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 Well, the livestreaming platform "[[Twitch]]" had, for some time, a feature called "Moments". Livestreams are interactive TV, and most streams are not scripted. This means that, depending on what exactly the host is streaming, cool things can happen at any moment. The "Moments" feature was meant as a way for hosts to capture moments in which cool things happened: When a cool thing happened, the host could press a button that would create a video clip of the cool thing that happened (for the memories) and award a digital, commemorative badge to all viewers who were there for when it happened.
-This feature was //very// well received. Now, on the Twitch channel [[Aurateur]] it actually gained a life of its own, where users eventually started actively asking for "Moments" even when nothing of note actually happened. But, the host Aurateur, reserved Moments for when he thought cool things actually happened, which lead his community to try to work around it by labelling anything and everything as a "Moment", in hopes of convincing Aurateur to capture it as a moment. Even when the most benign things happened, chatters would write "WHAT A MOMENT!!" in all hype as if something cool happened, that it was "worthy" of being a moment. Of course, when something cool //did actually happen//, chat went completely off the rails and pressured Aurateur that, yes, this was a fucking moment. The phrase "What a moment!" is now a meme inside that community. I can tell you, these were good times.
+This feature was //very// well received. Now, on the Twitch channel [[Aurateur]] it actually gained a life of its own, where users eventually started actively asking for "Moments" even when nothing of note actually happened. But the host, Aurateur, reserved Moments for when he thought cool things actually happened, which lead his community to try to work around it by labelling anything and everything as a "Moment", in hopes of convincing Aurateur to capture it as a moment. Even when the most benign things happened, chatters would write "WHAT A MOMENT!!" in all hype as if something cool happened, that it was "worthy" of being a moment. Of course, when something cool //did actually happen//, chat went completely off the rails and pressured Aurateur that, yes, this was a fucking moment. The phrase "What a moment!" is now a meme inside that community. I can tell you, these were good times.
-Unfortunately, Twitch eventually killed the moments feature. But its legacy lives on, with users still trying to convince Aurateur that things are a moment and by me, taking it to the real world and labelling anything and everything as a moment if I feel like it - just like Aurateur's Twitch chat.
+Unfortunately, Twitch eventually killed the moments feature. But, its legacy lives on, with users still trying to convince Aurateur that things are a moment, and by me taking it to the real world and labelling anything and everything as a moment if I feel like it - just like Aurateur's Twitch chat.
 ====== Moments in the Wild ======