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> Playing video games apparently prints money these days. People stream it to audiences and get paid ad money

Paying video games alone doesn't print money [0], it's being a great entertainer that does, and it's not easy and usually requires quite a bit of talent and the right personality.

And as others have said, just go into Twitch pick a category and check how many channels are streaming that have 0 viewers... it's staggering, I would argue that perhaps only 2% or so of Twitch channels have more than 1 viewer.

Making bank streaming requires not only grueling work of putting video after video, empty streams, etc. for years but also probably being quite lucky, we only see a tiny fraction of people making content out there.

I agree though that this didn't exist 15 years ago, so it's definitively a possibility when before it wasn't!

[0]: Okay you can be a pro-gamer but I think that's even more niche and harder than making content.