>>29622328I 100% agree, but with a caveat
>for nowEven fucking puppets, a thousands of years old form of entertainment, went from
>local animators in kids partiesto
>local TV for the successful localsto
>worldwide stars with name recognition trailing no meatspace character, complete with their own movies, albums, TV shows, cartoons, late night interviews and a personality so distinct people consider them non fictional characters.On the vtuber scene I believe we are right now between the "kids party animators" and "local celebrities" phases.
All it takes is ONE breakout character and Suisei, Marine and Pekora are surely flirting with it in Japan, and so is Gura in North America.