>>106830905You are confused because you are looking at a job as trading time for money. Why does a vtuber get paid more money while working less hours? How is it fair? Why does this happen?
That is partially true when you apply the model to wage slaves who commute to work, work an 8 hour day, and then commute back home.
But even then this model fails to capture the real reason you are paid. For 99.9% of jobs out there, you cannot just show up to work, kick your feet on the desk, put a beach hat on top of your face and sleep for the next 8 hours, then have your phone alarm wake you up in time to leave work. You would eventually get fired for this. The same result would happen if you played video games for all 8 hours, or if you bothered your co workers for 8 hours. You have to actually do something productive to keep your job. You aren't just being paid to show up and exist for 8 hours at your job, you are being paid for your skills, experience, knowledge, talent, and creativity. Your job pays you for that, not only for your time.
Likewise, for chuubas, people do not watch them for the joy of watching someone else play a video game for 2 hours. If this was true, male vtubers would not be 2 views.
Chuubas get money not for the time that they put in, instead they get money for the amount of fun and enjoyment they provide to their audience as entertainers.
Asking why chuubas get paid so much to play video games is like asking why baseball players in mlb get paid so much for swinging a bat or throwing a ball. Or asking why keanau reeves or tom cruise get paid so much for talking in front of a camera. They get paid for their entertainment value to their audience of fans. Putting in hours is not enough. You have to provide something that people want if you want to make really money.
Vtubers are entertainers. They are not accountaints or stone masons or software engineers. They get paid not for playing video games, but for the illusion that a cute, funny girl would enjoy spending two hours of her time with you.
