• teagrrl@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Ignore streamers they all have shit takes and take up way too much oxygen.

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      2 days ago

      This is the new media. Showing how it manufactures consent is important. Streamers are getting as many views as mainstream tv channels these days

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        I am aware that it is popular. A lot of it is infotainment. The streamer format creates a cult surrounding these personalities. They are political entertainers not great thinkers. I cannot take these giant internet egos seriously and their communities become hostile to dissent. E.G. the Graham Platner situation. They are reactionary.

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          11 hours ago

          I agree with most of what you said but it also applies to basically any type of media. For example Alex Jones or Joe Rogan a few years ago.

          Streamers are just the latest iteration of it and they are having a lot of influence on the political sphere and the political left.

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      It actually isn’t good to lend legitimacy to controlled opposition against the Jeffrey Epsteins & Elon Musks of the world. It just makes you feel better to think you’re going to beat them at their own game. I think they fed you this like Wile E. Coyote eating a stick of dynamite in a hot dog, & they’re laughing their asses off at you.

      What was even the appeal of chudded-out Bernie Sandlers to you?