>>62780201Well, if you want to prove that you're better than someone else, you've got to actually do that, right? Ok, how about this. I'll do that as much as I can without doxxing myself.
I have trained as a pro wrestler under 2 WWE hall of famers and worked crowds upwards of 2,000+ people. There is a science to live performance and if you make a habit of choking out the first guy that boos you, even when you're a bad guy, you're out of the business. Had to be honest that as I hit 30, it wasn't a viable career choice due to the physical toll it takes on the body.
In addition to that, I make a living off of music and have done so for a decade. My songs consistently get thousands of hits in the first few days without ever having to promote it. I feel very fortunate because I get to do what I love, and knowing so many people are getting enjoyment from my work makes me happy. I'm still doing this and intend of involving aspects of that in my vtubing too.
I became a YouTube partner in 2010. I simply did not enjoy creating videos that much, it was just that the videos I did make did very well for the time. It wasn't going to be a sustainable thing, though I still get subs & comments from those videos all these years later.
>why didn't you just start streaming on those channels?It's pretty much channel suicide to do that. Best to start with a blank page, plus I enjoy the aspect of working my way up.
For a few years, I put out original content which consistently reached upwards of 1m+ impressions and was featured on various "buzzfeed"esque sites (including Buzzfeed themselves) which I wore as a badge of pride at the time but not so much anymore. Remnants of this stuff can still be found around the internet. I stopped because after 2 years, I was running out of ideas and couldn't deliver quality as consistently.
You can do all the mental gymnastics you want to convince yourself that all this has been worthless, but even failed opportunities provide things of value. Only a pessimist who quite literally WILL never make it will be unable to find that value, and subsequently apply that to their next venture. Vtubing also isn't hot and new, it's been popular for years. If I wanted to capitalize on that aspect, I would have done it in 2020 or 2021.
Anyways.
I think you will suffer a worse fate than I will, even if this ends up being a flop for me. Your mentality is so poor, that you will not only not make it, you will also refuse to dive back in or get into something else with new knowledge or an improved mindset. You will sit and wallow in it and hate everyone for your own shortcomings. You will keep throwing the same ball at the wall and hoping it sticks. You are an angry, spiteful person who could fill a family size Dorito bag with the amount of chips on your shoulder, but you couldn't pop a can of Pringles. You think openly shitting on people who try to care about you is the way to go. The only people I see doing this are terminally-on-Twitter 0views, which is where my grievance came from because they're a dime a dozen. So GOOD LUCK!
You aren't meant to be an entertainer. You are meant to be a seething retail worker.