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I don't watch any streamers, so I don't know how it's possible that 30k people would just sit there watching some dude play video games for 8 hours straight, but from what I can tell he's a productive part of the right-to-left pipeline.
Short answer to bring you in the loop: he doesn't play video games anymore, just reacts to the news (sometimes anti-imperialist, sometimes left Ameri-electoralism, sometimes US slop of the day and cable-news reaction, sometimes on the ground somewhere).
He's basically Fox News for anyone left of the Democrats.
people don't lock in watching streams for the most part, it's a second screen thing or in the background like radio became after TV proliferated.