>>28442453A year ago, yeah. I gradually stopped caring, though, as I realized they're just women and nothing special. In 2020, I remember going to bed one night wishing I could comfort Aqua because she seemed genuinely frustrated at how dumb she was and anxious over the chink backlash. I used to leave my phone on in my room on indie streams. I spent a lot of time in /hlg/ defending Ayame against her schizos, even scouring through all her friends' tweets over like a three year period. These kinds of feelings died down over time. The last time I genuinely felt bad for a chuuba was when Rushia pulled out the scarf to hide her long neck. She played it off like a joke, but I know she genuinely cried over it.
I think after Rushia got terminated, I had a number of revelations and realized these girls are just streamers and I have no reason to care about them more than a fictional character. They'll never be real people to me and I can drop them whenever, like I have with other streamers.
