>>67271371This is the one part I hate about this. People go all flag waving about how much they love their oshi and when she graduates and comes back with a new face the flag wavers suddenly get cold feet or claim "it just doesn't feel right" or "it's not the same". Even though it's still the same person with the same voice playing the same games, and past the first two weeks they'd drop any pretense of a persona. You'd be tempted to say the recasting a model like was attempted with Kizuna Ai has some merit but the backlash clearly demonstrated that doesn't work either. And so the former oshi pushers either back off vtubers completely or switch to supporting someone else on "their team" instead of supporting their oshi in a new costume. Fucking console wars retard shit.
On the other hand, you could argue that a streamer's model does have a palpable effect on how they act and portray themselves on stream. That the design somehow subconsciously influences their onscreen personality. In that case it might well affect the tone and flavor of the content.
Or maybe people really are falling in love with the model's visuals instead of the person. Maybe all you really need to be a successful vtuber is the right model and rigging to hit the right buttons in an audience. Maybe get that right and you'll have hordes of people ready to watch and pay for the laziest low effort reaction content possible.
