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    5 months ago

    That is an easy answer tho. You watch football at the highest level of competition to see the best of the best. It’s not like you go out and watch other dads playing football in the park… Do you? 🤔

    Like I get watching esports or speedrunners; I do not understand watching people who are the same as you do something you can do yourself easily.

    Anyway, I can’t wait for July 13th when the Grumps start playing Dangoronpa 3.

    • @derpgon@programming.dev
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      215 months ago

      Sometimes, those people just make the content entertaining. Maybe the content itself is not that entertaining to play it yourself.

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        -35 months ago

        Abso-fucking-lutely. I could watch Tom Walker play the most shitty games that I don’t even know exists all because he makes the absurd hilarious.

    • @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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      85 months ago

      Have you ever watched Mystery Science Theatre 3000? It’s a movie series where you watch people watch movies.

      • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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        35 months ago

        There’s also a British TV show that’s even more meta: Gogglebox.

        It’s basically several households watching and discussing TV on TV.

        Like a cross between a reality show and a very specialized YouTube reaction channel that makes up for its lack of content being reacted to with an abundance of people reacting 😄

    • @Mango@lemmy.world
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      65 months ago

      Yeah, but what if those people on my level are also really pretty and I can convince myself I have a chance as one of their million orbiters?

    • @ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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      55 months ago

      You’re totally missing the mark: many of these guys are very, very good at creating entertaining content. They pull more views than NFL matches on the daily, so if anything, I’d say they’re beating top athletes.

      The game they happen to be playing doesn’t even matter all that much, because it isn’t about the game being fun. It’s about that specific guy being fun to watch.

    • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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      25 months ago

      I knew there was at least 1 person that enjoyed them playing those games!

      I’ll be watching old Wheel of Fortune or Kirby’s Dream Grump episodes instead :)

      They’re also the only people on YouTube that I’d watch doing stuff. It’s more about them than the games.

      • I sometimes have to not watch (but still listen) because Arin will be playing something I play and it will frustrate the shit out of me because he will keep getting lost in a linear hallway while telling a story or something and not actually paying any attention to the game. lol

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      25 months ago

      Even more exciting than watching a pro soccer team beat whoever they’re playing is watching my kid beat whoever they’re playing.

      Even more exciting than watching pro hockey is watching my college team beat whoever they’re at laying, despite never having a personal connection.

      And yes, the medias attempts to highlight specific athletes around Olympic times and make us feel a personal connection used to work, until they overdid it. Now it’s just ads