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…There’s more diversity of commentary, right? Lower fixed costs. If someone likes you, they listen to you. There’re more commentators than games. There are more commentators than games. I don’t know if I would say there’s more diversity in the commentary. The value system of the people who do commentary — this is part of one of the things that I really would like to shift because I make these videos, infrastructure, blah-blah-blah, but there’s an underlying thing that I’m trying to get through with regards to the way that we think about and talk about video games. Yes, there’re a lot of different people, and there’s a lot of capability for jumping in and being a YouTube video game guy or whatever, but the actual value system of all these commentators, the things that they care about are all exactly the same. There’s a real over-importance or whatever tied to technical things. The people just will get all about the frame rates of the video games and “Oh, the settings weren’t blah-blah-blah.” Things you would never in a million years talk about unless you’re a real, real, real nerd. Not necessarily a bad way, but it would never be the mainstream discussion when it comes to film or whatever. People don’t talk about the sampling rate of your music that you’re listening to. They listen to the song, and they talk about how it made them feel. They talk about what the song was. They don’t talk about “Well, compared to the . . .” I don’t know. I’m going off on a tangent a little bit, but the value system of YouTube gaming commentary and probably just commentary about stuff in general. If I paid attention to things, there’re tons of comic book, Marvel-type stuff commentary. They all have the exact same set of values. They care about the same thing. And all the things they care about don’t matter at all. We really need to shift to way more of the same way you would engage with, or I would engage with, a sculpture is the way we should be engaging with video games. We should not be so . . . distracted is not the right word, but we need to change our value system. Yes, in some sense, there’s a lot of variety. Do you blame the algorithm for what you’re complaining about?…

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