>>12567240I think this kind of undersells the way people's minds work in layers of denial and categorize different people differently.
Being a company V-tuber means you get a media career and tonnes of attention and money, objectively good things. And more than that, to have even heard of the auditions a lot of them were probably the more functional, "normal" kind of fan of of weeb shit.
The only thing better than having it good is having it good and thinking you're doing a good, cool thing, so there's a psychological incentive for them to view all this weirdness in the most positive terms they can delude themselves into and interpret viewer comments in the most unrealistically sympathetic and "normal" light, at least on the most conscious and foremost level of their minds. They obviously find things cringy, but I'd say its more common for them to think they're cringing in such a way that they want the subject to do better, not cringing away from them in disgust.
Now no doubt they are deeply unnatracted to their audience in so far as they think about them as actual people. But there's a subroutine for that, people have a category in their head for members of the opposite sex that they just consider an absolute nothing in terms of potential attraction. Men who got caught here invented the term friend zone, we've just seen it extended into the audience zone now.
