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Welcome to Weimerica Weekly Episode 21. The podcast airs every Wednesday.
This week’s podcast is on vidya and voyeurism.
Weimerica Weekly is a podcast hosted by Ryan Landry that touches on the cultural, political and sexual topics that fill the mindspace of our United States of Weimerica. The politicization of all cultural and social degeneracy is examined with a focus on how it fits together.
Weimerica Weekly is produced by the Hestia Society and distributed by Social Matter.
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Great, on-point topic. It’s really unnerving how quickly and how massively this Youtube/Twitch attention-whoring industry sprang up. Very hard to relate to people who embrace and celebrate this kind of stuff, and don’t see it as the ugly, anhedonic soma it really is. And I agree, adding VR headsets to the mix is definitely going to make it worse.
There’s going to be a lot of feckless young people weeded out of the gene pool by their media addictions, but you’re doing God’s work getting the message out there that those with ears to hear should wake up and snap out of it.
As someone who has extensive experience on twitch.tv, I have to disagree with the things you are saying. The majority of the twitch community hates female streamers unless they are actually hardcore gamers like Hafu. The most popular channels are all of professional gamers or veteran streamers, eg. Forsen and Lirik. Although it is quite voyeuristic many people watch them, the majority imho, to get better at whatever game they are playing. Watching a professional or ex-professional play the game live and seeing his reactions is much more useful than watching some recorded clip of game play. The biggest reason why twitch got gigantic is because they started covering the large e-Sports tournaments like “The International” or “League of Legends World Championship”, etc.
This voyeurism even extends to the battlefield where militants record footage via a GoPro hence allowing the viewer to see the battle from the 1st person perspective recording everything even unto the host militant’s death.
@AI:
I think the real Weimerica angle here is just the fact that “professional or veteran” gamers even exist as an identifiable group, and that viewers care so much about improving at a video game that they’ll pay for the privilege of watching other people play for hundreds or thousands of hours. That’s not the behavior of healthy, well-socialized individuals, yet it’s become big business and passes largely uncommented-on.
The cute-girl camwhore stuff is certainly ugly and decadent, but it’s a relatively bog-standard vice by comparison.
Good point about the fact that “watch to get better” in the video gaming world is big business and is a sign of something more, well, pathetic both in the individuals and as a reflection of society.
I always found it strange that you can make millions on youtube by just playing video games. That’s your day job. It produces no tangible skills that you can bring to the real world. Without that Playstation or Xbox and remote control you’re useless. If you don’t have a strong personality you’re useless. You’re not leading anyone. You’re not a leader. Most likely don’t know to manage a group or know to control a budget.
I have a work acquaintance whose mid-teen son appears to play the vidya and watch twitch to an astonishing degree. As far as I know it’s “to get better” rather than ogle tits, but you never know.
If there’s anything nice to be said about it, at least it keeps the kids off watching TV. Just wait until the twitch broadcasts become concerned with social justice and racism/sexism/homophobia in games.
That’s the thing though, I don’t see how watching a Twitch streamer is any less bad for the kid than watching TV. It’s true TV shows have a lot of poz on them, but they also at least have narrative structure and social interaction among characters. Sitting for 5 hours watching some “pro gamer” dork play Starcraft seems like an autism warning sign by comparison.
Ultimately the real name of the game is just limiting screen time for kids, period. Especially very young kids, who get addicted easily and can’t manage their impulses well. Obviously this is like pulling teeth these days when everyone 5 years and older owns a tablet or smartphone, but it really is critical for healthy development and worth the effort.
It’s not a huge advantage and there are better things to do. Limit that screen time but good. Still, better five hours of twitch than five hours of Bella and the Bulldogs. I just hate the relentless cultural poz indoctrination on TV.