>>49972617The sole appeal of livestreaming over other content is directly interacting with your streamer.
Twitch streamers, for all the rap they get doing lazy shit, ended up that way because it maximizes audience interaction for the effort needed.
While things like TTS, soundboards, and reading/reacting to donos right away may disrupt whatever "content" a streamer is doing, it enhances live interaction which is the real content people go for.
Thus, otherwise passive viewers are encouraged to become active participants, playing their part in creating a unique experience together with streamer, rather than just watching it.
That feeling is incredibly powerful and is the modus operandi of OG streaming places like Twitch.
So the real appeal isn't simply watching someone play a video game live.
It's about how (You) can influence through any manner someone playing that video game live, such that novel content is made and felt by the rest of the crowd;
something (You) took direct part in creating.
