>>20753047I do too. And the vtube community as a whole.
Normies are flooding in now. Enjoy these last days, make the most of your memories here, and remember to save it somehow (like an archive backup, write about it in your diary, etc). It's just like every new emerging technology -- badass cool people use it while it's small, then normies invade and it becomes defanged, hedonistic, feminised, and mostly corporate. You'll only ever get a cynical "giggle" if you mention the good days to any dumbfuck normie.
Appreciate that you were a part of it, that your posts, presence, streams, tips, and time contributed in some tiny way to the overall development. And when it succeeds very large, feel proud that you had the insight to take interest in an emerging technology while it was in it's primordial days of infancy. The timid, anime-otaku, lonely-but-curious Western men like you have yet again proven how far ahead we are of the rest of humanity. All the features that make you, "you", are what leads the world. I wish you guys knew. You are the best part of the internet.
The only other times in my life something similar happened was when I discovered WoW when it was new and groundbreaking; and when I discovered bitcoin when it was worth pennies. The culture in these two communities was incredible. The precise skill these men had, their honest motivations to develop a craft, nobody pretending to be anything they're not. Just shy humans with real human connection. They're ruined now, culturally speaking (look at bitcoin twitter). I'm seeing it happen here now to vtubing.
just cherish it while it's still here
and when it's gone, don't give up or anything. Move on to where you belong, in the next emerging feat of humanity, where everyone else here is waiting for you. We belong at the cutting-edge. The edge moves as it cuts... as do we
