Think about all the idiots with their parent's credit card, giving money to streamers for no good reason. Throwing money at a porn animator isn't all that hard to believe. Does that make it ok? Probably not.
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There's a big difference actually.
If some1 donates money to a streamer it's usually for one of two (or both) reasons.
1st. Attention, some people either like getting attention from the streamer or the whole stream. So donating 5 dollars in front of 1k+ people usually gets them what they want, attention.
2nd. Content, they value the streamers content and thus, if they can afford it, they decide to support the streamer financially or in other words, give something back.
Both of these reasons are perfectly justified in my opinion.
In both cases it's a fair trade.
Either it's x amount of money for x amount of attention or it's entertainment (which is mostly free) for money (if the person feels like it/got the money).
Both parties benefit from this trade, it's basically a win win situation.
However the issue with Scammers like Miro etc. is that there's no real benefit for the supporter.
Miro's getting the money while not providing what he has promised to provide and instead delivers either nothing or something of far less value.
Hence why it's called "scam".
Whenever something involves a trade where only one participant profits and the other does not (neither short nor long term) there's usually some real fuckery going on.
I hope this kinda explains it, feel free to debate with me if you disagree, I'm curious.