NPC streams - The highest stage of streaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNfhGRl7Y0g

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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lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml · 10 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

HaSch@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 3y

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

KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml · 8 pts · 3y

Pure simulacra

Neodosa@lemmygrad.ml · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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?

DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml · 7 pts · 3y

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.

Pinklink@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y

God this guy just loooooves hearing himself talk. Ugh.

ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml · 4 pts · 3y

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

Life2Space@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 3y

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