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I grew up without much in the way of consoles or computers. Not poverty, but always a few gens behind. Because of that I got used to watching kids play a lot, because back then just about every game was single person and there was no way rich kid trevor was going to let poor kid Inday come over and take his video game time away.As someone that plays a lot of Call of Duty and actively watches certain streamers on Twitch, it's still weird. New things can be weird though. Not saying it's a bad thing.
But sports have been around for a lot longer than streaming video games. I'm sure there were some people thinking the same in the 1870s about sports before they were normalized.
It's also weird to me because we can recognize the physical grind some of these athletes go through to get to where they are. Streamers no doubt put in work but sitting in a chair for a 24 hour stream while downing 9 cans of Bang energy is a different kind of grind.
Just shut up and watch, ok dude?
So yeah Twitch is a modern day equivalent to my video game experiences, sans the shame, and I love it. Feels quite normal to me, though I get why it isn't to others.