>>7697622Her streaming regularly at all is a better outcome than her disappearing off the face of the internet, but I no longer have the same enthusiasm when watching her as before. She understood and utilized her avatar in a way few other chuubas do. Through her edited content, live skits, and interactions with others, she managed to bring her character to life in a way I've seldom seen. Most Vtubers are simply live streamers with a moving anime avatar and that's the full extent of it, but I believe the content she made as a virtual youtuber truly showcased the power of this medium. With that factor removed, to me, she's just an ordinary streamer now. In a way, it's like following a band after you fell in love with their breakout album but slowly lose interest in them when they shift styles over the years. Their stuff is still good and I enjoy it, but it's not what I fell in love with. Perhaps the greatest irony, however, is that all the points I just listed may not have been what she truly wanted to do all this time. She has mentioned before how she wanted to do certain kinds of innovative content but was denied doing so by management. But this was only a function of her operating within the company as a way to stand out among her peers and rivals from other companies. As an independent, she has no real motive to do the kind of exemplary work she did before. She certainly has the skills and experience to continue making such content, but she has never really stated that she enjoys utilizing such talents for that reason. Perhaps the things I enjoyed the most about her really only existed out of pure pragmatism dictated by her situation and now that all that is gone, I am left here having fell in love with a lie.
