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That is an easy answer tho. You watch football at the highest level of competition to see the best of the best. It's not like you go out and watch other dads playing football in the park... Do you? 🤔
Like I get watching esports or speedrunners; I do not understand watching people who are the same as you do something you can do yourself easily.
Anyway, I can't wait for July 13th when the Grumps start playing Dangoronpa 3.
Sometimes, those people just make the content entertaining. Maybe the content itself is not that entertaining to play it yourself.
Abso-fucking-lutely. I could watch Tom Walker play the most shitty games that I don't even know exists all because he makes the absurd hilarious.
Have you ever watched Mystery Science Theatre 3000? It's a movie series where you watch people watch movies.
There's also a British TV show that's even more meta: Gogglebox.
It's basically several households watching and discussing TV on TV.
Like a cross between a reality show and a very specialized YouTube reaction channel that makes up for its lack of content being reacted to with an abundance of people reacting 😄
Yeah, but what if those people on my level are also really pretty and I can convince myself I have a chance as one of their million orbiters?
it's interesting and entertaining to see how others approach or react to the same problems.
You're totally missing the mark: many of these guys are very, very good at creating entertaining content. They pull more views than NFL matches on the daily, so if anything, I'd say they're beating top athletes.
The game they happen to be playing doesn't even matter all that much, because it isn't about the game being fun. It's about that specific guy being fun to watch.
That’s an untrue statement….
Highest ever twitch stream viewers 3.5 million
https://twitchtracker.com/channels/peak-viewers
Least viewed nfl game in 2023, 8 million (also only happened to be available via stream thanks to Amazon)
Was talking mostly about YouTube videos, think PewDiePie minecraft series, with millions of views.
Fun stat: Bitch Lasagna counted 8 million views in 2023 alone, despite being released in 2018.
I knew there was at least 1 person that enjoyed them playing those games!
I'll be watching old Wheel of Fortune or Kirby's Dream Grump episodes instead :)
They're also the only people on YouTube that I'd watch doing stuff. It's more about them than the games.
I sometimes have to not watch (but still listen) because Arin will be playing something I play and it will frustrate the shit out of me because he will keep getting lost in a linear hallway while telling a story or something and not actually paying any attention to the game. lol
You're cool.
Comedy exists.
Even more exciting than watching a pro soccer team beat whoever they’re playing is watching my kid beat whoever they’re playing.
Even more exciting than watching pro hockey is watching my college team beat whoever they’re at laying, despite never having a personal connection.
And yes, the medias attempts to highlight specific athletes around Olympic times and make us feel a personal connection used to work, until they overdid it. Now it’s just ads