Why is boosting tolerated when streamers do it for views?
On youtube I constantly see diamond or challenger players announcing that they are playing on a smurf in bronze, either for views, or under the guise of "demonstrating" challenger level macro or whatever, while explaining smugly to the audience how easy it is to do what they do.
How is this different from boosting? How do you think a bronze player would feel knowing their ranked game is basically wasted time since a challenger is playing on the enemy team?
This practice is kind of similar to that scene in the wolf of wall street, when Jordan Belfort is standing in front of that audience of average joes, the very people he screwed over to get rich, the very people he exploited, and telling them they, too, can get rich quick. They aren't angry at him for doing it, they are intrigued, they WANT to be exploited because it allows them to continue believing that they can do it too. Jordan Belfort got his money by defrauding investors. In this same fashion, High elo smurfs are taking advantage of low elo players to make themselves look good and make money off it.
Jordan Belfort's scheme wouldn't work if we didn't share his dream of getting rich quickly. We all want to be just like him. Youtube Smurfs and their audience are no different. They don't think about how they would feel if one of these challenger smurfs was in their game on the other team, because they would rather live vicariously through the calm, confident narrative of a challenger in bronze, wishing they could do that themselves.
How is this not even more depraved than regular boosting?
If these types of videos were legitimate attempts at showing how challenger "Macro" works, as many of the videos claim, and were honest in their presentation, they would let an actual bronze player play a game, and coach them as they play. There are so many things a challenger does that bronze players aren't even remotely aware of; Wave management, cool downs, combos, last hitting, etc. Not only is this clearly exploitative, they are obviously lying. Challenger macro alone is not accomplishing this. it's challenger everything.
