Why Do people look down at gaming channels?

I personally used to never ever understand gaming channels. Then, out of the blue I watched the start of the Last of Us series from PewDiePie and got so hooked onto the storyline that I cried like a little b*tch (can I swear here? Censoring anyway) when it all wrapped up. Then I watched the rest of his videos and have been hooked.

Since then I have learned to love gaming channels, especially when they let us into their personal lives and talk about things going on with them so it feels like we're almost experiencing the game while sitting next to them if that makes any sense?

Personally, I have a lot of respect for gamers because like getting deep into understanding copyright violations/editing it all together/keeping the amusement of the audience isn't always easy. It's easy to just be ridiculous on camera or cook food for me, but of course that's just from my perspective and for the few channels I have.
 
Jackie Pearce said:
I personally used to never ever understand gaming channels. Then, out of the blue I watched the start of the Last of Us series from PewDiePie and got so hooked onto the storyline that I cried like a little b*tch (can I swear here? Censoring anyway) when it all wrapped up. Then I watched the rest of his videos and have been hooked.

Since then I have learned to love gaming channels, especially when they let us into their personal lives and talk about things going on with them so it feels like we're almost experiencing the game while sitting next to them if that makes any sense?

Personally, I have a lot of respect for gamers because like getting deep into understanding copyright violations/editing it all together/keeping the amusement of the audience isn't always easy. It's easy to just be ridiculous on camera or cook food for me, but of course that's just from my perspective and for the few channels I have.
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DId you cry when you say the ending of the intro? I almost did it was a sad start.:wailing::crying4:
 
Jackie Pearce said:
Since then I have learned to love gaming channels, especially when they let us into their personal lives and talk about things going on with them
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I've never been able to understand that. I didn't think viewers were like that, that they get so sucked into someone else's personal life. I first thought about that feeling as a viewer myself when I questioned it when Jenna Marbles brought it up in Season 1 of Internet Icon. I was like "What? People are actually hanging on to every detail about these people’s personal lives? These people who just make videos and put them on the internet?” “Don’t the viewer’s know they have their own personal lives to live?” “Don’t they realize the lives of these people on the internet might not be so glamorous just because they are using jump cuts and acting to illustrate their lives on camera?”

And people get flak for watching gaming videos? For me personally I watch Gaming videos because I will learn something about that game which will help me decide whether I want to buy it or not especially if it is a review. Another reason I watch gaming videos is because of tips, tricks and strategies I might learn. However I don’t like these Gamers that have to pretend to be silly and act funny while playing games for views. Sorry, that is a very big bastardization of Video Gaming especially with people like GGG or iJustine who use it because it is trendy and will get them views. I won’t ever just watch one person playing for fun by themselves either. I have to watch a group of friends playing, interacting and having fun because it is more real and it may be how you or I play video games with our friends.

Anyway, getting back on point, I don’t understand how people get all into others personal lives over the internet. It has made me think that is why there are so many Vloggers and Gaming channels and so on because they want to have their own lives loved and adored just in the way they adore and love other people’s personal lives over the net. Like, don’t people have friends in real life whose lives they can invade and stalk? That’s the way Jenna Marbles painted that picture for me when she said it on Internet Icon. Maybe Vlogging and other people’s lives aren’t for me but I’m not trying to trash Vloggers or people who watch Vloggers either.

It also raises a question of how these Vlogging YouTubers can handle people trying to get at their personal lives. Do they find it disturbing or a little weird that they get asked personal questions or have people totally fawn over them for their personal life and experiences? If they don’t than they must love the attention. One of the first rules for myself for my channel is that I’ll never get into my personal life. I mean, I just imagine how bad it is for Actors and Musicians to have people stalking them everywhere they go and I just think to myself “I can never live that kind of life.” Anyway, that’s just me :p
 
LJay said:
I've never been able to understand that. I didn't think viewers were like that, that they get so sucked into someone else's personal life. I first thought about that feeling as a viewer myself when I questioned it when Jenna Marbles brought it up in Season 1 of Internet Icon. I was like "What? People are actually hanging on to every detail about these people’s personal lives? These people who just make videos and put them on the internet?” “Don’t the viewer’s know they have their own personal lives to live?” “Don’t they realize the lives of these people on the internet might not be so glamorous just because they are using jump cuts and acting to illustrate their lives on camera?”

And people get flak for watching gaming videos? For me personally I watch Gaming videos because I will learn something about that game which will help me decide whether I want to buy it or not especially if it is a review. Another reason I watch gaming videos is because of tips, tricks and strategies I might learn. However I don’t like these Gamers that have to pretend to be silly and act funny while playing games for views. Sorry, that is a very big bastardization of Video Gaming especially with people like GGG or iJustine who use it because it is trendy and will get them views. I won’t ever just watch one person playing for fun by themselves either. I have to watch a group of friends playing, interacting and having fun because it is more real and it may be how you or I play video games with our friends.

Anyway, getting back on point, I don’t understand how people get all into others personal lives over the internet. It has made me think that is why there are so many Vloggers and Gaming channels and so on because they want to have their own lives loved and adored just in the way they adore and love other people’s personal lives over the net. Like, don’t people have friends in real life whose lives they can invade and stalk? That’s the way Jenna Marbles painted that picture for me when she said it on Internet Icon. Maybe Vlogging and other people’s lives aren’t for me but I’m not trying to trash Vloggers or people who watch Vloggers either.

It also raises a question of how these Vlogging YouTubers can handle people trying to get at their personal lives. Do they find it disturbing or a little weird that they get asked personal questions or have people totally fawn over them for their personal life and experiences? If they don’t than they must love the attention. One of the first rules for myself for my channel is that I’ll never get into my personal life. I mean, I just imagine how bad it is for Actors and Musicians to have people stalking them everywhere they go and I just think to myself “I can never live that kind of life.” Anyway, that’s just me :p
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It's kind of the same phenomenon as people who become attached to movie/TV characters. Like, they aren't real, but that's why people continue to watch TV: they're drawn in and can't get enough of the story.

It's very interesting stuff! But it would be so hard to handle for sure
 
I think the problem with gaming channels is the saturation of the same old games (CoD, Battlefield, Minecraft, etc) and people jumping on what's trending is what makes a lot of channels more of the same.

Doom channels do exist but I tend to use modded content to set myself apart from plain vanilla runs.
 
Bottom line. If you have a good channel, it doesn't matter if you're talking about badgers or How to put on lip stick. Sure there are tons of gaming channels that are of just kids playing games. There are tons of vloggers that think talking about their first kiss or doing the cinnamon challenge is something people want to watch. However anyone can do any of these things, it's another thing to make it entertaining and of quality.

That's the end goal isn't it? To make quality content and get views? To push aside a channel type is ridiculous.
 
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chrisdragon said:
I think the problem with gaming channels is the saturation of the same old games (CoD, Battlefield, Minecraft, etc) and people jumping on what's trending is what makes a lot of channels more of the same.
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I agree with that. More than that I think Gaming on YouTube is also used as a trend. I sort of touched on that in an earlier post. A lot of people try to use gaming itself to grow and its evident with particular channels. However there people who just use those popular titles to get big like you have stated. COD was the first one on YouTube to blow up, than Minecraft and now GTA. With people using those games leads to oversaturation. I don't like that. People should be playing what interests them rather than what’s popular to get big. That is how I have always been in life though. The only thing I can remember following in a trend was Pokemon and I was in elementary school when it came to America. However I still like the games :X

I mentioned GGG and iJustine as the people who obviously have ridden the YouTube Gaming trend in an earlier post. With GGG she has already stopped Gaming because she was revealed to have lied about ever gaming on her channel. So now she goes by her real name and just does Vlogs. With iJustine it’s obvious she never was a Gamer in her life before YouTube and is just using it appeal to a different audience. I noticed that people who were playing the trendy games or made those games trendy are slowly starting to fade out. With the COD Community you can see it. There are COD channels that pulled in easily 100,000 views a video and now they can hardly get 40,000 or 50,000. Even a few dedicated Minecraft channels are starting become less popular.

Gaming is about fun, passing the time, being a hobby and something that entertains you. It is sad to see Video Games become bastardized the way it has what with people running around making the same oversaturated content or just using gaming to make money or become popular. There is so much BS in the Gaming Community. I would hardly call it a community either since there is not much collaboration that happens and there just ends up being cliques. It also takes very little know how or skill to start a gaming channel too. I think everything I have listed in this thread are just more reasons why I think people dislike Gaming on YouTube. I have been questioning whether I should start my own channel because of the types of things that go on. Maybe I am over thinking things but after all the things I’ve researched and looked up I think to myself a lot that the Gaming side of YouTube is really messed up.
 
I think it's because it's oversaturated, and many people see it as bandwagoning.

Personally I don't have a problem with it, as long as the person is doing it for the right reasons, and not just because they're hoping to be internet famous
 
Well idk im a mobile (Android-iOS) gamer-reviewer, i usually do videos about things that arent common like mods and stuff..

but yeah.. big gaing channels are all the same..
 
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