Being a Shared Experience

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blog, social media, streamer, streaming, twitch, vlog

I’ve been watching a lot of Twitch lately.

It’s not really something that’s worth blogging about on its own, of course. I could perhaps fashion a listicle about what sorts of channels I really enjoy, but this being a personal blog I’m going to talk about something that’s come up to my mind literally just moments ago. About streaming. About being a personality. About the want to be entertaining and engaging versus that little voice that hums a mantra of self-destructive doubt.

This is, essentially, going to sound like a damn inspirational Pinterest board.

Personalities

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community, content creator, fandom, fans, fansite, gamer, MMO, personality, streamer, youtuber

This whole blog post was prompted by one Otterdown and her forum post in The Secret World’s forums about how MMO health seems to be intrinsically tied to the interest of a select few community members. It got me thinking very hard about how communities in gaming operate, and how completely alarmist they can tend to be.

Dramatic and charmingly animated re-enactment of said communities