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There are two things you guys need to know. Those things have happened EVERYWHERE in media, multiple times, but I'm going to name two specific instances it happened:
>Normal fans, devoted fans
In Japan, when anime was becoming popular, there was a big disconnect between "Otaku" and people who enjoyed anime "normally".
The Otaku did weird things, they were affected by the genre too much. They were into this "moe" thing, too, it was a weird thing for most people. Normals thought that they were being affected too much by the fantasy, and it was possible that they couldn't even tell the difference between reality and fiction.
>Casting a wide net/appealing to a tight audience
As a introduction: Pulp magazines (Or pulp fiction) were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s.
Pulp fiction was the early beneficiary of many new marketing technique, such as:
- market research: what does the audience like, or may like in future?
- market segmentation: how do you identify and capture different sub-markets?
- relationship management: how do you keep and grow an audience?
Pulp writers stopped casting a wide net and trying to appeal to tight audiences. For example, Black Mask magazine began as a general story magazine, running detective, western, adventure and mystery tales. Like many early pulps it tried to cast a wide net to reach as many audiences as possible. That all changed when editor Philip Cody took over in 1924. He deliberately built a strong relationship with his readers, asking them for ideas and feedback to help him shape the magazine to better match their tastes. Black Mask became hard boiled and less focused on a average audience.
I'm sure you already know why I'm saying this. Even in vtubing certain groups of people donate more than the rest of the audience despite being outnumbered seemingly 100 to 1. They're the people who are enjoying vtubing the most after all, so why wouldn't they?
The main thing is that most vtubers want fame over money. Well, I'd argue that while maybe money has no inherent worth, fame has even less.
