Has Streaming Changed ‘Geek Culture’?

There’s no doubt that the rise in popularity for online streaming has helped change gaming culture in a massive way – a much wider audience than ever before tune in to some of the biggest streams in the world, with hundreds of thousands of daily viewers sometimes tuning in to one individual. Whilst there are some genres that have benefitted greatly from an older audience and demographic making the shift as many players get promotions for casino on vegas-promo-code.co.uk for example, the entire culture has changed – but what’s has streaming done to influence this?

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A hit of nostalgia has helped – The recent trend of breaking old collectible boxes particularly for the likes of Pokémon has certainly had a huge impact on the TCG market as prices continue to soar, but it has also attracted a like mind audience that may not have been otherwise interested in what would otherwise be considered a large part of geek culture in trading card collectibles – it allowed a huge audience to experience a wave of nostalgia from their childhood, and even if you weren’t all that aware of what Twitch was prior to the big unboxings from the likes of Logan Paul, you sure are aware of it now. 

A crossover for big stars – We’ve also seen some of the biggest sporting athletes in the world and big celebrities make the jump to streaming too, football players like Neymar Jr. for example had spent a little time streaming CS:GO and would always pull in huge numbers and would often tweet about his experiences streaming too bringing a crossover audience for those only typically interested in football to the gaming culture. Other famous names like Snoop Dogg have also invested in their own streaming set-up, and yet another opportunity to bring a wider audience in to a growing part of the culture. 

IRL & Convention streaming – It’s difficult to mention streaming and geek culture in one without mentioning the huge number of IRL, or in real life, streamers that bring some of the biggest events to streaming platforms. Whether this be from professional gamers or content creators, or to cosplayers and other con professionals, it has become a huge part of the platform to deliver this view on some of these biggest events and particularly heading into the next year or two when many of the big conventions can get underway once again, these streams will certainly be booming with viewers. 

There’s no doubt streaming has had a huge impact on many different online cultures even aside from the main use which was certainly found in gaming, and it’s also difficult that streaming as a whole is still relatively young and has only been around for the past 10 years or so, as such there’s still plenty of room to grow and change.

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