As the other guy said, depends. I used to do some streaming, and when I tried to lead the conversation and talk about something specific during a stream I'd just get distracted by people in chat. With larger streamers chat is more of a singular entity that brings up more and less relevant topics you can ignore, but smaller streamers can keep track of everyone and every message. The streamer is still the one who has to moderate the conversation when necessary, but it's much more two sided than having one person who sometimes picks out messages from a thousand viewers.
I used to be part of a streaming community that originated prior to twitch (think livestream/justintv era). It started with one person who was entertaining, then a community member set up a website that would list out the people from the same community who were streaming, all under a single chat, using embeds. People would move from stream to stream as a group and maintain the same chatroom.
Once streaming, and more specifically making money from streaming, became more popular it fell apart. Maintaining two separate chats and being entertaining at the same time is tough, and people with a lot more skill at mass entertainment took center stage.
I'm sure the concept can still exist, but it's a bit more difficult now. In theory, discord can replace it, though having to join a voice chat to see video, where it takes over the whole screen, kinda kills it for me. Also, you don't get passive community recruitment like you would with other things, there's a lot of steps involved to get someone into discord and into your stream, versus just clicking a link and viewing it.
And then the 10k+ rooms where it's just a STREAM of messages. You couldn't even hold a conversation with another person in the chat since you'd have 0.8 seconds to see and read it.
Not necessarily. It depends on the chat and the streamer. I used to watch a guy where he would mostly play chill games or something he found relaxing like Diablo 2. Most people in the chat knew each other and the conversation would just go around. He doesn't stream much these days, but it's because his life has been busy in a good way, so I'm glad for him.
I watch a pro tekken streamer who will read chat in the middle of his games lmao. Mostly just reacting to questions but yeah. He'll have a whole convo while doing some of the toughest tech in the game lol no clue how he does it.
That's still leading the conversation, since the stream is the catalyst of the conversation. If the people keep in contact outside the stream then that's just a group chat and I wouldn't ever describe that as "having 12 viewers on twitch". I'd describe it as being in a group chat with 12 other people.
The first commenter is correct. Viewers are not people chilling with you, they are people observing you for their entertainment. A friendship may form from this, but it isn't the norm. The dynamic of a stream is fundamentally transactional and someone who doesn't recognize this is the one whose mind has been warped by the internet, not the other way around.
This is an arbitrary distinction. People still sat there and watched the gameplay. That is a viewership therefore these people were viewers. Whether or not it was more like a public group chat is completely irrelevant, by definition of the word viewer you are just wrong.... on top of being insufferable
Talk about being insufferable. You seem to be agreeing with me, but haven’t thought hard enough to realize it so you’re throwing emotions at me like I said something insulting to you. Also, if you think there is no distinction between having actual friends in a group chat and interacting with people viewing your stream, you are one of those people I mentioned who have let the internet warp your brain.
Figure out what is happening in this thread and try to reply again.
Nah man, i stream very rarely these days but ive got this dude that comes and hangs out in my chat who totally leads the convo lol. He tells me about his dnd campaigns and honestly it was my favorite part of streaming. I love dnd and i love that he was comfortable sharing all the details about a campaign i knew nothing about, and i was fully invested every time. It really depends on the situation
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u/BowlPotential4753 5d ago
The thing is you are not chilling with them, you are leading the conversation which is entirely different