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You know, I had the same thought as well? Although, MKBHD was streaming one time and I threw him $5 and asked a question. And it was cool seein' him respond to
by viiralvx 9y ago
You know, I had the same thought as well? Although, MKBHD was streaming one time and I threw him $5 and asked a question. And it was cool seein' him respond to my question in real-time. I guess that same feeling of satisfaction is granted for donating money and hearing them shout you out? I don't know. It was a great feeling for sure though.
- petercooper 9y agoThanks for the story. Those are the sort of things I'm interested in hearing about. Could you foresee a situation where you might ever donate $100 or more to such a streamer?
- drusepth 9y agoI've donated >$100 to one streamer in one go, who I've watched for years for both entertainment and game-related education (watching his tutorials on how to get better at games I play). The traditional sense of paying someone cash for something often happens in parallel: you give something and you immediately get something. I think the mentality (or, at least my mentality) with streamers and tipping is a bit different: after you've received something (e.g. entertainment for X duration), _then_ you give something (a tip). Tipping someone $100 at any point might not make total sense in the moment to someone else observing, but tipping someone $100 for e.g. the last 6 months of free entertainment makes a lot of sense to the tipper. Sure, you could get away with not tipping and make that entertainment truly free, but you also want to support those who are creating it and encourage them to make more. After all, you pay for other entertainment, and often a large tip every once in a while still evens out to (much) less than you'd pay otherwise.
- petercooper 9y agoThanks, this reply definitely helps me understand it a bit more.