Oh my lord!
Would just make me hungrier than I am right now and that I do not need.
Gameplay streaming site Twitch.tv says it will be launching a dedicated channel for live videos of people eating. The Amazon-owned website says its "Social Eating" channel will allow its army of amateur and professional video broadcasters to "socialize with their viewers over their favorite meals". Twitch says you have South …
OTOH, social eating has been standard practice since Olduvai Gorge. It was even featured in "2001: A Space Odyssey".
there's something even worse coming along
How about that: NATO General Breedlove (who must be losing sleep about the purity of Ameriyouth's body fluids) was fomenting a war with Russia by biggening up "Russian Aggression" in Ukraine, and the Commander in Chief as well as the hapless Eurodummies lapped it all up.
Well, it's not being streamed, but it definitely is worse.
And there's more. TurdCam to follow the adventures of "Stinky" as it makes its way through the sewer system. In Brazil, Stinky makes it directly to the sea to find Dory(R), who promptly eats it and then TurdCam becomes DoryGutCam, and then.. a sequel of some sort as Dory(R) gets eaten, and, well, you get it. Butt where does it end? A lone nanocam buried in ever thickening sea sediment for eternity. Now THAT's a long stream. Dibs on the copyright.
Or taking a piss... now THAT'S what I call "streaming" !
A certain Scotsman has already delivered. Probably NSFW.
If there's an audience. For me starcraft 2, youtubers and streamers are the only interesting things worth watching nowadays. Didn't even watch all that much anime last season.
I of course had the initial "WTF" moment, then remembered I spent a lot of my years watching "come dine with me" and Masterchef. I mean you can watch scat on the internets so I don't really think anything else is odd.
There's a fundamental difference here. These are people being watched eating for its own sake.
Unless the premise has changed completely since the Loyd Grossman era (#) Masterchef is still essentially a show about food *preparation* with the eating being a means to judge the results.
"Come Dine with Me" is only about food in the way that a game of football is "about" the ball itself- if not even less so. The food is just a means to an end, a hook on which to hang the voiceover sneering at people's attempts, attitudes and general social interaction, gossip, bitching and backstabbing.
(#) I really don't watch that much TV nowadays; I've seen articles about the new Masterchef and the presenters, but channel-flicking aside, I've never watched the show itself.
People have been predicting the end of the world since humans first developed abstract thought.
Now it's finally arrived. A generation that's so useless, they ain't gonna make it.
When the mobile phone masts fall into disrepair, some of the more pragmatic millennials will construct cargo-cult replica masts from pizza boxes and micro USB cables. But they won't be able to restore the signal, and in suicidal despair they'll all lay in the road, phone in hand, and wait to be run over by an UBER.
Oh Twitch, you are so wise to unveil a 'social eating' section. It is the only natural decision to reach after not allowing the 'creative' section to eat their food. I suppose you could have just tweaked the rules to allow them eat but no, let's just create another fad to go along with 'bits' and 'cheers'.
Really, I don't know how much more of this I can take. It's big in Korea? Then go watch it there. Twitch was meant to be a gaming site but now it's almost everything else. If only there was some site that did this..... like JTV. Oh wait..
Yes, I'm aware a lot of JTV content was movies and series streamed but they could easily offer an alternative to stuffing Twitch full of crap like this.
"I'm a scientist - nothing shocks me."
Mildly amusing. And not as irrelevant as I thought at first. Eating as a social event, aka eating in groups (or at least not alone) is something our species grew up with over thousands of generations. It's so much more than just consuming food. It's interaction. It's sharing information. It's getting to know each other. It's a good way to introduce new members to a group. It's honing social skills, be it the ability to communicate or simply manners and anything inbetween.
Think family dinner. Think romantic date. Think workers on their lunch break. Think soldiers sharing rations. Think state banquets. Think parties. Think barbies. Every single one of you reading this just had mental images of people eating together in your head. That's how ingrained it is.
From cot to coffin, in every culture, the one recurring element in every social gathering is - food.
And as there are more and more people living alone, while at the same time having access to advanced communications technology - how is it a surprise they are using this technology to fill a need that goes beyond physical nourishment?
Irrelevant sidenote: The linked article was informative as well. While I already had heard about Tingle and the Hugo thing (brilliant idea, by the way, that's how to tackle bigots), I didn't know that dinosaur erotica was a thing. You learn something new every day!
"a dedicated channel for live videos of people eating"
Dear God, that is just the summit of uselessness. It is so abysmally stupid as to drop the collective IQ of Humanity by a full point. I cannot believe we, as a species, can wallow so low.
On the other hand, thank God we have reached such a height in our global level of well-being that we can waste time in such trivialities instead of having to kill one other to ensure we have enough to eat tomorrow.
It's the only good side I can think of, though.
I believe the operative word is Ramen and yes Ramyeon, South Korean Ramyeon as opposed to the Japanese or Chinese version which is considered to be rubbish, is very popular as a base for a meal. They even have Ramyeon Restaurants. There was however some concern from the Government that Da Yoof who were doing it at home were getting slightly fat because they were adding too much or too much of the wrong stuff to the base so they published some advisory videos and parody arrived. It's quick, simple, infinitely variable and fits within a five minute video.
Creating this category (not channel) allows for people who are spending their time eating on stream to move out of the other categories and not be in the way of people searching for whatever else is there.
It also allows for some streamers, who are less gamers than community entertainers, to spend a bit more time with their communities, in a purely relaxed and social way.
Put it this way, having watched Twitch streams since they were still Justin.TV, I can safely say that a lot of eating goes on, especially during longer broadcasts. So, why not let it have its own category? That way, if you don't want to see it, you don't need to go into that category.