As we progress in game content, so too does entertainment. From this we can see a spike in YouTube as a medium for gamers to showcase themselves as players. Anymore you can't go onto the top viewed categories without seeing some player's winning kill or the like present and accounted for. This brings the exploration of being the "best" players and showcasing skills or feats of luck that may wow and enthrall fellow players who might have just been looking for some fun commentary. With this we also bring the flooding of such a medium in which everyone feels entitled to be internet famous for their videos, thus resorting to all sorts of scripted and silly antics in order to garner fans and monetary value. What we see more often than not is the lack of entertainment and more senseless children throwing out bigotry, slurs, and the like in order to try and appear edgy fun.
This in that of itself becomes a game.
The most videos, the most subscribers and all the rest in between is just another game to them in which they must obtain the highest score. Often times it has crossed my mind of turning this process into a game itself. Think about it: Enlisting bots or enraging fans in order to destroy a competitor's video channel or the like in order to reach the high score. It happens more times than not. The fact is many things become games to people with little respect or admiration for their competitors. Do we shun them for it? Not at all, some companies thrive on competition.. so is it all just a game until someone loses an eye?
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