During a COVID lockdown I was watching a 24 hr enduro sim race, specifically one team on YT. It was the night time portion and a Canadian was on shift while European drivers got sleep. He was super chill, driving amazing, and interacting with the chat out of boredom. So I asked him to say something while my disinterested wife was phone scrolling with nothing better to do...

TV: "Hi <wife's name>! I know you're not into it, but thanks for watching from Australia!"

wife looks up "Wtat the fuck?"

Me: "Yeah I asked him to say that."

Wife: "That's so weird. Tell him hi back."

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Would have been even better if you let her think you had nothing to do with it and then got him to say increasingly specific things about her 😉

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

Wife: “That’s so weird. Tell him hi back.”

Uh oh

[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Quality wife. Tell her mine says hi.

[–] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sigh ... "robocall"

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Underrated comment

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

This is why I hate watching streamers.

They are playing the game, and constantly breaking the action to talk about shoutouts that adds zero to the experience

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Some people get really offended when their sub or donation doesn't get mentioned. I go so far as to re-sub when the streamer is offline to try and avoid it at all costs. Parasocial relationships are weird, man.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yep, the best streams I have watched was the streamer spoke to the chat as if it was a single person, asking for advice or hints on how to continue.

[–] srock@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

DougDoug, while a bit unhinged, seems to always try to include the community into every stream

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

As long as it isn't just shoutout after shoutout after shoutout or similar dumb crap that doesn't add any real content

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

Daniel from Rumble Tumble Game is really a gem.

[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

Once i had a sub ready while the streamer was offline, i got called rude by someone else who was in the chat for some reason.

Btw you can turn of to send the notification in the settings.

[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

This is why i like either big streamer who don't do it anymore, or small ones who don't get subbed that often

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

You should check out APlatypus on Twitch. He went so deep into that hole of constantly shouting out and breaking action, that his stream became a comical bloat of videos and songs and meme clips playing on top of each other. I love the guy's personality and humour, but it's unwatchable after the first few laughs.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, this is like my personal hell, to have a streamer do/play something that I'm genuinely interested in, but also, they're a streamer.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 months ago

Gang gang, Ice cream so good

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Thank you Dick "The Cock" Johnson

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

thanks u/wowwoweowz for the superchat