>>16673580but ultimately that just comes down to communication, but yea i kinda agree, abruptly severing the streamer connection wouldn't be best and would be painful but if it reached an obsessive level then some kind of action is necessary, steps need to be taken to begin detaching which of course includes establishing other kinds of systems as well, and if it's gotten bad enough, i dont think abrupt severance is unjust
>and despite how shitty of a platform twitch and its contemporaries are, there may be some heartfelt people in theretrue but like you said it's a gamble to find them, i was gonna also say a vast majority of the regular viewers of a streamer are "hypnotized" to some extent depending on the content so if you find someone they might reinforce the hypnotization onto yourself too related to the twitch zombie phenomenon but i think it's different because i think the zombie phenomenon is emergent behavior, not a description of the actual people, basically they vomit the trite brainless messages because of the setting, "everyone else does it so i should do it too" and outside of the stream on avereage they're likely no worse than regular npcs so actually maybe it is a description of the actual people, the twitch zombie phenomenon is just another manifestation of npc behavior, idk but whatever yea like you said it's chance, i suppose you can also improve your odds by selecting more niche streams that align with your interests instead of just random funny big streamers
>i think the best case scenario is that they get left as a memoryi think statistically that does happen most of the time, since most people wont be rabid fans and streamers/youtubers usually stop putting out content after a few years but actually that retirement point doesn't really matter because once you've conditioned yourself to soothe yourself with parasocial relationships there's a convenient endless supply of streamers to reattach onto if you lose "the one" char lim
