>>39866632The reason for that discrepancy, and the problem for people like him, is that the (mostly male) audience who watches "girl who is shit/mid at Apex, but cute" doesn't care about how good/bad she is at the game, they watch primarily for the cuteness and entertainment of the girl itself, no matter what she does. Hell, even if she plays badly, if she's at least entertaining about it, that can be even extra cute for some people. Male vtubers, for the most part, don't really get that privilege reaction, because their audience doesn't really pamper them for cuteness (and most of them don't even want to attract such an audience even if they could)
On the other hand, people who really care to watch "good gameplay" or even top pro skills, often don't care about that whole anime avatar vtuber thing. They are more likely to just watch some sweaty dudebro fleshstreamer who's an actual pro (like, rank 0.01 % in the world pro, not just "well, pretty good among other vtubers at least" pro). There is rather little overlap, some but negligible, and you'd have to be really good at a game (so, not just "good for a vtuber"-good, but actual good) OR really entertaining at it to draw crowds watching you. Ideally you want to have both qualities, of course, but it's always an uphill battle if you can't exploit the simple cuteness factor like girls can, so you have to work harder in other categories.
