>>32119197Completely right. You can be a vtuber to "just be yourself" and have fun. The problem is, a lot of "vtubers" don't actually care about vtubing and just wanna do the bare minimum while collecting simpbux. So they leech, and they network, and they slaughter unicorns for their blood in the belief that the short term gain will be worth it, and they do everything they can for the money so that they can make a career out of streaming. But for what? At the end of the day, when they're lording over a bunch of soulless ironic weebs and everyone is just pretending to care about things, with their brand image being that of a canniving, greedy cunt who'll stab anyone and everyone in the back for a paycheck, what will it all have been for? Is that really the dream they were aspiring to?
Point is, the streamers who do it for sovl nowadays will usually never get big, because the ones who do normally sacrifice their soul piece by piece in pursuit of making it until there's nothing of value left for anyone to care much about. But then, even if a vtuber does make it through wholesome means, there's no guarantee they won't change as a result just by having to suddenly juggle more fans than they can handle. At the end of the day, I don't see the point in patronizing vtubers whose community exceeds the size of a small friend group, because only in a small friend group will (You) ever really matter.
tldr Genuinely good, wholesome, unironic vtubers probably do exist and live in the glorified dumpster, and thinking you need the whole gamut of expensive assets to start off is basically broadcasting to the world that you're only in it for yourself, just wanna play anime dress up, think it's all about (You), and probably don't care all that much about your fans, growing a fanbase organically, or have much confidence in yourself. Fact is,vtubing isn't for everyone. But those who can...can. Because the tweet isn't about success or reaching milestones. If a vtuber's goal is to just screw around streaming, pngs will suffice. Because at the end of the day, the streamer is always the be all end all carry for their model.
t. A guy who watches indy male and female vtubers with uninspired models play cool robot games far more than any corpos playing fotm.
