>>47946540I started feeling better about the state of EN vtubing once I decided to treat vtubing like it’s international trade. JP is the equivalent of Victorian Britain, and anime is the Industrial Revolution. They make it, the rest of us savages buy it until we figure out how to make our own. Then we learn to make some of it ourselves while still buying the good stuff.
In this case, England (JP) is way ahead of everyone else, and we’re still trying to learn from them and figuring out which shit is best to leave to that weird island and what stuff we can make instead.
TikTok’s, shorts, and streams are basically the equivalent of textiles. The easiest one to start with and what we have to deal with in the beginning. Actual thoughtful, high-effort projects might as well be shipyards, chemical factories, railroads, and the advanced shit.
Anyway, I kind of agree with you, but not to that extreme, I guess. EN vtubing is kind of like Bangladesh in that it’s getting on its feet with a shitload of meh, but workable, content. We all have at least some clothing made in Bangladesh, but we don’t *have* to fill up our whole closet with it like normalfags do with corporate fast fashion.
EN yabs are like all those fucking factory fires. Sure, its fucked up, but what are you actually gonna do, not buy clothing from Bangladesh? Some people might, but most of us are just gonna look the other way and just accept that that’s how it works until Bangladesh (EN) gets its shit together.
If it makes you feel better, Bangladesh is doing way better now than it was fifty years ago. EN vtubing might be shit, but it’s probably less shit than doomposters think, and fuck it, at least we’re making something.
