this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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As the abstraction of the act of streaming from its individual particularities, NPC streaming presents the distillation of the streaming profession, resulting in maximal efficiency in revenue generation. A quantitative increase in this kind of stream will eventually result in a qualitative transformation of the industry where it will be sublated by an entirely novel mode of production, namely the streamer-capitalist who relies entirely on the viewer for both the production and the consumption of their product, and who will eventually become a node in a never-ending tree of subcontractors.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the shitposting community of Lemmygrad we now have a perfectly written Marxist analysis of NPC streaming and that's beautiful

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hell no I wrote this barely awake, there's a reason this belongs in shitposts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Pure simulacra

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone actually understand the appeal of these streams? Is it just kids that watch it? or is it an NPC fetish like moist says?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't think it is an "NPC fetish" but rather a fetish for ordering a woman around. They pay her money to act like this not because the NPC behaviour is what they like, but because they like the idea of her being mindless, like a robot, and just obeying their commands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

God this guy just loooooves hearing himself talk. Ugh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not an accelerationist but trends like this make it difficult sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Easy way to make some quick money if you're a cute girl, I guess.

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