I figured out why YouTube comments suck so badly. Everyone talks about me in the third person. “He forgot this” and “save yourself time, he thinks that.” People disassociate from me completely, which is the opposite of the entire fucking point. Twitch understands this. In fact, the more a community engages with the streamer the better and people who talk about the streamer instead of to the streamer are generally corrected pretty quickly in my community when I respond. This distance creates a feeling of false disconnection so people can say shit about me as if they were not telling it to my face (which is the source of all evil on the Internet). People wouldn’t say most of what they do if they had so say it while the person was listening to them in the chair next to them. This has been a good lesson for me.