Virtually tipping dancers on Twitch, she joked, felt like the pandemic version of tipping a stripper at a club.
This pandemic has been hard financially on a lot of us and many people have turned to various forms of online work to survive.” Horne worked as a stripper before the pandemic, and once lockdown orders came down, transitioned to online sex work on OnlyFans.
“I also think tipping is a great way to build community and practice mutual aid. “If I’m entertained or enjoying the content you’re providing, I want to tip you to help support your work,” Horne said. Horne tips about two or three times a month and approaches tipping not just as a financial gift, but as creative encouragement some of her favorite dancers, she told me, are new to streaming, with fewer than a thousand subscribers. She started tipping the streamers, since it felt like “a natural extension of gratitude,” in addition to paying a monthly subscription to access exclusive content. She’d purchased the game herself on her PlayStation 4 as a quarantine workout, and the streamers became her source of motivation. Over the summer, Cherry Horne became hooked on watching Twitch streams of seasoned dancers playing Just Dance.
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