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How does Zentreya get away with it?
The only popular and successful Vtubers are female. It's sad, but almost nobody gives a fuck about the few male Vtubers. It's effectively a career path that men are completely locked out of. If it was an valid option for most males, then thousands of men would be doing it.
On the Internet, you can hide your appearance, but you can't hide your voice. That's the main obstacle that keeps men locked out of the Vtuber career path.
Absolutely nobody would ever think of using text-to-speech to pretend to be a girl, because it would be ridiculously obvious that it's just a guy hiding his voice. If anyone ever tried that, the Internet would rip him to shreds for attempting such an obvious deception.
Or, so I thought.
Zen's popularity completely shatters my preconceptions about what people are willing to tolerate. You will forgive a man for trying to deceive you into thinking he's a woman, using nothing more than a drawing of an anime girl and a text-to-speech voice? Seriously?
But it doesn't stop there. The face on Zen's avatar barely moves, and the text-to-speech voice he's using is monotone as hell. Zen is a low-energy character that is basically devoid of all personality. Yet, he has an audience?
HOW?
Can you really gain a following just by using a busty avatar, even if you're barely emoting at all and it's 100% obvious that you're a dude in disguise? Has the bar really been set this low, the entire time?
More importantly...if this is actually a valid method of "becoming a female Vtuber", then why aren't more guys doing it? Zen has proven that nobody will call you out for being an obvious dude, no matter how flimsy and low-effort your disguise is. So why aren't more guys using the same strategy?
Let me make this extremely clear: I have ZERO interest in witch-hunting Zen or digging into his life outside of the Internet. I just want to know why people tolerate such an obvious deception, and why more guys aren't using the same trick.
