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Life of a Marathon Streamer: Online for Three Years, Facing Isolation and Burnout
Back in 2000, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco marked the 4th anniversary of Jennifer Ringley's pioneering "JenniCam" livestream (saying "It sure beats the Netscape FishCam. It's nuts how Jenni's little cam became such a fixture on The Internet...") But a new article in the Washington Post remembers how ...
It's nuts how Jenni's little cam became such a fixture on The Internet...")But a new article in the Washington Post remembers how "Once, Ringley looked directly into the camera and held a note in front of her eye. She has broadcast and self-narrated a thousand days of sleeping, driving and crying, lugging her camera backpack through the grocery store, talking through a screen to strangers she'll never meet. Emily's paid-subscription count, which peaked last year at 22,000, has since slumped to around 6,000, dropping her base income to about $5,000 a month, according to estimates from the analytics firm Streams Charts...
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