>>12957925That's not what the video is about, though, it's specifically talking about replying to English superchats in English. The main stream language issue is an entirely separate matter, and more repulsive.
For that especially we can look at Reine's numbers just after debut and Iofi's view numbers to see that Indonesians' main interest clearly isn't the speaking of the language so much as what it symbolizes. They want someone they see as already successful - verified by overseas viewer numbers or bigger streamers - and then to cling onto that person like a parasite, to claim that person as 'theirs', and thus to hope a little bit of that specialness will rub off on them, by creating exclusivity for themselves, that person's interests be damned.
Same thing happened to Moona. I don't know what's more disgusting, the idea that Moona's incline came primarily from foreign fans instead of her own people after Pekora collabs, or that Indonesians only started watching her more because she was essentially endorsed by a "top streamer" which the overwhelming majority of them - a far, far higher percentage than EN-speaking IDs - assuredly don't understand, but watch anyway.
It's the same impulse that drives people to do things like reboot Ghostbusters into an all-female crew instead of making their own successful property. The only investment they would be making is literally just to watch the vtuber, and yet with a country over twice the population of Japan with a comparatively miniscule amount of vtubers in total to choose from - not just holos - they can't even do that. There's not a single primarily Indonesian-speaking vtuber they can point to now and say, "See? It's not a niche. This is the sort of support you can get, the sheer number of Indonesian-only speakers hungry for a good vtuber." That absence is the most telling thing of all.
