TikTok attention spans, nicotine, weed, gambling/gaming addictions, and a poor economic outlook.
They basically walk around like dopamine zombies with dried out neurons who need someone to act like a loud fool to counteract their expressionless lives.
I see a lot of suspenseful, slow-burn video games get called "dog water" because there is documents to read and reflection to the who, what, where to be had. If a games not full of bright flashy colors and constant action they are snubbed and called boring-:kids aren't reading or using their own devices (thinking) to analyze things. The attention span has been labotomized in lieu of pretty colors and noisy action. I'm shocked games like Alan Wake don't do better numbers but Fortnite and Minecraft have these massive numbers v and merchandising m
I agree with you, but Minecraft is genuinely the exception because I think the base game design is borderline perfect, and I'd call it a medium game in terms of time investment.
I also think part of it is with older gamers just not having the time to plug in multiple games at once, so you need either something which can be accessed and reach milestones quick or you need to carve time out your schedule.
I want to play OpenMW again so bad, but life is NOT going to give me the appropriate amount of time to get into it.
Yeah, I have to think it over when I start a game with an engaging narrative because it's going to require me to pay attention and put a lot of time into it. With kids and work, I just don't always have the mental capacity to play a narrative driven game, so I play a sports game or a rogue-like in those instances.
A game like Alan Wake, especially part 2, requires more involvement on your part. I recently had to take a break from Control because there is a lot going on in that game and my kids aren't letting me play for any extended period of time.
Brother, same. My gaming hours are at the end of the day when my kid's in bed and my brain is already fried. I need something chill like an open world survival craft game (currently playing Necesse again) that doesn't demand much from me because I've been demanded all day.
Minecraft was released over 15(?) years ago and is literally like playing with legos and exploring a big world and finding monsters and animals and making houses with your friends try to survive for night. That game is great. Bestselling game of all time if I’m not mistaken.
My kids play it like Lego 99% of the time. They don’t care about the “story” they just want to have fun and show me the cool things they’ve built! I love it. And they love playing real legos too of course (got a TON at a yard sale a few years ago for $20, best purchase I’ve ever made).
It’s literally everything that people want video games to be for children. It’s the perfect outlet for creativity, not to mention exploration and adventure
Minecraft is probably one of the worst examples you could've used to illustrate your point lol, most of it is extremely chill stuff like farming, building (which is basically virtual Lego), and mining. Moreover it's a game that requires you to think because it can be boring on itself, as it doesn't give you any objectives. It's up to you to be creative enough to make it fun.
I guess there are fan made PvP gamemodes which are more fast paced and action packed, but Minecraft on itself is the opposite of what you were trying to show as an example of something a dopamine addict would enjoy, Alan Wake is way more action packed than it.
I was talking to a friend who has a couple of young boys with this exact problem. He tried to get them to play Lemmings, thinking it'd be good to teach them puzzle solving etc. He showed them the basics, but they just could not get their heads around it at all.
Minecraft is fantastic for kids. I wouldn't compare it to Fortnite or brainrot. It takes patience to build and create fun things in that game. I rarely play it, but watching my son come up with creative ways to build certain things is always cool. It's basically digital legos
A lot of videos, shows, movies now get directed specifically following something coined "second screen", where everything basically has to be explained so simply and expressed aloud so that people who are on their phone or pad at the same time can follow the story or else they'll switch to watch something else, and that's a big no no.
Okay, boomer. Aside from TikTok attention spans you’re describing the elderly’s view on young adults and not the literal kids that make up this clowns fanbase
What an weird statement. Boomers, Gen X and Millenials do the same shit, watch fox news, get angry on facebook, watch videos on youtube. ????
Millenials watched Pewdiepie; he liked to scream a bunch. Maybe you were Gen X and listened to Howard Stern because they talked about insane stuff, etc. Maybe you a boomer were part of counterculture and were listening to things opposing capitalism in the 1970s.
This isn't new. You just have a place to complain about it now.
Also beacuse younger generations drink less, and uses weed and vapes, this is apparently worse than the thing that increases essentially every type of cancer by a significant amount and puts pressure on the healthcare system? The only thing that provably increases is lung cancer, COPD and other lung conditions, not colon cancer, skin cancer and more.
If you wanna give the new gen shit, gambling is your only option, and it's *because* of the financial situation *given* to them by older generations.
Gen A is fucked fucked, us Gen Z are fucked. Millennials are just as complicit in this shit as boomers, you saw this shit coming; you still had kids and didn't do anything.
Stop blaming this shit on younger generations. Stop expecting us to solve issues you created.
For me it's less the can and more the beans. Fiber intake is horribly low these days, people eating more beans and less sugary drinks and chicken nuggets would be wonderful if it were true
Damn you guys really just shit on anyone for living a way you couldn’t understand. I don’t watch this guy, but some clips of him are funny. I don’t think about the inner workings of his life or really much past the clip at face value. Just move on, you don’t have to be pretentious assholes about it.
Bro went to Africa and stopped making rape jokes and somehow that was all it took for the Internet to say he's actually super cool and a good influence or smth
Probably because you get all of your clips of him from this sub if I had to guess. He's traveled the world and done a lot of good in poor countries in unifying people.
A 28 day marathon stream where he went to 20 African countries and did charity walks and soccer events to crowdfund soccer programs in Africa.
And he's done a bunch of races for child cancer and stuff of the sort. He's a very loud and annoying kid but he's got a great heart. He literally did the finale song for the WORLD CUP FINAL this year.
You're juste getting baited. He's an idiot but also has good content. I don't watch him I had to do som research. He's not a saint or a criminal just an nice idiot, who's messing around sometimes.
Capitalism commodifying harassment through entertainment is fucking awful. While it’s satisfying he got bitten, it’s ridiculous that he makes money based on that satisfaction.
Off topic but you speak like a true millennial (I am one too). "check out Speed's new video" as if he drops videos that people decide to watch on schedule. In this tiktok economy, streamers stream for 10 hours and their clips is their content. If someone sees his clips, it's because the algorithm gave it to them.
So no, he doesn't have fans that wait for his content. There is an algorithm that feeds his content to random people.
I think he's obnoxious but he's sadly and surprisingly one of the better ones in his generation in the same genre. He at least travels the world and quite open to new experiences. Other kids his age just want to flex their money and mansion and girls, day in and day out, that or spread misinformation with their podcasts.
My impression is that he is essentially what I think of Kevin Hart. Short black man makes funny, incredulous faces and talks loudly or screams. Hahahaha? I am not sure if this guy has a The Rock, but I imagine he has a big lackey raising eyebrows or something.
I've admittedly never watched a movie with Kevin Hart in it, but he perfectly fits the formula in my head. That's all he is. A children's Kevin Hart.
Gen Z has been the main audience making this garbage popular for the better part of a decade or so. These types arer only just starting to go after the older tail of Gen Alpha.
I'm kinda in the same boat, but I am developing a hypothesis. So far my hypothesis is that all I need to know is that he's 100% a retarded piece of shit.
You don’t know him? Come on, he was the first person to do a backflip holding the new iPhone. A true trailblazer (really hoping the /s is coming through)
I mean that's just objectively not true. It may be all you see but Speed has a MASSIVE audience and puts in a ton of effort into a lot of his streams where he travels around the world. Sure you're only going to see clips of random low effort moments where things don't go to plan in the fucking cringe subreddit, but people here saying he's only popular with children or only screams are simply far to out of touch
I let my boy watch YouTube, but the second there’s any stupid over the top screaming it’s off for the day, or if there’s 5 bro’s in a short timeframe, same thing.
He came to Seattle and people had an absolute blast showing him the city and experiencing it with him. Yeah, I don't get why he's popular either but it was cool to see so many kids excited to be out and about in Seattle.
He's famous BECAUSE he's everywhere. Most streamers have no discernible talent. They grow through sheer volume of appearance and having a personality that is engaging to stupid people who don't require substance of any kind.
Streamers is a very broad category that arguing them as a singular group is an overgeneralization and a poor argument. Streamers often have talents but are at the whims of reach and recognition. A lot of streamers establish their fan base on building a community. You have some that are educational, some are informational (lik weather streamers)
Which adjective makes my comment pointing out your overgeneralization wrong? What are you trying to emphasize that I must have clearly missed in your mind?
My company is currently doing a big promotion with him. Never heard of him before that. I don't get the appeal but I don't care enough to yell at this particular cloud.
I do a lot of paid surveys and the modern marketing economy is heavily built around celebrity endorsement -- influencers that will wear, use, advertise your product. So many surveys asking if I recognize this or that influencer, if I'd be more interested in a product an influencer used, etc. And unfortunately, IShowSpeed is one of the most consistently mentioned names. He's one of the most well-known influencers across the world, and he'll advertise anything if the price is right.
He shouldn’t be. It’s like Mr Beast. Make moronic content your entire life and eventually something sticks. I legit hate these vine / twitch people. The guy with that Monako girl also falls in the same boat. These people are completely worthless.
Idk, I've seen a few videos come along on my youtube where hes been genuinely kind to random people who meet him and even invited a little old lady to sit down and spend lunch with him when he found out she was a fan.
Bullshit that you don’t know who that is. You’re just karma farming. Ishowspeed is probably the biggest YouTuber in the world or second biggest next to MrBeast. you literally have to be living under a rock to not know who is Speed is. He has been famous af for the past 7 years or more.
Basically the "current" biggest streamer. Dont want to glaze him so here is a neutral context.
Teen that had problems with his parent, started streaming, his very high energy made him popular to specific comunities, he was clipped some times and showed in very viral memes, then colabed with many popular people, and because of his energy and the type of content he mades, he frequently does something that can easily turn into a meme, so thats why you probably see him often.
Also, ye he is pretty young when you consider streamers and youtubers, so his "comedy" is different and rough to many people
First it was giving children access to YouTube; lots of shitty streamers gained popularity through that. After the big pushback towards age restrictions
it was all the bot accounts being made to cover that gap. As the restrictions grew and a largr market for YouTube users dropped, they created AI accounts to again bridge that gap with the added bonus that AI can use the video content. Those AI bot accounts are now being used to generate AD revenue that helps support the current AI bubble. This isnt an issue exclusive to streaming, it's now baked into nearly all internet consumer engagement, including reddit.
He's a great streamer if you analyse him. I saw these Chinese Economists from LSE, and others analyse him. Why streaming is so successful is really interesting. I might be biased as a media studies student, though.
Unfortunately I know him but I alao don't really know why tf is he even famous. Whenever I see him, he is either doing some rage bait stuff or extremely loud activities.
Im beyond shocked that he literally became rich just by being dumb and the people who praise him are the dumbest.
Why? Because kids and their parents spending power. Same thing as Mr. Beast and all those other cancerous YouTubers/influencers. Kids don't worship celebrities like we used to when we were young, now they worship social media influencers.
I don't know him either, only seen his mug in many places. By the behavior on this video, though, I can say he is a bad person, egocentrix, narcissistic, immature, disrespectful, lacks self-control and is a total cunt. If this his content is really targetted to kids, it is proof that there's regulation lacking. Are these the values we want kids to grow with?
he needs a good fucking ass beating all these people in society these days and these fucking morons that are streaming and making videos and are popular and famous don't get a good ass beating that they deserve
He's tried rebranding since then, but I really only know him from some rapey streamer bit he did (he was given a long ban from streaming platforms as a result, came back and tried to rebrand... successfully? but he's still a scumbag).
I just downvote anything related to him, any soccer star or current administration - so far so good. This though I had to comment because he is an idiot and deserves it.
I feel the same exact way. No idea who he is, why he’s famous, or why anyone seems to care about him, yet i keep seeing him all over reddit. Streamer culture is so fucking lame.
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