>>660206>That matters to me because her "product" is herself. You can enjoy Kubrik movies, because while he was a part of the creative process and the things he crafted are not himself, they are their own things. With streamers the product is mainly their own personality. Even with streamers who adopt a certain persona, that is mostly rooted in themselves and will be a reflection of aspects of their core character.On this point we will simply have to agree to disagree, maybe I am too cynical but I just don´t buy into the idea that streamers (not even talking about vtubers, streamers in general) are being "themselves", I just don´t buy it, everybody pretends, some more than others, but they all do. I don´t believe the woman behind Marine is a sex crazed maniac who is horny 24/7, but that´s what the Marine character is, and for me that´s enough.
Another thing is that for me, none of the narratives around Artia are "deal breakers", so to speak.
It doesn´t bother me if she is a nationalist, I am a spic, I am from neither china nor taiwan, or any country even close to them, I have no horse in that race, not only it´s it something that doesn´t affect me, it´s something that is none of my (or any other westerner´s) business. Thats a subject that it´s up to them, and only them, to solve.
Her other personal politics don´t bother me either, if she is a commie, whatever, I am not a libtard who cancels people for suppossed "wrongthink", which I don´t even think is true. You say she has "retarded commie politics", and yet she fangirls for Elon Musk (which is a thing I don´t like about her, but even then it also isn´t a deal breaker, and neither is Hecatia using trannyflags on discord), the quintessential corporatist oligarch. You said she is spiteful, and yet she still gives likes to art made of hololive members, and even follows some of them, desptie how bad things ended between them.
The one thing narrative around her that I do consider to be shitty (assuming it is true) is her supporting the antis who attacked Coco, that´s a shitty move, even if I never liked Coco.
Even then, I can not pretend I didn´t do shitty things like that in my younger days on oldschool /b/, I do recognize what I was doing was shitty, but because I can reflect on that I also don´t think it´s correct to give Artia shit about it forever, people can learn and change. Again, that´s even assuming that narrative it´s all true.
Finally, while I do want to believe I am above being carny´d by vtubers, I admit the parasocial aspect is a big part of why I watch them, and as such, as long as vtuber doesn´t do anything that would make me want to break a friendship if a IRL friend did it, it will not make me stop watching them. And none of the narratives around Arita cross that line, true, there are things would make me say "what the fuck gal" to her, but I don´t think there is anything unforgivable.
