I'm Not Playing Mario Maker

You are never, ever, EVER going to see Super Mario Maker broadcast on my stream.

The idea of the game (people make and upload levels, and you can play them) is great on paper, and it's apparently receiving new features and improvements to make it better.  Indeed, I'm *not* saying that the game, in and of itself, is bad - it's what the game does to a stream that I take issue with.

Super Mario Maker is what I call a "sellout virus" - a game that, once a typical streamer begins casting it and sees what kind of viewership and/or cash it rakes in, they start broadcasting it much more often than other things they play.  There aren't many streamers who have played the game and managed to avoid full-on infection, from what I can tell, but those who are able to resist that urge have my respect.

This goes hand-in-hand with the seeming fact that a fair amount of the SMM fanbase appears to be rabid younger people; the types who see "OMG they're makin teh Marioz!!!" and go watch the stream immediately because they know they can get you to play their levels - most of which are pretty bad for various reasons, or are specifically designed to be extreme challenge levels.

It is partly because of the prevalence of those sorts of levels, and partly due to the demographic of the game's fanbase that I'm going to steer clear of it.  I don't want my channel populated exclusively by people bugging me to play their levels and spamming level codes in my chat; that's not what I want my stream to become.

Instead, I'm going to continue speedrunning Mario 3 for the chill folks who aren't following me just because I'm playing one of the hottest commodities on the planet.  I prefer meaningful followers, not meaningless ones: at the end of the day, the number does not matter to me so much as how much my followers care.