>>36105823For most of the kind of viewers who say they want "no politics" in their vtubers/streams, this has always just meant "no politics... of the kind I dislike/disagree with". When it's politics they agree with (and the vtuber doesn't even need to be explicitly political, often it's just sufficient to drop a few ebin memes and references to show that you're "hip" with their crowd and willing to pander to them), those very same viewers don't care about their supposed "no politics"-"rule" anymore and are the first to fall over themselves to proclaim you based and redpilled etc and shill for you. Or hell, sometimes you don't even need to do anything, and overeager viewers will still invent whole headcanons themselves about how you totally have this-or-that political opinion (for example, the same as them, conveniently).
The psychological mechanisms behind this are pretty understandable, because people have the tendency to mirror and project their own biases onto other people. For example, when a streamer has (or we think they have) the same opinions we do, we feel better about ourselves because we're "validated" by this, and this effect is stronger the more rare and marginalized we feel our opinions are in our everyday life. For example, most of the kind of people who say they want "no politics" in their vtubers are probably young male viewers of the right-wing variety. "Politics" means for them the lefty/liberal kind, and they don't want it because they feel they already have enough of this in their everyday life. Now of course, most vtuber girls themselves are not right wing, simply because most modern western females in general aren't. So for a right wing viewers, finding a girl who is (or at least just willing to pretend and pander, same difference) is pretty rare and special, so they get put on a pedestal, because they don't get female validation for their opinions in real life very often. This leads to all the hilarious "wow she's just like me frfr" and "[gril XY] is toootally a conservative tradwife" fanfiction you see /here/ and only half of the people are actually joking.
