>>10240464If people keep seeing vtubers only as livestreamers, that the only type of main content they could ever do are streams. Then vtubing is doomed to stagnate like a rotting carcass.
When the pandemic came, there was not so much a vtuber boom, than a livestreaming boom.
But as things normalized and people began to have less spare time, it was inevitable that the livestreaming tide will level off.
Each and every vtuber is feeling this, while the competition only gets more fierce.
This thread harps on a lot about creativity and innovation, but there is literally only so much you can do with the livestreaming format as opposed to videos.
Even Jerma (who's not limited to an avatar) is a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of unique and creative content Youtubers have to put out on a regular basis.
Videos are vastly better as an outlet for creativity, where you have all the time to fully express what you want, and vastly better as digestible content for new and casual viewers.
"Creative" streams are a dead-end by themselves, as the livestream audience will watch vtubers regardless of what they do,
whist the casual video-only audience will not, even though they are much more appreciative of creativity as a distinguishing factor.
And while many vtubers do have short-form digestible content as a side, to hopefully grab some of the casual audience, it's almost entirely song covers, meme shorts, and clips from clippers.
Utterly oversaturated and creatively-bankrupt content,
as if spewed out from a factory line with not a single soul put into it.
I wouldn't be surprised if the would-be vtuber viewer simply dismissed the entirety of vtubing, with how boringly samey their shorts are.
It's sad to see vtubers as whole treat their single most powerful tool for casual appeal, edited videos, as an afterthought.
Just because a bunch of early corporate stooges, with their lack of creatividad, didn't have as much success with it, doesn't mean that all vtubers had be pigeon-holed as variety livestreamers as Nijisanji would have it.
But that's the reality they chose, the fate they consigned themselves to.
