>>1297543Ask yourself this: Why do you watch hololive? Why them instead of turning on twitch and watching the thousands of female streamers there instead? It's the idol culture.
Is ANYONE in hololive a "true" idol? No. Not even dai-senpai Sora, she's collabed with men. It's not about that. Hololive is to the viewer, a tool of escapism, and something different from the world they know. To the girls, it is an ideal: something to strive for. Obviously TRUE purity will never happen, and once again, obviously, I'm sure they all had sex before, and you're delusional if you think otherwise. An ideal is something you push for. To be something more than their regular 3d self. It's a way for a girl to unleash their inner self that they hide from social pressure. Maybe one girl tries to become better at singing, some tries to find ways to be more entertaining with stream variety, others do comedic things and skits. Doing all that while adding on to their own base personality with their virtual self's. All of that is different ways to push that.
The meeting of what the girls strive for and the escapism the fans want is what makes a Hololive vtuber. It's what draws you to them. You can't have one without the other or you have either a generic female twitch streamer.
You don't have to screech if a girl talks to a guy, but you need to know that culture is what makes hololive special in the first place. It's why you're here. I'm not even saying it's perfect, Aloe's situation proved that, but it's certainly far better than the alternatives.
The West doesn't use the same shorthand as the Japanese, but the core is still the same. They instinctively feel they should be okay with the concept of the streamer having a close relationship with someone else, but because they don't consider it seriously when asked the question as a hypothetical, when the actual ramifications hit them they find they can't put up with it.
Even completely excluding the viewers with fantasies of hooking up, there are other issues that arise when the streamer enters a relationship. The very nature of the perception of the streamer changes, which can influence the jokes and content which gathered their audience in the first place (Being a 'virgin' is a part of SingSing's stream persona, for example, despite having slept around; the conceit wouldn't hold if he dragged his past relationships or one night stands on stream). Viewers who are single feel that they no longer can identify as well with the streamer. By introducing another important party into their life, the viewer will also instinctively ask themselves where they rate on the scale. There's no winning. If the partner is ranked below the audience, that casts the streamer as a terrible person to many; if the audience is ranked below, then they feel more distant from the streamer and don't engage as much with them.
It doesn't really matter if you're a male or female streamer. If you have a relationship, you fundamentally alter your stream persona, and most likely, viewers must decide whether to support both of you as a unit or to drop you. There is no middle ground. Some streamers with families or long stable relationships can make it work; most cannot.
