This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
I've no difficulty understanding lads being thirsty and attracted by a lovely lady who appears to be into gaming and hey, you can even interact and try to get her attention!
Now, explain to me lads getting super invested in some lads running around a field chasing a ball. Like, literally having their lives revolve around it, their identity entirely centered on it. Now that's a complete mystery to me.
I actually understood sports fandom for the first time because of watching streamers play video games. I was like ooooohhh, this is a very challenging skill, and I'm watching someone do it very very well, and I'm fucking hyped and I want to see more.
I never in my life had that for basketball or anything. But it made sense when I saw it for video games.
As someone who was born into the ball chasing cult, there are three things:
Oh and don't get me started on the choreos.
You tag lamp posts in your town with their stickers and you do the same in the surrounding smaller cities. By looking at the stickers in any given town, you can see to which city their youth gravitates, which tickles my brain in ways I can't explain.
I'd never beat someone because of their allegiance. Those people can kick rocks.
Most of the time it's the social aspect that is infectious. It gives you something in common with other fans that would otherwise be strangers to you
Male Loneliness Epidemic is mostly just broke teenagers trapped in the suburbs who haven't figured out their girl peers are just as lonely, broke, and horny as they are.
As soon as they crack the code, they're at it like jackrabbits
I don't understand watching any video game streams. It just makes me want to play video games myself, why would I spoil video games by watching someone else play it?
I like to watch high level gameplay to see what others are doing. There are streamers who talk through their decision making and you get really valuable insight. YouTube just isnt as good because the games and lessons are cherrypicked instead of being able to see how they play winning and losing.
The appeal isn't in the games themselves, it's in the personality playing them.
I got pretty into watching twitch a couple years back, and yep, the streamer and community are what made my favourite streams. I mostly watched streams for one or two games I knew, but would watch others because it was one of the streamers I liked
made for a nice change from podcasts or music
I've just recently gotten into this. Gotta find someone with good commentary skills, and doesn't have an annoying voice.
Also, speedrunners aren't who I thought they'd be, was expecting a bunch of nerds cracked out on adderall. I don't seek out the genre, but the ones I've stumbled across accidentally are older, with a technical background and do well-spoken commentary. Makes it much more interesting when they can articulate what they're doing as they're doing it.
Here in Brazil, a lot of kids watch streamers because their families can't afford any gaming devices :(
background noise.
i put it on while i work for games i've already played or would never play
I don’t understand watching any video game streams. It just makes me want to play video games myself, why would I spoil video games by watching someone else play it?
I don't understand watching any football streams. It just makes me want to play football myself, why would I spoil the fun of playing by watching someone else play it?
Actually though. I can't bear football and I'd still rather kick a ball around than sit and watch it
There are some games I can't "git gud" at but I enjoy seeing the gameplay, so I watch edited playthroughs.
I don't watch streams much, for a multitude of reasons.
I have limited time, watching certain gaming channels lets me know about games I might be interested in.
Then I can wishlist them, purchase them when they're on sale, and never find the time to play them.
I also have limited skills. Watching certain gaming channels lets me experience games I wouldn't be able to progress in if I played them myself.
Also, some are entertaining because of the way the person plays. Watching Jon forget about his damn blunderbuss cavalry until they are again slaughtered to the last man amuses me.
I don't play for an audience, so I can constantly pause and micromanage the game, and therefore don't tend to make these amusing mistakes. I'm also not as good as most professionals. Therefore watching certain professionals play certain games can be more entertaining than playing them myself.
Finally, there's also the reaction factor, same as with film or TV or music reactions. Watching someone experience that surprise or shock for the first time triggers the mirror neuron, and is the closest I can get to experiencing it myself for the first time again.
What makes a man do anything now days lol
Anon can't fathom being interested in people if the reason is not sexual.
1 way streamer 'relationships' feel super weird and impersonal to me. It's like there's some kind of fantasy the streamer is personally invested in, and interested in, you, too.
Like maybe I'd watch a bit out of curiosity, like watching a sports team or something. But become paying 'patron' and watch them all the time?
To me it's just entertainment, not a relationship. But I'm starting to wonder if I'm the weird one. I often just watch the archives too, not even live.
I find some of them consistently amusing so I keep watching. At some point I think that it's only fair to contribute monetarily to help incentivize them to keep producing the entertainment I like.
To me it’s just entertainment, not a relationship.
I suppose I didn't mean to overgeneralize, this may why most watch streamers.
It seems more like a relationship to many, especially those that throw big bucks at these streamers, and basically live in the comment sections saying weird things.
I'm sure horniness is a factor, but there is also the aesthetic allure of the adorable. Like I can look at cat pics for hours. Doesn't mean cats make me hot.
Sexual attraction and frustration, sure. Also loneliness, loss of community, loss of purpose, loss of meaning.
Maybe not every guy who watches her is like that, but some definitely are. I would especially be concerned for those who watch her consistently and donate large amounts of money to her. But I feel the same way about anyone who watches a lot of streamers and donates a lot of money (relative to their own income of course).
Parasocial relationships are a deeply concerning development.
I found out that some female streaming voices give me some asmr. And overall can be more pleasant to hear. And less prone to have "youtube accent". I take that as a win.
I don't watch Twitch but the youngin's in my family do.
Female streamers don't have that fake obnoxious rage yell/scream the guys do.
Last streamer I watched by choice was Skyrim Grandma BTW.
Female streamers don’t have that fake obnoxious rage yell/scream the guys do.
Eh, guys with the fake rage scream are about as common as the ladies who see Twitch as essentially a starter camsite/way to advertise their OF and are trading on boobs more than anything else. There absolutely are streamers on Twitch that are exactly what OP suggests, but they're far from a majority and probably not the one used in the picture.
I understand greentexts are misogynistic by nature, but wtf is wrong with this entire fucking website that this shit is what pops up first. The entire "joke" hinges on the idea that that woman's entire worth is tied into being pretty. This is not even casual sexism, that's ranked competitive sexism.
Also going by the comments some advanced morons here seem to unironically think that is actually how it works. Per twitch's own leaked financials pokimane did not make more money than her male counterparts (who no-one ever accused of abusing their pretty privilege). But she's a woman so of course her merit has to be scrutinized and her success has to be attributed to men. I suppose the idea that she has a large female audience has never even crossed the minds of the quadruple-chinned gremlins who upvote this garbage.
The entire “joke” hinges on the idea that that woman’s entire worth is tied into being pretty.
Uhh no, the joke is that a lot of men see women as objects and will watch her streams solely on the fact that she is a woman that they desire to bang. But yea, no matter what lens you look at it, it's patriarchy all the way down. I think watching and developing parasocial relationships with streamers, male or female, is pretty fuckin weird anyway.
You realize that's how the world works?
Men or women, people are primarily judged for their physical attraction.
I think that at least 7 people didn't understand what you were trying to say.
I did. Well said. I can't see any problems with your argument.
Though, I think that maybe the green text was more about female streamers in general, not just the one that's depicted.
Whichever. Be well.
Wait, are you implying that I'm sexually attracted to Josh from Let's game it out!?
As someone that works in software, what he does to turn running code inside out, is kinda sexy. The guy is like a bloodhound for bugs and poorly-built software.
Game developers: Yeah, buy our game and play it however you want. It's all for fun!
Josh: ::proceeds to out-QA the publisher's QA department, breaking the game in the most egregious ways imaginable::
Game developers: No, not like that!
Speedrunners:: ::furious note-taking sounds::
He might have described why a chunk of guys pick up learning how to play the guitar.
I've been watching streamers who I don't want to fuck and who don't really play that well, either. A lot of the time, I'm kinda too lazy to play games myself, and watching streams is a much more passive activity (if you don't participate in the chat etc.).
Isn't that Pokimane? She's ranked in League. Cute women can do great things. If you sexualize it maybe you're a creep. Go watch her play.
And non-cute women can do great things. Watch people play who entertain you, and if they're attractive, that's cool too.
You see, the steamer depicted may not be the exact subject matter they're referring to. They might have just googled female streamers, or loaded up Twitch and looked for the first girl on camera and snapped a screen shot.
With all that being said, I understand the appeal of wanting to watch something that you think is pretty. Hell, that's the entire reason I played cyberpunk as a female character despite being very cis, and male.
For 90% of game play my gender doesn't matter. Until cutscenes where I get to watch my avatar interacting with others.
Outside of cutscenes, I'm looking first person, so what difference does it make?
Obviously women have long hair, and that can get in the way, making it harder to see. You don't want hair in your face when you got to fit that piece through the side precisely, making a last second rotation to fit lest you end up with a hole on your stack
I have no sexual attraction to the many gamers I watch stream. I love John Wolfe and his gaming is just so entertaining. I will listen in the background and watch off and on. I get to experience games I have no time or energy to play still engage in the storylines and also have some background noise. It's a win win win. It's not always about bewbs.
