EARLY ACCESS: Never Meet Your... Fans? (Emiru, Eilish & More)

Hey, where's the video link? Well, as I mentioned, I'm currently on vacation, and not available to do all the things that allow early access to work normally (I'll leave a more detailed explanation below if you REALLY care). SO, I've uploaded the video directly to Patreon. I know this isn't the most ideal way for you to watch these videos, I know a lot of you prefer a YouTube link, and I apologize for that. This will of course be published tomorrow at its regular time of 10am on YouTube at THIS link, if you want to just wait to watch it that way. Everything will be back to normal in a couple weeks, and of course, this will NOT affect bonus videos while I'm away, you'll still get them as YouTube links.

Anyway, for those of you who are here to watch the video... enjoy!

They say "never meet your heroes", but did we maybe ignore that advice in a way and create too many parasocial relationships? Buckley looks at the recent incident at TwitchCon, where a streamer named "Emiru" was grabbed by a fan and security was effectively ineffective. This was just one of THREE incidents in a 30 day period, as a fan also grabbed Billie Eilish at a concert, and a streamer in South Korea was murdered by one of her "whales" who had "donated" $70,000 to her, and was upset he wasn't getting anything in return.

The long winded explanation:

Every single week, I upload my weekend video on Thursday evening, and create one of these Patreon posts, scheduled for Friday. I upload the video as "Unlisted", which means anyone who has the link is able to watch it. You watch the video on Friday, you can leave comments, all the fun stuff. Then, on Saturday morning, I sit at my desk with one hand on a mouse staring at a clock, and when it hits exactly 10am, I click "Publish", making it public for everyone. I do this every single Saturday. Ideally, YouTube would let you schedule a video BUT leave it as "unlisted" until such time as it goes public, but they do NOT allow this (since the only use-case for it is things like Patreon, and they'd prefer I use YouTube Memberships to do what I'm doing). So again, I apologize, I know people like a routine, and it'll be back to normal by the 14th for sure.