>>11712896>do you think vtubing is a fad?Yes, but only for the majority. A lot of people are going to stay watching them, because there's no major negatives over watching a facecam (or nocam) streamer
>is going into vtubing just to make money stupid?Yes.
I'd need 800 subs PCM to make, without paying tax, my post-tax income now.
I know - bits, merch, and sponsorships to make up the rest - but for an indie m*le, that's not likely to happen unless I'm a top-tier artist. Or find a whale (feel free to DM me, oil-hime).
I mean, looking at Halo, the epitome of GFE, she's got around 250k bits from her top 10 gifters, and 2400 subs from top 10; which all comes to around 8500USD (without tax). That's four months of my day-jobs wages.
There will also come a break-point.
I tried, last month, streaming every day for a week. Only two or three hours, but for seven days.
I was exhausted. I'd work an 8 hour shift, get home, hit the gym for an hour, shovel food down my gullet, stream for 4 hours, then collapse into bed.
And I was exhausted by the Thursday. I have no memories of the Friday at all, I was a shambling wreck.
But I wouldn't be able to push for more streamtime without either quitting, or going part-time. At which point, I've left the traditional workforce, and finding another job is going to be hell (unless I take it as a sabbatical, which might be allowed if they don't pay me and don't count it as time towards a promotion). That leap of faith, that I can quit my day job, and then make the push in the next 2/3 months until my savings run out to go full time? If I fuck up there, I'm set back YEARS. My mortgage goes unpaid. My car gets repossessed. I'd have to take a minimum wage job at maccies to make ends meet whilst trying to get back into white-collar finance.
