[chowells]

You are describing a very small percentage of streamers. If you avoid people with over 100 concurrent viewers, you find thousands of streamers who aren't doing more than trying to build communities around a common hobby. And it was my impression that that's seen as a good thing.

[mrguyorama]

All of the streamer/"community" chatter interaction is god awful, low effort, low quality, waste of time. Every content creator I love who has spent more time on twitch ends up gearing their content for the 12 year olds in chat and that ruins it for those who don't want their content filled with "pogger" and other hyper niche fads in the twitch chat.

[chowells]

Funny, I never see any of that. Maybe you just watch bad streamers.

[Ekaros]

Honestly, I don't think it is necessarily any worse than let's say sports. You are watching other people playing a game with some people commenting over. Acceptable past time.

Now, as it grows and as certain content becomes more popular it becomes rather less murky and clean. Still I wouldn't call it all bad.

[unethical_ban]

The faux-friendship interactions with chat I think can be pretty unhealthy for sensitive viewers (shut-ins and teens). Like many shitty sites, if you go to the places with fewer people, it isn't so bad. Stick with people with a few hundred viewers, avoid simp-magnets and loudmouths.