Pokimane criticizes \u201cunhealthy\u201d Twitch subathons after Sykkuno\u2019s viral take YouTube: PokimanePopular Twitch streamer Pokimane levied some criticisms toward subathons while reacting to fellow broadcaster Sykkuno\u2019s take on influencers who abuse the practice. \u2018Subathons\u2019 refer to a practice in which online broadcasters incentivize viewers to subscribe to their channel, adding more time onto their streams with each subscription. This can cause streams to go on for days, weeks, and even months. Notably, Twitch streamer Ludwig broke records on Twitch for his hugely profitable 30-day subathon last year. The current record for longest subathon goes to Emilycc, whose subathon is still ongoing at 120 days. While subathons can be a great incentive for streamers to boost their subscriber count, top streamer Pokimane thinks these long streams can be dangerous for their health. Pokimane explains why she\u2019s not a fan of subathons She shared her views on the topic during a recent broadcast, where she reacted to fellow steamer Sykkuno slamming broadcasters who disguise their regular streams as \u2018subathons.\u2019 \u201cI\u2019m always a little iffy about subathons for a myriad of reasons \u2014 some, including what he\u2019s saying,\u201d she began. \u201cTactics that some people could consider a little unethical, where you\u2019re kind of pretending you\u2019re streaming but really you\u2019re sleeping and doing other things and just pretending to do a subathon, in a sense.\u201d \u201cBut the other reason is, there\u2019s no way subathons are healthy for a human being to do,\u201d she continued. \u201cThe fact we are incentivizing it with hundreds of thousands of dollars, major clout, followers, attention \u2014 we\u2019re like, \u2018Oh my god this person has been streaming for three weeks! Poggers!\u2019 No, they need to go see a doctor.\u201d \u201c\u2018That\u2019s the point \u2014 suffer for my pleasure,’\u201d she said, reading out a comment from her chat. \u201cI think a little bit of that is okay, but a line needs to be drawn at some point, and I don\u2019t really think we draw it at a good point.\u201d (Topic begins at 2:56) While subathons can definitely wear streamers down (even making Ludwig swear off ever doing them again), they certainly have their highlights\u2026 like that time a streamer ended their subathon by literally exploding a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane criticizes \u201cunhealthy\u201d Twitch subathons after Sykkuno\u2019s viral take YouTube: PokimanePopular Twitch streamer Pokimane levied some criticisms toward subathons while reacting to fellow broadcaster Sykkuno\u2019s take on influencers who abuse the practice. \u2018Subathons\u2019 refer to a practice in which online broadcasters incentivize viewers to subscribe to their channel, adding more time onto their streams with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}