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WCDT 4491-4495 (29th March through 2nd April, 2021)

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Christophelous:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 31 Mar 2021, 23:13 ---IMO, panel 2 today is basically Aurelia saying to Clinton: "Look, I've tried to give you time and space. I've even showed you an aspect of my life that some might regard as embarrassing. However, this is the last chance: Either you you tell me what's going on or I'm just going to continually badger you until you do so!"

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Doesn't seem like this to me at all. You may be projecting your life experiences onto the comic. I don't see anything in this comic that screams "last chance" to me, nor does it seem like she wants to badger him about what he's going through. My mom tries to badger her way into my life on a regular basis, but I just don't see this in the way Aurelia's acting.

Now, there may be some merit in her using the whole streaming thing as a way to bring up that sharing these parts of ourselves that we've kept secret so far, while awkward, can also be very rewarding. But frankly, I don't see her as being all that sneaky. Anyone who has an instantly recognizable lying voice is probably the opposite of sneaky. Unless of course... she only makes it sound like she's lying when she WANTS to be caught!

Aegir:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 31 Mar 2021, 23:13 ---IMO, panel 2 today is basically Aurelia saying to Clinton: "Look, I've tried to give you time and space. I've even showed you an aspect of my life that some might regard as embarrassing. However, this is the last chance: Either you you tell me what's going on or I'm just going to continually badger you until you do so!"

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Aurelia hasn't really been featured enough for her complete personality to be obvious, but let's took to the children she raised: Clinton started off as a creep and still occasionally has terrible social skills. Claire has bad anxiety and catastrophic thinking and is socially manipulative. So I more or less agree with that interpretation of the events, and yes, I do believe it was intentional.

SpanielBear:
Probably worth remembering in all this that whilst he was still about, Mr Augustus put his family through absolute hell. All of them have reason to be (relatively) late in discovering themselves, and for having varying types of psychological defences to work through as they do it.

Is it cold in here?:
Yes. I was just about to mention that they had two parents for a while. The children have their dad's behavior to deal with plus the impact of a rough divorce.

A puppy was born with six legs.

neurocase:

--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 30 Mar 2021, 20:58 ---
--- Quote from: SubaruStephen on 30 Mar 2021, 18:14 ---I don’t know anything about this streaming stuff......is 40K really a big deal?

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Not really. I mean, sure, it means you've got an actual cult going, and you're not talking to just a basement full of weirdos anymore, but I think the "kinda a big deal" threshold is having, oh, 100k subscribers? Most of the cults, er, channels I subscribe to on YouTube (i.e. OSP) have 1 milllion-2million subscribers, but a few niche ones like John Francis (covers Oxygen Not Included, Rimworld, that sort of thing) are in the 40k-50k range.

I'm not sure what the threshold is for making an actual living from streaming is.

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Keep in mind though, subscribers on YouTube and subscribers on Twitch are two totally different things. To subscribe to someone's YouTube channel is just a click of a button to keep track of their uploads. To subscribe to someone's Twitch involves paying monthly as a direct means to support the streamer. If you subscribe to someone's YouTube for a year, it costs you nothing. To subscribe to someone's Twitch for a year will run you about sixty bucks.

Streamers will generally make 50% of a sub cost after Twitch's take. To put that in perspective, if Aurelia does have 40k subs (I maintain that was erroneously stated, either in-universe by her, or by Jeph himself, and that the intended metric was meant to be followers) that would mean that if they're all subbed at the lowest tier -say $4.99 USD per month, as it is in our world- and Aurelia is making $2.50 a month from each sub?

2.50 x 40,000 = 100,000

Which would mean that she'd make $1.2m a year. So yeah, big BIG difference to subscribers on YouTube. The follower>subscriber ratio for most Twitch channels, even the biggest, is often very low, so if someone has enough followers that their ratio still nets them 40k subs and, ergo, six figures a month in sub fee cuts alone? Then yeah, they're pretty damn big.

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