u/endellion333

thoughts? (prayers?)

- max while playing a video of a woman talking about her neighborhood getting hit by a tornado. love u max 🫶

chat am i unironically cooked

the youtube alert just scared me out my skin i tell u what

max’s stream is stressing me out

Huge shot in the dark but is anyone gonna be at GalaxyCon this weekend? I haven’t really done anything fandom related in like 14 years lol but I was wondering if any HS people are still doing the con circuit

This is suuuuch a shot in the dark but are any Homestuck fans gonna be at GalaxyCon this weekend? I haven’t been to a convention in 14 years so this would be a total impulse thing—I’m thinking about throwing on a closetplay costume of a troll or something. I haven’t kept up with anything fandom related since 2012 haha

I want to preface this by saying I’m not ragging on anyone, and I know people are tired of rehashing streamer drama, so this isn’t that.

I’m just genuinely curious about people’s opinion on how early reports of deaths should be handled in a realtime, high drama setting like a weather livestream.

With Lena, Enid, and now the storms on 5/6, weather streamers got misinformation—through no fault of their own, I know misinfo was widely circulating—and immediately announced that there were fatalities. Miraculously, they were wrong all three times (I honestly thought Lena would have made them really cautious about doing that in the future but anyway).

Again, I don’t think it’s their fault that they got bad info. However, I really question the utility of immediately announcing unconfirmed reports of fatalities.

I know Lena was an especially weird case, as pretty much everywhere was briefly reporting four people were killed, but overall it seems like sometimes streamers really jump the gun. They aren’t the only ones, but they inadvertently massively amplify misinfo, as I see people using them as a source when discussing the toll of a storm in the immediate aftermath.

And I guess my question is just, why? Why not wait and not comment until you have better information the next day? I feel like it tends to just panic people. If I’m watching the stream for news on say, Enid, where I do know people, and I hear there’s fatalities—if it’s true, I can’t yet do anything about it, if it’s false, I’m freaking out for no reason. I just wonder if there’s a really good reason to do so outside of just trying to be the guy that has the most Breaking News Of All Time for the sake of it.

Anyway sorry for the ramble lol just curious if anyone else has thoughts about this. My opinion is probably pretty obvious but I’d like to hear perspectives I haven’t considered etc