Two million people tuned into Bethesda’s day-long stream of a toy

For almost 24 hours, eager Fallout fans showed up online in droves to watch... well, basically nothing. On its Twitch channel yesterday morning, developer Bethesda streamed a continuous shot of a Vault Boy statue, placed against the background of a monitor displaying the message “Please stand by.” (Its official Twitter and Facebook accounts posted the same message around the same time.) Occasionally, something weird would happen — like a strange sort-of puppet show or someone would appear and play with balloons to break up the monotony.

The stream ended with a teaser for Fallout 76, but not before Bethesda’s Todd Howard made an appearance to remind everyone that millions of us wasted precious minutes of our lives. “We have had over 2...

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