On Twitch, the clip of Korean streamer “Bossberry” goes viral. A viewer asked her if she could help him find a girlfriend. His mother would be very happy. The answer was short: “No, as long as you’re watching me, that’s impossible.”
This was the interaction:
The streamer read a chat message from “TrayHatter” out loud in the Twitch stream: “Berry, can you please help me find a girlfriend? I would really appreciate it. That would make my mother happy.”
Without a second’s hesitation, the streamer replied.
Sorry, if you keep watching me on Twitch, I think you’ll never get a girlfriend. Sorry.
Twitch clip of Korean streamer goes viral
How successful is the clip? Alone on Twitch, the clip has reached more than 100,000 views with this short interaction and has also been discussed on Reddit.
Why is this clip so popular? The clip apparently taps into a “self-flagellation” impulse among many Twitch viewers.
The motto is: If you’re watching foreign women on Twitch, you’re such a nerd that you’ll never get a real girlfriend. They wouldn’t understand how one can watch “Just Chatting” women.
In the forum reddit the clip is discussed:
- The top comment is “The truth really hurts”
- One says the streamer must have known that the questioner had a “humiliation fetish”
There is then a discussion about whether there are even women who watch Twitch. One says he had girlfriends who watched Twitch with him. There is nothing wrong with that, one should not change who one is just to find a partner.
But he is confronted with the fact that it is indeed strange to explain to a girlfriend why you watch a “Just Chatting” streamer.
A potential girlfriend might find that odd.
The harshest response is probably: It must be great to be able to talk to your girlfriend about how beautiful Alinity’s breasts look today.
Here is the clip with the dry response:
“Just Chatting” streamers as a substitute for girlfriends
What’s behind this: The discussion plays with the idea that single men develop a parasocial relationship with “Just Chatting” streamers, which they then see as a substitute for a “real girlfriend”:
- The streamer Amouranth has explained that as a small streamer you can live very well off such men who crave attention.
- The streamer Pokimane explicitly warns against these parasocial relationships.
- However, there are actually streamers who say: Their viewers disappear as soon as they have a boyfriend.
With this “truth”, viewers are confronted by Berry’s statement.
The clip also goes in a direction where some single men who spend a lot of time on the Internet describe themselves ironically as losers and then talk about “my wife’s boyfriend” who can do everything much better, is much more masculine, and puts them in the shadow.
