>>20879138Literally the opposite for me. I thought I'd have Ame as my oshi, but I eventually switched to Gura. Before, Gura was extremely guarded, nervous, and boring. She rarely talked about anything about herself, and when she did it was under so many layers of kayfabe. Her earliest antis even used it as ammo to make thousands of threads about how she didn't want to be close, or "connected", to her fans because of how her opsec was up basically up all the time. Then there was this issue of how nervous she was, and as a result how boring she was. She just wouldn't take any risks then, she wouldn't let her emotions come out, she was even very cautious about her language. Her streams then really felt like they were for kids (thus the shitposting angle that survives to this day). Shitposters, of course, spun this around to say that she was the fakest vtuber, that nothing about what she's showing us is her real self. Gura nowadays is so different. Now, Gura just talks about everything in her life, from the stuff she's snacking on, to even the most embarrassing
stuff.It was that effort on her part to be more open that I started liking her more and more. Her streams are entertaining now, at least they are compared to the slog that her streams used to be, you can't even compare. The moment she got over all that nervousness over streaming and started getting more and more comfortable, she felt more and more natural too, and not detached like how she used to feel. Now her best content are her zatsudans, if I told anyone that a month after she debuted nobody would believe me. She absolutely sucked about talking about anything, I'm really glad she changed. She still needs lots of improvement, but over time I think she'll get lot better.