On November 17 2016 00:43 outscar wrote:
After reading:
Damn, what a pervert. Terror infected Britney, now he's infecting Guemchi - toss should remain pure!

No one can corrupt Bisu

DarkNetHunter

1224 Posts

November 16 2016 21:18 GMT

#74

This was a great read, also a hilarious success story for Guemchi.

More importantly, OmeKim has vowed to find a girlfriend for (T)Flash. Will he succeed in finding such a "Godfriend"?

Shouldn't it just be a Goddess?

I really wonder if he'll have any luck with that haha

lemmata

468 Posts

November 16 2016 22:56 GMT

#75

This might come as a surprise, but Guemchi's stream is not nearly as fun as I made it out to be. That's partly because there's a lot of waiting in between the action. Moreover, my personal view is that no one actually cares about these "sexy dances". One, they're often quite bland and always similar. Two, you can get much sexier content elsewhere.

The real payoff is in seeing the spontaneous coordination of hundreds and sometimes thousands of viewers (That plus Guemchi's absurd prose and literary creativity). Imagine you got a thousand people together on the internet and asked them to work toward one goal. If even one of those people defects from the cause, you will fail. When these people succeed in coordinating, it is like one of those videos:

A meaningless exercise, but like watching dominoes or Rube Goldberg machines, it's somehow weirdly satisfying. Given that Guemchi has struggled with the direction of his stream since I wrote the article, maybe it is not a formula for long-term success. That said, Guemchi's travails deserve to be included in what would be an interesting case study of less popular gamers struggling with their income (and future).

LRM)TechnicS

Bulgaria1565 Posts

November 17 2016 13:10 GMT

#76

On November 17 2016 07:56 lemmata wrote:
This might come as a surprise, but Guemchi's stream is not nearly as fun as I made it out to be. That's partly because there's a lot of waiting in between the action. Moreover, my personal view is that no one actually cares about these "sexy dances". One, they're often quite bland and always similar. Two, you can get much sexier content elsewhere.

The real payoff is in seeing the spontaneous coordination of hundreds and sometimes thousands of viewers (That plus Guemchi's absurd prose and literary creativity). Imagine you got a thousand people together on the internet and asked them to work toward one goal. If even one of those people defects from the cause, you will fail. When these people succeed in coordinating, it is like one of those videos:

https://youtu.be/UMtnYr96Eok

A meaningless exercise, but like watching dominoes or Rube Goldberg machines, it's somehow weirdly satisfying. Given that Guemchi has struggled with the direction of his stream since I wrote the article, maybe it is not a formula for long-term success. That said, Guemchi's travails deserve to be included in what would be an interesting case study of less popular gamers struggling with their income (and future).

it's okay, the article alone was awesome. read it once again yesterday and it was still very amusing