reading the other topics i get the impression a Lot of people think they are friend with Redbull and RB should care about their individual feelings…
You seem such a nice person, let's be friends!If one has nothing nice to say....
damn, a whole minute? i had to turn it off in a flurry the second i heard how he says "what is up BOYS".Kind of a douchebag, couldn't make it past minute 1.
It comes with the territory. You get attention of a lot of people, well some of them aren't going to be the most stable or balanced people. You go into the public eye at your own risk.
All kinds of celebs have stalkers and weird followers.
I think there is two types of stream and alot of people conflate them because the most successful streamers/streams try and do a bit of both.Seeing this topic back up, there was something I somehow forgot before. Had to reread this whole topic to see if anyone mentioned it directly which I don’t believe I saw. There were other things mentioned that are connected though imo.
I won’t say I have seen as much streams as someone, but I have been in streams ranging from less than 100, to 1k, to say 3k, to 20k like Ludwig. What has come to me is the simple use of we over I. “We did this. We got the world record boys (or chat)! We got a good position. We got the W.” We, we, and we.
I don’t recall which particular streamer did this, but he had a few thousand viewers. He asked his viewers what they liked about twitch/streamers. Within probably a minute, someone said this. “I like when streamers say we because I feel more involved.” It wasn’t just him who felt that, others said “yeah, that” or “yeah man, me too”. I’m no different either, I feel the difference. It is something of a hook, and everyone is very familiar with the definition of we and I.
It might be cheesy here, but words can be extremely powerful. Can be enough to raise someone up and feel very good, or put someone down into an abyss.
Just that simple word, we, which is probably the one of the more integral parts (maybe most? dunno) on how parasocial relationships form with streamers. You link that with other things, like a streamer answering a question you asked, things like someone having not many or no friends (sorry btw to some, don’t like mentioning it but it is a factor like some wrote before me), or celebrity worship like Myth has mentioned before (and seeing how he has bumped the topic) or some degree of idolism/fanboyism (whichever three of these one prefers). Even traits/skills streamers have like being extremely good at games, being funny, being nice, so on. It’s all doing something, one thing is almost never a why for anything. Life wouldn’t even exist if that were the case.
And while this is me being mostly speculative, I am extremely willing to wager that when streamers have a webcam and look over to say, a second monitor where they have chat, that’s something of a ‘visual cue’ to viewers. I mention it as there were neurological experiments I came across years ago relating to men and women with pictures. If my memory isn’t failing me, all it took was around 1-2 seconds to have a reaction in the brain across multiple areas. But this along with the use of we (involving you) and answering a chatter’s question, this is extremely immersive and also easily misleading to some (those who do become overly attached). It is as close to a face to face interaction as one is going to get. So things can very well be blooming. And as I mentioned before, the more time one spends with a twitch streamer, the more connections are forming/intensifying even if they don’t ‘feel’ a thing. Repeated exposure is always shaping or doing something for better or for worse, that’s a well-established fact across the board.
It is a bit sad though because when you add all those things up, it is almost like some streamers are misleading. It’s like a grand illusion, a magician performing magic tricks and distorting reality. However, they’re just trying to be interactive, nice, and hold one’s attention as long as humanly possible. But ‘we’ did this? All I can say is if ‘we did this’, on my part I was 3/4 asleep and drooling on my pillow but hey, go team! I think if streamers didn’t use we, it would be worse for attention spans but maybe this wouldn’t happen as much imo. Some just need to be more aware of themselves and what is happening so they don’t get overly connected. I am no different to mention as well to a degree, as I am big fans of like Hikaru or Gothamchess. I know Hikaru answered a question of mine one time that I didn’t expect him to see (and was very curious about his thoughts to add), and I had that huge rush like “Omg, he saw what I said?”. But I do know that’s not leading to anything. Not going to talk to him in his house one day or anything (or am I?).
Also funny enough, I have watched some streams with my mom before. More than one time she’s looked ‘away’ from the streamer and what they were playing and I was like, “What are you doing?”. She said she was looking chat, and was wondering if people were even paying attention since they’re talking about other things. To her, she said it looked like more of a social hour, and I think she is right. That’s probably adding to this as well, since some streams seem less about entertaining and more about gathering of people. Along the lines of how one people in the vid said that people like to feel connected.