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vtubing is fake and shit like this 100% proves it.
if you are starting from nothing and want to become a vtuber, you are competing with people who have everything and can just randomly pivot into this career.
it's no different from a celebrity going from sports to acting, or music to starting a business.
They leverage the fact that they have unfair advantages, they know they can get away with it and you won't do shit.
this is a real existential threat to content creation, it shows beyond any doubt or uncertainty that all platforms and all avenues for individualism are controlled under a severe power imbalance
remember when Ludwig experimented to see if he could start his own brand without telling anyone? he did this twice, once he saw success and once he failed, but he convinced his audience in both cases that this was "organic" and that the only thing that mattered was luck of the algorithm
the entire 2020s has been a lie. algorithms barely matter, it's talent agencies, bot farms and tabloid-tier nonsense that drives growth as a creator. all of which you are literally locked out of if you aren't part of the club
it's not just vtubers, it's everyone. "trends" no longer exist. "virality" is a closed system. everything you watch on the internet that isn't entirely self-produced is just an arm of a larger shadow organization designed to pigeonhole you into a specific demographic so that you can be fed a constant stream of what another person thinks you would enjoy.
it's the same mechanism by which tv was able to display thousands upon thousands of ads to people and make them think they were just an obstacle on the way to entertainment. no, the tv is how the advertising executives corrupt your mind ads, the channels don't matter because you can watch whatever and still be shown products and services for things you literally did not want or need until the ad appeared.
vtubing was arguably never grassroots to begin with but in its current form it is actively hostile and there are a lot of bad people turning it into a very cynical and exploitative market. it honestly makes me ashamed to have ever liked anime at all, to see it being reduced to just abstractions for someone to try and sell me things. and everyone is totally okay with this because like i already said no one will ever try to change the industry.
if you are starting from nothing and want to become a vtuber, you are competing with people who have everything and can just randomly pivot into this career.
it's no different from a celebrity going from sports to acting, or music to starting a business.
They leverage the fact that they have unfair advantages, they know they can get away with it and you won't do shit.
this is a real existential threat to content creation, it shows beyond any doubt or uncertainty that all platforms and all avenues for individualism are controlled under a severe power imbalance
remember when Ludwig experimented to see if he could start his own brand without telling anyone? he did this twice, once he saw success and once he failed, but he convinced his audience in both cases that this was "organic" and that the only thing that mattered was luck of the algorithm
the entire 2020s has been a lie. algorithms barely matter, it's talent agencies, bot farms and tabloid-tier nonsense that drives growth as a creator. all of which you are literally locked out of if you aren't part of the club
it's not just vtubers, it's everyone. "trends" no longer exist. "virality" is a closed system. everything you watch on the internet that isn't entirely self-produced is just an arm of a larger shadow organization designed to pigeonhole you into a specific demographic so that you can be fed a constant stream of what another person thinks you would enjoy.
it's the same mechanism by which tv was able to display thousands upon thousands of ads to people and make them think they were just an obstacle on the way to entertainment. no, the tv is how the advertising executives corrupt your mind ads, the channels don't matter because you can watch whatever and still be shown products and services for things you literally did not want or need until the ad appeared.
vtubing was arguably never grassroots to begin with but in its current form it is actively hostile and there are a lot of bad people turning it into a very cynical and exploitative market. it honestly makes me ashamed to have ever liked anime at all, to see it being reduced to just abstractions for someone to try and sell me things. and everyone is totally okay with this because like i already said no one will ever try to change the industry.
