I was more referring to your gross generalization of what a twitch streamer is in their character as a person. You had a knee jerk reaction that is pretty sad and laughable. You speak about wanting to these people to be role models and its awful for the kids yet proceed to judge an entire subsection of a platform as unfit to be rolemodels without and real knowledge of them or their character as a whole. You know that all the popular streamers are just terrible people? I would like to see some data on that.
You claim to not be against what the medium is but then want it to be what sounds like regulated to only be content that is fit in your minds eye. It also sounds like based on what you said about developers and kids etc that you want choice to be regulated as well to help fight "the wild west."
People have the choice to watch what content they want. Could be a developer or a girl licking a microphone. Like anything, including the other forms of entertainment you gloss over, have the same supply and demand as Twitch. It sounds more like you have an issue with the "laws" of the internet and people being simps rather than twitch.
In which way did I say all streamers? I even brought up people who put on shows which stream like Louder with Crowder who treat the medium more like it should be? This thread is about the top paid streamers who make millions without even counting Endorsements?
My whole point is you have a generation of people that literally stream and kids watching this thinking that this is what they should strive for. When there's is more to it than that. And if there was more infrastructure in place to treat it as such to my examples like Louder with Crowder, which mimics more common mediums like radio/studio show.
You basically have people who are influencers and are really young getting endorsements and have no clue what this does to reputation, but also in the long run compromises you in terms of having a individuality/opinion.
There's nothing knee jerk about it. Maybe when theres a better network built and TV/Radio/Streaming come all together there will be less bull shit.
BTW i work in Television. SO im coming from that kind of Mindset.
I am probably off the mark completely, but I do see trends in increase in social anxiety caused by kids, watching these people and looking up to them. I see them instead of studying, looking into learning things that interest them they look at streaming being where they should focus.
I love watching tim the tat man, Dr.disrespect. But those guys literally had regular career's, tim worked shitty jobs most of his life it seems. Then started streaming, now he along with Guy Beam produce content. I hope it moves in the correct direction.
But the money they make is ridiculous, and there's hardly any regulation or standard.