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So what does GFE need to be authentic about? It needs to be authentic in the girls interest in her viewers, it needs to be authentic in her desire to share time with them and communicate with them, it needs to be authentic in interactions between the gachikoi and their oshi provoking a sense of closeness/intimacy/romance.
You need to want to try. You need to find some kind of satisfaction in being with them. Fostering this sense of mutual psuedo-romantic relationship takes differing amounts of effort depending on what kind of person you are and what kind of life you lead. But in essence, most people on earth are lonely in some way.
Now, I'll say it outright; GFE that is really GFE can, in 99% of cases, only work when you have a desire for a romantic partner of some sort. It doesn't have to be an active one, necessarily. But the various hang-ups that stem from our love life or lack of love life can be freely explored TO AN EXTENT in this medium. So, honestly, if you already have a partner, or have no desire for one at all, GFE for you will probably not work. Because a girlfriend is there with you because she wants to be. You wouldn't be.
Whether you use it for reciprocal intimate conversations and sharing of thoughts and feelings, or using it for the socialization you would have with your SO if you had one, or projecting an image of what you would like to have in terms of your love life. Nothing helps foster bonds faster than allowing yourself to emotionall connect to a group of people who readily accept you, want to have fun with you, and want nothing more than to love you in this moment.
Moreover, another important part of this is the sense of exclusivity. Your viewers do not want to feel like cucks. They don't want to engage with actual romantic feelings for a person who they think is getting some on the side. This is probably the one most irritating for people on this board to read. But exclusivity is important. And no, not just on stream. Relationships change how you behave, and how you percieve and react to problems. It's hard to be dependent on chat when you don't need to be.
This is codependency, and it's a powerful tool to actually generate the necessary tone for GFE in your streams. What GFE looks like for you is dependent on you; think of your first crush, and how you might've thought about you'd try to impress them or get their attention or change/mold yourself or your behaviours and tastes in order to appeal to them. Think of what the idea of romance means for you.
All of this is to power four things:
1) A genuine sense of self-investment in the fantasy you are building
2) A genuine desire to participate in that fantasy alongside your viewers
3) A positive view of yourself and your viewers and your interactions with them, and an inherent trust in their response to you that you can't really find anywhere else in life
4) Become capable of viewing this emotional connection from a romantic perspective
5) aquire some sense of 'needing' your viewers as much as they'll end up needing you. People love to feel needed. It makes them far more secure in a relationship if they feel needed and relatively irreplaceable.
The rest of GFE is honestly just normal vtubing; applying thougts, ideas, and creativity to things you do with your streams(and off-stream). It's vague because the results of that vary as much as chuubas can vary. It's important to let those 5 points guide the content, of course. Sometimes it just guides how you talk to them during a regular gaming stream. Other times, it will provoke stuff like heartbeat ASMR or watch alongs of romance and such.
