Excuse the off-topic post but I think the state of the modern detractor "sphere" is embarrassing. I got into following the guy, like a lot, after he stroked his penne, but I
continued to follow him because of Tevin. Tevin always seemed to be able to take even the most boring DSP streams and make them palatable. I believe LSB was sort of able to carry that torch later on. But after the retirement of those two the sphere has went to shit.
The first major problem with the modern restreamers is how they do their streams in a scheduled, weekly, sometimes daily basis. Now as entertaining as dark
can be, he doesn't spill enough gold dust to warrant daily, full, restreams. And it shows by how they act; I tune into a modern restream and it feels like I'm listening to a wagie clock into his shift. They just get angry, and annoyed, and mute constantly, which begs the question, why would I watch that? Why should I watch a stream from someone who's just miserable and provides no other commentary besides being miserable and annoyed? Is that entertaining? Maybe for some .
The other issue with the detractors is I feel they have become too much of a "community". I'm not saying we should return to SOK gayops or anything, but, because they are so close with each other, they refuse to tread on each other's timeslots. The end result of this is that, instead of having multiple options to watch, we get stuck with only one. I remember his most recent Halloween stream- which have always been my favorite dark ""event""- the only person who I can find restreaming, was someone that I find incredibly boring and not funny (I won't say because he seems like a good guy and reads the thread I just think his content is bad).
TLDR: I think the modern restreamers see restreaming as an obligation, and are audibly miserable throughout 99% of the his streams, yet they do it daily and still bitch. Idk if it's just me but I find listening to someone bitch and be angry and miserable to be the opposite of entertaining. I also think they are too afraid to step on each other's toes, which creates a bear market for US, the listeners, who are forced to choose between one shitty restreamer, or raw DSP, which is becoming more preferable.
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