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@djsumdog There's nothing to get. There's nothing special about chicken jockeys. This isn't about Minecraft. It's a mass hysteria meme of soyjacks pointing at the screen "look, he said the thing!". Because people started doing it, then more people felt the need to do it to "be in". It's people on mass trying to conform to the new "cool".
it could have been rewritten without that "fight to the death" shit, and then when the jockey mount came out he coulda been like "oh shit this is way worse than a chicken"
>via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zy-EGZq6vs
picrel is why i had to link specifically this clip of it
@wowaname @djsumdog
Oh, I'm sure of it. And it's why I'll NEVER watch this movie. Waste of time. I've had more fun watching vtubers play my favorite video games than watching Hollywood slop. And I used to be staunchly against watching streamers play video games, because... well... why watch someone else play games, when I can play them myself. But the entertainment industry has collapsed so much. 
@wowaname @djsumdog
I've watched a few speedrunning explainers, cause learning how a game engine can be glitched is fascinating. And I'll occasionally watch GiantGrantGames cause he does some crazy StarCraft challenge runs. Not that much of people playing competitively/esports. Maybe a few videos over the years.
But for streamers, it worked for me in two cases mostly. 1) It's a game on a console I don't have or plan on buying, so it'd be watching a game that I likely won't be able to play myself.
2) It's a game I love, that I've played to no end, and I find someone who is playing it for the first time. So I get to reexperience by proxy the joy of playing the game for the first time. That's the appeal for me, vicariously experiencing my favorites for the first time.
So I'm not gonna watch the 100th streamer doing an Elden Ring run. But someone playing the original Half-Life game, for their first time? I'll absolutely have a look.
>I'm not gonna watch the 100th streamer doing an Elden Ring run.
i neglected to mention that the main appeal of these streamers is not so much that they're grinding out the game for the thousandth day in a row (as impressive as that is), but that they can talk over it giving a chill podcast vibe that i can throw on the second monitor and use as background noise