>>37207244>feeling like a third wheel would occur any time the streamer is not directly paying attention to them, which according to you happens in collabs.What you then have to acknowledge is that there are people who don't like the chuuba collabing at all, and these are in the extreme minority.
>Your explanation hinges on collabs being percieved in a romantic/sexual wayHowever it's perceived, it's still a threat. It doesn't have to be rational or logical. Parasocial relationships aren't either of these things and are based entirely on how you feel. Logically, you wouldn't give them a cent because they're 'entertaining' you for free anyway. whether they know it or not, their content is designed to elicit an emotional attachment to them to make it more likely for you to give them money, even the anime model they use is part of this.
It isn't a binary "You're either okay with it or you're not", there's a whole range of tolerance of it between unicorns and tourists. That's to say, people who care too much and those who don't care at all.
>EntertainmentAnd like all forms of entertainment, there are different audiences who are into different shit. The shit the vtuber audience is into, that's to say, the audience that makes vtubing at all financially viable, are into parasocial relationships and don't like it when that relationship is threatened, more so when money is involved.
Take Mori for example, fewer people give a fuck about Mori collabing with men because it's expected behaviour for her, and the unicorns have long since abandoned her. On the other side of that coin, you have Kronii, who either deliberately or not cultivated that kind of fanbase for a year, it's not surprising she got the backlash she did given who she had been pandering to.
Whatever though, you or some fucking tourist like you will ask this same question the next thread.
