Why do people like Sodapoppin so much? I understand your response but it has nothing to do with either of my posts op didnt understand why he was popular and i. Mar 04, 2015  But from watching his stream he's a total douche to his fans, people donate money to this kid and most of time he's bothered by it. One person even donated $15.00 to ask to play with him in H1Z1 and he was like fk off brah, I'm not playing with you, but thanks for the money though!

1. Why Is Sodapoppin So Popular

I always wondered how you must feel at that level of popularity in gaming. I feel awkward just hearing about it sometimes. I know what it is, I use to toggle the Justin.tv and Twitch tabs on my browser.It's that feeling when you look at MineCraft toys and you know some kid out there or some fan has these characters based off Twitch streamers.I haven't watched Twitch since the Bethesda showcase and before that it was probably ManvsGame before all his drama happened.In real life I'd have absolutely nothing to do with these people. I pay hard earned money for the games I play and I want the sounds of the person enjoying the game to be me, myself, and I.

I might just be repeating what everyone else has said. ButAmy Hennig even said that no one buys games, they watch them.I'm not trying to take this guy's fame away.

It's great for him. I just wonder how it helps gaming besides Twitch views.

I honestly don't understand anything about watching someone else play a video game. Comedians are funny, so I would watch them do stuff and crack wise, but I actually like playing games. It seems silly that if I could do one or the other, I would choose to watch someone else playing.I remember my friend's nephew was watching a 'Last of Us' video on Youtube, and I had the game with me on Ps4. I was like, hey, I have that game right here, you could play it! And he was like. 'No, I'm good' and kept watching for hours.

Why Is Sodapoppin So Popular

I honestly don't understand anything about watching someone else play a video game. Comedians are funny, so I would watch them do stuff and crack wise, but I actually like playing games. It seems silly that if I could do one or the other, I would choose to watch someone else playing.I remember my friend's nephew was watching a 'Last of Us' video on Youtube, and I had the game with me on Ps4. I was like, hey, I have that game right here, you could play it! And he was like.

'No, I'm good' and kept watching for hours. I honestly don't understand anything about watching someone else play a video game. Comedians are funny, so I would watch them do stuff and crack wise, but I actually like playing games. It seems silly that if I could do one or the other, I would choose to watch someone else playing.I remember my friend's nephew was watching a 'Last of Us' video on Youtube, and I had the game with me on Ps4. I was like, hey, I have that game right here, you could play it! And he was like. 'No, I'm good' and kept watching for hours.

I get why people are into it. Especially lonely people since I'm sure it's nice to be able to interact with someone you admire and is playing your favorite video game.There is something that rubs me the wrong way though: Streamers constantly begging for money. You'll notice that a lot of them eventually get mentally drained, which is understandable, but then they go on about whatever mental, physical, financial problem they're having while covertly trying to get viewers to shower them with tips. It happens all too often.A lot of viewers tend to be quite young and more than likely use their parents credit cards to send tips or subscribe. Streamers are well aware but don't think twice about begging when they're cash-strapped. Yes like 95% (or even more) is garbage but there are a lot of great streamers out there and quite nice people. A lot of people I watch are speedrunners.

They tend to have from 2-500 viewers, depending on the streamer and the games they play. Their streams are quite simple.

You can talk to them, they will answer you, you can interact with the chat if you want and it's great.Then you have these juggernauts like lirik/sodapoppin/drdisrespectful/timthetatman and I don't know who else. And besides Lirik and occasionally timthetatman I cant stand any of them. They are too selfaware, acting too much and not being themselves (maybe because they have not much of a personality? I don't know), so I simply don't watch them. Though I have to admit that I didn't watch much of sodapoppin/drdisrespectful, but the tidbits I saw. It just wasn't my thing, too over the top or whatever to call it.So any answer why DrDisrespectful has 300k? Wasn't he normally about 20-40k?

The difference is that professionals are professionals. They're extraordinary, doing things you normally will never see done in person. Some of them are entertainers too, they have a lot of personality where everything they do comes off naturally.Versus streamers who are usually doing ordinary things and most can't even talk gud. Some of the better ones sound fake as fuck, as grating as a person who hates children speaking in a high pitched tone to calm a child down after they scrapped their knee. It's extremely rare to come across something/someone that is genuinely good or at least interesting.Also, i hate streamers in person.

They get in your way and try to get you into their act. Understandably, since they're in vacation spots, people will want to check these streamers out for being in these places. But playing video games? Ugh, ok, i guess there are lonely people who will watch someone commentatoring their games, which is actually really annoying IRL.Also also, i don't like watching competitive gaming. Also pretty boring, where Id rather be playing than watching. I swear I'm just as good! Also also also I'm the same way with most sports (most are boring), but i will admit I'm not as good as most professional athletes and genuinely enjoy watching them being good.

Just like people enjoy watching competitive gamers being good. When i was watching streams like ManvsGame I was interested in the guy's life. I wanted to know more about the guy. Then I sent him two games and a shirt because he was keeping me company. That was my own doing and I enjoyed being nice to another gamer. I even saw him open up the package with the two games and he showed the shirt off. Those were the good times.Then I realized what I was doing wasn't making me happy and this is besides ManvsGame.

This was every other channel I hit the sub button for. I paid for subs afew times and then I paid for the EVO sub. I got caught up in sending donations to everyone I liked.

Sure it was money here and there, but I slowly felt like I disappeared.To me as a gamer, I was always the kid on the block who had the latest consoles and the latest video games. I never really kept my ego to the point where I felt better than someone else. I was always impressed by another person's talent or the fact that they liked a game. It's a humbling and enjoyable experience to be a gamer and know what you're doing. I also want to feel like my game time matters.That's the real reason I stopped subbing and I stopped watching period.

There's this countless sea of people commenting and then there's this person getting paid for playing a game. I want that type of feeling and I don't get it if I spent a couple hours watching someone play a game that took cash from my bank account.I stopped watching when the people I thought were funny and amusing started to air game footage. I bought Dark Souls too and I don't want to see a boss I haven't experience before. I imported Demons Souls from NCSX back in the day and I know that feeling of living in the moment. Having something not a lot of people have yet. And if you had imported it before Atlus brought it over then you probably know what I mean.

There weren't youtube analysis or speed runs with glitches. It felt like I was part of that.Even if I watch someone play CoD or CSGO I'm reminded that my rank is low and how time slows down from shutting off that video and inserting the disc into the console. Gaming takes time and time is precious.

I'm not going to ever give someone that type of attention or my money because it's really not fare. It's making some kid or some person's game time and enjoyment far greater than my own.I hear stories about execs in the industry don't really game. Then I go to GS and watch the same dude on GameStop TV give me this very casual look while he discusses the Yakuza series.

All I can think about is how unsuccessful I am and how the people getting all this attention wouldn't ever be my friend in real life. I mean, it's not really the same thing. Playing a video game takes about the same amount of effort and resources as playing does, booting up a PC or console for example. Video games can be played solo, whenever you feel like it day or night, summer or winter Monday or Saturday, doesn't matter.

Football, soccer, hockey takes resources. Equipment, a place to play(which is impacted by time of the day, where you live etc) and the big one is other people.

Try getting together a game of pick up football after the age of 25, its not easy. Certainly not as easy as picking up a game controller. I've heard this argument before and its just not a one to one comparison.I do agree that streams provide a different form of entertainment. I don't like twitch streamers, but these days I watch games being played on Giant Bomb much more often than I play games myself. Its more for what they offer, kind of like watching a movie with commentary on.

I watch them play games, that I would never play myself because they provide the entertainment. Don't see why it would matter to the general audience. I'm kinda surprised when people go out their way to explain that stuff, since it isn't like there is an ESPN or TMZ equivalent for Twitch streamers that would dig into what was going on for the six weeks he was gone. Yeah, if you get arrested, maybe you end up on some ridiculous YouTube channel, but personal stuff seems like it would be easy enough to keep private if it didn't involve another popular personality on the platform.He is pretty damn funny, I've just never totally been won over on the pacing and jank of Battle Royale games. I'd probably watch him a good deal more if I found the games more entertaining. Either way, he is still good entertainment from time to time, and I wish him well. He puts a lot more effort into what he is doing than the people who just sit there like mannequins.

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