Are Streamers Just Modern Day Buskers?

[Grub]

Busker: Outsider retard who may or may not be autistically good at some entertaining skill other retards enjoy enough they'll provide some shiny coins as recompense for being briefly entertained

Streamer: Bedroom/Basement dwelling retard who may or may not be autistically good at some entertaining skill other retards enjoy enough they'll provide some shiny tokens as recompense for being briefly entertained

The more I think about it, the more I can't think of many differences between the toothless hobo playing a harmonica with his asshole in hopes of a quarter for some crack and the autist twitch streamer who spends hours repeating the same level in a 30 year old game in hopes of a token for some anime dolls or something.

Are they basically exactly the same thing?

 

[dick brain]

No, buskers have talent or do things. Livestreamers are friend simulators. It's a way to monetize social interaction, or in this case a facsimile of it. They don't have to be talented or do things, they just sit in a chair and talk to you, and the degree to which they interact with you specifically is directly proportional to how much money you give them. It was, until recently, the saddest form of prostitution, though it has been usurped by AI chatbots.

 

[Grub]

No, buskers have talent or do things. Livestreamers are friend simulators. It's a way to monetize social interaction, or in this case a facsimile of it. They don't have to be talented or do things, they just sit in a chair and talk to you, and the degree to which they interact with you specifically is directly proportional to how much money you give them. It was, until recently, the saddest form of prostitution, though it has been usurped by AI chatbots.

I was thinking more those streamers that play games or music and shit like that. I lump the kinds of streamers you mention with onlyfans type shit which is more like prostitution or escorting.

 

[dick brain]

I was thinking more those streamers that play games or music and shit like that. I lump the kinds of streamers you mention with onlyfans type shit which is more like prostitution or escorting.

Do you think anybody would watch those streamers play games or music if they didn't talk, the way people watch real musicians or big strong men who play with balls?

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

no

 

[rando[Numbers]]

Streamers exist to pretend to be the friend of lonely people.

Buskers are people trying to do art.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Buskers might be glorified bums, but at least they’re usually talented enough to learn a musical instrument or skilled enough craft makers to somewhat justify their panhandling.

Some autist in mommy’s basement pointing a camera at himself and making retard noises while playing Fortnite is doing absolutely nothing to justify earning the shekels other autistic retards throw at him.