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curl-6 on 10 December 2020
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foxmccloud64 said:
curl-6 said:

Personally I find the acting like a 12 year old more annoying, but I don't watch either type of streamer as I can look at sexy women elsewhere and I don't find any appeal to watching other people playing a video game online, to be frank it baffles me why so many people would even want to watch a stranger playing a video game on camera at all.

I completely agree that both perpetuate pretty crappy stereotypes about gamers.

Exactly, everytime i wanted to search for tips on game or watch a walkthrough, i would find myself looking for videos where the uploader didn't talk, and if needed it would be just a person that goes directly to the point of the game, for example i like to watch the different strategies people take for some modes in Fire Emblem Heroes but thats it, the inmense majority of people playing games in youtube are  trying to be "funny" or take on the newest "trend" at the time while playing to become famous, me and my friends always wondered why instead of playing the games, which in fact a lot of people owned, they preferred to sit back and watch a bunch of people (sometimes) unsuccesfully playing a game, while trying to appeal to the watchers by acting in very outlandish ways.  

I'm the same. Streamers attempting to be "funny" and jumping aboard the latest inane trend is utterly painful to watch for me, it's just embarrassing. 

Only time I'd ever watch a playthrough is if I'm genuinely stuck on something, and in that case the last thing I want is some annoying twerp spouting horrendous jokes and memes while playing the game with all the skill of a stoned monkey.