>>11538429This. It's parasocial exploitation.
Personally, I think being entertaining is the point of streaming. If you can't amuse me, what use do I have for you? What reason would I have to pay you if services aren't rendered? Art for art's sake is just conceit. There's nothing wrong with that, until you expect to get paid for being conceited.
But they get away with it as women do by batting their cartoon eyelashes and being cute, leading to simps poisoning the medium with low expectations. This is why women need to be viciously gatekept out of hobbies, as their presence inevitable causes hobbies to devolve into the exploitation of thirstybois by women doing the absolute bare minimum to pander while genuinely good content gets ignored or stops being related simply because it's not as cost effective as simp farming.
Allowing women into fandom is a lot like allowing nations that use slave labor into the global marketplace. At that point you're just racing to the bottom and the only people who win out are profiteering companies with no moral scruples or any concern for the common man's desires.
I already withdrew my figurative investment in vtubers and went full cash gang. Either quality or interest is going to plummet, and either way it seems like a lose-lose.
