>>427604You don't need to understand idols in order to fall for their tricks. How do you think it goes? "Today I will have a parasocial interaction with a girl who sings upbeat J-pop in a frilly dress and also doesn't interact with males, let's fucking go!" Is that what you think the average idolfag thinks like?
Established aesthetics aside, idolfaggotry is industrialized exploitation of parasocial interaction. A combination of hero worship and what you would call simp herding but done professionally with the use of know-how of an industry that did nothing but that for decades, packaged into accessible to normalfags and easy to swallow capsule of music and in case of vtubers gameplay streaming. Everything to maximize the number of people who feel like an idol is an important existence in their lives while the idol doesn't even know they exist. That core audience that sends supacha, gets membership, participates in fan events, catches every stream live, obsessively draws fan art and edits videos, runs dedicated clip channels, etc is what's important. Subscribers who don't care about anything other than the meme content and at best watch a stream from time to time when they are bored and hdon't matter all that much.
Let's go abstract and imagine that every girl has a score. It's subjective, so let's say in my case qualities such as being ambitious, caring about art and singing well add points to an idol. For you positive qualities might be different but you get what I'm saying. (You), as a member of the audience, have a threshold. When a girl has enough points to breach your threshold you become her oshi no hito. Not necesserily an obsessed gachi, but there is a bond that makes you support her. What do idols do to maximize the number of supporting fans? They change their lives and broadcast them in ways that maximize their points (some of those ways are streamlined and that's where you get your image of the "proper" idol and the idol culture, but nobody says that they can't go off the rails trying to capture odd audience) and at the same time they try to maximize exposure, often by doing stupid shit like producing dumb meme clips or shoving their heads into boxes full of cockroaches on TV. Needless to say, openly being in a relationship causes a huge decrease in these points regardless of culture. It's just that much harder for fans' brains to keep the delusion up if their oshi has a visible significant other and without that delusion the whole thing falls apart. Yelling at idolfags that their parasocial relationship is based on a delusion is like yelling at people reading a novel that the events and characters in the story are not real. Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. I choose to get invested and enjoy myself anyway and they are selling this experience to me.
Now, as far as collabs with homos are concerned. Most idolfags wouldn't care if there were reasons to believe that they would keep it professional and regular collabs wouldn't devolve into something like FOXDEMON every time. There are no such reasons. If you don't care about idols and want shipping instead, there is another major chuuba corporation selling it. What are you doing in the filthy idolfag den? Homos themselves seem to get it. Probably because they are mostly idolfags themselves.
