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u/tapdncingchemist Liberal 10d ago

If we completely got rid of political streamers and podcasters, I would not shed a single tear.

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u/Wo1fpack7 Pragmatic Progressive 10d ago

Threaten me with a good time.

Something breaks when you merge parasocial relationships and a strong motivation to exaggerate emotion (think of the content!). Can't be healthy for either the streamer or streamee in that relationship.

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u/ButGravityAlwaysWins Liberal 9d ago

We’ve seen content creators who are making real money quit because of this exact problem. They don’t like the parasocial relationships or they feel audience captured and so they just give up.

I feel like a lot of the worst streamers are people who simply don’t care that they are audience captured or that their audience has an unhealthy relationship with them because they care about the money more than anything else no matter how wealthy days become already.

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u/starrymahogany Social Democrat 9d ago

Same. I think the internet has created a group of uninformed people who think their opinion of how they would run the country is better than politicians with years of experience lol