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I am aware that it is popular. A lot of it is infotainment. The streamer format creates a cult surrounding these personalities. They are political entertainers not great thinkers. I cannot take these giant internet egos seriously and their communities become hostile to dissent. E.G. the Graham Platner situation. They are reactionary.
Ignore streamers they all have shit takes and take up way too much oxygen.
This is the new media. Showing how it manufactures consent is important. Streamers are getting as many views as mainstream tv channels these days
I am aware that it is popular. A lot of it is infotainment. The streamer format creates a cult surrounding these personalities. They are political entertainers not great thinkers. I cannot take these giant internet egos seriously and their communities become hostile to dissent. E.G. the Graham Platner situation. They are reactionary.
I agree with most of what you said but it also applies to basically any type of media. For example Alex Jones or Joe Rogan a few years ago.
Streamers are just the latest iteration of it and they are having a lot of influence on the political sphere and the political left.