with. It's a similar dynamic to when we'd let random strangers sit with us at weekly bar trivia.

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scalzacrosta@reddit

I think this is quite a decisive factor about the success if streaming, it's a way of having a "virtual comrade" that shares their time and enjoyment with you.

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PornaccountALT69@reddit

that or they’re just broke boys

as soon as poki said that i immediately paused the stream and rubbed one out

i still have that clipped saved

i cant tell you how many gallons of cum ive lost to that one over the years

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Klevo1@reddit

Its closer to watching sports in my experience. Like yeah, I could play football if I really wanted to, but theres a different type of joy you can get by watching it being played.

Sometimes its because the streamer themselves is just entertaining/skilled or maybe you just want to watch somebody play something you enjoy. Its not for everybody but its not that negative of a concept.

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cyruz1323@reddit

What's about watching streamers while playing? I love to watch a big local streamer while I play Cities Skylines. The difference may be, that I watch him for his content and not for his (not existing) boobs.

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Sasbert@reddit

sometimes it's because i don't care enough about a game to buy it, but still enough to want to see like 1 to 2 hours of gameplay, while wathcing someone fun playing it is more engaging than a no commentary playthrough. But most of the time they are just really good at a particular game i like, so watching them being good is fun. Best example is speedrunning. Im not going to spend 10000 hours on Elden RIng, but watching people that do that for 2 hours sometimes is quite engaging.

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Nexii801@reddit

1000000, I'm a millennial, and I am pretty good at figuring out which platforms will live or die (blu-ray vs HD-DVD, iPod v. Zune, Facebook v. MySpace) but hot DAMN did I call twitch wrong. For the life of me it doesn't make sense... You can just like, play the game.

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Niibelung@reddit

Sometimes I watch a streamer play a single player game cause I already beat or played that game and I always like seeing someone experience the game for the first time

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Working-Tomato8395@reddit

I like speedruns or game breaking meme builds, or watching bizarre audience participation setups like DougDoug used to do all the time. He also had some custom built board games that were played over Zoom that he'd have MandaloreGaming join in on.

I'm not precisely anti-streaming, but watching just because you think the streamer is attractive is weird. I don't know why you wouldn't just rub one out and find something more interesting to do with your day.

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Niibelung@reddit

I think it's because it's not always a "rub one out " attractiveness, although I'm not a man so it might be different for me

Like I like Vinny Vinesauce, he's an attractive guy but some games he plays I'll watch and I'm not out here going "oh I wanna have sex with him", I like his personality when playing games. Now Idk maybe some people don't care but sometimes rubbing one out is not the real solution

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Niibelung@reddit

I always like HCbaileys rod runs but that's technically a let's play. I'm a woman so I'm not really necessarily watching a streamer for looks but a lot of the time I already beat the game and I wanna see how other people discover stuff and I'm always pleasantly surprised. Also sometimes it's background music while I clean or work

I watch really specific speedruns too to see how game mechanics affect a speedrun like FF8 and telephone poles.

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Lone-organism@reddit

Same for me but they have to bring something unique to the table. Either their reckless personality, Being thorough as I am, Is completely immersed, has some unique insight, quick with their quips, or their bubbly personality. I don't even care about a facecam. If I wanted to watch someone play a game with a deadpan expression then I would strap a mirror on top of my monitor. I liked playing half life and I loved watching kelski play it. Recently the devs of dishonoured started playing their own game and so far I love watching it.

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littlepredator69@reddit

Only games I tend to watch are horror games. A lot of horror games have gameplay loops I find unsatisfying to participate in(mostly survival/resource management heavy games like outlast), or just seem rather tedious in some areas. Like fnaf pizzaplex or whatever it was called, there were multiple parts where I just know I wouldn't have the patience to get past the moon animatronic without dying a billion times. But I still enjoy the scares and sometimes storyline, so I'll watch people who enjoy those gameplay loops playing them.

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Ericshelpdesk@reddit

There are people who don't even play Football/Baseball/Soccer/Basketball/Hockey who spend hours watching it, hundreds of dollars buying merch, and even define their personality by their favorite teams.

There are those who actually play these games who enjoy watching it being played at a high level that they'll never achieve themselves.

Video games are more interesting and relatable than sports to the younger generations.

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obsolete_broccoli@reddit

It really depends

I watch CityPlannerPlays because it’s fun watching his creativity and you can learn a lot and also get some ideas for building your old city. Honestly, he changed the way I played cities skylines completely

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ApologizingCanadian@reddit

I play a LOT of video games and whenever I try to watch a stream of any kind I get bored after at most 30 minutes. The only times I've tuned in to streams for extended periods of time was when I did email customer service and had it on as background noise.

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Iggins01@reddit

These are the same dudes who think a woman is flirting with them at the grocery store just for having standard customer service levels of politeness or friendliness.

I use the self checkout to avoid this and any other form of human interaction

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Working-Tomato8395@reddit

I used to be a Direct Support Professional for one of the baggers, he's got Down Syndrome and he's the nicest dude, always happy to see me and always gives me a fist bump. Sometimes I just need that in my day, and it makes him smile, and he's always extra careful with my groceries. I'd rather see him stay employed at a job he enjoys. They're more likely to keep a bagger on staff who the customers love seeing than some high school kid who shows up to work high and doesn't interact with customers.

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Senrogas@reddit

The Among Us era during the plague and the shit they did for a bit after that quite entertaining for a bit

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AdhesivenessDry2236@reddit

Comfort of the parasocial relationship where there are no stakes

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utopicunicornn@reddit

I have a friend who literally put himself into debt for some Twitch streamer chick. She’s not like super well known or anything, she’s more of a small streamer but somehow has a really dedicated fan base.

Even worse is that this chick baited him into giving her money and even promised to go on a date with him the more he gave, which of course is exactly what he did. This dude worked himself to the bone to save up money for this trip and visit her at the city she lived in. My friends and I tried to reason with him and tell him that she was only doing this to trick him into giving her more money, but he was convinced that she really meant what she said and how he was special to her.

When he returned back from his trip we asked him how it went. She never showed up, some words were exchanged between the two of them, but he never elaborated on what happened during that exchange, and he spent the next three nights drinking out of despair, and even considered killing himself because he felt so foolish for throwing his money away on some Twitch girl.

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pedestrianhomocide@reddit

I don't get a lot of Twitch/stream viewers.

Ever see a streamer's chat just scrolling on by, couple hundred people all posting comments at once? Not even the other commenters are reading it, yet people still sit there, typing in messages, hit enter, and see it whisked away in 2 milliseconds, never to be read by anyone, and then queue up to write the next one.

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Inuakurei@reddit

If the chat is that fast, like Xqc or something, it’s more like being in a crowd at a stadium. You’re not cheering because you want to be heard individually, it’s the community effort that makes it enjoyable.

Unless it’s like, Jerma’s chat. Jerma is unique. They just say random shit because there’s a 5% chance Jerma sees it and goes on a hour long giggle fit about it. That’s actually how a lot of his legendary clips got made.

Then there’s chats like Moonmoon where they do read chat and just bounce conversations off of them. They don’t always respond to you personally, but they do respond to “chat” a lot.

Lastly there’s slower chats that people actually do have conversations in. Small steamers.

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Max_Drek_Sucks@reddit

Then we have DougDoug's chat

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Triplex_Gg@reddit

Sometimes i think the hope of being read by the streamer gives them a rush of dopamine and if they get noticed is even greater and I think that's sad. Someone typing messages along with hundreds or thousands of other people at the same time waiting to be read just to feel good is kinda depressing and doing it everytime the person is live makes it even worse because for some reason those users tend to make a parasocial bond with the streamer.

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TheMorbidHobo@reddit

A woman not being a whore is a huge turn-on.

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Ornafulsamee@reddit

"No, they just play video games kinda badly and get bored.

Yeah sums up all the women I've seen streaming kek.

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Ichmag11@reddit

People go to the museum to look at art, right?

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SunnySalads@reddit

Looking at Pokimane is not the same as visiting the Louvre bro

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rayschoon@reddit

It’s the same reason why men see strippers. They’re paying money for an attractive woman to pretend to be nice to them.

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The_Law_of_Pizza@reddit

It's a lack of attention from girls in their day to day lives.

These are incredibly nerdy dudes who live in a world of comic shops and electronics stores where there's hardly any women - except that one guy who transitioned. On Friday nights they're with the boys raiding Molten Core.

They don't understand how to find feminine attention in real life, and so they seek it the way that seems most logical - through the computer screen they're already in front of.

It's sort of sad, honestly. They're not all chuds. Lots of otherwise harmless, but weird, lonely dudes.

Source: I was one of them, many years ago. I'm married with kids now, but at one point in college I was literally taking pointers on dating from slice of life animes. I'm also proof that these people can be rehabilitated.

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TheChief275@reddit

They just keep waiting

waiting for the one

the day that never comes

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AngyJessicaTomboy@reddit

Just for attention maybe..?

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RecordEnvironmental4@reddit

I’ve been down bad before but I can thankfully say I’ve never donated to a twitch streamer

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Anreall2000@reddit

Donated to the streamer with history lectures

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AbanaClara@reddit

Max Miller? Guy's great!

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Anreall2000@reddit

Nah, it's on my local language

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kungfurer@reddit

Let me guess, bushwacker?

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Anreall2000@reddit

Yeah, also History Lectures By Markov Alexander

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kungfurer@reddit

Nice, thanks for another potential banger

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Anreall2000@reddit

Well, would definitely recommend Proshloe, those a real historians talking about cutting edge history research, but I am not educated enough to listen to all their podcasts, also cutting edge history is mostly archeology, however there are some interesting cycles of podcasts which are quite easy to understand, history of metallurgy for example and they are still interesting. Bushwalker has recommended them too, that's actually how I found them. And would add "history of culture and lack of culture", somewhy YouTube recommend that channel to the female owned accounts, genuinely wouldn't find it without gf account. That channel is way more pop-science, pop-culture one, well guess it could be deduced from channel name, but author quite educated, have a good speech and the content isn't just retold book/Wikipedia article on camera.

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ConsciousStretch1028@reddit

Most I ever did was simp via YouTube comments when I was sixteen, thankfully I didn't a) have money and b) this was before donations was a thing

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Down200@reddit

Most I ever did was simp via YouTube comments when I was sixteen

death penalty, unfortunately

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ConsciousStretch1028@reddit

Deserved

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LoweJ@reddit

I've given the Amazon prime sub you get a few times, but I'm getting that for having prime and it's costing me nothing 🤷🏻‍♀️

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AbanaClara@reddit

I donate a dollar every once in a blue moon to smaller streamers I regularly watch playing my favorite game (Hunt Showdown usually) regardless of their gender.

Granted they probably have a similar level of financial capacity as me, but I benefit from their content and don’t mind supporting them.

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xspiderdude@reddit

Dude hunt showdown fucks (I'm too scared to play it myself but it looks cool)

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AbanaClara@reddit

If you're scared of the horror elements you very much get desensitized after a few hours because the game's mostly a battle royale than anything else. Getting jumpscared by an enemy bullet happens more often than by actual zombies.

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xspiderdude@reddit

I'm honestly more spooked by other players than by scary enemies haha I hate online bmultiplayer games! I do love rocket league and Elden Ring when I'm helping people get around. I've been meaning to check Hunt for a while now though, so maybe one day

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AbanaClara@reddit

Ah yeah enemy players are definitely scary! Even if you play a lot of pvp fps games Hunt can feel nerve wracking, like many extraction shooters.

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MsDestroyer900@reddit

I've donated to chasethebro, a (relatively) small souls YouTuber because at the time. I appreciate his content and watched all of his videos, so I made a small donation of 5usd as like a tip for the content he's made. I also watched his stream every morning for breakfast since the chat was still small enough that the chances of being noticed by him was quite high.

I mean... I guess this is what twich used to be for. Just dudes hanging out and watching a skilled player play their game. But when it comes to booby streamers, the format makes way less sense.

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jxl180@reddit

I’ve donated to musicians who take requests for a few bucks

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LunaSquee@reddit

I have donated to speedrunners, people who have actually put a lot of effort into what they do.

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twofacetoo@reddit

Loneliness and parasocial relationship building tactics

These men are desperate for female companionship, with the world at large telling them they're failures for being single, so they watch female streamers who say things like 'thank you BigDaddy69 for donating $500, you're so special to me, I love you!'

It makes them feel special and valued in a way that's completely and utterly one-sided and transactional, it's insidious and dangerous and a reason why more women should just be sluts. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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Ok_Fix_8538@reddit

Or, hear me out, instead of women doing sex work the men just get rid of their shitty sexist mindsets and wash their hair before they actually talk to women

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skrrskrr64@reddit

Lead by example and don’t condescendingly generalize men

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Ok_Fix_8538@reddit

This man is over here saying that women should become "sluts" so the basement dwellers would not feel lonely and you're defending him

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Ok_Fix_8538@reddit

I said "the men" not "men", I obviously only meant the ones who have that problem. Only on reddit can you get disliked for stating that men having respect for women would be better than women selling themselves

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_-_--_--_-_@reddit

But men have been lonely and khhv since the dawn of time and have always found less cringe ways to deal with that (prostitutes, eromenos, eunuchs, monkdom, dying in war etc.). Why donate to e-girls instead of doing literally anything else that gives the illusion of being valued as a partner?

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ConnorOfAstora@reddit

Simping for E-girls is way easier and the only thing you're sacrificing is your dignity and however much disposable income you're willing to give.

You don't even need to leave your bedroom which makes it the perfect lazyman solution and there's no ethical or legal complications like there would be with some of those like war or hookers.

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twofacetoo@reddit

Prostitutes are functionally the same as e-girls, they both employ the same methods of luring guys in to get them to pay them, the only difference is being an e-girls is less work

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bob_loblaw-_-@reddit

It makes them feel special and valued in a way that's completely and utterly one-sided and transactional

more women should just be sluts

Hmmmm

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crocodilepickle@reddit

I really do wonder the male to female ratio of pokimane viewers

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AmazinglySingle@reddit

98% male, 2% female.

Source: my ass.

But I don't have any doubts this is true

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Anguscablejnr@reddit

A Google search that I am unwilling to fact check by even reading the full article. Says it's 70% male 30% female.

Which sounds unbelievable, but it goes on to say that's just the general twitch gender breakdown. And that's the fact I'm unwilling to believe.

So I told you lies...why? Fuck you that's why.

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SubstituteCS@reddit

Women can be goners too.

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crocodilepickle@reddit

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Anguscablejnr@reddit

I'm sad now.

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whodatboi_420@reddit

Around 70% men on youtube and 80% men on twitch

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Y__Y@reddit

BUT WHAT ARE THE OTHER 30 AND 20%??

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AmazinglySingle@reddit

Coriander seeds.

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-SandorClegane-@reddit

FUN PSYOP FACT:

"Coriander" and "Cilantro" are the same fucking thing!!!

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whodatboi_420@reddit

Women

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Dagh_Lyonss@reddit

Twitch viewers in general. I will sit and watch a guy play video games for hours, instead of playing the game myself. Fair enough a YouTube video that’s a compilation of the best bits, but watching another human being play a game for hours is so boring.

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boofmaster6000@reddit

Caveman brain not know woman whole continent away. Caveman brain think watching prospective mate.

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Anabiter@reddit

This unironically but vtubers (there's a reason only female ones are successful and its not because they're funny)

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DaFragle@reddit

Tbh I don't get Live stream viewers in general, like how can you sit there hours on end just watching someone play something while they don't even talk for most of it

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idontknowjuspickone@reddit

boy

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Silmidil@reddit

Only the 155th repost of this post

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Signal_Ball4634@reddit

FR I feel like I see this shit once a week with the exact same comments

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MaximumPayne7@reddit

You guys are a bunch of bullies, people just wanna make part of her community because they find her funny or enjoyable to watch, they don't automatically wanna have sex with her.

A lot of you here probably watch some really pointless shit on YT or other platforms but because these guys donate money to something that literally helps them in their mental health, they're weirdos?

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Flimsy-Jello5534@reddit

gif

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Xavia_@reddit

R/greentext being weird about women? Colour me shocked

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Armejden@reddit

She isn't gonna notice you.

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Corndesu69@reddit

the middest bitches too, but I found out that being "attainable" is a feature for these kind of dudes lol

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sikkobok@reddit

What made you to repost the same shit for the 10000th time?

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MixaLv@reddit

At least attempt to change the title if you decide to repost.

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DoraDadestroyer@reddit

men like pretty women

men like video games

men sees 2 for 1

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coolsam254@reddit

If only the concord devs knew this during development

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BrunoTheYeti@reddit

The anon that fucking hates girls like this will also be the first one posting "the west has fallen" after seeing any realistic woman in one of their vidya

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T-MoneyAllDey@reddit

Mfw this is a realistic woman

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LordMimsyPorpington@reddit

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nEwBiEKC@reddit

Who the fuck is this lmao

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Timekeeper98@reddit

Fake, Assmongoloid doesn’t have that many teeth left

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Maleficent-Sun-7152@reddit

And Pokimane is also mid as HELL. Most cashiers her age look way better. And without her makeup it's way, way worse.

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PomegranateHot9916@reddit

believe it or not but female viewers are the same way toward male streamers.

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lemonylol@reddit

lol I what are these chats like? Like is it just a bunch of guys spamming that she's beautiful and they love her or something?

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sm753@reddit

Never watched a second of her content other than other people talking about her. From what I gather, she doesn't actually play video games. Drama farms, rage baits, goon baits. And then complains about Twitch no longer being about "video games".

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ConnorOfAstora@reddit

It's a parasocial relationship type deal, they see her as a pretty girl who talks to them regardless of the fact they they're just one username out of millions to her.

Most times it's not even sexually charged which is honestly sadder. Like you know how when you really have an actual crush on someone you don't even imagine them naked or anything you just kinda like looking at their face.

I'm speaking from past experience here, I've never even had a passing interest in politics yet when I was like 14/15 I never missed a ShoeOnHead video. Those puberty hormones make simping hard to resist and most of Twitch audiences are comprised of teenage boys.

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BlackSkull42069666@reddit

Women ☕

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10n3@reddit

are these people unable to jerk off? solves it very easily.

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SirLucDeFromage@reddit

200,000 years of evolution. Our ancestors would be proud.

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Iscariot_Commando@reddit

There was a greentext about this exact phenomenon, something along the lines of "you think I watch these women because I want to watch shitty gameplay and listen to them bitch about their female non-issues because I think they're funny or entertaining? I do it because I'm lonely"

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