I have seen streams over the years but only the finished ones that are put up on YT, they pop up naturally in the recommended videos when you watch a lot of wow stuff. They are 20 times out of 10 extremely annoying and think they are the coolest thing in the entire world, just can’t stand people with that type of ego mindset. And then some of them are waaay to happy, like it’s not even normal to be that happy, it’s ridiculous. My most hated person in the world, through all of the human history and that I wish everything bad upon is Taliesin. Most annoying, fake smiling, eyebrow moving person I have EVER seen.
Who do you watch? I mean I watch Xaryu, he is pretty chilled out, I also watch Tiqqle because of shaman content.
Both these are laid back in streams.
Sometimes soulscape too.
Maybe people are in transport and have no access to game, so they watch streamer playing. Maybe others want to see what other player are doing and how they are doing. Or they want to know what other player think about X or Y content.
Sense of community.
Something to listen to / background music.
Perfect “2nd monitor” content.
Usually the talking points are related to the game they’re playing, which is obviously of interest to you since you’re watching them play it.
Some ppl dont have the time or money to invest in a game so they rather watch a stream, check it out and maybe in a future they become players, or just for the entertainment, I usually have a streamer off screen whie playing.