>>26324818It comes down to glorious nippon work culture folded 1000x where they expect a lot out of their workers. Cover isn't anywhere close to a black company, but the culture also is built to drive individuals to be hardworking and looking for more to do. Dying for your work is seen as honorable.
Murata isn't liked much, but he's on a grind right now where he's averaging like 3 hours of sleep to pump out the rest of this arc of OPM alongside personal projects and animations. The write of Doraemon died at his desk while inking, etc. etc.Twitch and the western sphere of streaming comes off easier in the sense that you are your brand and the majority scope of your work is in playing games or watching other people's content, pausing every 15 seconds to make a comment or yell at some guy in chat, or displaying your talent (music/art/hot tub/ being korean).
It's exhausting for them too, a lot suffer burn out (C LI NT comes to mind first) from sheer hours put in and being on in front of a crowd. A lot of the others let chat do the hard work for them and definitely face the not wanting to misstep and enrage other streamers' fanbases or being canceled for a slip of the tongue
unless it's drama farming season..
There's a lot less inner workings when it comes to copyright and how easy it is to skirt it when it comes to just picking up a game and going with it, tools in place to play whatever music you want without it showing up in the VOD. Some do indeed put in a lot of work behind the scenes when they're running large events
getting streamers to do anything is fucking impossible. Or running view based events (Moonjam I imagine is a fucking nightmare when it comes to working on setting everything up).
A lot of what we see on twitch is obfuscated by the upper 10% though that went through the grind or lucked into who they know and now coast on the foundations they put in years before the covid boom, and the lower you go the harder you see people trying to make any headway.
I'm losing the plot here, I too have been drinking all night and it's hitting me hard.>>26325024Some of the girls do indeed coast though on the laurels of their popularity, they probably have more pull and want to offload work. There's a few that fall into that middle ground where it's less taxing than typical work but more work than the western streaming sphere, but I do think the most exhausting is definitely the platform they're on and who is observing, as you bring up.
