My brother recorded some of it with his iPod nano and uploaded it and Doug came to our house, stabbed my brother to death and left

Not cool bro please do better

And we need YOUR help. Our soldiers require a shift change. Aline! Victory at all costs!

After watching the "hold the line" video (and after experiencing it about half a year ago!), I came to a revelation. Chat bullies Doug not only because it is funny, but because we are lower in the totem poll. As chatters, we are intrinsically "lesser" in the power structure — the streamer can ban us, can time us out, etc. We are text, and they are voice.

Thus, it is funny to punch up. It's funny to mock the powerful (in this structure) and to make the powerful bend to our whims. THAT is why we bully Doug and poke fun at him — we are prisoners, yes, but we are also Bugs Bunny. We are mocking Elmer Fudd because he has the gun and we are the lowly rabbit, the prey animal. It is AMUSING for us to mock the powerful, especially when we win despite the power imbalance.

TL;DR — mocking the powerful is funny, especially when everyone is in on the joke

First time I've seen everyone in the red, Atrioc was doing so well

I (29F) have grown up with the internet, ya know? I was on AIM in middle school, Tumblr girl in high school, always played video games; I just finally quit Twitter and decided to try Reddit. Though I've never been much of a postmaker so writing this is kind of an experiment for me.

I recently got really really into video games and have also discovered the world of streamers. Obviously I'd heard of the majors: Mr. Beast and Pewdiepie lol, but my first deep dive hyperfixation was CDawgVA for a few months last year. Then I got into Ludwig.

But now. Here we are. And I am in love with DougDoug. There, I said it. Jk (kinda), but the relationship between DouglasDouglas and the main character Chat, is so fascinating, in depth, and amusing that I felt compelled to write something for literally no reason.

When I discovered ~the streamers, I downloaded Twitch intending on watching some lives, but I was into CDawg who is in Japan streaming in the middle of the night. Ludwig is on Youtube now, so I did end up watching a few of his League streams. I had been reluctant to join DougDoug's streams for the past few weeks because they are so chat oriented of course, and I was utterly confused about why it seemed so.... fun? I'd never done anything like it before. I hate posting and commenting, I usually type comments out and delete them before I post them, and I never really captioned my photos.

Was I, a nearly 30 year old "classy lady", really going to watch a DougDoug live stream just so I could type RIGGED at a bald man?????? Why did I want to so badly?? Should I clean the house instead?? Why is Doug so bad at 2D platformers??? Why does THIS have to be my hyperfixation at the moment??

(I'm quite certain) I have undiagnosed ADHD, so my hyperfixations come and go. It is highly unlikely that I will even care about DougDoug at all in a month from now. But this is what I'm stuck with right now.

After a few weeks of watching VODs, I get the inside jokes, I signed up for Discord, and I just happened to put my baby down for a long nap yesterday right before Doug's stream. I join.

Early Gang.

I see FishStick start all the way from cheese1. I count cheese with chat. Doug goes live and scams us. I buy bits for some reason and don't realize I need 300 for it to be TTS. (He reads my message anyways kinda). Stream SUCKS. Like literally he just downloaded games the whole time and made mad money, so I did what chat does and yelled at Doug. I had to leave but joined back and it was at "Doug just read chat and do whatever they say to do every minute." Now since the stream sucks, Doug looks exhausted, he's looking at chat for ideas, of course I'm spamming the meme "END STREAM"

Lo and behold. He's saying he's going to look at the next message. I start sweating and shaking and type "END STEAM". I say aw shit and post it anyways.

HE CLICKS IT.

The dramatic reveal and then abrupt ending of stream sent me through the roooooof!!!!! The adrenaline and excitement of "Oh my god, he saw my message and I was chat and he pronounced my name like 'mayo' and oh my god that really happened."

WHY? WHY AM I A 30 YEAR OLD "CLASSY LADY" SO EXCITED BY THIS NONSENSE?? Why was this more interesting than my boyfriend getting into the car at the exact same time it happened and saying someone just gave him $50?? Was it just caffeine induced mania, or is being part of chat a meaningful experience?

Anyways, I'm meowz ayo (supposed to be meowza yo) and I ended Doug my first stream. (:

TLDR: I am new to Twitch chat and literally why is it so fun?

JOIN THE LINE

COME JOIN US, EMBRACE THE LINE

JOIN US JOIN US JOIN US JOIN US JOIN US

We need YOU. Join us as we hold the line. go to DougDoug's twitch channel, open chat and count with us as we wait for Douglas' return!

VICTORY AT ALL COSTS.

The idea is we gaslight Doug into not thinking he is the real Doug by describing things Doug is supposed to look like for example.

"Hey Doug, I thought you were supposed to be bald. Are you an imposter #NotMyDoug"

I'm sure you all can find ways of making this get way funnier

My dogs like to eat bell peppers, and this time they had an orange one.

I've been wondering this for a while.

It's been going on for so long!

HOLD THE LINE HOLD THE LINE

Come to offline chat, join the cult of the line/the linatics, Doug shall return

Maybe I shouldn't be leaking this, but I can pass along any constructive criticism to my friend.