• geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPM
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    5 days ago

    This is the new media. Showing how it manufactures consent is important. Streamers are getting as many views as mainstream tv channels these days

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      4 days ago

      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.

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        3 days ago

        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.