Gamer Girls

 https://www.twitch.tv/erin_plays

She has a stream where she “reacts” to some of her old videos but you have to be a subscriber to see it.  It costs five bucks to subscribe.

She also has a stream from five days ago where she played Wheel of Fortune, Remote Control, and Concentration.  I don’t think that she’s going to upload that video to Youtube for obvious reasons.  I don’t even know why she plays these games.  She’s horrendous and doesn’t even know the rules.

She’s also been taking videos down from Twitch or maybe making them subscriber-only.  I know that after two weeks or whatever they automatically become subscriber only but that’s not what I’m talking about.  

I don’t even review the videos that she only puts on Twitch.  

Erin…nobody fucking cares this much.  I don’t even care and this is my non-paying job.  

As long as these people are off of Youtube, I don’t give a shit what they do.  Madam Fomo abandoned her Youtube channel to concentrate on her god awful OnlyFans.  So I basically stopped writing about her.  

Pam aka CannotBeEntertaining is apparently doing a lot of streaming on Twitch now but I’m not writing about that shit and I’m not even watching it.  I only watch any of this trash for the purposes of writing about it.  

So if Erin just totally abandoned Youtube for Twitch, I’d stop writing about her entirely.  Paywall or no paywall.  So there’s your answer.  Just stay on Twitch and I won’t write about your horrendous fucking videos.  

Can any of these decisions really be as a result of the blog, though?  I know that all of these people know about the blog.  Erin in particular has referenced the blog a few times.  I assume that she reads it at least occasionally or maybe Mike gives her the gist of particular articles.  But I suspect that these people are grossly overestimating how many people read this shit.  Let’s look at the numbers.

If you can’t read the chart, in March 2021, I was at about 3000 views a month, then I had a few months of growth, it reached a peak of about 7500 in September 2021, and ever since then I’ve been hovering around 7000 views a month.

This isn’t 7000 people, though.  It’s 7000 clicks.  I think that if you’re on a phone, every article you click counts as a view whereas if you view the site on your PC, all of the articles just show up on one page so it just counts as one click when you log into the site.  So basically the numbers are confusing and don’t mean a whole lot.  If I had to guess, I’d say that there are 50 regular readers.  Even that might be high.

Think of the niche.  Erin Plays?  Retro Ali?  CannotBeTamed?  Who would possibly want to read long-form articles about this?  

That’s ostensibly what the blog is about.  Shitting on “gamer grrls”.  But a more astute reader will appreciate that the blog is actually just a vehicle to showcase my absurdist comedy stylings.  And what’s the possible audience for that?  Fifty people absolute maximum.

So nobody cares about your videos, Erin.  Nobody is reading this.  You can hide all of your videos or don’t hide all of your videos.  It makes no difference to me.  But don’t do anything on account of the blog.  Just the very idea that somebody would have a blog in 2022 is funny in itself.  I’m thinking of starting a LiveJournal next.

If Erin hid all of her videos, I’d just write about something else.  Could be Tony from Hack the Movies, could be Cinemassacre, could be that bearded guy who lives in his van, could be what I had for lunch, could be what I did in the fifth grade, whatever.  It doesn’t matter.  It doesn’t have to be about Erin or gamer grrls.  People will read it or they won’t read it.  I don’t give a fuck.

Or maybe I’ll take up gardening.  Get another hobby.  Whatever.  It’s not a big deal.  

I suspect that these “Youtubers” think that they’re big time celebrities but no.  Nobody fucking cares.  Especially when we’re talking about these gamer grrls who have pretty low subscriber counts.  The comedy of the blog stems from writing about something so insignificant.