>>85546568Vtubing as a hobby is fucked because 90% of the people getting in only care about the avatar and the social aspect and not the part where people try to make content so you have a bunch of people associating having an anime avatar with streaming as part of the culture without realizing if they'd actually enjoy it in the long run, and for the most part, the people who stick with it end up with some of the most banal boring content carried mostly by personality, and the audience is especially aware of that. When a random person gets special treatment for being one of the 5 viewers on someone's stream, they get really emboldened and will do all sorts of stupid shit, and I've seen this happen to male vtubers trying to be sincere too.
It works out for corpos thanks to the massive crevasse that exists between them and their audience/other vtubers but indies trying to do the same thing as they do while also trying to exercise their independence and "just b themselves" is the reason why there's so many problems with western indies. Nobody wants to act professional, nobody is sincerely trying to think about their branding, so on and so forth. Can't expect everyone to treat things like a business but I can tell you for a fact that small flesh streamers don't run into nearly as many problems despite having a similar environment once you put the anime avatars away (which in the end is just a visual element of the stream).
t. vtubing for 2 years
