>>56545271This wasn't meant to be a personal attack on you or anybody, just me mentioning how I see things. But it clearly affected you. Sorry you see yourself that way.
>>56544779Do you even have any idea what a "normie" is nowadays? You all like to scream about how niche vtubers are and shit, but the simple reality is that someone like Gura, whose character would seem to mostly attract lolicons and literal children, very few people inbetween, has like 4 million subscribers. 4 million potential customers. Liking anime is more mainstream now. It's hard to escape anime shit in social media. Women in their 30s, normalfag women mind you, openly talk about their nostalgia for Sailor Moon. Grown men talk about their nostalgia for Dragon Ball Z. Hell, shounen shit is more popular than ever, be it FOTM shit or stuff like JoJo, MHA or KnY.
We live in a very different world. Sure this doesn't completely translate into real life, but being le quirky makes you stand out and makes you seem relatable online. I was getting Kizuna Ai shit despite having 0 interest in vtubers in 2018.
I grant you that they make more money off of emotionally attached retards, but like it or not clippers are the middle men in many cases and they definitely introduce people to vtubers, Japanese, English-speaking or whatever. Because liking anime and streamers is very much normalfag shit nowadays. It's not like there are any vtubers basing all their content/aesthetics on shit like Lain, GitS, Akira or fucking Angel's Egg.
