Night.Ninja
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Did Dr Disrespect break twitch
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Senua
Member
Me too, but he's easily the most entertaining streamer I've seen.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I always wondered how you must feel at that level of popularity in gaming. I feel awkward just hearing about it sometimes. I know what it is, I use to toggle the Justin.tv and Twitch tabs on my browser.
It's that feeling when you look at MineCraft toys and you know some kid out there or some fan has these characters based off Twitch streamers.
I haven't watched Twitch since the Bethesda showcase and before that it was probably ManvsGame before all his drama happened.
In real life I'd have absolutely nothing to do with these people. I pay hard earned money for the games I play and I want the sounds of the person enjoying the game to be me, myself, and I. I might just be repeating what everyone else has said. But
Amy Hennig even said that no one buys games, they watch them.
I'm not trying to take this guy's fame away. It's great for him. I just wonder how it helps gaming besides Twitch views.
It's that feeling when you look at MineCraft toys and you know some kid out there or some fan has these characters based off Twitch streamers.
I haven't watched Twitch since the Bethesda showcase and before that it was probably ManvsGame before all his drama happened.
In real life I'd have absolutely nothing to do with these people. I pay hard earned money for the games I play and I want the sounds of the person enjoying the game to be me, myself, and I. I might just be repeating what everyone else has said. But
Amy Hennig even said that no one buys games, they watch them.
I'm not trying to take this guy's fame away. It's great for him. I just wonder how it helps gaming besides Twitch views.
Kotzen Ducha
Banned
Very interesting that he's so popular.
I don't find him funny or entertaining in the least.
Absolutely no where near the wit of somebody like dunk.
I don't find him funny or entertaining in the least.
Absolutely no where near the wit of somebody like dunk.
SonicSleuth
Member
I honestly don't understand anything about watching someone else play a video game. Comedians are funny, so I would watch them do stuff and crack wise, but I actually like playing games. It seems silly that if I could do one or the other, I would choose to watch someone else playing.
I remember my friend's nephew was watching a "Last of Us" video on Youtube, and I had the game with me on Ps4. I was like, hey, I have that game right here, you could play it! And he was like... "No, I'm good" and kept watching for hours. smh.
I remember my friend's nephew was watching a "Last of Us" video on Youtube, and I had the game with me on Ps4. I was like, hey, I have that game right here, you could play it! And he was like... "No, I'm good" and kept watching for hours. smh.
tim_pkmn89
Member
So who is he?
God Enel
Member
Didn't you ever watch a friend/Brother or so watch playing a game? It's kinda the same. I love to watch someone entertaining playing a game. To be honest I mostly watch Lirik on stream as he doesn't seem fake or playing a role in his stream. Another great guy is TheMexicanRunner or MajinPhil.
DrDisrespectful isn't my cup of tea. Is that his first stream after his short period off? But 300k is insane WTF
DarkestHour
Banned
Twitch streaming is so beyond my understanding.
This is the reason I can't get in to watching someone stream. It seems the majority act completely fake and have to have stupid noises and ridiculously changing voice levels constantly. Just act normal!
This is the reason I can't get in to watching someone stream. It seems the majority act completely fake and have to have stupid noises and ridiculously changing voice levels constantly. Just act normal!
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Soleil rouge
Member
I get why people are into it. Especially lonely people since I'm sure it's nice to be able to interact with someone you admire and is playing your favorite video game.
There is something that rubs me the wrong way though: Streamers constantly begging for money. You'll notice that a lot of them eventually get mentally drained, which is understandable, but then they go on about whatever mental, physical, financial problem they're having while covertly trying to get viewers to shower them with tips. It happens all too often.
A lot of viewers tend to be quite young and more than likely use their parents credit cards to send tips or subscribe. Streamers are well aware but don't think twice about begging when they're cash-strapped.
God Enel
Member
Yes like 95% (or even more) is garbage but there are a lot of great streamers out there and quite nice people. A lot of people I watch are speedrunners. They tend to have from 2-500 viewers, depending on the streamer and the games they play. Their streams are quite simple. You can talk to them, they will answer you, you can interact with the chat if you want and it's great.
Then you have these juggernauts like lirik/sodapoppin/drdisrespectful/timthetatman and I don't know who else. And besides Lirik and occasionally timthetatman I cant stand any of them. They are too selfaware, acting too much and not being themselves (maybe because they have not much of a personality? I don't know), so I simply don't watch them. Though I have to admit that I didn't watch much of sodapoppin/drdisrespectful, but the tidbits I saw.. it just wasn't my thing, too over the top or whatever to call it.
So any answer why DrDisrespectful has 300k? Wasn't he normally about 20-40k?
Natron2084
Neophyte
I never heard of the guy, but that’s a crazy amount of viewers.
What gets me though is everyone poopoo’ing streamers or people that watch streams of games. I don’t watch streams very often, but I get why some people are really into it: it entertains them, end of story. No one ever questions the ratings of the NFL or the Olympics and says: “why don’t all of these lonely losers go play football/soccer/hockey instead of just watching it. I play sports, not watch them.”
What gets me though is everyone poopoo’ing streamers or people that watch streams of games. I don’t watch streams very often, but I get why some people are really into it: it entertains them, end of story. No one ever questions the ratings of the NFL or the Olympics and says: “why don’t all of these lonely losers go play football/soccer/hockey instead of just watching it. I play sports, not watch them.”
wondermega
Member
I never thought I could watch this stuff, but I was glued to watching a couple of TheMexicanRunner's vids for a good few hours (!). I guess there really is something for everyone..
WaterAstro
Member
I mean no disrespect, but who is he?
zackmorris
Member
I don't really get it. I put him on and he is just screaming, seems like most youtubers/twitch streamers. Is this a gimmick or a joke I'm missing? I guess loud screaming and overacting draws a certain crowd, but I think that crowd is about 20 years younger than I am. To be fair, I only watched about 5 minutes just to see what this thread was about.
WaterAstro
Member
Yeah, I was watching a stream where someone posted the streamer a tyler1 video, and it was just tyler1 screaming and acting like he's having seizures falling off the chair. It was the dumbest thing I've seen.
Revolutionary
Member
Doc is pretty entertaining, but his fandom is incredibly bizarre. I realize half of them are in on the joke, but then there's the other obsessive half that have been posting pathetic and creepy shit on his Reddit for the past month and change.
But then again I don't think that's something exclusive to Doc. People on the internet are just weird, I guess.
But then again I don't think that's something exclusive to Doc. People on the internet are just weird, I guess.
Eh, they're like podcasts to me. Like right this moment I'm playing Monster Hunter while I have Twitch in a small window to the side.
Droxcy
Member
Tyler1 is annoying and dumb on purpose.
https://www.polygon.com/2017/1/10/14179366/league-of-legends-riot-ban-tyler1
Dr. Disrespect on the other hand, his "persona aka character" dates back to 2010. He was a Multiplayer Level Designer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare with Sledgehammer Games. He's loud and aggressive player because that's what his character is. http://www.newsweek.com/dr-disrespect-interview-716301
The difference is that professionals are professionals. They're extraordinary, doing things you normally will never see done in person. Some of them are entertainers too, they have a lot of personality where everything they do comes off naturally.
Versus streamers who are usually doing ordinary things and most can't even talk gud. Some of the better ones sound fake as fuck, as grating as a person who hates children speaking in a high pitched tone to calm a child down after they scrapped their knee. It's extremely rare to come across something/someone that is genuinely good or at least interesting.
Also, i hate streamers in person. They get in your way and try to get you into their act. Understandably, since they're in vacation spots, people will want to check these streamers out for being in these places. But playing video games? ugh, ok, i guess there are lonely people who will watch someone commentatoring their games, which is actually really annoying IRL.
Also also, i don't like watching competitive gaming. Also pretty boring, where Id rather be playing than watching. I swear I'm just as good! ... also also also I'm the same way with most sports (most are boring), but i will admit I'm not as good as most professional athletes and genuinely enjoy watching them being good. Just like people enjoy watching competitive gamers being good.
Revolutionary
Member
Those are probably a necessity for big streamers, because I've seen people get pissy that their follow/subsciption went unnoticed.
I remember this guy from WAY back in the Cod4 days so I watched about 10 minutes of one of his PUBG streams and he got well over $1000 in donations. Who the fuck are these people sitting at home watching other people play games that can just casually throw hundreds of dollars away at a time?
Ecto311
Member
I remember a reddit thread where they said a lot of those huge donations get refunded but at the time the streamer will call them out or say thanks getting them some advertisement on the show for nothing. Shit Dr got a 5k donation today. I was thinking even if I was a balls out billionaire I don't think I would just drop 5k on him. I would do it to someone with like 2 watchers.
Why even post this? How do you want this kind of post responded too or is it just to let us know you are better than the 300k viewers he had? It's like me going into a Tesla thread and posting " I like walking!"
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Northeastmonk
Gold Member
When i was watching streams like ManvsGame I was interested in the guy's life. I wanted to know more about the guy. Then I sent him two games and a shirt because he was keeping me company. That was my own doing and I enjoyed being nice to another gamer. I even saw him open up the package with the two games and he showed the shirt off. Those were the good times.
Then I realized what I was doing wasn't making me happy and this is besides ManvsGame. This was every other channel I hit the sub button for. I paid for subs afew times and then I paid for the EVO sub. I got caught up in sending donations to everyone I liked. Sure it was money here and there, but I slowly felt like I disappeared.
To me as a gamer, I was always the kid on the block who had the latest consoles and the latest video games. I never really kept my ego to the point where I felt better than someone else. I was always impressed by another person's talent or the fact that they liked a game. It's a humbling and enjoyable experience to be a gamer and know what you're doing. I also want to feel like my game time matters.
That's the real reason I stopped subbing and I stopped watching period. There's this countless sea of people commenting and then there's this person getting paid for playing a game. I want that type of feeling and I don't get it if I spent a couple hours watching someone play a game that took cash from my bank account.
I stopped watching when the people I thought were funny and amusing started to air game footage. I bought Dark Souls too and I don't want to see a boss I haven't experience before. I imported Demons Souls from NCSX back in the day and I know that feeling of living in the moment. Having something not a lot of people have yet. And if you had imported it before Atlus brought it over then you probably know what I mean. There weren't youtube analysis or speed runs with glitches. It felt like I was part of that.
Even if I watch someone play CoD or CSGO I'm reminded that my rank is low and how time slows down from shutting off that video and inserting the disc into the console. Gaming takes time and time is precious. I'm not going to ever give someone that type of attention or my money because it's really not fare. It's making some kid or some person's game time and enjoyment far greater than my own.
I hear stories about execs in the industry don't really game. Then I go to GS and watch the same dude on GameStop TV give me this very casual look while he discusses the Yakuza series. All I can think about is how unsuccessful I am and how the people getting all this attention wouldn't ever be my friend in real life. So yeah...lol
Then I realized what I was doing wasn't making me happy and this is besides ManvsGame. This was every other channel I hit the sub button for. I paid for subs afew times and then I paid for the EVO sub. I got caught up in sending donations to everyone I liked. Sure it was money here and there, but I slowly felt like I disappeared.
To me as a gamer, I was always the kid on the block who had the latest consoles and the latest video games. I never really kept my ego to the point where I felt better than someone else. I was always impressed by another person's talent or the fact that they liked a game. It's a humbling and enjoyable experience to be a gamer and know what you're doing. I also want to feel like my game time matters.
That's the real reason I stopped subbing and I stopped watching period. There's this countless sea of people commenting and then there's this person getting paid for playing a game. I want that type of feeling and I don't get it if I spent a couple hours watching someone play a game that took cash from my bank account.
I stopped watching when the people I thought were funny and amusing started to air game footage. I bought Dark Souls too and I don't want to see a boss I haven't experience before. I imported Demons Souls from NCSX back in the day and I know that feeling of living in the moment. Having something not a lot of people have yet. And if you had imported it before Atlus brought it over then you probably know what I mean. There weren't youtube analysis or speed runs with glitches. It felt like I was part of that.
Even if I watch someone play CoD or CSGO I'm reminded that my rank is low and how time slows down from shutting off that video and inserting the disc into the console. Gaming takes time and time is precious. I'm not going to ever give someone that type of attention or my money because it's really not fare. It's making some kid or some person's game time and enjoyment far greater than my own.
I hear stories about execs in the industry don't really game. Then I go to GS and watch the same dude on GameStop TV give me this very casual look while he discusses the Yakuza series. All I can think about is how unsuccessful I am and how the people getting all this attention wouldn't ever be my friend in real life. So yeah...lol
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pickleslips
Member
I got about 10 seconds in before I wanted to drown myself in dog piss. The whole corny / wacky sunnies big collar thing was embarrassing in the 90s, and just yelling while you play a game is some annoying shit. Congrats to him for being a professional dickhead, though!
-MD-
Member
Dunky? The guy that replaced Jontron? He was fun for a few videos but he got old, does he even stream?
Disrespect is the first streamer I've seen that's actually entertaining.
SyenceLabb
Member
Dr. Disrespect is usually entertaining but can be too over the top sometimes. I give him a pass since he is supposed to be playing a character.
TimFL
Member
Ex-COD dev turned streamer. Took on the Doc persona where he wears a wig and sunglasses, yells at the game etc.
He left twitch a few months ago under tears cause he afaik cheated on his wife and wanted to fix his life, announced his return a few weeks ago and seems to be back now.
zackmorris
Member
I mean, it's not really the same thing. Playing a video game takes about the same amount of effort and resources as playing does, booting up a PC or console for example. Video games can be played solo, whenever you feel like it day or night, summer or winter Monday or Saturday, doesn't matter. Football, soccer, hockey takes resources. Equipment, a place to play(which is impacted by time of the day, where you live etc) and the big one is other people. Try getting together a game of pick up football after the age of 25, its not easy. Certainly not as easy as picking up a game controller. I've heard this argument before and its just not a one to one comparison.
I do agree that streams provide a different form of entertainment. I don't like twitch streamers, but these days I watch games being played on Giant Bomb much more often than I play games myself. Its more for what they offer, kind of like watching a movie with commentary on. I watch them play games, that I would never play myself because they provide the entertainment.
lifa-cobex
Member
He's no Peach Saliva i can tell you that much.
The Lamonster
Member
Interesting to see him bounce back like this after admitting to an affair.
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Revolutionary
Member
A certain subset of people (hint hint) were trying to pivot it into misogyny ("Dr disrespects women" lul), but the level-headed among us knew this was never a big deal. Famous people have groupies, news at 11.
Soleil rouge
Member
It's the children who are wrong.
Wonder how many of those huge ($1,000+) donations are real?
Don't see why it would matter to the general audience. I'm kinda surprised when people go out their way to explain that stuff, since it isn't like there is an ESPN or TMZ equivalent for Twitch streamers that would dig into what was going on for the six weeks he was gone. Yeah, if you get arrested, maybe you end up on some ridiculous YouTube channel, but personal stuff seems like it would be easy enough to keep private if it didn't involve another popular personality on the platform.
He is pretty damn funny, I've just never totally been won over on the pacing and jank of Battle Royale games. I'd probably watch him a good deal more if I found the games more entertaining. Either way, he is still good entertainment from time to time, and I wish him well. He puts a lot more effort into what he is doing than the people who just sit there like mannequins.
Revolutionary
Member
And now a certain group of people are calling him racist because he occasionally does a fake accent.
TheShadowLord
Member
i thought it was because he said ching chong?
Revolutionary
Member
Is that not a fake accent?
I'm hispanic and I don't get worked up when people spout fake Spanish gibberish complete with rolling R's. Who gives a shit?
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Tyvan
Neo Member
Same. I guess we don't get it?
Mahadev
Member
A lot of people enjoy that kind of humor. Being a pompous dick can be very funny especially when he's a self-aware dick.
Grinchy
Banned
The daily outrage quota must be met!
Night.Ninja
Banned
I love when he goes into the Chinese accent
Dirk Benedict
Member
Social media is already ripping into him. I feel like I'm getting closer to 1984. I'd catch his stream sometimes, cause once in awhile he gets me laughing. His schtick is alright. I do play more games than watch others play them, however.
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