>>17652375I'm aware that's an US problem, but that's the point - US. This shit just doesn't fly in the EU, and whoever makes a decent streaming platform will redelegate youtube and Google to the dustbin. I don't even use any google service apart from youtube by necessity. I use Yandex and DDG for searches for instance, and Yandex finds everything.
Putting that aside this is just a bullet in the knee for a whole lot of chuubas and it'll result in worse, more sterile content. It completely destroys the point of memberships. Who even came up with this retarded concept of gifted memberships and why? The whole thing is counterintuitive and effectively destroys the whole concept of "being a member." Why even BE a member? The whole thing hinges on our willingness to support a chuuba, but it's utterly sleazy and cynical, it's an exploitative business practice. The garbage that aren't members in the first place aren't invested in a chuuba or are literal kids, and bringing either of them in (especially the first variety) will just sterilize the content, make the chuuba act and be "professional" just like in the usual streams and completely remove the sense of willing support us members express through membership.
And then there's the trolling, the raids, the potential for harm. I'm willing to bet my ass there will be raids and manufactured "content" for vultures like anitubers and similar, who will send in their people to troll and "reveal" whatever fake bullshit for their clickbait channels. The whole thing is just a disaster from start to finish. The "best case" scenario is us paying extra for a higher tier membership, which is just fleecing, an amoral business practice. It's cynical, it's exploitative. It throws a shadow over the whole thing, it just feels wrong.
Maybe the Japanese are somewhat protected from this because of their language, but any and all EN chuubas will be swarmed by barely literate third world shit who can't string a sentence together but sure as fuck can spam. This is a complete disaster for EN, and it will result in a decline in quality and content of EN vtubers as well as adding more distance between us and them.
