Comment by rychco
3 years ago
I'm actually very happy about the rise of VTubers/live avatars. I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.
But what about people that hate the "twitchification" of media? I don't like when youtubers I enjoy watching switch to streaming and then all their content is identical "poggers" chat and donation begging garbage. Streamers all feel the same, regardless of the content. I don't feel there's any value to a hundred instances of a stupid emoji streaming by in a """chat""" window, and everything just feels like attention whoring "pick me" nonsense.
Vinesauce has been streaming since well before twitch, and their content got significantly more "Twitch"-y after they embraced the current system. It's obvious why, because if you play into the chat begging, the surface level """interaction""", then you get more money from the parasocial twelve year olds with mom's credit card.
But I don't want my content full of ten second interruptions as a robot voice reads off the same tired joke somebody paid ten dollars to get read off.
> But what about people that hate the "twitchification" of media?
Well, when those people put months of their lives into reverse-engineering a reliable stack of code for an undocumented platform, and want to do presentations and write-ups of their work, those people can decide to present however they want.
In the meantime maybe people who are contributing precisely nothing can STFU about the people who are.
that's all a choice of the streamer. some streamers choose to have TTS (text to speech) but a lot don't. Twitch is bad about TTS in particular but it's far less common on the youtube side of streaming.
Doubly so the twitch chat is going to mirror the streamer. So if the streamer is being a goon and playing up the twitch culture, you'll get twitch chat. But you can also have a very different chat experience if you establish from the get go that chat is to behave a specific way.
Donations and twitch emerged as funding mechanisms because Youtube ads are not providing enough revenue for the vast majority of content creators out there.
> I imagine that there are a lot of people that would love to interactively share their knowledge/skills on youtube/twitch but avoid doing so because they're not conventionally attractive or just too shy.
Couldn't they just not show themselves on camera at all?
True but this is likely less engaging for the audience, which has been my experience.
This is when I repeat my silly joke that I'd rather see Skeletor doing live coding than another anime girl with pitched upvoice.
Enough furries and anime girls, people. They are cute, but there is more to animated art
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