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3 to 8 hours long streams seems to be the norm on Twitch. What kind of lifestyle there’s that allows the consumption of full day long content?
by mrtksn 5y ago
3 to 8 hours long streams seems to be the norm on Twitch. What kind of lifestyle there’s that allows the consumption of full day long content?
- elaus 5y agoI think for most streams there's no real need to watch them from start til end. You can just tune in and out at will without missing much. For many it probably just runs in the background while they do other things, like some people do with soap operas on TV.
- Operyl 5y agoIt’s good background noise for me, albeit I watch relaxing background content here, things like Pokémon or Animal Crossing.
- anthonycr 5y agoPersonally, as a programmer I usually have a Twitch stream (often Tyler1's) running on a second monitor as background noise if I'm not listening to music. However, the most active chatters are mainly college students in my experience.
- cardosof 5y agoThe streamer is 8 hours in, not the audience. Also, if you think how much free time children, teenagers and NEET adults have, yeah, 5+h per day watching games is completely doable during a pandemic.
- handrous 5y ago> What kind of lifestyle there’s that allows the consumption of full day long content? Kids. Adults without kids.
- MarcelOlsz 5y agoOr just keep it on in a background tab with headphones on? I've always got some kind of podcast running or twitch if I'm not doing deep work (I do frontend, so I'll listen to stuff when writing boilerplate vs problem solving).
- abledon 5y agodo 4 hours of work, remain 'online' at job watching twitch for rest of 4 hours
- wiseowise 5y ago> Adults without kids. What an ignorant thing to say. Apparently having no kids==nothing to do except for consume full day long content.
- handrous 5y ago> allows
- hogFeast 5y agoYou have it on in the background. Some streams have a very engaged community, everyone is there flooding the chat all the time. But in most streams the viewers aren't engaging, they have it on the background, it is on their second monitor while they play games or work or whatever. Viewership went way up during the pandemic too. I don't think it is for everyone but I prefer it to TV/Netflix/whatever. I didn't even play games when I started watching (I do now, but only once or twice a week). Some people prefer amateur porn to Brazzers.
- colinmhayes 5y agoWhen I was in college I had about 10 hours of free time a day.