Online personalities, like professional streamers, don’t actual reveal their real personalities and identities. They use personas that are carefully curated to grow and maintain their audience. These personas are the brand, that’s what they’re selling. Like sure, you need to be witty and charismatic to draw people in, but that could be said about any job in any field. The same could be said about people changing due to their job. A person’s job is a big part of their identity, and so it makes sense that streamers are influenced by their jobs like everybody else. I don’t see anything that’s uniquely stressful to being a professional streamer.
It’s not a question of stress, it’s a question of soul-sucking. Pulling out what makes you, you. Wearing that persona in all your frequent streamed behavior, especially when it’s ostensibly “you” to begin with, definitely warps your mind over time.
If you wear the mask all the time, it starts to cling. You start to become the marketable character.
The unique thing is the way it directly and fundamentally interacts with the worker’s personality. Yes charisma is broadly useful in any industry, but this is the industry that is selling the charisma itself. The personality is the product.
Online personalities, like professional streamers, don’t actual reveal their real personalities and identities. They use personas that are carefully curated to grow and maintain their audience. These personas are the brand, that’s what they’re selling. Like sure, you need to be witty and charismatic to draw people in, but that could be said about any job in any field. The same could be said about people changing due to their job. A person’s job is a big part of their identity, and so it makes sense that streamers are influenced by their jobs like everybody else. I don’t see anything that’s uniquely stressful to being a professional streamer.
It’s not a question of stress, it’s a question of soul-sucking. Pulling out what makes you, you. Wearing that persona in all your frequent streamed behavior, especially when it’s ostensibly “you” to begin with, definitely warps your mind over time.
If you wear the mask all the time, it starts to cling. You start to become the marketable character.
The unique thing is the way it directly and fundamentally interacts with the worker’s personality. Yes charisma is broadly useful in any industry, but this is the industry that is selling the charisma itself. The personality is the product.