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I have been mulling this over for the last few hours, it is making me think. April fools jokes are interesting; obviously, by taking the form of what you are not, you give away what you are, or at the very least what you consider yourself as or believe the values you personify are.
It has always been an interesting wrinkle trying to dissect what exactly she means when she talks about a lot of things. She uses a lot of alternative definitions, hyperbolic speak, and other such things to obfuscate it (intentionally or not). She "dislikes egirls," but it isn't a simple fleshtuber versus vtuber sort of thing. She has often talked about how she dislikes people who criticize parasocial relationships, an understandable position. But here, she correlates those two things, which to me is contradictory.
The common understanding of an egirl at this point is a woman who uses flirtation and romantic subtext to advance relationships, or else profit in things like streaming. They thrive OFF of parasocial relationships, and unequal relationships in general. This is accepted by their fanbase, and the criticism of parasocial activity comes from outsiders.
She, in a lot of interactions I've seen, seems uncomfortable being adjacent to these people. She says there's nothing wrong with parasocial relationships, but also continually clarifies that her and her viewer's relationship is not. I always found that very strange, and she acted strange when I pressed her on it. It is a "purity" thing, I think. Even if she is adjacent to these people, she is above them, or else different in a meaningful way that means she dislikes getting aligned with them. This used to make a bit more sense when she resonated with the idol/vtuber label, but if I understand it correctly, she discarded those and said she didn't want to be considered either of those, correct?
Regardless, this all leads to a strange joke of inherent contradiction. It is perhaps telling that she did not maintain it past the initial tweet. I do not really understand people who do this sort of thing, where they try and make things black and white; "the things I dislike are bad, and have everything I percieve as a bad quality."Or maybe I'm autistic and thinking of this too hard. It's just been sticking with me for hours now. This is obviously my fault for engaging with a community I have been blocked from and been missing context from for a year now, but some days I really have to fight the urge to try and sneak a peek and fill myself in.
