>>11186841It definitely concerns the viewers if their actions and conversation clearly reflect a genuine, mistaken belief - and this not only as a one-off thing, but over a long period of time with many 'meetings' where you could have corrected the misunderstanding. You might be forgiven when the nature of the streamer-viewer relationship yet remains unclear, but with every subsequent extension of the "act" it becomes more and more inexcusable.
It's basic social convention - the default state for everyone is 'single'. If this wasn't the case, hitting on a stranger at any social event would be a massive faux pas. If you're not single, then you address the clear misunderstanding at hand immediately by saying "sorry, I have a boyfriend/girlfriend". And indeed, women normally do this pretty fast for obvious reasons - they don't want to deal with unwelcome romantic advances from the majority of males.
Somehow, just so coincidentally, when the negative consequences of withholding this disclaimer are greatly reduced or even eliminated by being anonymous and seeing unwelcome advances being relayed only in easily ignored text, this nigh-universal social convention suddenly doesn't count and you're suddenly supposed to be stupid for thinking it counted.
This is literally the same kind of defense that serial adulterers and playboys use. After all, men historically have lower standards and less social and physical consequences for cheating while in a relationship - similarly, most common is to lead the other person, through lies of omission or otherwise without stating it outright, to believe they aren't in a relationship.
Imagine a girl infatuated with a guy, having that guy be receptive to her advances, eventually sleeping with him only to find out the guy has a girlfriend. The guy then says, "My personal relationship affairs are none of your business, we were just flirting and having some meaningless fun." It implies the same thing as the 'playing a character' defense - "the relationship between us wasn't what you thought it was - even if I completely signalled otherwise - and it's your fault that you thought there was something more to it".
Obviously it doesn't necessarily break the law and you "can" do this, same as the guy can keep doing this to multiple girls. But if he expects to remain in good social standing afterwards, people would call it a pipe dream and it would be laughable if he felt like he was the one who was wronged for being ostracized.
See how Astel handled this exactly how you're supposed to handle it - and to do with all of his viewers down to the most basic element of their relationship, not just his gachikois - and his viewerbase only inclined since then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wn5SvedXRAIt's not difficult to make clear these things the instant you feel the equivalent of 'being hit on'. Which makes it even more damning if you claim to have never wanted to give that impression when you're found out.
