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Guys, I know in a literal sense of the word moment, every moment is a moment, so you don't have to say it in chat, okay? As far as Twitch moments go, I will decide what the twitch moments is, and you'll have zero say on what's a moment or what is not a moment on twitch. Okay? Not everything, is a moment.
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~Aurateur Copypasta
Anything, whether it be an object, an event, a person, or literally just a way something is, can be a moment. If it is noteworthy, it's a moment. If it's noteworthily un-noteworthy, it's a moment. Literally anything you could possibly conceive in your brain is a moment if, for whatever reason, it has even the slightest bit of significance to you. If it comes up, physically, emotionally or mentally, and it has even a minimum of significance to you (or is significantly insignificant) then that's a moment. Why?
Well, the livestreaming platform ”Twitch” had, for some time, a feature called “Moments”. Live streams 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 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.
Unfortunately, Twitch eventually killed the moments feature. But its legacy lives on, with users still trying to convince Aurateur that things were a moment and me taking it to the real world and labelly anything and everything as a moment if I feel like it - just like Aurateur's Twitch chat did (and does, to this day).