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.

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. Dad left when he was a baby, his mom was an alcoholic, his older semester left home at age 16. His room was always full of fastfood wrappers, just like Asmon. Motherfucker got a fullride 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 "streamingÆ even been imaginable back then, he would've been a star.

Hard to overcome a bad childhood.