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I'm not really sure why it works for anyone, not to mention the innumerable others it doesn't work for who try it anyway.

LoL... whos going to pay people to stream stuff ?

In a better world, no one. But talentless hacks can apparently become quite wealthy from livestreams and Let's Plays. Evidently there are a great number of voyeurs who just like watching other boring people play boring games. And so it is that you will never make as much money as Markiplier without shedding your integrity and getting lucky.

Hmmmmm.... as I suspected. Not everyone can be pewdie pie. Its like tryin to win the Lottery.

Some people absolutely can make money and a living doing it. But it's an awful lot like developing an app. Many people do it, few make a living at it. Or hell, make anything at all. For the ones that do it for fun, great. But there are a lot of people banking on it and it just seems wasteful and stupid to me.

I suppose. But I find even most of the "for fun" ones to be confounding at best. Who would be interested in watching some random schmo leisurely play a video game? Apparently quite a few, since they continue to do it and I suppose people continue to tune in. Never understood the dynamic myself, however. It seems like just about anything would be a better use of bandwidth, let alone other opportunity costs.

I'll watch streams that are reveals for things. I'll also watch a stream if it's educational or showing something. But I will not watch a let's play trash stream and that's the overwhelming majority.

Right. There are actually legitimate reasons to stream something. But they are vastly outweighed by the trite broadcasts, and it's seemingly the latter type that can actually generate substantial revenue (though even then it's rare, as you stated).

@Brute
LoL I watched lets play..... Daniel Floyd was playing Dark Souls.

I couldn't help myself because Extra Credits talks about it like its the shit and when finaly gets around to actually playing it.... he's got more complaints than compliments.

It's not always about money or fame. A lot of people who stream do so for the sake of genuinely living for the moment, for their personal enjoyment, and to capture fond memories with friends to look back on in the future. It's like home movies for gamers.

I don't understand how that's disturbing, much less trite.

I was expecting a vapid rebuttal sooner or later.
Now I can stop waiting.