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Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online by graedus on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:32PM (#15697187)
Presumably those fans are buying those things at least in part because they want to have the album, concert experience, or merch. With twitch donations/tips you get comparatively very little in return - your username might pop up in a video overlay for a few seconds, and the streamer might be like "hey thanks, [username]!". Those 3-4 seconds are typically the entirety of your several-hundered-dollar experience.
Re:How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online by thaumasiotes on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @07:03PM (#15700432)
Those effects can't really be considered to be "your several-hundred-dollar experience", because you get them all, even the on-screen "thanks", for a much lesser tip. What people are getting out of the large tips is something else.