>>15156895>>15156849As an old-school weeab, I think I can explain. The problem isn't vtubers in theory, it's which vtubers are popular in practice. The first vtuber, Kizuna Ai, was just a typical japanese variety vlogger, but with a 3D mocapped model. So basically the same concept as like Hatsune Miku or the gorillaz, but applied to shitty daily youtube content. The problem began when a company called Hololive joined the field with really really really shitty mocap technology and ascended to be the most popular company that everybody copied. Ever since, vtubers have been literally fat 30 year old former anime convention whores who "act" as a 2D .png anime avatar with like 3 different faces. The entire fanbase is the zoomer equivalent of bronies to millenials. People who are rejects from other fanbases. Which is why vtuber shit is so damn bad, because to even like hololive on a base level, to ignore the shitty mocap tech, you have to fundamentally be mentally ill or out of touch with reality.
To make it into a wrestling metaphor, imagine if the worst wrestling company that looked the most fake was the most popular and everyone was dying to copy them. That's what happened with vtubers and why the whole medium is turbocancer. Record labels and idol companies have tried to do higher end vtuber shit and these manchildren refuse to watch it, but 100,000 of them will watch some fat American washed up /cgl/ shitposter make the same :3 face over and over again for 10,000 hours of stream time.
