>>11453317>normally people DON'T want to get pandered to>VERB>(pander to)>1. gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire or taste or a person with such a desire or taste).>"newspapers are pandering to people's baser instincts"people want to be pandered to, they just want it to seem genuine. They want to know that the vtuber likes the thing they like but they don't want to think that they're being lied to about the vtuber liking the thing.
When a corporation, who isn't a person and thus is incapable of having good taste, pretends to like the cool thing it's always being called out as pandering because it's fake. But when an individual celebrity likes anime or something reddit flips its collective shit because they don't really get anything by saying "gee i sure love naruto" before starring in some capeshit.
We just have a tendency to call it pandering when its something we don't like, even when it is genuine. Arguably see Coco and reddit review? I didn't watch that shit, so I don't know if she actually thought that stuff was funny.
