>>61316937English comments on a JP-only stream stick out like a sore thumb. Like all holomen, Foobs have her fair share of non-JP schizo chatters. I remember a Russian dude spamming about Foobs "stealing" his money and asking for a refund and another dude that started with the classic "I don't understand anything but I'll keep watching it", watched more streams, got gifted and later started to complain about her FF14 and Dead Space streams. I'm glad the latter fucked off quickly instead of complaining in her chat.
Most of the comments are fine, I still read them when I can. I just report weird chatters (when they spam the chat), fake translators and harassers, even if they are doing it against other holomen, like the guy you posted. I ignore harmless weirdos like _keff*r_ . Unfortunately, because these comments are in a foreign language to Foobs and most of her viewers/chatters, almost no one report these weirdos and they'll keep posting the same schizo shit over and over. Nothing against reddit, but like
>>61319790 said, her chat was much worse when she was reddit's meme cat fox. I'm quite satisfied with the way it is now.
>>61319790I think this is the same peko schizo who kept spamming "disgusting pekora is streaming over this" in all caps or something similar in the livechat at Matsuri's birthday live this year. He's probably from /here/ considering his use of the "forbidden expression" "m*le coll*b" that make some people /here/ seethe.
>>61325167Ah, Parasocial, another word that makes people /here/ seethe, partly because of people throwing it around to almost spam levels, which is somewhat understandable. In the case of streamers, it is almost impossible to avoid being parasocial, as it is one of the main qualities of a stream. Unlike the usual and old as time "celebrity crush", they'll play games that you enjoy watching, talk about their lives, read your comments, laugh with you and answer your questions almost every time they appear on your screen, and this have a direct influence over the content they produce. They are much more "tangible" than your average celebrity, as you can interact with them and influence what they do in real time. Answering your first question, yes, I believe that everyone here in /fbk/ (tourists are an exception) is in a parasocial relationship with her, what changes is level of these relationships.
Is it a bad thing? Parasocialism has been around forever and whether it is a good or bad thing depends on the individual and their level of parasocial relationship. If you do something like sending an ocassional max superchat, getting lots of merch from a streamer, or going to a con to take the lifetime opportunity of taking a photo with one of your celebrity crushes, like, say Mads Mikkelsen, you'll probably be called a weird person for it, but it's fine! As long as you don't cause problems for yourself and others, parasocialistic behavior is fine, you'll even get something good for it (a good feeling/entertainment). On the other hand, if you do something like sending a paragraph with something like "I hate that you do male collabs and you should stop doing it", which causes the streamer to private the stream, hatewatching, getting yourself penniless from too many donations/merch, killing your parents because they said that you can't donate to your favorite streamer anymore, getting into constant tribalistic fan fights/discussions that leave you drained and stressed, hate raiding and stuff like that, you'll need some help.
Lastly, I'm biased, but I don't think Foobs should appear in a video about this topic, not even as some sort of meme. I know that she's a fragment of someone else's personality, and that it contains mainly its positive aspects, since it was made to be presented to the general public. I'm also aware that she works for a company, which places some restrictions on what she can say or do. Yes, she does have some gachikois and some unicorns (surprisingly), but sometimes she reminds her viewers to not spend beyond their means, don't bait for the "GFE" (other shitposters will claim otherwise) or superchats. She barely even reads SC and doesn't do streams focused solely on SC reading, not that I find these a bad thing. It's only recently that she's been talking more about her life, which I do enjoy listening to. I know she's no saint, but compared to what I've seen from other streamers, she's far down in my list of parasocial baiting and I respect and love her for that attitude.
