>>23490041Depends on what you mean. For the indie vtubers people tend to engage with their character over the fact that they were a shitty streamer before, and are still a shitty streamer behind a character now.
They get cut a lot of slack but it ultimately depends on how much effort you think regular streamers put in. That also has to do with defining what their job actually is. A lot of them don't like to be called influencers but ultimately that is what they are to the industry. A somewhat passive crapshot marketing vector that companies use in a spray and pray fashion. On the other hand they're low effort entertainment, not like a show or even a podcast but a really crappy version of a call-in show. Lastly they're a parasocial fix for people that can't get a good social fix somewhere else for whatever reason. Streamers like to call themselves content creators but that's nonsense and because they can't live knowing all the stuff they so-called "create" is just transient moments of experiencing other people's content. The best case scenario is that they make an ass out of themselves intentionally or unintentionally and it becomes a meme worthy moment and a clip, and everyone laughed, for about a week/month. Having a funny looking model that makes a goofy face or sells a reaction better than a boring flesh face probably takes less effort to make that funny moment. That's true but not to the extent that it actually matters, you're still getting paid to goof off.
That doesn't mean that a streamer's job can't be tiring because it can. If I go to a party I'm probably going to be more tired than if I go to work. Going to a party is still going to be way different than going to work though. Getting paid to go to the party means the party will become the work but it's still way different to normal work, especially when you can set the schedule. So either way it doesn't really matter, did someone put in more effort or less going to a dress up party than a non dress up party and goof off? Maybe, yes, no, doesn't matter.
