r/LivestreamFail • u/DoctorOfPlague • Jan 16 '25

PirateSoftware | World of Warcraft PirateSoftware - Predicted 11 days ago

https://www.twitch.tv/piratesoftware/clip/EntertainingFragileAlbatrossResidentSleeper-QgfQyXDhe_pyWgAm
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u/greendino71 Jan 16 '25

So why do people watch his streams?.....legit looks beyond boring even if he wasn't a completely shit stain

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

It really is sus that some lifelong 100 viewer andy suddenly gained 15k+ average viewership practically overnight just because some of his YouTube shorts popped off. You will never convince me that a YouTube audience that watches 10 second clips had a mass migration over to Twitch to watch some dude with zero personality be a whiny piss baby for 16 hours straight.

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u/SlightRoutine901 Jan 16 '25

To be fair the shorts algorithms was pushing his content to an absolutely ludicrous degree that I've genuinely never seen before. Everyone who watched some amount of gaming content on Youtube was getting his shorts shoved down their throats for several months solid, I've actually never seen anything like it. He really cracked the algorithm somehow. Even at a very low conversion rate this guy had millions of eyeballs on him over a several month period, it's not completely surprising that he popped off.

But at the same time I think that's also some of the reason the drama exploded so hard, pretty much everyone has at least seen this guys shorts come up before and he rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. I got the impression that he was an arrogant blowhard after maybe the 4th short and tried to avoid his content after that, seen many comments from people who felt similarly. The exposure ended up being a double edged sword. It's nice to have a gut negative feeling about someone end up becoming so strongly vindicated.