>>50061569these dumbass 'if this OTHER kind of person said we cant be friends out of the blue it would be dumb!!!!!!!!' comparisons are the most caveman concave skull-ass things ive ever seen.
fauna was literally asked in a (bait) superchat about the topic, and vtubers/streaming centers around the streamer/viewer interaction dynamic that is frankly a new sort of relationship you can have with another person that humanitys never seen before. that cafe exactly is dumb as hell because
a) you totally could be friends with the owner. why the fuck not? its a person you can physically encounter IRL no problem and possibly regularly do. im sure common patrons befriending (maybe on a very superficial level) owners/management of wherever they frequent isn't all that uncommon. fauna is someone you can't interact with on any substantial, even level because the only way fans can interact with her is through streams
b) the owner's comment is completely unsolicited. fauna was literally asked.
theres no good comparison for streamer-viewer relationships because the internet has been around for less than 1% of civilization's history, and livestreaming has only really been a thing for the past 10 years. the parasocial relationship conversation is touched on a lot because the dynamic is frankly really fucking weird and not at all analogous to conventional degrees of interpersonal relationships.
fauna was a litte stupid to answer the question because she only stood to lose from it, but it goes to show that shes more than willing to be a bad businesswoman if it means maybe helping people, which says a lot about her character considering shes literally in the business of monetizing her company