from last night's AgendaFree livestream - see moment when Lindsey Graham news hit (6:10:39 into video)

[Sympthsical]

8. It's just streamer content

Which is more and more popular, generally with a younger crowd. Replace the politics with someone playing a video game, and you have more or less the same content. They're doing their thing and yapping at their chat. People form parasocial relationships with these streamers and get a sense of companionship and real time feedback via the chat, so it's basically almost like having a friend around where you're both kind of doing your own thing but keeping each other company.

Some streamers are more interesting than others.

I couldn't imagine watching this, but Twitch, Kick, and the rest are an entire thing nowadays.

And hey, even though watching streamers isn't my cup of tea, at least it's not an AI companion.

Editing to say: The thing is, you don't see the chat in the clips, so that isn't the full experience of this guy's content. The chats often form little communities and are talking with each other the entire time. Note he mentions chat was talking about it before he saw the news.