Someone just donated 1000 dollars to a streamer, can someone tells me what compels people to do this

Someone just donated 1000 dollars to a streamer, can someone tells me what compels people to do this

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its an inclination all young people born after 2000 get at some point during their lives, acting on it is only a matter of time

you might think I'm crazy, but I don't even care

It's autism

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I guess its people whos main interests besides working and paying taxes are watching people play vidya games.

I don't even understand people who give money to patreon or kickstarters

"'My fans, oh, they stick with me through everything, through thick and thin.' Do not stick with me through thick. If I stop entertaining you, throw me to the curb. You wouldn't stick with your mechanic if he stopped fixing your car. I'm in a service industry. I'm just overpaid, okay?"

I feel like it's the same as Bo Burnham said, they feel like they have to "support" their favorite streamers. Don't. You shouldn't pay extra. It's a service.

Lonely autists who think the streamers are their friends, they get a warm fuzzy feeling when the stream lights up and they streamer thanks them.
It is the same as the slot machine effect, slot machines make bank they are designed to keep you putting money in without realizing how you are spending with bright lights and sounds, it tickles a pleasant part of your brain and poof you just plugged 1000 dollars without realizing.

It is always amusing and sad when these people meet the streamer in real life and end up having the illusion shattered.

>he can't afford to pay for his content
HAHAHAHA STUPID POOR FAGGOT AHAHAHAHAHAHAH STAY LEECHING

I know a rich oil guy through a game and he just donates for dumb reactions but doesnt do it often

That quote has nothing to do with the situation.

I can understand this sort of shit for people who have more money than they can spend then their mentality might be more like philanthropy right

>patreon
If I can give a dollar to a content creator I like and help them make more content, sure.
>kickstarter
Nah, don't understand that either.

"""help"""" them make more content
ahahahahaha

>Give money to person
>Said person can use money to create content or just live
It's not that hard user.

What I meant is that people seem to care too much about entertainers. But yeah, maybe you're right.

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA we got a streamie in the thread

More money than brains.

Stay leeching poorfag

Oink oink paypiggie

I guess, but still why to some random faggot playing a video game?

you give 10 bucks to someone making powerpoint presentations on youtube or maybe drawing shitty titty drawings and you seriously think money has anything to do with actually enabling the content creator to do this

You ever read about Benjamin Franklin ?
He was known to be someone who was able to build trustworthy relationships and get people to like him fairly quickly. The key ? He found out that asking people to do things for you make them like you more. I'm not sure how this all works but I suppose the brain tricks itself into thiniing "Why would I do that for him if I don't like him ? I must be liking him" or something along those lines. I would not be surprised if the same mechanic was behind people donating money. Makes them feel they belong and also make them like the streamer more. I explained the phenomenon poorly but you can read more here : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect

Kickstarter is a good way to fund things that aren't otherwise on the market. Which is why I'll kickstart an unusual game in a genre that isn't currently being made, but not indie pixel platformer #46632

unironically thanks for sharing

They’re desperate for attention and the streamer will talk about them for 5 seconds while they acknowledge the donation. If I was a big streamer If I’d just laugh every time someone donated. It would be subtle. It would look like I’m happy, when really I’m just laughing at their pathetic ness

or it makes people feel like they're needed and this forms an attatchement between the one requesting something and the one providing, giving purpose and again a sense of being needed

were you watching that streamer? if so, there's your answer
in a world where it has become exciting to see a random npc play videogames it was only a matter of time before a few idiots decide to throw their money at them

I've participated in a Kickstarter once, and it was worth it. But it was for some extra special merch for a comic series I was already following. Kickstarter is great for stuff like that, not for random megalomaniac 'projects' made by people with no business sense.

I'm still mad I gave $100 to the starforge kickstarter 10 years ago like a fucking retard. Can't imagine how bad it'd feel to give $1000 away

Imagine your life revolves on watching a streamer. The streamer has *everything* revolving around donations. You're simply doing what the person you respect/enjoy/whatever wishes you to do. You'll also get a BIG endorphin kick when he/she says your name and the chat goes WILD. This kind of kickback for your efforts are not achievable in your everyday life as this sort of kid. It is their proudest moment.