>>78489349>>78489810Yeah, generally fine advice right there. I watch Vtubers as just another source of entertainment, but if I had to say if I was closer to the unicorns or to the ones clamoring for male collabs, I’d have to go with the former. I hate it when both types schiz out, but the former is closer to being completely and uniformly dedicated to the streamer they’re watching while the latter often have those with inferiority complexes about male Vtubers mixed in, in addition to the people who simply hate unicorns and just want to “score points” on their imaginary scoreboard against them. Even worse if a male collab comes off as moral grandstanding, with the streamer trying to prove a point. Fucking hell, you don’t have to play a waifu character or do GFE, but it comes off as insincere to do a male collab just to deter unicorns and that drives away people who aren’t unicorns as well. No one wants to be an audience to streamer drama unless they’re mentally ill.
Related to this, I hate it any time a streamer, not even just Vtubers, go on a rant against a part of their audience, “punching down” as you say. I’d say that the only ones who enjoy that are the people who want the streamer to act as a mouthpiece against the people they disagree with or the simps who agree 100% with the streamer on everything and mindlessly cheer their agreements. If a streamer takes refuge behind the support of these kinds of people, it comes off as them having a bruised ego that needs the salve of an echo chamber.
I feel like the trend of needing to clarify every little thing about a person’s position is incredibly stupid. It comes off as condescending to the audience, like you’re expecting the worst of them and that you need to explain to them the simplest shit. Of course there’ll be autists who the rules need to be explained to, but they’re not gonna change and the people who already implicitly understand what boundaries there are could get offended at being placed on the same level as them.
It’s better if a streamer tries to treat the people messing around as a distinctly separate group from the audience, since that tends to be enough to convince people that they’re not being accused of anything, but some streamers just can’t help but make it seem like they only say that as a tacked on aside, like they don’t want to go through the effort of assuring their audience that it’s not “them” they’re complaining about. It gives the impression of them just whining and belatedly realizing they don’t want to offend the people giving them money. If a streamer can’t naturally make the audience feel like they’re on the same side against a “small, disruptive group”, it sets a rather distinct space between the streamer and their audience that isn’t simply them not wanting to be parasocial, but them not viewing their audience as anything but a resource to be farmed. There’s a line between that and treating streaming as a job that a person shouldn’t want to blur.
