>>18263589Just like how we are just an audience and not friends, she gains nothing from us being "there for her" even when her content declines in quality and her interest for streaming withers and wanes. What does she gain, as a content creator, if her content is bad but a part of her audience blindly consume it and drown all criticism since they have a crush on her? Do you think she gets energy and support from blind takos? No, her approach is impersonal and business-like. She wants to make good content but also doesn't wanna waste much time and energy on it since she has other priorities.
I see my relationship with Ina as purely transactional. She is(or was) my oshi because her art clases provided me infitely more value than a mere gamer girl doing cute noises while playing videogames badly. So I watched her and paid for the membership because her content was that good. Then I got into the rest of her content since I might as well. Since the depression arc started I completely lost my interest in what she was making since gamer girl noises are of no value to me, and honestly sometimes her ramblings and venting made me feel worse. I have no time in my life to care so much about a mere streamer and how she feels. That kind of dedication is reserved for my loved ones. If all she provides me with is anxiety and worry, I'm cutting her out for now. Isn't it logical?
Heartless? Bad fan? Anti? She's the one that says I shouldn't get attached. I greatly value when she says that kind of stuff because it keeps my feet on the ground and validates my approach to vtubers. I feel she and I see eye to eye on this issue, and I will await for her return to her best form just for this.
I'll be waiting for her. She can produce the content that has the highest value to me, but in the meanwhile I'm just gonna chill, watch someone else. Practice art, go to the gym, etc. And you should too. Ina reads here sometimes. Everyone does. If you just worry and cry because she was feeling down you're just gonna make her feel worse.
