>>103433683>>103433752I don't think it's controversial to say EN vtuber fans are different from JP. EN viewers have Twitch fleshtubers if they want to watch normie friend group content. Vtubing in the west is primarily targeted towards weeaboos. I'm not Japanese so I can't speak for that side's culture but even at cons and stuff the vtuber audience is typically more gender segregated than the general anime audience.
Totally anecdotal but I tried introducing a girl I was seeing to Minto and she just got pissy over her "fake cutesy voice" and made me sad. Then I introduced her to some male ASMR vtubers in an effort to make her understand, and she got hooked, but still hated Minto. I think that's just how it is, western weebs don't like seeing their own sex because they want to self-insert as the viewer/subject.
