#i hope he'll maybe do a rare gaming upload because i could watch that man play anything and i know he could do it all himself

[staranatomyatlas]

will's new upload and his replies kinda drove home something for me i've been mulling over for a few months.

over the years i've watched him, he'd sometimes say things like.. well, i distinctly remember him saying something along the lines of "in an ideal world, as soon as i hit the end stream button, no one thinks of me anymore," as well as several comments on how it's anxiety-inducing (rightfully so!) it is to have so many eyes on you all the time.

him saying he's just going to continue doing what he's doing makes me think that all of this was good for him in some ways.

he has a much smaller audience, a lot less eyes on him, and i think that might be what he wants. even before everything, he was moving very far away from the entertainment sphere, aside from sorry- and qsmp trying to pin him down for more than a day. we were getting nothing aside from biweekly (maybe) sorry at the end because he didn't want to stream. he also tended towards privacy even at his peak. hell, the majority of us weren't even aware he was dating.

i mean this with all the sorrow of a lost community and a wish that things were different, but i think will being a lead in a niche-y band with a small music channel on the side suits him just fine.