>>68967616I think the tribalism is part of it but there's an even more important component, people are social beings, so if you're part of a group then that'll always be more interesting than being alone, I noticed that if vtubers leave a company and start streaming on their own then they instantly become 10 times less interesting, then I realised that it's because they're not part of a group anymore, there's no group dynamics anymore, it's just me looking at a lonely person, which is pretty boring, not that you have to be in a company to be part of a group but it's a lot harder to do it by yourself, like shaka is not technically in a group but he has a lot of friends so he always has a circle of people around him, granted it's easier to do that when you're as big as shaka but still
