>>45000114Well, the theory is that everyone starts out as a newfag and then overcomes their past cringe as they go along. And gatekeeping in theory keeps out future fans by overly filtering the stream of newfags any fandom needs to stay alive.
That said, the above only applies when there’s some reasonable expectation that the newfags have any interest whatsoever in getting deeper into their chosen fandom. That’s still usually the case, but vtubing has so many other filters built in that I’m not sure anymore that the usual rules apply.
I suppose a decent compromise would be to shut the fuck up about vtubers you don’t watch and not look at discussions about vtubers you don’t care about, but we all know that twittards would never agree to that, and neither would /vt/.
