I really only watch Jerma because I find the general Twitch culture insufferable but you have to let us know who the guy you’re talking about is OP

i only watch 2 streamers that do gta rp. watching vods is better for me bc it's faster and i always close the chat, twitch chat is so cringe

>>19982
picrel is him, trainwreckstv. Aptly named, the stream is a literal trainwreck of gambling and substance addiction. One of his top clips is him winning 1mil in one hit, which even I found exciting until he clarified that he was overall still playing at a loss. As in, he sunk 1mil+ into online slot machines, not to mention how much the booger sugar must cost

>Do you watch streams, or VODs? >Why/why not?
I don't as I do not find it entertaining and I do not need to simulate some friendship as fine being alone I guess.
>What kind of content do you enjoy, what kind can you not stand at all?
I actually did used to like watching pokemon speed runs a few times. I liked it as it was the games I played as a kid and the runner knew everything about them plus would get BTFO by RNG constantly
>What the worst part of 'stream culture' for you?
the way they spam.. I do not like it and their stupid memes.
I have met people who were JUST twitchfags and their culture was cancer.

>>20013
It's quite literally impossible to play online gambling at a net gain long term. the games are rigged so your chances of winning are low enough that it's impossible for them to be at a loss.

It's like throwing money at a 0.5% of winning over and over. sure you may get lucky and hit the jackpot as a new player but the moment you start going for a 2nd jackpot you'll be putting in more money than you'll ever make.

Had a friend who ended up getting a gambling addiction and it was so disturbing to see even though she was a smart person, she got lucky initially and things just started going downhill for her when she refused to cash out.

>>20015
We could get meta and if you can monetize viewership of your gambling (as this lad has done) he could actually make money by streaming the gambling, therefore earning more by gambling. We can argue that this isn't technically earning more money from gambling, but from my viewpoint that's irrelevant. Yes he can never win enough slot machine pulls to make slot machine gambling profitable, but he can monetize every slot machine pull until his money going into the pull is outweighed by viewers/donation/etc.

>Do you watch streams, or VODs?
I used to watch alot of minecraft and later some variety streams in the Carson era. Not anymore.
>Why/why not?
The fact that pretty much everyone i found entertaining is a characterless mouthpiece started bothering me too much.
>What kind of content do you enjoy, what kind can you not stand at all?
I enjoy pretty much anything thats coming from people who are intelligent and funny. I cant stand twitch thots and the lack of morals they bring to twitch. They are just enabling cooming and disguising their shitty behavior as "female empowerment".
>What the worst part of 'stream culture' for you?
Coomer culture. For sure.

I used to watch some tournament streams back when I played Starcraft. Kind of like watching regular sports on TV really.

I've also been streaming to friends. I especially enjoy streaming RPGMaker games, as they can often get strange and surreal. It makes for fun evenings exploring alien worlds together.

>>20015
>>20035
Lots of slots streamers are in partnership with the gambling company. They play with house money and get paid per hour.

https://www.wired.com/story/twitch-streamers-crypto-gambling-boom/

>“It wasn’t my money,” Matthew “Mizkif” Rinaudo said on his Twitch channel in June. Rinaudo, 26, says he was getting offers to do gambling streams for $35,000 an hour—double the price tag of his typical sponsorships—for 10 hour-long streams over the course of a month.

>>20013
>>20540
this is just so depressing, dystopian and vile. I love it.

>>20540
Damn, on the one hand despicable, on the other hand what a grift.

>>20540
Fuck, assuming he is playing slots, the slot machine takes 5 seconds to output a result, and it takes a generous 10$ for a pull, and he wins 0 times. He still makes 23000$ an hour. What a fucking payrate.

>>20013
How did we get here?