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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's been a long time since I've actually watched Twitch and I actually thought it was a really cool idea to start with. Back then I got pulled in from following competitive StarCraft. By the time I got there SC2 was on the decline but LoL was taking off. I liked watching the big LoL competitions but spent most my time watching competitive StarCraft II. Shout out to Incontrol, RIP, his casts got me into it and if there was still quality content I could see myself following again.

Eventually though you would just start following the trending streams. After every big release there would be new streamers popping off and it was fun to watch. Slowly the bots got more and more obnoxious and you realized the trending shit was bought and paid for. Then, a site where LoL streams was the central draw, camgirls started showing up. They created the IRL channel and influencers took control.

In a world where competitive gaming was taken seriously by the viewers and game studios fully supported the competive community twitch might have turned out different. For now, I think about how to get that OG twitch feeling back.

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[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

I don't see a problem?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

Wait, did twitch become something that interests me when I wasn’t looking?

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