>>47061982It is pretty shady when there's literally no point to it other than to make money, then again birthday streams etc kind of are this too only there's a "reason" for it.
I mean, vtubers are normally like panhandlers who do street tricks for "work" to get money, they're always panhandling all the time anyway. The only thing that gets even a bit of actual respect from me in this business are the ones who put in hours streaming that are at least equivalent to working a real full-time job (basically ones like Koyori, Kaela etc). They're having fun and games for a living but at least sacrifice a serious amount of their own time doing it.
Ones who hardly ever stream and we know don't actually have a real job as their work obligation like Gura, Ayame etc just aren't taken seriously as real factors anymore, and indeed IMO don't deserve your respect (or money) for doing nothing. However even the ones with what we consider basically-adequate schedules (3-5 streams a week I guess) are, unless those girls have real jobs outside this or the streams are all 12 hour sessions actually-doing something (no sleeping streams bullshit), they're still barely fucking doing anything relative to the people giving them money and don't merit your respect either. These girls, any lurking reading this etc need to think hard about why people are so quick to anger and shit on vtubers all the time - you're not doing anything respectable in life, you're panhandling online and need to be fucking humble about it and not think you're actually some amazing celebrity. You're at best a street performer.
