They eat their young and grow antlers

Streamers are a bit of a strange lot, with their “Kappas”, raidings, and being sociable to strangers… I don’t really get it, and I’ve streamed for years.  However, their mysterious world may have just been opened up, as Ted Lee from LogicHole has carried outa surveyall about streaming and it’s pretty interesting stuff.

The key things to take away from Lee’s research is that there are three ‘stages’ of Streamer, each with their own challenges and hurdles to face while regularly streaming:

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Honestly I’m simplifying the results a lot, because there are somehuge, data-filledwrite-upsabout the survey. It’s definitely interesting to see just how this part of gaming, which is being seen more and more as ‘the future’, affects people over time.

More importantly though, soon we may learn the secrets behind the streamers’ power. We may finally devise a way to hold off against them until morning comes once again. And it will come soon, it must do. It’s been months. Hush, my children. Don’t listen to the scratching. It’s the streamers trying to get in again. Kappa, my darlings.Kappa.

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Disclosure:I took part in the survey, so I had a tiny impact on how the final data looks.

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