>>78110933So am I. The broader point stands, even if there's no money glitch. There are a million tiny parts which go into the machine of "being a vtuber" that we habitually take for granted as part of the whole, just like there are in your computer or car.
You're thinking about how hard it is to drive a car for leisure (ie, play a video game and talk to a friend you don't need to impress or engage, and can relax around), when even just driving someone around as a job has significantly more to it which can make it difficult and stressful. That's also assuming you didn't have to engineer and build the car yourself, or fund and found your own taxi business, and all that entails legally with licensing, insurance, and finances/taxes, let alone advertising and growing that business while being your only driver on staff, and paying attention and adapting to industry trends. Most people don't even how to get a basic DBA, let alone what a camshaft is.
The girls who are cute enough to be playing on easy mode still have to do most of those things at the start, before other people are willing to jump in and do a lot of it for them, or throw enough money at them to just pay others to do it. And even if overhead costs were somehow never a concern, they can't just commission all of the individual parts at random and hope that they somehow end up with a coherent and viable product by the end that will draw in more people.
After all of that, the act itself of being an actually good vtuber is still surprisingly difficult. A gargantuan mess of bitchy details that you need to manage surrounds the simple act of just playing a video game, while you're also trying to be entertaining. It's no wonder why streamer brain exists, or why managers are needed.
Of course, you can choose not to handle that mess, but that's how you stay in 1view status forever, and have nothing to show for it but a wall of 8 hour gacha or hero shooter vods where you mumbled one sentence every half hour into an xbox mic.
Vtubers that make it to mid-size are fundamentally startup businesses. Even if you have angel investors with more money than sense, you die very quickly if you don't put in work, and probably even more importantly, planning. The female buff doesn't fully nullify that, especially in the early stages, which is why you can still find an endless stream of female vtweeters with nothing to offer, absolutely baffled and furious that nobody wants hand them free money.
