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Vtubers are roleplayers ultimately.
The japanese understand this well, and they play their role well. Honestly, it's probably the first sign of someone not being fit to be a vtuber when they don't "act", so to say.
When they are just using their model as a "skin", but they are just plain streamers, just like any other basic streamer.
A great example are some of the vshojos, and most of holoEN.
On the same topic, having seen the faces of some vtubers, if they play their role well, it doesn't even subtract anything from their value.
A lot of people are just fine considering vtubers "streamers" but that's not even the full picture. If you don't watch for the character that's being roleplayed by whoeverthefuck, might as well go watch xqc or forsen or whatever.
Thanks for reading my shitty opinion