Streamers like Kai Cenat are successful because they are leading their generation with positivity.

“The reason the screamers are the way that they are is because of Kai. Kai is a emotionally intelligent, positive person and he's had massive success. Whenever you see somebody having that level of success, you want to emulate that.”

Hasan Piker argues that he produces a higher variety of content than his critics acknowledge, including news analysis and travel streams alongside gaming.

“there is so much variety I think it's because I do like 10hour streams every day and a big chunk of it is news that like people forget how much variety content exists”