Tyler1 vs Moe ?

You must be joking. Why do billions of people watch sports then? Because we love competition, rivalry. You compete with your classmates in school, with other kids on the pitch and in disco in order to get the bitch. You rival others on the road, you rival your colleagues in your workplace and so forth. We just rival in our whole life actually. Also people love watching other people's rivalry. Any kind.

Reputation? What reputation? This dudes are z list celebs. Their fanbase are mostly braindead fanboys and little kids. They do not give a damn about their idol's reputation. They love them anyway. Look at Hashinshin for example. He is a meme, a bad joke. Yet he has a huge fanbase. Tyler is a toxic jerk who is toxic towards even his own fanbase yet they still love him. Do you think they will really care if he loses this bet because Moe ends up with 5 more LP or something? "Dude you are way better, he was just lucky, got carried, blablabla"

Btw, I happened to watch them chatting after a game. They acted like archenemies who would definitely kill eachother if they were in the same room. Later they played pummel party, they were firendly, kind and laughed together. So yeah, it is mostly an act for the fanbase who love watching a rivalry like this and shittalk like this.

Popularitiy is popularitiy, the source does not matter. If people talk about this bet more and more other people will hear about it and some of them will be interested. Celebs always do some shit just to get the attention because attention equals money. Bad reputation or good reputation, it does not matter. There are many way better streamers than these guys, with quality content, yet barely anyone watches or knows them.

This is just business. They gain incredible amount of money out of it.