>>16256696This is largely true. There does seem to be a dedicated schizo on every general who spams a lot of low quality bait which makes the regulars assume every negative opinion is the schizo. Which is not that bad of an assumption to make when there clearly is one at large, but it does lead to calling out non-schizos just voicing their opinion.
But even then the idea that generals are hugboxes is flawed even taking into account what you said, since, as you said, most generals I've browsed seem to hate their favourite playing a game they don't like (Apex...) or make fun of a bad song or a boring music video. They also seem perfectly capable of pointing flaws in their oshi too, but obviously a poster in a fan thread isn't going to dwell on some trait they find annoying and its more likely to manifest as gentle ribbing.
This all ties into something I've observed on 4chan for a long time on several boards. New people coming here seem to think this site is some kind of place where you can just run your mouth and vent your frustrations without getting called out, which of course couldn't be farther from the truth in a place where everyone can run their mouth. So if you actually want to have a discussion you have to effortpost and more often than not that effort goes to waste in an environment where people just proceed to run their mouths after stopping to read at the second sentence. This is true for all the boards. But for /vt/ specifically there are large amounts of people who don't speak the language of the streamer and that's how you get people fighting over equally flawed headcanons formed on the basis of machine-translated matome posts and autistic imaginations of what exactly is real behind the avatars. Obviously this is more of a problem for the Japanese vtubers, but the ENs get this too given how many ESLs there are. Just think of the Mori 5% thing and Nina's initial reception both of which might as well have been the equivalent of N1's tripping up N3's with misleading translations.
