>>22079576I'll be honest, I've got into vtubers (sic!) with Luxiem, particulary clips that were pushed on me by Youtube. I've always liked the concept of vtubing but everything existing in popular space when it comes to it was averting me with how artificial and overly cute everything was. It's just was not my kind of thing by execution. And NijiEN was not popular enough back then so I couldn't stumble upon it. I was watching some indie girls (really liked Saruei) here and there until Luxiem got popular and Youtube algorithm started feeding me clips.
After a while, it became interesting to watch streams of NijiEN members. To be honest, I hated Mysta at first and he was my least favorite chuba of all group by first impressions. But after watching some zatsus from him, he really grew on me as really deep, honest and open person. I haven't noticed when he started being my oshi - it just happened naturally.