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Hello yes. Very interesting offering from Jerry this morning. The semi-ironic look into the fascistic headspace of her "ideal work schedule" offered a plethora of takes on the message she was trying to put out. The initial knee jerk reaction of rejection on the merit of juvenile naivety towards the realities of "brokie" work life subtly evolves along with the mumble mouthed reworking of her thesis. As the premise moves to, as one witty supachat points out, what amounts to serfdom the subconscious inkling of true meaning begins to work its way to the surface of the performance.
Jerry doesn't mean to suggest traditional work but instead the "labor" of being a vtuber fan. The daily engagement and support offered by the fanbase suddenly is revealed as the 7 day a week 5 hour a day schedule that is intended for the truly devoted viewer. Of course this applies in large capacity to the performer herself as well but the multitude of raw man hours consumed in the viewing of the chuuba performance is the real work being done here. Again the perverse nature of the chuuba x viewer relationship begins to show its ugly side as Jerry kicks down another subconscious level with her ridiculous "Do you think we could make animals work?"
This is a sublime little play on a complex topic of philosophical intent behind "Man is a Political Animal" and the inherent posturing and campaigning of the chuuba sphere, intercompany in the most immediate sense and then again within the broad battlegrounds of cross corpo and indie jockeying. Only just a few days earlier I was informed of this Otaku concept of the "Database Animal" that is the maligned societal component of Otaku oriented individuals, most likely relegated to place such as this and inclined to seeking out the parasocial qualities of the chuuba experience. Jerry, in her babu babbling alien contempt lays flat out the presupposition that her viewers are the animals being made to work for her benefit. This Database Animal mindset is the perfect interpretation of the way the chuuba is intended to be consumed as a commercial entertainment product. Of course this is all being espoused as the little brat is making her minions go about performing the menial task of "puzzle solving"(autism) behind her. I really do think that this stream may go down as the equivelant of the Hime In Hell fiery background soft disclosure stream she performed during her launch to create a post-facto karmic absolution on the grounds of "you knew what you were getting into".
The chuuba complex enslavement of male Database Animals helped bring to mind a better idea of what service Kevin is offering here with Phase Connect. The blatant nepohire and blatant posturing of his brand lifestyle surrounding the talents makes it clear that in Phase Connect the "talents" aren't so much the product as is the captive viewerbase that Phase Connect maintains and cross pollenates amongst it's viewers. In this way a steady stream of support equally elevates all of the girls into the comfortable lifestyle you are funding and helping to launder the various tax exploit loophole funnymoney that Little Brother generates through his Vtuber Industry involvement.
Jerry laid it on maybe a little too thick particularly the timing immediately after the big offcollabo zatsu giving some insight into the purpose behind these types of corporations but all together a stimulating discussion point from the "puzzle" stream! I hope everyone pieced it together!