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- Aug 4, 2016
It's an unfortunate thing that happens with streamers and their audiences. Streamer audiences tend to form a kind of parasocial relationship with the streamer, where they legitimately start to believe that that streamer is their friend, or that they have some form of intimacy with that streamer.Started watching this through, just got irritated at how chat begs him to play Persona. The dude's what? nearing 40? Never liked anime? He would either get bored of Persona or hate it. Persona is wish fulfillment teen-early 20's weeaboo pandering at its finest. Anybody who watched Vinny should know he wouldn't like it.
Why do these people need their internet funnymen to like everything they like?
(I'm a little moti, I know.)
It's really easy to form this kind of mental, one-sided parasocial idea in one's psyche, especially after hours spent listening to the streamer.
This is why when a streamer fucks up, the so-called "fans" get on their ass HARD for it, because they, the viewer, feel it affects them personally somehow.
This is only worsened by the fact that Vinesauce has one of the most cancerous, meme-spewing, socially inept fanbases consisting of tweenage shut-ins and early 20s tumblrina tranny furfag NEETs who don't know the first fucking thing about boundaries or limits.
I mean, come on.
with no shame whatsoever.
Since these are people they feel like they're "friends" on some level with, to these socially awkward idiots, their opinions must match up as well, which is why they pressure streamers like Vinny and Joel into liking the same games they like, or playing certain games they're infatuated with.
Internet funnymen streams are probably the most social interaction these people get outside of furry discord chats.