Twitch's Largest Streamers Have Been EXPOSED | Hasanabi reacts to Penguinz0Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXctivhffQw&t=240sHasanabi (AKA Has...
Asmongold was originally a lame gamer grifter. Barely political at all. He was always slightly reactionary but which gamers aren’t? His huge right wing shift was caused by feedback he was getting from numbers… Except, 50% are bots.
This is a fascinating thought. You can change a streamer and cause them to double down on a specific type of content by botting them into it.
I had never considered this at all but it makes sense. It’s the reason breadtubers always get so lame as they grift themselves into a wetter and wetter position seeking to appeal to a bigger and bigger audience, which ultimately means a libber and libber audience. Everyone driven by numbers is susceptible to manipulation by manipulating those numbers.
If you can successfully manipulate the numbers, you can manipulate the content that anyone who is focused on them produces.
If you’re willing to get into the blackhat of this there is a lot to explore.
This is part of why brigading types use bots. They want to manipulate the appearance of popularity/unpopularity of specific angles on a topic. This has the effect of energizing their positive targets to take that same stance and keep focus on that topic and for negative targets to avoid the topic, give up on the platform, or get banned.
I hate that I know this term, but it is an important part of grooming a lolcow for the more toxic “fanbases”.
Conservatives do this all the time with their rhetoric as well. Look at how often they say things like “I’m just saying what everyone else is thinking” or “I represent the silent majority” their goal is to produce an artificial popularity of their ideas and trick people into thinking they are more popular than they are, which in turn makes people assume that there must be something to them, or simply adopting them for fear of being left behind.
WAAAAIT this is actually interesting
Asmongold was originally a lame gamer grifter. Barely political at all. He was always slightly reactionary but which gamers aren’t? His huge right wing shift was caused by feedback he was getting from numbers… Except, 50% are bots.
This is a fascinating thought. You can change a streamer and cause them to double down on a specific type of content by botting them into it.
I had never considered this at all but it makes sense. It’s the reason breadtubers always get so lame as they grift themselves into a wetter and wetter position seeking to appeal to a bigger and bigger audience, which ultimately means a libber and libber audience. Everyone driven by numbers is susceptible to manipulation by manipulating those numbers.
If you can successfully manipulate the numbers, you can manipulate the content that anyone who is focused on them produces.
If you’re willing to get into the blackhat of this there is a lot to explore.
This is part of why brigading types use bots. They want to manipulate the appearance of popularity/unpopularity of specific angles on a topic. This has the effect of energizing their positive targets to take that same stance and keep focus on that topic and for negative targets to avoid the topic, give up on the platform, or get banned.
I hate that I know this term, but it is an important part of grooming a lolcow for the more toxic “fanbases”.
base and superstructure in the age of webcams
Conservatives do this all the time with their rhetoric as well. Look at how often they say things like “I’m just saying what everyone else is thinking” or “I represent the silent majority” their goal is to produce an artificial popularity of their ideas and trick people into thinking they are more popular than they are, which in turn makes people assume that there must be something to them, or simply adopting them for fear of being left behind.