On the topic of Male V-tubers and making it big from last thread:
The world's most popular streamers and youtubers are men and a Vtuber is just a streamer with an avatar.
However, women wil get attention just because they're women (it comes with other bs though) and stay at it long enough - the same will happen in the V-tuber niche, specially when it started with women to appeal to men.
Still, becoming a mid-sized streamer is not that difficult (still requires work though), the formula is: work on improving little by little, figure out your niche, market yourself and and grind away.
Now, to be big... that takes something else.
I'm my personal opinion and observations, you have to fill one of these roles:
-Be the audience's friend:
This is the hardest because everyone is trying to be the audience's friend and to be one all it takes is not being a repuslive person. If you only rely on it, it'll be more difficult than the others are. Unless you are ridiculously super charismatic (or a woman 4/10 and above, this just won't fly alone, yout have to combine it with something else.
-Be the audience's surrogate relative/dependant/figure of authority: This one is also bit hard, because it happens more or less spontaneous as a result of who you are. Are you a reliable person and can relay it in a way that the audience starts treating you like an uncle or older sibling?
Does your bad sleeping schedule and eating habits make the audience worry about you as if you were their younger sibling?
Do they treat you as a lovable teacher?
These kinds of parasocial relationships can form and make your audience stick.
-Be the audience's designated specialist:
The most straightforward, still hard. You need to know something extremelly well (or at least fool the audience well enough) and, while not always required if you're just that fucking good (like Flash is at Starcraft: Brood War), be good at translating that knowledge into entertainment.
These are your professional gamers and very high-ranked players, the minecraft red stone wizards, the guys who can beat those made-for-youtube-levels on Mario Maker without breaking a sweat because they've spent the last 15 years playing shitty mario hacks.
This is a lawyer spending a saturday night downing a bottle of patron while he reads some meme internet drama that ended up in court and explain the legalese for the drama-starved peasants.
This is the Finnish guy showing in depth the next piece of Russian Balance in the test servers and discussing the how it'll once again destroy the fun of WWII-inspired lootbox machine.
This is a scottsman picking the worst one-province nation in your map-painting simulator and doing a world conquest and humilliating the devs so much after they try to patch the game deliberately to stop you that they have no choice but to hire you to be their beta tester.
Depending on your niche, you don't even need to be that great if it's underserved by good entertainers (Maximillian Dood).
Keep in mind that the key word here is entertainment, this means people want to watch display your skills, not teach them - i.e.this is not about watching a programmer explain C# functions, this about watching a white hat use social engineering to trap scammers and maybe teaching you some internet privacy while he's at it.
-Be a master entertainer:
This means you need to go above and beyond. This is where your larger than life, Mr. Beast type of figures come.
Are you a professional eater who can stuff 20,000 callories in a sitting?
Can you tell the story of your first visit to the dentist in 5 years in such a way that you'd fill a restaurant and have people pay for your Netflix special?
Are you a fucking excellent singer who can make your audience's jaw drop when you start the first notes?
The bar is set high here, you need be really good at entertaining an audience
-Be the audience's Jester: Be the retard everyone laughts at. It's actually actually harder than you think, because it can come off as forced and it'll still be obnoxious for many (think PewDiePie playing Happy Wheels). This can come from self-pranking (spicy noodles challenge) or others.
-Be the thing helicopter parents will let their children watch: You'll make it big, but you'll hate yourself, baby shark.
>>765138Cartoons (and I'm using cartoon as a catch-all term for non-realistic representation of a person) are more relatable - the abstraction of facial features into an avatar or a character may get the audience attached in ways they wouldn't with a person in a faster time.
They also allow you play a role easier: A dude with red contacts, a white wig and some fake teeth saying he is a vampire while playing an FPS all day would look and sound stupid, put as an avatar it suddenly is acceptable.
Unless your audience is literal children (or man-children too) like Dr. Disrespect, you won't get away with it with just a webcam.
And that can help a lot to entertain an audience.
