>>5901244There is a sort of selection bias at work.
You need to be sensitive to public opinion in order to shape yourself as an entertainer. You let yourself constantly be molded by the thoughts of other people in order to subtly adapt yourself to become a person they like to watch. To connect with your audience, you need to be empathetic and understand what they're thinking. But it's not something you can turn on and off - if you actually succeed in doing that, you become increasingly jaded.
The more someone develops a strong personal reality where they can critically evaluate and filter criticism through their own value system, the less entertaining and more dull they become. To be sure that certain criticism is unfounded, you need to develop and embrace many of your own assumptions that you then treat as fact. If your beliefs are strong enough, other stances become increasingly difficult to entertain and play along with.
You become less spontaneous. You start to have less to say about different viewpoints, people and ideas in games because they get treated as farcicial by your filters. When a collab partner says something idiotic, your laugh comes out as forced because your mind instinctively tells you, "that's bullshit, disregard it - wait, uh, you're supposed to play along, right?" Your emotional responses become less genuine, your thought processes more calculated . You attract less and less viewers, until you become someone few want to watch.
There's a reason why all the most popular streamers out there all seem to be emotional, and a tad stupid or impulsive - people feel comfortable and safe with someone inferior in certain aspects. There do exist intelligent, well-composed and quiet streamers - they don't cry over hate. But they also don't attract many viewers because this composure also ensures, among other things, that they react maturely to things that would have otherwise produced clippable material for the "dumb" top streamers.
