TWITCH - The What And The Why?

[Middle Class Caveman 962]

I've been fascinated by twitch recently and have been following a couple of CoD streamers. Mostly Fluxury and Speros. 

 

My 'question' is, what compels people to give these streamers large sums of money? I watched Fluxury stream today and 2 different people gave him 100 gifted subs. That's £125 of their own money, given to this guy. Twice. 

 

I don't get it. 

 

I gifted my amazon prime sub to Speros as it didn't cost me anything but I couldn't imagine giving 1 gifted sub, let alone 100. 

 

Has anyone ever done something like this? Why? Help me understand! 

 

EDIT: Just to add to this as well. The whole concept of 'chatting' with the player is also bollocks too. The chat is just emoji's and 'hype' no actual real conversation.

 

[Middle Class Caveman 962]

So the same guy just donated 25 gifted subs in Flux twitch and then literally half hour later is on Speros love YouTube donating him $300......why?????

[G_dub52 559]

33 minutes ago, Middle Class Caveman said:

So the same guy just donated 25 gifted subs in Flux twitch and then literally half hour later is on Speros love YouTube donating him $300......why?????

Its fucking bonkers isnt it mate. I dont understand it either. Im on it to stream and possibly make more gaming friends for a laugh mainly.

 

I will not be putting down any funding for nobody haha 

[J4MES OX4D 9,774]

I don't understand the concept of giving already rich people even more money. Some of them make a shitload through adverts and then they have a daily tips goal of about $1000 which is cracked within an hour. There are some horrendous e-beggars of Twitch - WingsofRedemption for one who is the fattest, laziest and most vile slob out there. I've never seen someone so toxic - he's trolled relentlessly but he invites it most of the time and it's what makes him money. DarkSydePhil is the other one - he is $500,000 in debt with multiple credit cards and blew $40,000 on the WWE Champions Mobile game and still people donate!? Neither one of those appreciate the support they get or the money. 

 

I also don't understand the point of Twitch chat - as said by Caveman, it's just emoji's and spam especially on the popular stream channels. It's useful in small streams I guess for relating to the streamer and them engaging more directly with the audience but spamming emoji's is like talking to a brick wall. 

 

There's also these 'simps' who give away all their money to 'thots' which I find hilarious but sad. Another thing people don't know is that these big Streamers are paid to play games most of the time - they may pretend like they've made a choice to play X on that particular night but actually the publisher has pretty much put a schedule in stone and giving them $50,000 a night for playing their game for 6 hours.