50k Giveaway TONIGHT (11/22/16) @ 5 PM CST!!!

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Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's totally shitty to post in someone's giveaway thread pointing out that it's "not entirely selfless" because he'll gain Twitch followers. If a best-selling author gives all of his book proceeds to charity, do you send him a letter saying how selfish it is because he's increasing his readership?

Kinda different though.

It would take a while to write a letter, send it to the book author, and chances are he'd never read it anyway.

The meta of twitch and followers of a stream is a bit different than readers of a book author and his proceeds going to charity.

I struggle to find a better way to explain it, but I just think this isn't quite as benign and goody goody as people make it seem.

Maybe I am just jaded and pessimistic, only seeing the possible bad elements of this but in the big picture it doesn't even matter, anyway.

I don't think the dude is getting rich off it, and I do think he does have good intentions and his acts are helpful to those that get things.

I just think he is using pixels to pander his twitch though and that kinda makes it taste bad.