***

Trevor - This is a great example. I think the most mind boggling revelation is that there are SO many people more interested in a stranger's life than they are of their own lives.

For me, I've only just recently come to terms that the world is a lot crazier then I ever gave it credit.....and maybe I'm the odd man out...;-)

But wait....I come to a forum every day to read what strangers have to say........hm.......

***

I live my life working 12 hours a day (sometimes) performing for an audience (my clients) that if i deny them their desires in an instant (performance and results), can destroy my income. It's a nightmare.

Sounds like a real job, with real stress. How they choose to handle that stress and balance their lives is the real issue.

I completely agree btw, that being a successful YouTuber and maintaining your market share is a huge amount of work. You have to OWN your own business and manage your brand. 

***

Thomas - you hit the other phenomenon - how loyal followers are willing to throw money so quickly at their favorite stars.

I have no fears of making my clients mad when they ask me to do something stupid and I explain why I won't. 

My performance review is a perfunctory quarterly process that has no impact on my career rather than a raise. 

I am paid overtime when I work more than 40 hours a week. I have my personal privacy and have the ability to deny work that might intrude into my personal time. 

-----

Social Justice Warrior used to be a positive term. On the internet, it became a pejorative for a certain type of internet armchair quarterback on social issues who possessed a very shallow understanding of the issue they were espousing. The implication being that the person really didn't care about the issue and was just using the stance to claim moral superiority over others, and by doing so, drowning out the voices of /real/ activists.

During the GamerGate brouhaha, the term was co-opted by what later became the alt-Right to dismiss /anyone/ who argued for a progressive or inclusive stance. So anyone using SJW with that connotation is adopting their agitprop.

I watched a couple live streams of streamers even and it was a fun way to distract me for a month or two.  No different than watching TV, I guess.  

I'm not a big enough gamer to really keep up with it, but I did send one of the streamers a few bucks, since I'd watched him play for a month or so and I could afford $5 pretty easily.  

-----------------------------------------------

Facebook is good for interacting with your audience.

Instagram is good for promoting your visuals.

But Twitter, while made specifically for the impulsive, smartphone addict, just doesn't make sense to me. It seems to be a bunch of one-side comments, a garble of incoherent hyper-rants. I freely admit I'm just the old man here, not getting this new fangled technology.