>>73918036>Take up a skill and make it your hobby, then it won't matter if it's decades old or something.It does matter. Compare how we went from Betty Boop to Akira and from Super Mario to GTA5 in some decades.
What happened after 2008 though? Feels like all culture and hobbies have been stunted in the previous 20 years. Me personally I'm into drawing and 3D, but even if I spend my whole life dedicated to that, I could only do things that have been done before. Get what I'm getting at?
With Vtubing it was different and new. JP artists figured a new medium to create and self publish beyond drawings. Everyone creating new gimmicks and ways to stand out.
What Kizuna AI, the Omega sisters, Kaguya Luna, Tsukino Mito were doing was something new and fresh and fun. It was like anime but not having to wait a week for 20 minutes of content plus you can talk to the anime characters? And the anime characters talk about IRL games and events? Woah.
But now it all has been done and people took the easy route of just gaming. I cannot imagine even watching another 5 years of vtubers. I have seen every stream that could ever be already. It hit a plateau.Unless some niche vtuber takes a risk with some new kind of format but still.
I want the feeling of exploring something new.
VR was amazing since people had to innovate in new ways to play and do gaming, but it was so expensive that it's dead now. Things like AI images and 3D printing are still amusing since people are making discoveries and trying to reach never seen places, so I'm still invested in that.
But what's so wrong with demanding innovation from vtubers and creators in general? They have so much money and free time and no pressure but they try nothing new.
A lot of artists and consumers feel this way. Reminds me of this animated JP short "Puparia", the artist being motivated by this feeling of staleness of the anime industry and the modern world in general, craving to see something that is new and unknown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnqX41JHuMBeing a creator in classical media is not very motivating since your very best can only ever be worse than the terrain the Master have already threaded and conquered. Our grandparents went from radio to TV to the internet.
But us? Youtube is 20 years old. Iphones are almost 20 years old. An 18 old has never felt that sense of wonder and hope for the future, craving for a new horizon. The world sucks. I'll watch vtubers say arara and I'm so seiso senpai gyat jokes for the next 10 years, most likely. That's it.
