>>46190805Ok, when you put it like that, I largely agree with kson. Except given that kson’s, you know, American, and what’s more, she grew up in ATLANTA, it was beyond fucking stupid to draw a comparison with slavery.
Anyway, I’m an anon who doesn’t really care about any individual vtuber being an indie or not. I don’t think twitch indies are “ruining” vtubing, and I agree that passing the unicorn test is a very inefficient proxy for the real thing most anons seem to want, which are vtubers who appeal to weebs.
Except I also think corpos are an important part of making vtubing more…idk, “professional”? For one thing, your average indie vtuber isn’t particularly concerned with the growth of vtubing as a whole, only the growth of their own channel. Which is fine, and I don’t blame them. But having corpos whose incentive is to grow vtubing in the west is also important in the long run.
My personal opinion of most twitch indies is that watching them feels more weeb than watching fleshtubers, but not as weeb as watching most small corpos or Hololive. I don’t always want to go full weeb while watching vtubers, but I’d certainly like it if there were more options that resembled JP.
The issue with being a Twitch indie is that if you want to grow, you need to make content that’s relatable to Twitch viewers. You kind of have to water down some of the weeb stuff by replacing it with Twitch culture. Only the power and backing of corpos are enough to expose more of the west to JP-style vtubing, to the point where it becomes a viable option for more vtubers.
>tldr: I don’t hate indie vtubers, but we absolutely need corpos to making vtubing a bigger thing in EN over the long run 
