>>13017680She's right and it's not. A good model is really fucking important, look what happened to Flare. She's no less fun or cute than any others in Gen 3 but she lags behind the rest HARD because her original model looked like a dead eyed lizard person and had a boob window that kept drawing Susan's ire. Or look at Iofi's weird eye spacing and then look at what a unique model did for Ollie, who is easily the most popular ID.
Some other anon said it best when he stated that Vtubers are required to have more skill and communication ability than on cam talents. There are plenty of whores that just use their looks to get viewers and simps. A lot of times it's just the girl playing games with the camera angled at their tits, they don't even have to talk much or interact with their audience.
Paradoxically, having a cute anime girl as an avatar allows people to judge you on your personality and content alone since literally EVERYBODY has a cute anime girl avatar. Yeah sure some might be drawn by more high profile artists here and there but it's really not hard to make an appealing design. The cute anime girl avatar is just to let you get your foot in the door with the audience so to speak. With the visual aspect taken care of, this allows the streamer to focus on their personality and interaction skills. This especially applies to older hags or maybe girls that aren't as good looking as other ethots.
Now Irys is great and many people have been seeing her charms but that's despite her model, which is an automatic debuff that she has to fight against, same as Flare in the beginning. Also these are otaku girls, they like cute models just as much as the rest of us so it might be slightly disheartening to have to look at that all the time.
