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All of this talk about viewers, friendships, grooming and parasocial relationships is retarded.
I just want to support people because taking part in their growth and watching them get bigger is very enjoyable, if I like them I will try to be their friend and if they don't want that I will continue supporting them anyway.
The biggest appeal from watching someone small is the chat interactions, I understand not wanting to be part of a faceless mob like in big channels but it's absolutely true that the relationships in small channels will learn into parasocial ones unless you are the only person watching them, for you as a chatter it's a one on one, for the streamer it could easily be 10 different viewers that they have to pay attention and that will always dilute things.
No idea why I'm even typing this, this topic is retarded.
I just wanted more people to watch and interact while I was away from my friends and now I'm too attached to this place.