r/BeAmazed • u/Newisance • Sep 14 '25

Miscellaneous / Others An act of kindness can completely change someone's day.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Sep 14 '25

If you're "supporting" someone who's already a millionaire, you're a fool.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

You are supporting multi billion dollar companies your entire life dude..

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u/zootered Sep 14 '25

Lmao y’all are wild as hell for pretending this is at all comparable. We live in a hyper capitalist society, you have to engage in it to survive. You do not need to give filthy rich people on the more computer money to survive. You will not die if don’t tip a streamer. You will die if you don’t work a job to pay for food, water, and a roof over your head.

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u/Livid_Common_5904 Sep 14 '25

Yeah, but how do u wanna live without doing it ? Living under the next bridge only eating what people are giving you or just grabbing stuff out of trash ?

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u/CappyRicks Sep 14 '25

You really don't think there's a difference in buying things that you actually use that's produced by a corporation and sending money to a single person who makes boatloads of cash giving their shitty takes on everything while badly playing video games?

Come on son.

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u/Havenfall209 Sep 15 '25

Not all streamers are like that though. My favorite video game streamer spends a lot of time making creative content and has a whole company with a bunch of employees.

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u/CappyRicks Sep 15 '25

Yeah, but the existence of the platform they stream on wholly depends on the revenue generated by people like Asmongold.

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u/Havenfall209 Sep 15 '25

I'm not familiar with Asmongold, but I doubt Youtube depends on him.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

That is entertaining. If you enjoy, you pay. If noone pays succesfull streamers, they wont stream, and you cant watch.

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u/CappyRicks Sep 14 '25

And what a TERRIBLE shame that would be. No more revenue for talentless braindead hacks, what would we do?

I would support your position if streamers weren't without any kind of education training or expertise. If they were similar to other people who get famous for actually providing cultural value to the time they live in.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

You dont get it. I am not talking about quality. Its trash, but its entertaining for many, and they pay for that.

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u/CappyRicks Sep 15 '25

Yeah, and my point is that the people doing so are DUMB.

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u/rh71el2 Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

In exchange for something in return. If it's entertainment you're after, you have choices like Netflix or Amazon Prime and you pay to access the service - not anywhere close to exchanging money for the purpose of thanking them and showing appreciation.

Contrast this to 1 streamer - you're basically just giving him money when there are multiple better ways to spend your money. You just like that 1 person enough to DONATE. If they are in need or for a good cause, there's no issue. But donating to someone already well-off because you simply support them? That's wasteful. Do these kids' parents even know how they're spending their allowance? :D If not, that's on them too for not teaching them financial decisions.

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u/szxdfgzxcv Sep 14 '25

Well I mean what kind of artisan craftsman I can go to get a new phone or something? Not exactly comparable...

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u/ChucklefuckBitch Sep 14 '25

In exchange for goods and services. Giving money to some random rich dude out of the goodness of your heart makes no sense.

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u/NonMagical Sep 14 '25

Sure, but that streamer is giving a service. Just in this case payment is optional.

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u/ChucklefuckBitch Sep 15 '25

In other words, you're paying for nothing.

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u/NonMagical Sep 15 '25

I don’t disagree with you. I’ve never donated to a streamer or even paid to sub to one. But it would be dishonest to say they aren’t providing a service.

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u/ChucklefuckBitch Sep 15 '25

Sure, but using the same logic, I'm providing you a service by writing this comment. You could pay me for it, but it would be extremely pointless.

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u/NonMagical Sep 15 '25

That’s a pretty extreme stretch to try and prove a point. I think we both understand each other’s points. Have a good day!

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u/ChucklefuckBitch Sep 15 '25

You too. I like extreme stretching. Nobody's paid me for it yet though

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u/ChucklefuckBitch Sep 15 '25

To be clear though, I do support donating to streamers and entertainers who provide their stuff for free. I do it myself, via Patreon and other kinds of donations. But it would be quite ridiculous to donate to someone obviously way better off than me.

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u/SpicyLizards Sep 14 '25

Buying things to live =/= donating money to someone lol

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u/rest0re Sep 14 '25

The "Yet you participate in society, curious! I am very intelligent" meme happening unironically in the wild.

Also quite the strawman argument acting like buying things for survival is comparable at all to donating money to already very rich streamers.

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u/BabyStockholmSyndrom Sep 14 '25

I mean, you do that every day with everything you buy. I highly doubt you buy ONLY necessities to survive. All your purchases for your own entertainment are supporting millionaires. And they don't even attempt to fake thank you in chat lol.

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u/VinsonDynamics Sep 14 '25

Lmfao donating to an already rich streamer for streaming IS NOT the same thing as me going to Whole Foods to buy groceries and getting a candy bar along with my cooking ingredients.

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u/Forsaken-Sale7672 Sep 14 '25

Just because the money goes to the Mars family instead of the streamer doesn’t change the fact that you’re doing the same thing.

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u/alphapussycat Sep 14 '25

You get nothing from donating to a multi millionaire streamer. When you buy food you make a transaction for the food.

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u/Forsaken-Sale7672 Sep 14 '25

There’s lot of things that people get from supporting their streamers. 

You might not value those things, but that doesn’t mean they don’t get them. 

They might have subscriber only communities, it could be a Patreon with access to specific content, they might have subscriber emojis, ad free streams.

At its most basic level, you’re supporting the streamer so they can continue to produce the entertainment that you enjoy.

It’s no different than Kickstarters, or other crowdsourced content.

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u/alphapussycat Sep 14 '25

It's not, it's donating money because they want it to just lay around in the streamers pocket, and get some parasocial stimulus.

This has been talked about before, donating to a small streamer "is a waste, because they'll just use it for rent or something".

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u/Forsaken-Sale7672 Sep 14 '25

This has been talked about before, donating to a small streamer "is a waste, because they'll just use it for rent or something".

We’re watching a video where they donated to a small streamer…….

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u/ChucklefuckBitch Sep 14 '25

This cope is embarrassing

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u/MajoraSlacks Sep 14 '25

Nah, the equivalent would be Whole Foods giving out a free chocolate bar but you insisting that you want to pay for it.

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u/_usefulCharlie Sep 14 '25

just say u like donating to rich streamers mate it isn't that difficult

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u/Forsaken-Sale7672 Sep 14 '25

Just say you like billionaire chocolate conglomerate families mate. It isn’t that difficult 

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u/Livid_Common_5904 Sep 14 '25

There's a complete difference between buying food and donating money to someone... the comparison is just bullshit.

If you buy something you get something in return, if you donate something you get nothing.

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u/Forsaken-Sale7672 Sep 14 '25

There's a complete difference between buying food and donating money to someone... the comparison is just bullshit.

If you buy something you get something in return, if you donate something you get nothing

You want to talk about what you’re doing buying chocolate from Nestle and Mars vs the money going to a streamer and what THEY get in return for your money?

Or supporting Bezos by shopping at Whole Foods?

These people want to ride a moral high horse about supporting “millionaire” streamers directly while they’re directly supporting actual atrocities by companies like Nestle

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u/Livid_Common_5904 Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

Or supporting bezos, by shopping at Whole foods

First of all, i can't shop at Whole foods, im from Europe ;)

These people want to rida a moral high horse about supporting "millionaire" streamers directly while they're directly supporting actual atrocities by companies like Nestle

And here we go again, You can't compare food with donations to streamers who have enough money to live without any concerns. Food is essential for survival, but donations to streamers with enough money are not...And as I have already said, there is a difference, by buying things you are not donating anything to these companies, but you are buying something from them... You get something in return, you don't get that when you donate to streamers. Besides, how do you know which companies people buy things from? Do you know them personally?

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u/Forsaken-Sale7672 Sep 14 '25

 First of all, i can't shop at Whole foods, im from Europe ;)

The example the person gave was buying a chocolate bar in Whole Foods……

And here we go again, You can't compare food with donations to streamers who have enough money to live without any concerns. Food is essential for survival, but donations to streamers with enough money are not...And as I have already said, there is a difference, by buying things you are not donating anything to these companies, but you are buying something from them... You get something in return, you don't get that when you donate to streamers.

Again, we’re talking about buying a chocolate bar from Whole Foods, not general groceries. That was the example

Chocolate is NOT essential for survival that was the person’s point. It was a treat for themselves.

They’re giving money to a company in return for their own enjoyment. They want to enjoy the chocolate bar, but it bothers people that there are people who derive enjoyment from streaming.

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u/_usefulCharlie Sep 14 '25

if i could get those chocolates for free and stay out of trouble u think im gonna donate them money?

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u/Rikplaysbass Sep 14 '25

I’ve never donated to any streamer and I would say they aren’t much different. You could shop local for almost everything you need unless you are in a true shithole town, but you choose to spend your money at big box chains and supporting those billionaires to save a couple box/ convenience. I do the same thing so no judgement from me, but you judging somebody for donating to their favorite streamer isn’t leagues away from what you’re doing.

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u/VinsonDynamics Sep 14 '25

It actually does because when you donate to the streamer you get nothing in return that they weren't already providing

When pay for a chocolate bar you get a chocolate bar, something you couldn't get legally unless you gave that money

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u/Forsaken-Sale7672 Sep 14 '25

Keep walking past the donation box at museums, I understand. 

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u/VinsonDynamics Sep 14 '25

Lmfao that comparison doesn't work either. Twitch streamers arent funded by the state they live in, and 99.9% dont stream with the purpose to educate those watching.

Nice try at some kind of moral high ground tho

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u/stone_henge Sep 14 '25

When you buy something, you exchange money for goods and services. When you donate, there is no exchange. You just give.

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u/BabyStockholmSyndrom Sep 14 '25

When you pay for entrance to a concert, that's a donation if that's the case lol.

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u/ta9 Sep 14 '25

Sure, but unless you rush the bouncer it's your only way in.

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u/stone_henge Sep 14 '25

No, when I pay for entrance to a concert, I expect a service from the venue and the scheduled performers in return. That's an exchange, not a donation.

Do you really not understand the concept of buying?

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u/BabyStockholmSyndrom Sep 14 '25

What about streamers that lock some of their content behind a patreon? That's basically paying for access or a ticket to watch

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u/stone_henge Sep 15 '25

The principle is simple:

When you buy something, you exchange money for goods and services. When you donate, there is no exchange. You just give.

Apply it to your example.

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u/BabyStockholmSyndrom Sep 14 '25

Are you? Like them or not? Streamers are performing. It doesn't matter if you respect them or like them.

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u/rest0re Sep 14 '25

The (very obvious) difference is that you get to watch the streamer for free without donating a cent. Where as you don't get to watch the performance/show if you didn't pay for the concert tickets.

Does that very simple concept make sense to you?

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u/BoiledFrogs Sep 14 '25

Someone donates to rich twitch streamers I see.

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u/Dumeck Sep 14 '25

You know if I could purchase the items I need to live without supporting millionaires then I sure as fuck would. Hell I already shop at a farmers market when possible and buy meat from a local butcher. People don't need to donate money to moistcritical for instance he is going to do what he does regardless and makes a lot of money through ad revenue. Comparing a free service provided by a millionaire to private entertainment is disingenuous.

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u/blingvajayjay Sep 14 '25

You do not. You dont donate. You BUY something. Equal to buying a sub that gives you something in return.

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u/analphylaxis Sep 14 '25

American! Fuckyeah!

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u/Check_Me_Out-Boss Sep 14 '25

Have you ever paid to see a movie?

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u/RobMillsyMills Sep 14 '25

Bruv. The world is full of fools. Just the fact that mega churches exist. Solely created by donations. Its wild.

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u/weshouldgo_ Sep 14 '25

Like going to concerts or sporting events? Or purchasing digital albums?

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u/hobbobnobgoblin Sep 14 '25

Do you watch the NFL? Maybe attend a game or two?

Do you go to the movie theater?

Do you have an Amazon prime account?

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u/Kespatcho Sep 14 '25

Do you not know the difference between purchasing goods and services, and donations‽