>>58880525Lots of males become vtubers with an aim to just become a more advanced kind of groomer for girl vtubers.
Lots of males become vtubers with an aim to make money - and this is way way easier to just have a prettyboy model and be fujo/yume bait than it is to work for like a decade on building up a career from the ground up like many of the current big names did - that success doesn't just pop up overnight. You don't see a new DSP just appear suddenly and become a huge equal/rival to the real one - that shit takes a ton of long-term effort and a ton of right place/right time luck vs going and doing a tentacle rape dungeon ASMR to get a bunch of Chinese office ladies wet.
Finally, lots of males become vtubers with a sincere and earnest wanting to just be a cool dude shooting the shit and playing games and no funny business on the side, no fucking around grooming no fujo baiting etc. Trouble is these for whatever reason tend to stay terminally stuck as very-literal 2views. It used to be considered common wisdom before Luxiem came out, that "there just isn't a market for male vtubers in the West", they just don't work here etc. And you know what, that still isn't even that-incorrect today, because the only major success male vtubers have gotten was through getting the same asian female audience the actual Asian male vtubers tend to rely on for fame and fortune. It'd be like if HoloEN's success was like 90% due to the HoloJP audience latching onto it with very little actual Western interest - is it successful? Sure. Is it successful in its target market, was it strategically successful in proving there's a Western market? Lol nope, just repackaging the same thing for the same audience it already had. That's what nijiEN "accomplished" and StarsEN is a pale mockery of even this model at that.
