I've been thinking about this a bit more since the last thread, but I really do want to see a "4chan" equivalent to vtubing, or maybe streaming in general. I'm thinking it could be a great way to facilitate camaraderie. Not everyone can be an entertainer or entertaining, but maybe that's not the point. Maybe it's not that we stream to entertain someone, but to get someone to help you have fun just as they do.
So basically, I'm really just thinking this could be like a way to play games and shoot the shit with others, pseudo-anonymously. Maybe this is already something streaming sites are supposed to "do", but the ready-made vtuber avatar and organized format on 4chan I think would make a big difference to approachability.
Here's the idea: we have 1 or 2 avatars that people can use. That serves as the anonymous mask. Voices will be at play, so unfortunately it might not be truly anonymous, but it's the best we can do. Then whenever any of us wants, we can start a stream, and theme it around something, like discussing an anime, or playing a game. Then people interested in the theme can view the stream and see if they might have fun with whoever's streaming, and then they can ask to join as a participant, and it can go from there.
I don't know if having accounts/usernames be visible would be good. Maybe not. But if we use Twitch/Youtube as the actual streaming platform, then we can't avoid it. One of the consequences would be that people could rack up viewers if they wanted to the point where it can become another normal streaming channel. But maybe that wouldn't be so bad either, if everyone gets an opportunity like that, depending on how entertaining they are. But as soon as they can make a stable channel, implying they have people to play with already, then they're worthless on the index that we'd supposedly be maintaining.
Unfortunately I don't think any of this can pan out without smooth integration of such a system on 4chan, so that we have a board that's less like a board and more like an indexer for the streams.
