I would like to formally request a post about the twitch chat as a Shakespearean third person omniscient audience, please and thank you

asdf I wasnt expecting to make this post immediately but like... the validation... so here lets do this;

I realize my original post was poorly worded so let me clarify, the third person omniscient audience is a facet of all tragedies, not just shakespearean. In Classical Greek tragedies this took the form of the chorus, a sort of faceless ensemble that would acted as a middleman for the fourth wall, both interacting with the characters on stage and singing to the audience, telling them what would happen to the characters. Shakespeare’s work may also contain a chorus, most notably the prologue of Romeo and Juliet is read by the chorus, but the main way the audience recieves this omniscience in his plays is from characters’ soliloquies. The character will basically put the play on pause and talk to themselves, discussing their thoughts, feelings and plans with only the audience to hear. And if you think abt it that’s basically what talking to your twitch chat is. When Wilbur or Techno or Tommy or ANYONE mutes their discord mic and starts talking to their chat directly, thats a soliloquy babey!  And it sounds silly to compare goofy Minecraft lets plays to Shakespeare, but whether they realize it or not thats what theyre doing. And the goofy Minecraft lets players take it one step further, because the audience can talk back. Because live streams are an interactive medium, the fourth wall is very loose in the dream smp. Techno threads the needle on this with the introduction of his voices, taking his chat behind the fourth wall and making them a part of the plot, but for others they just roll with it and incorporate the audience into the story as-is, which I think is just as if not more interesting! It’s almost a combination of the soliloquy and the concept of the greek chorus, between being an observer and an active part of the story. When wilbur is in the button room debating whether or not to blow it all up, his chat is cheering him on or yelling at him to stop and he acknowledges them. he argues with them, in fact! Tommy being somewhere high up and the chat going “DO A FLIP” is another, albeit more lighthearted, example, but I find it interesting that you can track his character’s mental state by whether he’s staring pensively at the lava or snarking at his chat for the dumb joke.

I think you can debate whether or not the audience for the dream smp is “omniscient”. We dont know exactly how the story will end at any given time. I especially had NO clue where season 2 was going right up until the end. But in some ways we do know what will happen when characters tell us what they’re going to do. As much as I like to rag on techno for his whole “bluh I told you guys I was an anarchist” from a character perspective, from a tragedy perspective he told the audience exactly what was going to happen. Same with wilbur and his stupid Chekov’s gun references, even if the characters couldn't see the signs, we the audience can. and Its the same thing with stuff like Ranboo’s memories and journals, or Karl’s time traveling. We the audience know more than the characters involved, and to bring it back to Hitchcock, knowing something bad is going to happen ramps up the tension for us in the story. the one downside of this is the attempts at meta gaming when the chat will try to warn their streamer of choice abt whats happening, but I cant fault the chat itself or any specific audience members for that. Its a downside of the medium, if you introduce the concept of audience interaction into your story you have to live with the risk that the audience may not do exactly what you want.Its a part of what makes it unique and these streams are all improv-heavy anyway, so the storytellers have to roll with the punches. 

so...yeah. thank u for indulging my nonsense.