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so from what you were saying it seems like they might go down sometime in the near future?

This is a few years ago now, but I remember talking to the creator of Periscope around when they launched

It's weird how many people have this idea that every moment of your life should be streamed

Even if no one's watching

that just sounds intrusive

You know what Periscope is Bopit?

never heard of it

but from the name

It's a phone app that launched a few years ago

Much like the old Livestreamer/JustinTV sites, but mobile skinned

It's what most people use to livestream on their phones, if they're not doing a Facebook Live stream

so was it like what twitch streamers do with irl streams now?

Yes

It's still around

huh

Twitch is very different

twitch is kinda stealing their niche now tho

why do you say thay?

It's like saying Twitch and Facebook Live compete

They don't

I guess I don't know much of anything about facebook live

Bopit, if you wanted to stream, how would you do it?

other than it probably panders more towards normies

twitch probably

No

How would you

Like, what would the stream be like

never thought about that, I value my privacy and have never had the desire to have strangers watch me do stuff

if I did ever stream it would probably be for video games

Are you going to have a dozen scene transitions, different screen layouts, chat integration, donation messages, bit cheers, subscriber alerts, emotes, audio production, proper soundproofing/lighting, and put effort into production Or are you just going to stream

Because the former is what Twitch is offering, and the later is what everyone else is offering

Youtube kind of straddles the line IMO

I guess you make a good point there

depends on the purpose

I mean, Twitch is still technically an open platform

Anyone can jump on and Stream

But the platform is centered around content producers and personalities

one makes sense for if you want to be really dedicated or you want to make a career out of it and one makes sense for if you just want to share shit with strangers for whatever reason

People who are """professional""" streamers

yeah

I see the difference now

guess I was just ignoring the fact that someone might want to stream their life for x reason

I mean, I don't really get either kind tbh

I'd have to be pretty vain to want to do either

same here lol

And I'm not really sure what kind of person really likes either in an extreme sense

I know a lot of people here watch Twitch streams (myself included)

But I don't get how some people spend their entire day on the site, and would consider themselves a part of the autistic "communities" there

I guess part of what twitch does is let entertaining people make a living by playing video games

gives them an option to literally do whatever the fuck they want to an extent

I guess that freedom would be nice

See, I have to wonder what kind of person want the life of a streamer, especially now though

It feels like it consumes your life

yeah

I mean

Even though the hours aren't too bad, it feels like you have to be "on" all the fucking time

I could point to an example of someone who maintains a life outside of streaming

then again

most people seem to have lives outside of twitch

then again

the popluar ones are streaming constantly arn't they?

and by popular I mean really popular ones

There are a lot of points that I think must be hard for Twitch streamers

Even if they don't acknowledge it as being hard

you know I'm kinda curious how much they fake shit for popularity

I think relying on begging people for money to sustain yourself is terrible, I get why they do it, and that they have to

But no matter how conceited you are, I'm sure at times it makes them quite self-conscious

a lot of them make jokes about it

That's just it though

They can joke

And pretend all they want

yeah I get that spook

ya

yeah

For the top 0.1% the money is amazing

it probably wears them down

For the top 1% it's as good as a normal job

And for the rest they're scraping by, or earning far less for their time

is that so?

Even if you want to be generous