With the arrival of streaming platforms online we’ve heard a lot about international series becoming hits and previously unavailable movies making the rounds in different parts of the world. But streaming has been an opportunity for growth in many other sectors than fiction entertainment. Streaming has also made it easy for people to follow news in other countries, but it’s also pleasing sports fans who love to watch all sorts of disciplines or teams play. But how much did streaming affect the online sports community? Quite a bit as you will see soon enough.
Online streaming has internationalized a lot of media and made it very easy for a lot of people to watch anything they want. With the rise in popularity of soccer, a lot of north Americans have grown fond of following European championships and even Latin American games as much as they can. Through streaming, it is now possible to watch these games live and follow them with the original coverage as well.
The many sports communities on Reddit have been spawning here and there relating to many sports, may it be rugby, cricket, or baseball. So, it is not unusual to see a growing viewership for Australian rugby from Americans or Chinese viewers. Especially considering the proximity of China and Australia both on a geographical and commercial level. There’s also been a lot of crossover viewership for sports that are often shared between countries. For example, a lot of American baseball lovers find themselves developing an interest in watching Korean Baseball Organization on platforms like monacoktv25. As a lot of countries develop teams for sports usually nonexistent.
There’s also the reality that a lot of people who never showed an interest in sports have grown to be great fans of sports they had never been exposed to before. One of the great examples is the Sumo Wrestling community on Reddit. It is now a nineteen-thousand-strong community of English-speaking sumo wrestling fans who would have never been able to follow and develop an admiration for the sport without the possibility of watching the bouts online. Within the community, people have grown to develop favorites and champions they love to follow. There are even people doing fantasy sumo wrestling in this community much like WWE fans.
The WWE Fans community through streaming and the development of online forums has also grown immensely. Through the widespread availability of both current and older matches and seasons. A lot of fans have developed new communities around the sport. There’s currently online a huge WWE fantasy roleplay community that’s been built by much younger fans of the WWE. People will create the wrestlers and storylines along with their friends and their community has only grown further the more people have access to seeing the matches online. As you can imagine fantasy leagues for cricket, soccer, and rugby have also become commonplace on the internet now that fans all across the world can watch any sport they want.
Streaming for sports, tv shows, or movies is an amazing tool to propagate and democratize medias from all across the world to the rest of it. For people who have grown tired of watching the same old leagues and the same old sports. Streaming gives all the sports fans a great to dabble in new things and try out following leagues from different countries and of different countries. So don’t be surprised if you see Football fans following the development of Rugby teams or Cricket fans seeking out ways to watch American baseball leagues. Same as Americans raving over Squid Games or La Casa de Papel, sports have now become available to everyone, and the communities are better for it.