>>69606515Regular idols used to always get stalked by journos who wanted to catch them doing compromising stuff (or just normal stuff and then overinflating it) in order to sell their magazines to normalfags and old folks who loved to gossip and shit on all societal rejects, especially the "otaku".
A flesh idol performs as "themselves" for the most part. Even if they have a "stage persona" or whatever, their face, body etc. are somethihng that cannot be changed.
Hence they would get very little privacy because of these tabloidfags trying to catch them in a "scandal" (Japan's dogshit stalking laws didn't help).
And once an idol "gets caught" in a scandal, their otaku fans literally cannot face away from it. All their copes die in front of whatever "evidence" the magazines push.
This shit used to be super bad back in the era before internet, because if someone printed something on a newspaper or magazine, everyone who read it just believed it 100%.
To doubt something that's "established" would mean standing out, "not reading the air", "causing trouble" etc. and was generally discouraged societally. Even more so because no one respected the opinions of otaku who were generally social outcasts.
For example, anyone who still beleb'd an idol that had some "compromising" photos released, would be browbeaten by the rest of the disillusioned fanbase or the normalfag Japs that took pleasure in bullying their group and making them conform.
They tried to manufacture this type of shit for Seiyuus for a while as well, but for some reason it didn't work - possibly EXACTLY because of the split between the character and the seiyuu themselves, and the myriad maze of the mind of a typical anime otaku. Comparatively, idols HAD to be dedicated to their fans, which meant not having an open relationship.
Thanks to internet however, you don't have to bring any facet of your real life into your online identity if you don't want to. There's a reason most rando internet using Japs are so fucking protective of their offline identities. It allows them to flout the "confirmist" culture without facing backlash from their job, family or "friends". It also allows them to shout out their love without getting hammered down by the rest of society.
Virtual idols also offer an enticing win-win package to both sides, wherein the idol could have a private life, relationships, marriage and even kids if they wanted, and could still work as an idol because the "character" they play was still single and dedicated to their audience.
"Scandals" for V-idols are also a lot more difficult to "manufacture", because the V-otaku simply discard everything about a VTuber's roommate as irrelevant. And because anyone who watches a VTuber stream is themselves considered a V豚 so hate-watching fags will get shit on from both normies AND V-otaku.
This allows them to have the most powerful of copes where they can still watch and have fun with their chosen V-oshi without ever needing to worry about the married life of whoever is playing them.
There's also the fact that the 20-somethings that used to be around in the idol era have now become 40-50 year old ojisans, hence there's a growing population of otaku ojisans who have enough life experience and societal respect to push back on dogshit opinions in non-sperg ways without impacting their personal, work or family life.
Of course, the gossip mongers that grew up on these magazines have also turned into middle-aged fucks, whose very hobby is inherited from their decades of trying to shit on otaku - hence the reason why VTuber "drama" is STILL being pushed, manufactured etc. to this day. The anonymity of the internet helps them avoid getting shamed as well, which is why corpos and their fans try to get doxx on the fags slandering chuubas. Revealing their misdeeds to friends, family and their workplace (if any) gives them irl consequences they can't escape from, even if they don't get arrested.
The "immunity" to normalfags looking to ruin their fun has ALWAYS been something that otakus wanted.
Which is why they're SO steadfast on only treating whatever happens on stream as gospel.
Counterintuitively, this is why black corpos and chuubas that require you to follow their roommmate to have context for their on-stream activities (EN example is the idolEN ghost girl, JP example is Kizuna Ai, Sio and a bunch of nijis) are becoming less and less popular.
People just want to have their cope that the anime girl is gonna be around to entertain them for a while. They don't want them to leave from offstream drama.
Which is also why ON-STREAM drama is something that is ABSOLUTELY TABOO.
And why - to the confusion of normalfags - VTuber fans care about males and homos appearing on stream ONLY, and not whoever they're in bed with off-stream.
