>>79389816There is definitely an etymological angle to be argued but I think an issue largely overlooked is modern day paranoia. The bjork stalker and proliferation of ASMR style true crime youtube murderporn that is largely consumed by women has had an objectively negative effect on the whole of the entertainment industry. Lots of people, women especially, are now extremely scared of literally every form of social interaction and will actively shame people for being social because they can't comprehend that striking up a conversation is anything other than serial killer behavior, cause every single true crime podcast story starts out with entirely normal events. Seriously just search up true crime on youtube and some phone sex operator in an Egirl room with string lights will tell you about how a guy raped and killed 100 people for 4 hours, this is regularly consumed content for a lot of highly online women.
>>79389989The radio was a one way broadcast, livestreaming is not purely screaming into a void, there are chatters and they respond in real time. Some of them may have a parasocial relationship with the streamer but a huge majority are just normally socia. It is social to talk with people about things and interact with them. Streaming is a social activity, watching and chatting in livestreams is a social activity. Being audience or streamer has no bearing on it being social or not.
