>>4476799worth noting is that people use the same arguments in the west and in the east, namely that you're a simp giving money to a woman that would never in a trillion years want to be around you and has a different boyfriend for each day of the week.
kaonashi falls between simp and 2010 nice guy (laser focused on a prepubescent girl, cant speak, gives money for attention, but lashes out violently if rejected).
To pontificate a bit, Japan doesnt like streamers.
Vtubers dominated the japanese streamer market, but there's not a "well what about valkyrae" counterargument for japanese female streamers because there's no japanese female streamers.
Streaming was never a thing in japan, mostly because the kind of games that are popular there are not really streamable, and partly because "streaming videogames" is thought of as something to be done by korean starcraft pros or something like that. Watching someone just stream a game from beginning to end adding commentary is alien to japanese online culture.
In the west, twitch tv comes from the early 2010s youtube's Lets Play phase, but Japan never had a Lets Play phase at all so they dont have people playing games online as part of their online culture.
Vtubers in the west have an easy point of entry because its just a regular streamer with a 2d rig playing a character.
Japan doesnt have this entry point because they arent really interested in streamers in the first place.
For the aspies, this doesnt mean "Japan has ZERO streamers, none.", it means "Japan doesnt have a videogame streamer market and doesnt care to have one so introducing anime videogame streamers has insane resistance".
