All fair points. I would never claim that any streamer is a great person or a role model...but mostly because I think every streamer or youtuber (or actor), is playing a character. Maybe they are great people, but they are almost certainly not what we see on screen.
I'm not a big stream viewer, but there are not many Warcraft streamers or creators I consistenly enjoying listening to. Asmon is just like ... shittalking entertainment. If I had to speculate, I would think that he reminds many people of an extreme version of what they were like as teenagers.
One of my best friends in highschool was seriously one of the smartest guys I've ever met. Hilarious guy, did standup, etc. His dad left when he was a baby, his mom was an alcoholic, his older sister left home at age 16. His room was always full of fastfood wrappers, and the Wendy's crew knew him by name, just like Asmon. Motherfucker got a full ride to a good college and flunked out during his first semester (stopped going to classes), and is now ~40 and still working restaurant/bar jobs. Had "streaming" even been imaginable back then, he would've been a star.
And most are. Athene was literally "bad player acting like his shit don't stink" well over a decade ago, so we know that type of character. We also had Totalbiscuit, a literal failure of a player, pulling the same angle but he was being 100% serious and was laughed out of the community. Asmon is much more TB than Athene in terms of faking versus genuine opinions. He certainly plays it up, but without the theatrics its still him speaking.
Ignoring literally everything about him as a person as well, the literal view of his house behind him is so disgusting it should disqualify him from ever having opinions on anything. You can't have teeth fall out of your mouth live on stream and just keep going like that's acceptable.
Hard to overcome a bad childhood.
It is. But its unfair to any of us who did the legwork to escape those hells to simply let someone else make infinite excuses and keep going. Its even more unfair to them to enable them to ruin their own life by letting them think its acceptable. Especially ones that are dripping with lucky breaks that could easily walk them out.
All fair points. I would never claim that any streamer is a great person or a role model...but mostly because I think every streamer or youtuber (or actor), is playing a character. Maybe they are great people, but they are almost certainly not what we see on screen.
I'm not a big stream viewer, but there are not many Warcraft streamers or creators I consistenly enjoying listening to. Asmon is just like ... shittalking entertainment. If I had to speculate, I would think that he reminds many people of an extreme version of what they were like as teenagers.
One of my best friends in highschool was seriously one of the smartest guys I've ever met. Hilarious guy, did standup, etc. His dad left when he was a baby, his mom was an alcoholic, his older sister left home at age 16. His room was always full of fastfood wrappers, and the Wendy's crew knew him by name, just like Asmon. Motherfucker got a full ride to a good college and flunked out during his first semester (stopped going to classes), and is now ~40 and still working restaurant/bar jobs. Had "streaming" even been imaginable back then, he would've been a star.
Hard to overcome a bad childhood.
And most are. Athene was literally "bad player acting like his shit don't stink" well over a decade ago, so we know that type of character. We also had Totalbiscuit, a literal failure of a player, pulling the same angle but he was being 100% serious and was laughed out of the community. Asmon is much more TB than Athene in terms of faking versus genuine opinions. He certainly plays it up, but without the theatrics its still him speaking.
Ignoring literally everything about him as a person as well, the literal view of his house behind him is so disgusting it should disqualify him from ever having opinions on anything. You can't have teeth fall out of your mouth live on stream and just keep going like that's acceptable.
It is. But its unfair to any of us who did the legwork to escape those hells to simply let someone else make infinite excuses and keep going. Its even more unfair to them to enable them to ruin their own life by letting them think its acceptable. Especially ones that are dripping with lucky breaks that could easily walk them out.