>>30068491>institutional support>facecamming industry had a massive head start over vtubing>panders to the lowest common denominator>popularity rewards itself>viewbotting is also a thing, especially when twitch has a gilded class who can do no wrongVtubers not floundering in irrelevance is a feat in and of itself, and the medium/technology is still evolving in order to try and compete with facecammers. Competition and greed breed innovation, adoption and the creation of both networks and infrastructure.
Keep in mind that back in the day, anime, games, computers and cellular phones/palm pilots/blackberries were also nothing to be excited about. Now everyone has a smartphone, streamers love to show off their rigs, gaming is commonplace, and big budget anime movies get released in theaters outside Japan. Industries aren't built in just a couple of years.
