[ SECRET POST #6875 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6875 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I can't help but to roll my eyes when I see streamer things like, "remind your streamer to eat and drink water!" and stuff like that. It reminds me a little of "adulting" and just how stupid and juvenile I find that whole concept.

[iff_and_xor]

I think this weirds me out for a different reason entirely. It's one thing to use those terms or framing devices to care for yourself, but it's another thing to encourage it as part of the relationship between streamers and their viewers. That makes me a bit uncomfortable, on both sides of the equation.

(Personally speaking, I do sometimes struggle at consistently eating and drinking and going for a walk, etc. when I'm really focused on work or hobbies. And there are plenty of adult responsibilities I have to sort of bully myself into. So I don't think I have a lot of space to criticize, even if I don't love the term "adulting" itself.)

[(Anonymous)]

I was reading this secret and trying to figure out why it wasn't sitting right and I think you've hit on it. I don't mind the "adulting is hard" type of thing and jokes or people using alarms etc to remind themselves to eat/drink/sleep/whatever, but framing it as someone elses responsibility is weird. Extra weird to make that between your 'fans' or viewers.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a lot of people with ADHD around me, so being asked to remind them of things like eating and drinking enough is totally normal to me.

However if they were doing it by being like "friendly reminder to remind your BFF to drink water and eat uwu" I'd be cringing forever.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, adulting is hard.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah... people love this nurturing people by treating them like they're a beloved but elderly chihuahua or a helpless child thing these days, but I find it a little infantilizing. Well intentioned, to be sure! But a bit cringe. Like it's possible to care for a person and want the best for them without treating them like you're their mommy.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who does occasional streaming: it's because time flies when you're having fun playing games so what seems like thirty minutes might be three hours and you should REALLY stretch and drink water in that time. A reminder that time has indeed passed is nice. And if you're doing a marathon stream of twelve hours for, say, charity but still having fun, someone asking if you've remembered to eat is nice when you're focused on delivering the content. It's basically, "Remember that the perception of the passage of time when you're streaming may be off and reminding someone to hydrate and maybe pop a snack every once in awhile can remind the streamer that more time has passed than they think." But that's a lot longer compared to the much shorter message that most people get that is, "Remind your streamer to eat and drink water." Everyone who hangs in streams knows why. You, the watcher, are likely going to have a much more accurate perception of time compared to the streamer.

[(Anonymous)]

It's funny that this secret is directly under the Stray Kids one, because I'm a kpop fan too and I have a similar pet peeve with some kpop fans. Idols' working days aren't a regular 9 to 5 and they often stay up late/early in the morning, so it often happens that they drop by their fan interaction apps around midnight Korean time or even later. And then, despite them being perfectly coherent and chatting animatedly, there are always TENS of (English-speaking) fans telling them to go to sleep. I know you want to show you care, but this guy is TWENTY five, not five 🙄 (Not to mention how dumb it is in the first place. YOU are subscribed to this person's video content, and the first thing you do when you receive it is... ask for it to stop???)