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| An attempt to meme. |
Welp, time for another rant. All another rant about live performances.
To consider what is worth it and worthless with the infinite expanse of free opportunities that the internet offers.
The fork in the road, product, or user.
What's the live chat box for? What is the discord sharing art channel for?
Status roles games, no matter how egalitarian and whole the community, is needed to allow governance.
Status roles matter, and social media have created a conspiracy to keep us addicted to live special media performances for to sell our attention and most importantly, our time.
Nothing happens that meaningfully in the chat box unless it's a collaboration for a big project. The pro bono happy birthdays feel worth it.
Chasing a free opportunity to fill one's ever-growing parasocial desire, commodified with subscriptions of emotes with absolutely no respect for to sleeping schedules and time. Constant calls to action to this or that.
Three worthless reasons, Risky, bespoke work on demand, all live.
Risky work on demand, because its lack of sleep ruins one's body composition, general physical preparedness.
Bespoke because one has to be on their best behaviour, not throw any tantrums unless one is kicked. Unless one is a friend, depending on the broadcaster. Don't know if one could be consistent and patient with it because of the former reason.
Live because it's live-streaming, at the moment. They won't reply to you if its a video. So stay up, stay up beyond midnight and beyond because somebody on another planet won't reply to you in the competing chat box otherwise.
The demand is status roles, the fomo. Fear of missing out.
That's why I'm not becoming a vtuber (not yet), social media grooming aint going to help one make a hit. Even if I don't get an audience, I'm not following the a-b testing twitch recommends to me as a streamer. Fine if I don't get affiliation even as I stream every day.
I don't need it, as of other creative professionals have.
Production values, that all can be a sunk cost.
"Don't make art! Play to the crowd, even if they don't know any better. Play a popular game to make the average viewer count go up, so you can get affiliate."
No live chat box, no. Please, we are better than that.
In light of Seth's Godin akimbo podcast of doing it live.