rofl...that can't be real. Can it?
So if I'm understanding it right, they have an automated text to speech the acknowledges donations and when people send in donations it reads whatever is sent in. So people troll them with stupid stuff and the girls pretend to be upset to get more money from the trolls. Is that about right? If that is true, twitch is straight up ridiculous for allowing this crap.
As an American, I don't understand twitch donations and subs either. If that means anything lolI wasn't familiar with this (not familiar with Twitch really), I just clicked on the most popular game, then picked the thumbnail with cleavage and I see what you are talking about. It seems like an attractive girl crying about getting kicked out of her house and instead of finding somewhere to go or packing she is playing videogames while being read mean comments by a text to speech program with a soothing voice.
The internet is really weird. I don't understand Twitch and it's culture of donations and subscriptions. I hadn't paid much attention to it until the Street Fighter 5 Beta, and found it really weird that people were sort of big noting by giving the streamers money. Perhaps if I lived in a tipping country like america it would make more sense to me. Is this how live streaming porn sites work? Has game streaming evolved as an offshoot of that?
EDIT: typed this response when this thread was on page one, but didn't click submit, so I've missed the whole conversation
I'm extremely picky in what channels I choose to pay a sub to, and even then I only do it for a month or two.I wasn't familiar with this (not familiar with Twitch really), I just clicked on the most popular game, then picked the thumbnail with cleavage and I see what you are talking about. It seems like an attractive girl crying about getting kicked out of her house and instead of finding somewhere to go or packing she is playing videogames while being read mean comments by a text to speech program with a soothing voice.
The internet is really weird. I don't understand Twitch and it's culture of donations and subscriptions. I hadn't paid much attention to it until the Street Fighter 5 Beta, and found it really weird that people were sort of big noting by giving the streamers money. Perhaps if I lived in a tipping country like america it would make more sense to me. Is this how live streaming porn sites work? Has game streaming evolved as an offshoot of that?
EDIT: typed this response when this thread was on page one, but didn't click submit, so I've missed the whole conversation
Yes, that's right. I'm surprised Twitch hasn't done something about it yet.
Half? :OWhy would they? They collect half of every donation she gets.
Don't hate the hustle.
Make that money.
A bad thing happening to a bad person does not suddenly make it a good thing. You (and some others in this thread) should have learned this in kindergarten.this! if I was a chick I'd do the same thing.
Why would they? They collect half of every donation she gets.
Why would they? They collect half of every donation she gets.
So like Anita Sarkeesian?
She got harassed for opinion, responded to it by highlighting all the negativity, and got a lot of money from people who supported her.
Maybe the streamer planned it and exploited the people who felt bad for her. Maybe she didn't.
I say live your life, OP. It's not gonna go away.
I thought they banned cleavage a long time ago. What happened to that?
I hope you like dogpiles.So like Anita Sarkeesian?
I thought they banned cleavage a long time ago. What happened to that?
I hope you like dogpiles.
There's no maybe here, that's what she and multiple other people are doing. The part of this shtick is that you give exactly what all the harassers want, an emotional reaction while the people who have no idea that they're acting donate to counter all the harassment.
They're playing both sides.
Small sample size, but I couldn't even find any female streamers in the top 35 streamers.
The only female I found in the top 40 was Dizzy Kitten. She was not exhibiting any of the OP's complaints and she is actually a very competent CS player in her own right.
And suggesting that people who continue in the face of abuse must want it is really messed up.
Why would they? They collect half of every donation she gets.
I take it you didn't click the stream then.
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Look, getting harassed on the internet is awful and I'm not condoning that behavior but you're being naive if you think the streamers that do this care about the harassment.
The harasser has to pay actual money to send an insult directly to them. They could turn off the stream if it really bothered them but they don't because this is their job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmPRdFSAT-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiNSTfMfwSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIYYb6xPDj8
And now this girl.
It's all an act, man. You show as much cleavage as possible, pretend to be dumb and you cry when someone insults you.
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Hell, this guy even got in on the act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8HM97D1vmI
Why should she have to turn off the stream? That's what I'm getting at. You are saying the natural state is the abuse and if you don't like it, work around it.
As I said, getting rid of the abusers will get rid of these people if the abuse is the only reason they're on. Problem solved. But you want to keep the abusers and focus on these people as if they are the real problem.
Alternately, if you don't like these people don't go to twitch.
I'm not a big twitch user, so can someone explain all of this to me like I'm five? Not trying to be funny, I'm honestly have no clue what the OP is even complaining about.
She wouldn't turn off her stream because she's making a fuck ton of money. I never said she needed to turn it off.
I'm not saying it's never an act. I'm saying it's irrelevant. The abuse doesn't happen only to these people. Why focus on these people and not the ones slinging abuse?You're under the impression that this might not be an act and that they're bothered by all the hate all I was doing was showing that this was not the case.
To me it's just super annoying that male gamers get called out for being sexist when the girl gamers have streams like this...
I think as long as the streamers stay within their legal means then they should be able to stay though.
worth watching for some people who can't separate a concern that gaming takes a backseat too much in their opnion from misconceptions about or prejudice against female streamers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nsEs2qbJVU
Yeah, I'd never pay for this kind of content. If YouTube does go pay I'll just stop watching whichever channels go pay.As an American, I don't understand twitch donations and subs either. If that means anything lol
The Twitch police are more irritating than anyone on Twitch.
This is like some weird fetish.
We're on page 12 of a topic that could be solved by simply not watching something? How? Why? I've been reading the endless loop of replies and I still can't quite understand why people are upset...especially at the people actually being attacked.
This is all very derp right now. Really, very derp.
You couldnt just stop.