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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] germtm_@lemmy.world 101 points 10 months ago (2 children)

same but for everything in my life.

i know, that sounds schizo as fuck, my dear chat members.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I live alone, I too talk to the imaginary camera to keep sane. At least I think it keeps me sane.

Thanks for the bits, bananaman66764.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Ah see, I talk to my cat when I'm at home. It isn't just me talking to myself, it's enrichment for my little furry buddy!

[–] akkajdh999@programming.dev 12 points 10 months ago

I watch you all the time, keep going FeelsStrongMan

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 67 points 10 months ago (4 children)

If it helps you focus, it's just another form of rubber ducking

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[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 54 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Clip that, chat.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

My middle-school aged kids explained the difference between cooked and cookin' to me the other day, and now they really get to roll their eyes when I intentionally use them in as corny ways as possible.

Bonus points for coming with other, terrible, slang. You can really get a cringe if you say something like "Chat, we're cookin' now - I'm all rizzed up”

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's fine until the audience starts talking back.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] odium@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] leonine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Chat, are you for real?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 39 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I tried streaming for the first time over the weekend. Damn is it hard to keep talking for multiple hours straight. Especially when there's zero messages in the chat. Streamers make it look normal but damn is it not

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Get a producer or anyone with you and talk to them. That's how radio and TV broadcasters used to do it. They would talk to the console or camera operator. Eventually it becomes natural to talk by yourself. It does look like unhinged behavior without the context. But it is an old skill, as old as radio broadcast. Try acting monologues to yourself, it also helps.

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

do it for fun. I dabbled a little to no audiece, I just liked putting on a show. No one's watching, well, no one listens to my music either.

[–] leonine@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Share your twitch, I'll follow u

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago

Isn't that statistically what most twitch streamers do

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Normal"? Probably.

Good? Probably not.

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't think it's that bad if you're trying to solve a problem. Still, I would whisper rather than say it out loud.

[–] AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 10 months ago

It's probably fairly normal now, lots of people think about being a streamer.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have thought about showing off my gigantic single player creative mode Minecraft map through a live stream for years, I spent most of my free time over a decade of manually just building huge, huge structures.

And pretending to show it off to a live stream, talking about it and explaining it makes it easier to remember what/why/how I built stuff...

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anon wants to livestream

You want to livestream

You should both livestream

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they'd make a cute couple

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which could make for a more lucrative live stream if they're into that..

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Twitch doesn't allow porn.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Give it a few more years

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Two platforms, double the monetisation of the things you enjoy until every single bit of your life has been consumed by capitalism.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Other places do, though.

[–] Seeders@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I used to do this as a kid constantly before streaming ever existed.

Taking a piss outside? Literally competing for the longest piss distance tournament and taking the gold.

[–] ignoble_stigmas@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 17 points 10 months ago

Old people used to do this too. Back then it was called an internal monologue.

[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Software engineers call this rubber duck debugging

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

At that point just hit record and decide later if you want to post some parts of it.

Wil help build confidence to start streaming.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Might as well just stream

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 points 10 months ago

I think that's just thinking out loud or talk to yourself. It's another story if OOP overreact on every turn though.

Anon should just do a stream and do their best and hope one of the popular streamers/youtubers pity them and give them a donation and a shoutout to a massive audience.

Pity views better than no views.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to do it a lot as a teenager. For everything in my life. Now much less. I wonder why.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Your body adapted after realizing it was a total waste of energy?

A less cynacle (however you spell that) theory might be it's useful for language learning/practicing.

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

If you learn your ways of speech from streamers and YouTube videos, and all of them talk in 2nd person to their audience, then your learned language will sound very similar to the English you listened to.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

....we don't all do this?

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Talking to myself helps me remember stuff and figure out stuff faster.

It's your game, role-play how you want. Wage slaving tends to beat the ability to plat out of some of us. Have fun your way.

I certainly wouldnt want to play pretend being a streamer. It looks like the world's most exhausting job ever. Having to constantly have a web presence everywhere, talking to Randoms 24/7, being unable to switch what game you're playing because your fan base is the most niche interest group possible.

Hell no, not for me. My basement, my games.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

When I play wrestling video games at night, I turn off commentary and just do it myself. My daughter walked in on me and was looking at me like I was nuts

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would love for someone to listen to me talk

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

If you're in the US, the NSA has your back. If you're not, the NSA probably still has your back.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe not normal, but as long as you know that the audience isn't there, it's a harmless kind of weird 🤷

So go for it, fake gay guy!

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I sometimes do it while I work, talking like I'm recording a video tutorial.

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 2 points 9 months ago

yeah, I also like to make up a fake portal-esque story when playing something like people playground.

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