>>105430500>There is a market for male streamers True
>and there is a market for male idolsAlso true
>the problem is that if you mix them like vtubing does you make no one happy.That's not it. The problem is not the
>mixing contentpart, it is the
>behind an animesque avatar LARPing as something else other than themselvespart.
As you mentioned, there is a MASSIVE market for male content creators (be it live streaming or scripted uploaded content) and there is no barrier to entry in that market. All a bloke needs to be is entertaining and that's it.
For women in the same segment, that's different. Nothing beats a big juicy pair of tits when it comes to attracting the male audience meaning it does not matter how entertaining a female flesh streamer can be, some thot sitting in a kiddies pool in her bikini and applying lotion will ALWAYS attract a bigger audience making it a "natural filter".
For a talented entertaining male content creator his physical appearances means very little.
Some of them (like Dream) even made a name for themselves by NOT showing tjheir face (and Dream, ironically, destroyed his career when he face revealed) while others, like specialised content creators from some niche
>like Minecraft video creatorsdo so behind their game avatars but with no concern about their physical appearance or disclosing their real identities.
Now, here is the reason that makes me believe no significantly large market for male vtubers exist
>being a talented entertainer male content creator behind an animesque avatar and an assumed identity is a DEBUFF in relation to just doing it behind his own face, behind a png or behind nothingThere is ZERO upside for doing it behind an animesque avatar and a lot of downsides considering the medium is a turn off for a significant part of the regular content creators audience SPECIALLY women.
More than that: the audience for that type of content (adjacent to japanese medium) is predominantly male and there is no shortage of entertaining male content creators doing so WITHOUT the animesque avatar.
For the pool of talent itself, why would a talented male content creator do away with the fame and prestige that comes from being a celebrity content creator under his own name to do so behind an avatar and targeting a significantly more limited audience?
In short: my belief is that there is no sufficiently large market for male vtubers because there is no upside for a talented male content creator to choose do create content behind an animesque avatar (meaning the pool of talent is very limited) AND because half of the usual target audience for regular male content creators (women) are REALLY turned off by this type of medium (japanese adjacent).
As for the other half of your point, with regards to male idols, the same argument goes
>there is no upside for a talented singer / dancer to become a "male virtual idol" when he could simply become a regular idol for a bigger shot at fame, prestige and success.All in all the market for male vtubers is not there. Dozens, maybe hundreds of attempts and failures should have proved that by now
