>>18177853since im bored out of my mind, i'll bite as hard as i can.
"Idol culture" as you blanketly covered "le conservative bad" ideas of what amounts to idol and social contract between idols and their audience is rooted in japan's and human history for longer than you fucking british colony existed.
It amounts to much more than "NO BOIFREN NO CURSING NO POOPING" meme pushed by current narrative, the ideals of idol culture is what made hololive chuubas so attractive to viewers worldwide and what distinguished them from masses of other amateur internet broadcasters.
Arguably, you can trace back hololive to your mainstream media idols, but much more importantly to japanese theater industry(in very broad term), which in turn stems from edo era entertainment, theater and prostitution districts, and those ultimately take deep roots in religious practices.
The vtuber/idol/geisha/oiran/miko/shaman is in layman terms sacred existence, that engages as a gods and spirits representative with mortal world. She is bound by countless rules and is worshipped as a physical manifestation of spiritual powers. At the same time she is considered ultimate form of sacrifice, human existence reduced to a spiritual guide. So long as she sacrifices herself to gods(read as in society and rules imposed on her), she gets absolutely enormous, almost comically disproportionate support from believers, and if she breaks the rules it's immediate scorn and punishment. There are workarounds implied in such huge social contract cause it's not very practical to play the whole script to the letter, but those workarounds existence is making mistakes much more grave in eyes of believers, since you have an option to use a technicalities to navigate your lifestyle in a direction that is conventionally would be considered unacceptable.
You may laugh at it "it's just an anime girl streaming lmao get a life" and you'd be right but only partially.
Sit back and think about how hololive girls always get massive sacrifices in forms of art, animation, music submissions by some of the biggest artist in the industry, think about unreal amounts of money tied to branches of a superchat prayer tree, think about how every now and then tens thousands of people come to them to listen, entertain, interact, and try to understand that such support comes with a price and it's proportionally high.
The weight of girls actions and words is huge, hopes and dreams of literal millions of people and their own are resting on their shoulders, they can raise or topple a castle in seconds, there is a responsibility to it.
