>people make fortunes while playing videogames with a webcam
>its a shitty trend that won't last and will leave them jobless worthless shitters of society in the years to come
feels good
>>337748052
Pretty spot on actually. If they aren't investing the money they are fucking them selves.
Especially without some sort of skill set to fall back on.
I remember when I was making a fortune on Diablo 3's real money auction house...
>>337748052
lol They're making six figures, more if they go full jew. They'll be able to retire in the next few years.
>>337750386
Not that many streamers make that much and that money won't last as long as you think, most barely make 40k which is jack fucking shit, also streaming offers no benefits like a normal career.
It's a trendy job that they're fucking themselves over by doing
>>337750859
>>337748346
>>337748052
Keep trying to make yourselves feel better. People have been saying this shit for years. Even when it does fail, the people who have made money from it will have gotten what they wanted and all of us here will still be bitter /v/irgins.
>>337751423
>He actually believes this
Enjoy trying to be 1 in 10 million.
>>337745919
It's fine if you already have a real job that can reliably sustain you well into retirement. Like Day9, a fucking mathemathics major that is now working on his own game and doing what he loves, but even if that ever bombs or gets tired of gaming, he's got a great degree to fall back on
>>337751423
>not seeing longterm
I can't wait to see people who wasted their 20s on streaming, coast through their 30s on the money the made and be fucked for the next 50 years working as a bagger at a grocer because they have no skills or money saved
Why did he throw up? What did he drink? I thought it was just soda, was there something else in the can? Also why did his friends just sit there and stare at him?
>>337751969
He's holding a shot glass in the other hand, so he just can't handle his booze
>>337750859
>Not that many streamers make that much
>>337751524
>Enjoy trying to be 1 in 10 million.
I never implied the shitters at the bottom were going to be swimming in dough, but even a streamer like Destiny, who averages about 2,500 viewers, makes $140k a year.
>>337752073
>no job security
>no dental or health insurance
>no coverage at all for that matter
>no 401k
>no retirement
>that salary isn't going to last
Only underage who have never had to pay bills or had a real job think that will sustain you forever
If its part time and they have actual plans for their lives then yes that's amazing for a part time job but if you're relying on that for life you're fucking retarded
>>337751647
I don't plan to live past 30 anyway.
>inb4 you won't do it and you'll live on unhappy and broke
Oh I don't plan on directly dying by my own hand
they still get to enjoy these times without the stress of income
Whats different from getting a job after this isnt enough and getting a job after college or high school
>>337748052
The fad won't end unless the industry runs out of "interesting" games.
>>337752526
the point you're setting already happened a long time ago. what's transferable now is the experience of enjoyment, which is, incidentally, exactly what's missing from modern games.
>>337752526
I think you mean team based shooters
The only long time career is women doing sex cam shows from their teens all the way to being a GMILF.
>>337752279
Takes a fucking moron to complain about a 140k/yr job with minimal hours and stress on your body.
Just because you're jealous as fuck doesn't mean they're not putting money away to retire when it's done. If you're living in a small place and saving everything you can, it's pretty easy to save well over 50% of your income and retire when you're 40 comfortably. Keep being salty bruh
>>337752921
Long time easy career, you mean?
>>337748052
Implying Sodapoppin wouldn't get a 6 figure Job though nepotism from one of this Million viewers or Twitch connections.
He's set for an easy mode life at this point.
>>337748052
This will NEVER happen. Just use your brain a little bit and think as to why streaming is popular in the first place. Most people simply do not have the time to enjoy video games. Furthermore, most people will always be skeptical as to whether or not the game is suited for them.
What's the solution? Watch someone else play it.
You get some of the enjoyment, socialization with a bunch of fuck strangers, and possibly additional entertainment factor if the guy you're watching is somehow funny. All for sitting at home, or even easier, doing work while watching it on your cellphone or second monitor.
Streaming can never die.
>>337752952
>min hours
>stress on your body
>every one of the top guys making money
>put in hospital because needing to make demand for videos
>constantly sick
>always exhausted in their videos
Video games are fun as a passtime, not as a job 15 hours a day.
>>337753139
>nepotism
I don't think you should comment on careers and lifestyle choices if you don't even know what nepotism is.
>>337753680
>It's a faggot fedoralord pretends to be intellectually superior and gets btfo episode.
>>337753227
>this job can NEVER die
This has been said about every trendy job there has ever been
>>337753510
>Not complaining about the single black mom working 14 hours a day at walmart making 25k/yr
but sure keep getting mad at people more successful than you.
The only videos most of them have is just vods from streams, these people are making their living waking up at noon, streaming until 8 or 9, and doing fuck all with the rest of their lives. It's the cushiest job anyone could hope for.
>>337754060
>shitty uneducated women with 5 kids
>all have different dads
Yea no, fuck her.
>>337753680
I understood what that anon was saying. Not sure why you didn't unless you're just trying to be pedantic.
>>337754060
I like how no one is questioning the 140k figure.
>>337754226
Because it's a blown up figure that nobody needs to question that he can't actually prove.
>>337752526
The majority of stream watchers watch cs go and lol and that kind of shit.
>>337754007
The only way it'd die if there was a trendier and better alternative. Can't say how it'd be that different from what streaming is today.
>>337745919
I'd rather earn $60k+ a year doing something respectable than making 6 figures playing videogames.
>>337754419
That's how trends work dumbshit, something always more interesting will come along
You remember when machinima was the hot shit and people though they could do that forever?
So much bitter jelly salt in one thread
Girls are really starting to take advantage of twitch streaming now, after realizing they can just play WoW and some rich middle eastern princes will donate $50k a day.
>>337754641
you're going to die anyways tb, why would you care about your future
>>337753123
If your cute at least your pretty much set.
I doubt male sex cams make as much as women or passable trans.
>faggots in this thread actually defending people that don't even know they exist or will even care about them.
>>337751647
>>337748052
>>337748346
why do people assume that people that stream or do anything else that gets them money in the now automatically dont ever invest in anything beyond that?
why does one lead to the other?
>>337755060
Because spending 15+ hours a day recording game footage doesn't leave you much time to do anything else.
>>337755060
Because anybody dumb enough to want a job playing video games isn't smart enough to know investing
>>337755152
What you are doing is earning money.
you still have time for night school or apprenticeship training in whatever thing you want to do
this shit looks like a 9-to-5 job looking at some of these streamers' actual schedules
>>337755295
>some of these streamers
Oh, you mean the ones who don't make any money.
>>337748052
/v/ posters always seem like grandpas when they say this all the time, whether it be about youtube, twitch, or any Internet based media, regardless of the content.
Wish I saved that picture of Skinner saying it's the children who are wrong.
>>337755257
anyone dumb enough to do something that actually pays you mean
obviously fags that get hundreds to thousands of watchers on a typical stream get what shit they can on the side
but for the people that actually
>make fortunes while playing videogames
like OP is talking about should actually NOT make that fortune, if they find in them the capacity to do so?
>>337754662
I legit lost my shit when some middle eastern guy donated $5K to some girl streaming fucking LoL.
>>337754508
yeah take that liberal arts mentality somewhere else champ
>>337750386
If you made 150K a year (say Trump/Kripp/Summit1G levels of success), you're going to be taking home somewhere around 80-90K.
While 80-90K is nothing to sneeze at, you aren't going to put away enough money to retire on at any point in the forseeable future.
Further, you're absolutely fucking yourself when it comes to a future career. If you spent your 20s streaming games, what sort of career are you going to get in your 30s, 40s, etc.
>>337754939
>faggots in this thread actually attacking people that don't even know they exist or will even care about them.
>>337754939
You know that statement can be said about game/console companies too
>>337755872
Isn't that what the internet was made for though
>>337755707
Is it illegal for a person to get schooling for or enter a new career in their 30's?
i didnt know such a law was passed
times is changin' so fast
Why do people on /v/ get so butthurt about people making money through video games? Is it just jealousy or what?
>>337755707
150k is a very low estimate for those streamers. 300k would be a more fair estimate.
>>337755707
People change careers all the time. It might be hard to understand that if you're young, I guess, but life is a lot longer than you think it is.
>>337756068
Don't believe the commercials you see on tv, the later you wait to go to school the more you're fucking yourself over.
>>337755707
to be fair being able to pull a consistent viewerbase by yourself would be very appealing to the entertainment industry
>>337745919
Drinking carbonated shit along with shots is the dumbest fucking thing. Its like making one of those volcanoes for science class, except its inside your stomach ready to burst out anytime.
>>337754508
>respectable
No one gives a flying fuck about what job you do. Most people work to eat, not to impress strangers on the internet.
>people die while playing videogames with a webcam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTPw0sJBOM0
>>337756578
>>337756793
I've had seizures like this. It's so fucking uncomfortable and awful
>>337755707
Arin from Game grumps (and maybe Suzy?)is making so much money from the channel and merch, he pays pretty much everyone involved with the channel, and a cleaning lady their own salaries, several different animators periodically to provide game grumps animated cartoons to the channel from which I can only assume is a few hundred dollars, pays for tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, make several trips to Japan, lives in a apparently really nice house that he installed a goddamn bidet in.
All the while he continues to network and meet a lot of different people.
Internet based media is growing in a lot of different ways, and you can be pretty damn successful if you know how to use it right. Plus, it's getting easier to find alternatives nowadays if certain websites fail for whatever reason.
>>337756887
does it happen at random?
Hey guys, remember me?
>>337757105
I've had it happen when I got up in the middle of the night, started taking a piss and then felt it start to happen so I ran over to my bed so I wouldnt knock myself out and it began
It fucking sucks, luckily I usually get a numbness that starts in my head like 30 seconds before I cant feel or move anything. Whats shitty is I'm conscious through it all and remember it
>>337756887
What causes it? What does it feel like?
Does anyone else just feel like giving up on life?
I don't see a point in it, I'm too stupid to get any decent job so at best I'll work for $10 an hour and live with my parents.
>>337757145
what happened to him?
Guys, realize we're on a video game imageboard on an anime website known to mass culture for CP and hacking/DDOS attacks. Why would you take advice on what constitutes a real job or what isn't a real job from this place?
>>337757313
Imagine having no control over your body and your arms flailing (atleast for me) and contorting in uncomfortable positions that fucking hurt while your neck is jerking left and right while your eyes are twitching all the way to the left or right.
And you cant do shit about it but lay there and let it happen until it stops, which is usually a few minutes
>>337757458
His fad ended.
>>337757359
laughinggirls.bmp
>>337757495
Jesus. That sounds pretty fucking awful.
>>337748052
They will make more money in a few years than you will in a few decades. They'll be fine. You can hate them out of jealousy, sure, but to be deluded enough into thinking they'll be miserable? Fucking stupid
I would have done this myself if it wasn't 99% guarentee to get doxxed and swatted.
that and i'm on a toaster, or last gen consoles, and net connection is ass. I could use that cash, but as usual some people just want to watch the world burn.
>>337757662
don't be a retard and you won't get doxxed
and it's not like you simply start streaming and get to collect your monthly paycheck
>>337756578
wow why does he freeze up like that and make that sound? seizures are scary
>>337757621
Can't wait to see when the trend is over and streamers panic because they think they're going to be fine.
You think this is the first time a trendy moneymaking job like this has existed?
If you're a girl, streaming is extremely easy to get into. Twitch almost entirely consists of beta orbiters just looking for female attention.
>>337752526
>unless the industry runs out of "interesting" games.
How did this trend become a trend then? The industry ran out of interesting games 20 years ago.
I would stream but I have Tourette's I'm afraid people would make fun of my tics. The only entertainment job I could do is radio but I was born too late for that.
>>337757509
Didn't someone else take over his show? I thought the guy just couldn't give a shit about the series anymore.
>>337757919
Because that's what a seizure does, literally paralyze you. He lost his balanced and fell out of the chair and probably screamed either for help or because he hit his hard on the floor pretty hard. Same anon that was talking about it above, been there and have fallen out of my chair and knocked myself out, it hurts
>>337757987
Will the trend ever end, though? There will always be streaming and donation services along with braindead beta cucks who have nothing better to do than hand out their paychecks to strangers over the internet.
>>337757621
Then they'll blow all their money on stupid shit and in 5-10 years will be completely broke and unable to adapt to the outside world
>>337758215
Every trend ends, thats why they're trends
>>337758372
like making youtube videos are a trend?
>>337753987
That definition is wrong fuckwit. Nepotism in common usage refers to family connections.
>>337757145
>>337757458
>>337757509
>>337758153
Do you fags even understand how much money this guy made?
He didn't lose his spot, he simply made enough money to stop caring and hired people to run his channel.
>>337758130
If you have thick skin and your're smart about it you can turn your disease to your advantage. People watch streamers with interesting personalities and who are in some way unique.
A guy with Tourrette's would definitely stand out.
There is no such thing as a sure-fire job that will keep you employed forever. The more "assured" the job becomes, the more effort it technically requires (lawyer,doctor,etc). "Trendy" jobs will always die at some point but when it dies depends on what comes and goes and no one can predict shit about that. Either way salty thread etc etc.
>>337758215
Eventually
The market for Lets Plays are so fucking oversatturated that more and more people are just becoming turned off to them
Also with ad companies being less generous to Youtubers it'll probably reach a boiling point
>people make fortunes piling rocks in odd ways
>>337758130
Are you too young to remember the fucking tourrettes guy? You could make bank
>>337758694
that takes more skill than any videogame
>>337758773
Tourettes has more than one tick you know
>>337758694
That's some serious talent, though.
Jealous of my friend actually
>works as QA for Xsplit
>allows him to stream any game he wants as part of QA process
>all the while getting paid with government mandated benefits
Unfortunately they arent hiring devs at the moment and they use C, not java
>>337758667
The fuck is that chart supposed to showcase, nigga? Less people typing the words "lets plays" into google is supposed to indicate the decline of lets play popularity? Are you retarded?
>>337758773
I don't curse or anything, it's just nervous twitches. I contort my face a lot like my nose is itchy, bend my neck, or my hand shakes.
>>337758986
Not him, but that's pretty much what it means.
>>337759029
Like the other anon said you could use it to your advantage, especially if you have a good sense of humor.
Like if you twitch make a joke and say "and i missed that shot because i twitched my neck again" except not in a way that sounds like youre making an excuse but sarcastically and comically
>>337759151
Have you not heard of subscriptions?
>>337758986
>Less people typing the words "lets plays" into google is supposed to indicate the decline of lets play popularity
That's exactly what it means dumbass
>>337759280
The decline of google searches means that the concept is becoming less popular over time. Sure, lots of people have subscribed and don't google it anymore, but it's losing a lot of newcomers, which will eventually lead to a decline.
>>337759151
>"People no longer go to Blockbuster to buy DVD's"
>"This means people no longer watch movies!"
Or maybe overtime people have found better ways to discover youtuber Lets Play content than typing "Lets plays" into fucking google search. Your logic is astounding - stay in school, please.
>>337759151
VIDEO GAMES ARE FUCKING OVER
>>337757909
>don't be a retard and you won't get doxxed
yeah no, I think i've seen enough of the internet to know someone would just for the lulz. i've already seen card data theft screw with people close to me, i'd rather not get shot aswell.
>>337758694
PILING ROCKS IS A MEME TREND JOB
IN 3 YEARS HE WILL BE BROKE AND HAVE NO SKILLSET TO FALL BACK ON
HAVE FUN PILING GARBAGE INTO TRUCKS
>>337759883
accurate
>>337759287
>>337759516
I genuinely hope you're both underage, because nobody over the age of 18 should be this clueless and uneducated.
>>337759883
why all the random spikes
is there constantly some surge of people who dont know what videogames are every few months
>>337760047
im guessing its major game release dates
>>337759669
DVDs have been declining in sales for years and was the reason Blockbuster went bankrupt
>>337760047
probably everytime a calla duty came out
>>337759940
kek
>>337760131
And therefore we conclude that since people no longer purchase and discover new movies through this antiquated method - people are no longer interested in movies and the entire industry is in decline.
>>337760375isn't it actually in a decline though
>>337759029
ethan from h3h3 also has that and that hasn't stopped him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJJN-8Y0BP4
>>337760440
Growing, actually.
