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Title. Curious if I should get a Twitch account or not as currently I only have YouTube. Not sure if I want another corpo ad machine in my life.

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[–] wryan@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Kick—syphoning up as much thotwater as possible from thirst traps

In all honesty, I never messed with yt streaming and was quite chronically on twitch for almost ten years. Mostly hanging out in Aris' streams listening to him talk trash and dicking around. But, his channel got so big and too overrun by overzealous mods that he doesn't ban anyone unless you @ him with something stupid. The subject of Paul Walker came up and I was memeing like everyone else and put "Pedo Paul" as the most throwaway comment ever, and guess what? I was afk and came back to a permaban. I know it wasn't Aris (the streamer) because I know he wouldn't have given two shits about that. So, I was like, all the other streams I ever really watch are dark souls and re1 speedruns, might as well use this as an opportunity to be more productive with my time instead of hanging out in vacuous chat rooms absorbing the exact same content continuously.

I hungout in his stream for the vga's to see the memefest I knew it would be, but I sort of look at it as a fun time while it lasted, and a gratuitous ban from my favorite streamer is what I needed to break away from the unproductive, rote addiction I had. Podcasts are a better alternative to background noise or multitasking anyway. At least for me.