>>11019098I watch streamers who average around 3-4k viewers (with occasional jumps to 5-6k depending on the game) and their chats are at a decent pace where you can still @ the streamer directly and they'll respond. Sometimes the chat will pick up when something happens onstream, or people are jamming to music, but that's really no different than Japanese stream chats that erupt into 草 or あっ's or いいね's. And regular twitch streamers have a mod team (usually a handful watching live) to snipe spammers or trolls.
Averaging above 5000 every stream is a large audience for anyone. I don't think this specific conversation is indicative of YT or Twitch chat cultures, and more that conversations with chat scales with audience size. No reasonable person tries to have a 1-on-1 conversation in a stream with 5k, 8k, 10k+, 50k+, etc., viewers. People who do just stick out like a sore thumb.
>If you have something useful to say, what's the likelyhood they'll see it (be looking at the screen and not get spammed away), or think it's intelligent enough to be useful or funny enough to comment on?I suppose the best analogy would be comparing it to how Twitch Plays Pokemon worked. If everyone repeats the correct answer enough times, eventually it'll be noticed over the troll answers.
>What's the point of being the 100th person to spam the same emotes/reactions?It all depends on the chat culture. Spamming emotes is dumb fun the same way threads on /vt/ with a chat culture erupt in activity during karaoke streams. Like I said, if you go into, say, XQC's chat and you try to give "advice" or you try to talk to the streamer like a close friend, that kind of message sticks out like a sore thumb.
There are so many people who are streaming nowadays. Vtubers, if you want to get specific. If wanting to interact with a streamer who reads your specific thoughts on the game is something you need for enjoyable streams, it's better to find a different streamer altogether.
