Lots of people here expressed their views a lot more eloquently than I can so forgive me if I can’t do it as good
But honestly, not too surprised with his shift, he was always a showman and an entertainer but also can be dismissive at first glance which he had outright admitted and said he got this habit from his father, I remember one interview a while back where he had said he could have never seen himself going solo and prefers to work with a team and collects a check.
To now he’s a one man streaming army, and this is just his side gig.
Dan has always been known to shift his opinions once he properly understands a thing, and he outright admits this as well.
As for the goading people into spending money, it’s no where near as heinous or as cynical as you make it sound, and he always makes it a point that he prefers the amazon prime subscription than people giving him money and stuff like setting bit goals is probably cause he sees people doing this on other streams as well
Also you gotta take into the mindset of the people watching as well, and NOT in a bad way but some people there just kinda love being a part of the theatrics of his streams, he has people there that have easily donated hundreds of dollars already and they all never complain or try to act entitled about it and dan always is very transparent about everything, and never once has pushed people into spending money
(he outright told one of his highest spending viewers that he completely understands if you have to scale it back, and outright told him that to basically chill on spending money)
I tune in for all his stuff when I can and watch the archives and honestly, some weeks it’s more entertaining than the solo GB content that was here before GB restarted doing group content
,but this idea of what your saying (or at least how it comes off) like dan gave up his integrity when becoming a twitch streamer I humbly completely disagree with,
he was always a showman and entertainer and found an audience that loves him for it, and also extremely self aware, as usually during the late late streams where he’s just chatting with the crowd he actually addresses a lot of these criticisms you wrote about and talked about it with them.
(Unfortunately with twitch’s 60 day archive policy some of those videos are now forever lost so I have no direct video I can point you to)
The man helped changed peoples lives with introducing meditation and talking about anxiety and how he coped with it (I remember seeing someone at pax come thank him for talking about anxiety and how his book helped his wife so much and the guy nearly teared up on the spot talking to dan) , sure he’s not above criticism but he’s more than allowed to have his fun and he totally keeps it transparent with his crowd.
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