[HN Gopher] So Your Kid Wants to Be a Twitch Streamer
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So Your Kid Wants to Be a Twitch Streamer
Author : gmays
Score : 13 points
Date : 2023-04-27 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| dron57 wrote:
| A child wanting to be a streamer is no different from wanting to
| be a professional actor or a soccer player. This story as cute as
| its folksy wisdom was didn't mention scalability or the long tail
| of jobs.
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| Some jobs scale, some do not. Brad Pitt, Cristiano Ronaldo,
| Rihanna and PewDiePie all have the benefit of being in the 1%
| (0.1%?) of their respective professions. They reap all the
| rewards. But there are millions and millions of people who aren't
| quite at the top and they get nothing. Dentists or plumbers on
| the other hand provide a service to a specific number of people.
| Their jobs do not scale. As such they are safer from the global
| Internet-wide competition and automation.
| c7DJTLrn wrote:
| I'd be extremely disappointed if I had kids and their dream was
| to become a YouTuber, Twitch-er, TikTok-er, or any other kind of
| "influencer." Luckily, I don't plan to.
| tmpz22 wrote:
| > I'd be extremely disappointed if I had kids and their dream
| was to become a YouTuber, Twitch-er, TikTok-er, or any other
| kind of "influencer." Luckily, I don't plan to.
|
| "I don't plan to have my kid dream to become a influencer"
|
| Yeah man control your kids dreams that'll work.
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| I read the GP's post as "I don't plan to have kids," since
| obviously dreams can't be controlled.
| isk517 wrote:
| I would be more than happy to offer my services as a
| behavioral therapist for theoretical children in
| hypothetical situations.
| akomtu wrote:
| A modest youtuber can do more good than a thousand "well-
| adjusted" office workers. For example, this youtuber could
| travel the world and film on his phone the rapid changes of the
| climate: drying up seas, growing mountains of trash, poisoned
| rivers and so on.
| TheFreim wrote:
| It doesn't seem to be much different than a child wanting to be
| an actor.
| jutrewag wrote:
| I disagree. Being an actor is intensely social, physical and
| plays perfectly into what is traditionally, and correctly,
| considered a well lived life.
| fauxpause_ wrote:
| Being an influencer isn't intensely social?
| npunt wrote:
| I imagine influencers are far more parasocial than
| social.
|
| Acting involves attunement with fellow actors and being
| part of a larger creative process and work. It's a lot of
| showing up in person and figuring out how to work with
| others.
|
| Influencers need only stay at home, work a camera, and
| manage parasocial fan conversations. There's no inherent
| in-person physicality of relationships and all the
| socializing that entails, nor even the need for peer
| relationships or any connection to a larger work that the
| influencer is a part of. At its core it's only a streamer
| and some people they probably don't know watching.
| TheFreim wrote:
| That's a good point, you may be right.
| kiba wrote:
| As an actor, I love performing on stage! I don't imagine
| that I will ever be famous though.
| govolckurself wrote:
| Jesus Christ, how tedious. Just tell your kids that the vast
| majority of streamers make approximately zero dollars, and that,
| if they want to pay their bills, they should probably take a
| higher-paying job and do Twitch streaming in the evenings.
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