>>16672426>the people deluding themselvesi think even if they dont have to do much its still pretty bad because it can also be holding them back, for example let's say they feel really lonely so they find some streamer and donate and it makes them feel less lonely, then they sub and the streamer shouts them out and they feel even better, maybe sometimes the streamer even reads or replies to their messages too, and all that stuff makes them feel better and makes the loneliness go away for a while, but then the streamer is offline or they have to go to work or school or whatever and it starts creeping back, well they already know a way to alleviate that pain so they return to the stream and reinforce the cycle, basically conditioning themselves to cope with the problem without addressing the cause of the problem, there's a related idea in ai called local maximums/minimums, let's say the goal for the ai is to complete a task in the lowest amount of time, really simplified version is it tries some shit and then changes and eventually it gets really good to the point where it seems to have found the best solution even if it tries different stuff, but it's actually stuck in a local minimum, meaning it's the best possible outcome for some big range, but not the best outcome for the range of all possible outcomes, you get the picture, we get what we tolerate, so i'd say one of the reasons the relationship with the streamer could be bad is because it increases tolerance of the person's situation, obviously there's more variables at play and removing the streamer won't instantly make their life better or even guarantee their life will ever improve, but i feel like a lot of people use streaming in unhealthy ways like i mentioned, it's not unique to streaming of course, the fundamental phenomenon of avoidance and coping long predates the internet but i think the internet made it worse, not a revolutionary perspective but yea
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