Corruption system in relation to auto-flagging in open sea

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As a streamer enjoyer myself I can answer this at least from my own pov. In most cases I watch a streamer who either has a different pov/logic from me or the same.

I watch the one with differing opinions to see the other side of some conversation or to see him play a game that I have already beaten to see if there's something in the game that I might've missed (be it thematic or even gameplay).

And I watch the one with the same opinions/playstyle for those games that I will most likely not play myself but have some interest about (be it social-based or just general). This allows me to "play" the game the same way I would've played it w/o, well, playing it

The 2 biggest examples of this are Asmon and CohhCarnage. Asmon's views on games are quite different from mine so I watch him to check my bias for stuff. His chat's opinion only adds another lvl of that "check". Cohh's playstyle is almost exactly like mine (explores every nook and cranny and appreciates the story so never skips it) so I can watch him play games that I don't have the money or the time for and I would still feel as if I've played those games.

There's obviously the mechanical part of playing the game, but if I'm interested in that I'm most likely gonna play it myself and just won't watch the stream of it.

Oh, and there's also the "enrichment" streamers. Those who might be close to my gameplay, but go even deeper in some places and unveil stuff that I might've completely missed. For me that's MurderOfBirds with his Genshin streams. He's way deeper into the lore of the game and knows connections of characters that I sometime miss.

There's also the "re-experience the hype/emotionality" part of the equation. But that usually applies more to clips of streams rather than full vods.

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It comes down to list of priorities and the energy to do the things on said list. It's way easier to watch a stream than to play a game. You can also do smth else while watching the stream. "Lurking" is quite popular exactly because of that.

There's also the social aspect of chatting with other like-minded people and the overall feeling of being a part of a community. And an even bigger aspect of parasocialness where this cool person is you "friend" that you get to watch/experience stuff with.

And for some people (me being my biggest example) there's the x2 speed (though I watch stuff at x2.5) at which you can consume the content, so you can get through more stuff in less time.

And as I said, it's not always games that you yourself would play. I watched the full playthrough of TLOU(2) on Cohh's stream because I had no intention of playing those games but I was interested in the bigger social discussion about them and I wanted to see why those games were praised/hated so much. And even if I pirated those games, spending several dozen hours playing them was in no way appealing to me.

Also, there's the issue of literally not having the means to play the games that are exclusive to a platform that you don't have. I'll never have a switch or a playstation, but I'm interested in seeing what their games represent because quite often they push the industry forward. And by watching streamers that play like me I can pretty much "play" those games myself.

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I watch every episode of Ashes Forge and I disagree with them on a lot of topics. I watch it exactly because I disagree with them. Fuck being in an echo chamber.

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They do disagree on a fair few things. And they're interested in different stuff too, so their povs on mechanics are different.