>>19876075what you said is mostly true, but there are ways to mitigate this:
>All your industry "friends" are at best colleagues but in reality just competition or hangers on that will turn on you the moment it benefits themThe vtuber niche encourages symbiotic relationships. vtubers tends to aggregate themselves into cliques. Trust, sharing viewers, collabs, being in the same views range, and giving the "family" experience. vtubers "betraying" the clique gives nothing but trouble and it's mostly done because of drama behind curtains, not as a business decision.
>And in the end almost no one watches you because of the content you make, it doesn't matter what game you play or how well, whether you try to do fun an inventive streams or not. People watch you for the facade of companionship you create and surface level attraction to your voice and the avatar you boot up, you could do just zatsus doing nothing but moans and kiss noises and your base paypigs would probably just appreciate you morePeople don't stick to watch the first vtuber they see just because they give them attention. They have to see something interesting in said vtuber. Personally I've followed and watch vtubers that have a combination of personality I vibe with and content I am interested in. Like if there was a vtuber with interesting personality but only streams Apex all day every day, I wouldn't watch it.
Some vtubers are in for money, others because they are lonely, others because they are either fans of vtubing, or a certain kind of niche games they want to stream, or just for art's sake (rare).
